Wanted: a better mousetrap for $25 NL

[flyangler]

I am blown away by these stats in that I am an "Eagle" in small limit (2/4) and just started dipping my toe into NL Cash games. I've done pretty well at limit, so I decided to move towards NL and figured that my game would translate just as well there.
I find at 25 NL the fish are just as bad as .25¢ micro limit- they will play with any two hands. I have taken some very expensive bad beats so far with only a couple hundred hands played. Not debilitating to my BR but painful.
I can see how weak tight play would have saved me some money over the last couple weeks. I don't know if I am capable of getting passive after working so hard to learn to be TAG at limit. Maybe NL is just not my game, but I want to learn, so I will likely stick with it.
I am curious to see what the more experienced posters will say about these numbers.

I have played about 10k hands at $25PL. I was initially (about 2 months and 5k hands) beating the game for over 20PTBB/100. I then started doing more reading, including this forum, and increased my aggressiveness - pfr gone from 4 to 6, aggression factor increased on all streets. VPIP remains at 18-19. I now win about 8PTBB/100.

I think this comes from the increased ratio of calling stations at these micro limits. Continuation bets from a missed flop with AK are less likely to get away with the pot. Preflop raises don't reduce the number of people seeing the flop as much as they might. I think the pfr is still important - but following up may not be as lucrative. I am going to try betting less with a missed hand and see if I can increase my win rate. Of course at such a small sample size I may have just had some beginners luck.

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I find at 25 NL the fish are just as bad as .25¢ micro limit- they will play with any two hands.

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