Is TAG ever not optimal?

[djshawk]

I've been thinking about this quite a bit recently so thought I'd make a post about it here. Are there situations where playing with a TAG style isn't optimal? I have very nitty stats around 15/11 and I'm trying to work out if this is down to table conditions or me just being nitty.

I regularly have 3 or 4 people with a vpip of 40+ at my table, of course I try and sit with them to my right but that's not always possible. I tried playing more hands and being more aggressive but typically my pf raise would get called and so would my cbet making it very difficult to continue far post flop still holding A high. Since noting this I've started overlimping a lot of hands in late pos (I'll still never open limp) and not cbetting a lot of the time when I miss the flop. I'll still try to isolate the bad players if I have position and a decent hand preflop so it's not all overlimping, but stuff like small sc, Axs, small pp I often overlimp.

Unless I've got TAGs in the blinds the range of hands I'll attempt to steal with isn't that big. When I've got tighter players in the blinds I'll happily steal with any two, run bluffs if I think they look genuine etc.

Another thing that bothers me a bit is my low W$WSF, it's currently around 35-37. I attribute this to getting a lot of free flops from the bb which I check/fold routinely, and also not cbetting a massive amount (~50%).

Does this sound reasonable or should I be looknig to open up to a 20/18 style regardless?