I play mainly 25NL I used to play big hands AK AQ and so forth. betting 4-5xbb when I get em, and then betting strong if I hit. what I found is that I constantly lost money. It got so bad, I lost a few hundred dollars, and had to quit. I realised I was a fish, and had to quit playing poker.

Then I had a vacation recently and decided to put in another $25 for the hell of it. Just for fun, I knew I would loose. But what I did differently is I stoped playing big hands with big cards only, I mainly played suited connecters, 1 or 2 gapped suited conectors, and many connectors in position, and played almost all hands to the river. I also limp in or small raise AK, AQ and so on taking them to the river as well. I watch what everyone does, and play based on their cards. about 10 days later I am at about $200. I usually limit myself to a few played hands a sitting. cause whenever I don't do that I start off very well maybe 2-3x my buy in, and then I start to tilt with too much money and loose most of it.

What was my lesson:
1) just cause you have TPTK it does not mean shit against a table full of fish.
2) there is more money to be made on sets, straights and flushes then TPTK. value betting them and when someone makes a raise when you have them on less then you, you drop that hammer and take their stack

What I need to learn:
1) how to control my tilt with too many chips,
2) how to take advantage of being the big stack

any comments are very much appreciated