The thing to remember with tourneys is there's the "You're broke you're done" even the worst most loose players tighten (IE stop calling your pot size bets with bottom pair) up when they have a real chance at big, big money.

That tends to not happen in low stakes rings at all and bad players will keep being bad players (Though they are still being bad players in the tourney too when they tighten up.).

If you wanna get better at ring start at the bottom and work your way up, .05/.10 is a cakewalk, you're waiting on cards and you tremendously overvalue them when you get them. You'll feel cold runs of cards a lot when you get them, but when you are running hot, you are running REAL hot. Small sets get paid, flushes get paid, boats get paid, all the shit that any player worth his salt who looks at the board and wonders "Is my middle pocket pair still good" instantly knows the answer is no... but these players don't seem to realize that. Stay there until you're comfortable enough to move up. Maybe set a goal for yourself "I'll start with X buyins and leave with Y" see Rilla's bankroll management thread for more information though it sounds like you're substantially bankrolled.

Really, if you wanna play cash games at all, you have to start at the bottom... The argument that a lot of players use (Not you necessarily) is "Omg I need to play against real tight players who can actually lay hands down to be profitable" is frigging retarded. When you're playing any stakes you will need to play against the table texture and if you can't play against consistently horrible players then you shouldn't be playing higher stakes ring games.