Quote Originally Posted by melinda27
Dont try to apply limit starting hands and strategies to NL, they're just not the same game. IMO tightening up when you play NL more so than you do when you play limit is a recipe for disaster. Limit is all about showing down the best cards, NL is about not having to showdown anything.
I agree that limit and NL are 2 different beasts, BUT at low levels, playing tight, making a hand and then dropping Fnord's F***ing hammer works just fine. Most of the others on the table don't even notice your style. all it takes is discipline and patience and will win 9/10 times on low buyin tables.

NL, the way you describe Melinda, is for higher stakes when your opponents know when to put down TPTK not the kind of games the original poster is in, when middle pair will call you to the river.