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I'm hoping that the attitude change is responsible for the win, rather than blind luck.  I suppose it doesn't matter, a win's a win.

I've heard the statement, "I'd rather be lucky than good," so many times in the past.  I was about to say it when I'm small blind limping with 93 off-suit cuz everyone else folded.  Donny checked his option & I think I can bluff at the right flop.  I flop two pair, check, and Donny bets a couple hundred.  I feign confusion and smooth call thinking he's gonna go hog wild on the turn.  An Ace turns and we check,   I'm was wrong about him betting- he's trapping.  I know it could give him a chance to catch up but I'm thinking I get up early in the game, I could bully my way to the end.  I'm putting him on an Ace Queen suited. there's no possibility of a flush or straight, he could have a set, but I seriously doubt it.  He could have a bigger two pair, but I don't think his kicker is paired. 

The river is a brick, or seems to be and Donny checks.  I bet 500 thinking he's gonna raise.  He raises another thousand and I'm calling right away.  I got him on a pair of Aces but conclude that he could possibly have the weak Ace rather than the strong Ace, but I really don't think so.  When I call, he's verbally conceding the hand saying, "I gotta see it."  I throw the Two pair over and he's pretty angry,  "I had you preflop," and, "9,3 off?"

I'm thinking that had he simply raised pre-flop with that Ace King, he would've taken the pot right there- and, if he''d have just laid down his pair of Aces, he'd have saved a crap load of change, but Aces just look so pretty!

I think he had decided to slow-play the hand thinking he could make a large pot with the right flop and that's where his plan ended.  He paired and kept the trap going.  He thought that he got lucky when his Ace hit and it never occurred to him that a pair of Aces was never in the lead with that board.  The question here is,  Is a pair of Aces, with no straight or flush possible, good enough to play for half your stack?  I guess that depends on your opponent, how well you are at re-playing the hand in your mind, your position and what your opponent has done. 

I'd like to think that I sold him my weakness when I "struggled" with his bet post flop when he hadn't made a hand yet.  I guess I got lucky he didn't have a weaker Ace, I guess I got lucky he didn't raise pre-flop.......I'd guess I'd rather be lucky AND good!