Wow, finished my second session in two days; got myself on rakeback which has motivated me to start playing again, and with golf season wrapping up, the home games are back in full swing.  Have 2 scheduled this month already, woohoo! live poker, beer, pizza and general rudeness...

Anyway, apparently I am an idiot, some jackass sitting to my left didn't like my play on a couple of hands and had assumed I am a moron.  I will let the two hands speak for themselves, as such all opinions on my intelligence are yours to provide and comment on.

So, this started relatively innocuously...

***** Hand History for Game 1111111111 ***** (Full Tilt)
$10.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, September 06, 05:51:57 ET 2010
Table Lantern (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: balalaika007 ( $10.53 USD )
Seat 2: Player2 ( $10.78 USD )
Seat 3: Player3 ( $10.00 USD )
Seat 4: Player4 ( $17.13 USD )
Seat 5: Player5 ( $7.34 USD )
Seat 6: BluffinPete ( $10.00 USD )
BluffinPete posts small blind [$0.05 USD].
balalaika007 posts big blind [$0.10 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to BluffinPete [  Kd 8d ]
Player2 folds
Player3 folds
Player4 folds
Player5 folds
BluffinPete raises [$0.35 USD]
balalaika007 calls [$0.30 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5c, 8h, 4h ]
BluffinPete bets [$0.60 USD]
balalaika007 raises [$1.60 USD]
BluffinPete calls [$1.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9d ]
Hero checks
Player1 checks
** Dealing River ** [ 7h ]
BluffinPete checks
balalaika007 checks
balalaika007 shows [Ts, Td ]
balalaika007 wins $3.74 USD from main pot
BluffinPete doesn't show [Kd, 8d ]

Everyone folds to me on the small blind, I am on K8s so I raise to protect the blind, balalaika007 calls me, I flop top pair, so I take another shot at it, buddy raises me, pretty boring flop, has some draw potential, don't know much about buddy at this point, so not really sure what he is taking a run at.  I call.  Turn comes up a 9, now the board is interesting, lots of draw potential, I check for pot control, he checks.  River pops a 7, crap, my 8's are not looking like the best anything, lots of potential, but potential and $1.85 will buy me a coffee.  I check and he follows suit.  He takes it with a pair of 10's

About 2 hands later...

I am in middle position and I get a couple of weak broadway cards, no action from UTG, so I bet it, I have two behind me to go, bit of a gamble

***** Hand History for Game 1111111111 ***** (Full Tilt)
$10.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, September 06, 05:53:31 ET 2010
Table Lantern (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: balalaika007( $12.22 USD )
Seat 2: Player2 ( $10.78 USD )
Seat 3: Player3 ( $10.00 USD )
Seat 4: Player4 ( $17.13 USD )
Seat 5: Player5 ( $7.49 USD )
Seat 6: BluffinPete ( $10.00 USD )
Player3 posts small blind [$0.05 USD].
Player4 posts big blind [$0.10 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [  Jd Qs ]
Player5 folds
BluffinPete raises [$0.40 USD]
balalaika007 calls [$0.40 USD]
Player2 folds
Player3 folds
Player4 folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jc, 4c, Qh ]
BluffinPete bets [$0.80 USD]
balalaika007 raises [$2.50 USD]
BluffinPete raises [$8.80 USD]
balalaika007 calls [$7.10 USD]
BluffinPete shows [Jd, Qs ]
balalaika007 shows [Ah, Qd ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5h ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7s ]
BluffinPete wins $18.81 USD from main pot

I bet, buddy calls me, I flop two pair, a bloody monster even if he is slowplaying a big pair.  I bet again, he raises me, I push, he insta-calls me and my two pair hold up and I take his stack. The flurry of insults begins on the chat box, "so sad to lose to an idiot" was my favorite

I don't think I played either of these hands poorly, I guess the only hand that I really question is the call on the first hand when he raised my bet on the flop, could have saved myself a dollar, but I did have top pair and I had no reason to believe that he had a monster pair in the pocket.  Pot control kept me from losing any more money

So my question to the universe, I am up a stack+ in 12 minutes of play (between two tables), does that make me lucky as sin and I guess an idiot, or does that indicate that I am waiting for opportunity to knock and I am inviting it in?

You decide...