Quote Originally Posted by Rondavu
Postflop you played fine on both. Preflop you fell victim to the "I'm not getting cards so I'll play worse ones" type scenerio. These hands are not worth playing at this limit. I know you may have heard you should play these kinds of speculative hands sometimes, but you just shouldn't do it at this level. You get payed off far too often with premiums at 25NL to go to war with these trash rags. It's like a gift. The burden of mixing it up this way is reserved for a later date. Have fun making money on ONLY good hands until then. Don't give your 25NL opponents that much credit for thinking.
Aren't you one of the biggest supporters of suited cons in late position? I know what you are saying about the limit but I can't sit there and just wait for AA and expect to get paid off. Even the fish realize you haven't played a hand in several orbits, so when you raise preflop they don't call your AA/KK. That's the state of things. So at least if I can see some more flops and show them I'm not only playing premiums, I increase my chances of action when I want it.