Guys, some advice please.

I'm struggling to get out of the 10 buck limits. Two steps forward and three steps back has been the syndrome ever since I briefly dallied in the heady heights of $25 NL.

I've gone out and picked up a book, which I am not sure everyone will like, but it has some appeal to me. It's Phil Gordon's Green Book.

I think that it's mainly geared to tournies, but I just needed to read something to kickstart my game and get me to thinking of what could be wrong with me or what I can do to improve.

My conclusion, thus far, is that I need to be more aggressive. As Gordon says, "Betting has to ways of winning,..."

Questions: is it going to be foolhardy at these limits raising with 77, for example, in an unraised pot, from late position? Should over-betting the pot be something I use a lot more, for example with a strong draw, like an open-ended straight?

Those are just a couple of examples, but I hope you get my drift. I know I can't generalise so much, but I am starting to recognise more of the player's styles that I'm up against, and mostly, they are very loose and the ones who seem to win, are also very aggressive.

I've done OK using a very passive style, but I'm not sure I"m maximising my profits, and of late, I've been losing steadily. I just cannot win big pots. One 30 dollar pot in the last 10,000 hands.

I've experimented a bit --say 700 hands -- with raising more and betting much heavier, and I have been winning more hands than losing, however, the variance is greater and I have been de-stacked more than I've de-stacked others.

However, I think that it bears more experimentation. Good idea or silly?

Remember, I'm talking about $10 NL. Is a more aggressive style going to pay dividends or shall I go back to waiting for monsters and damn the deception?

Many thanks in advance.

Jigs