I had wanted to play for a long time and I finally saved up enough bankroll to play $1/$2 no limit hold'em. That's the smallest game available. I didn't know what to expect or really know what to do.
Anyway I sat down and got chips. I decided that I was going to play full. So I bought in for $200. There were a mixture of players, people bought in for $40 (the minumum), $60, $100 and $200 mostly. It was a pretty friendly game. There were a number of regulars there I could tell who knew each other well.
Due to my inexperience I made some mistakes mostly about not posting my blinds quickly or knowing when it was my turn. I was directly to the dealer's left so it was at times hard to tell when the big blind or the action was on me. Also I found the table felt kind of sticky and it was hard to lift my cards to see them at times.
Mostly I didn't have much to work with. So I just folded if I had a bad hand. One guy was sitting to my left and he was bugging me about folding preflop. He seemed to like being in almost every hand. He went to a new table after a short while.
There were some interesting hands along the way. One hand in the first hour I raised in early position to $8. A guy who seemed to be good 3bet me to $28. Everyone folded. I thought for a bit and decided to fold. He showed KK so I made a good fold.
Around a half hour later on I again raised to $8 first to act. Again the same KK guy 3bets me, this time to $25. This time I moved all in for $200. He thought for a little while and then folded. I didn't show. He brought that hand up with me a couple of times in the next two hours. I didn't tell him what I had but I agreed with his reasoning that when a guy shoves $200 preflop it is almost always very strong, like QQ-AA, maybe AKs. He said later on he had 99. We agreed it was a good fold to the shove.
I think that was the second hand I won. For my memory this is the first hand I won live. I called in the SB with 9s 7s and 4 limpers. Six of us saw a T88 flop. It was surprisingly checked through. The turn was a J, giving me a straight but putting two clubs on board. I bet $8 into the $12 pot. One guy called and the others folded.
The river was an offsuit Jack making the board T88JJ. I checked and the other guy checked too. He showed K9 I believe and my straight was good.
There was an interesting hand late in the evening. I raised Ad Jd in early postition to $8. An aggressive player on the button 3bet me to $18. I called $10 and we saw the flop heads up. The flop was AK2 giving me top pair. He bet $25 into the $39 pot and I called. The turn was a 7. The turn went check check and now I'm feeling a bit better about my pair of Aces. The river was another deuce making the board AK272. I didn't think the river helped him much. I led $50 into the $89 pot. He pondered for what seemed like a good while and finally called. He showed K7 and my Aces up were good to win it on the river over his turned two pair.
Thanks to that late AJ hand I was able to book a small profit for the evening. I was enjoying it and stayed until 3 AM. It was an enjoyable experience (probably more enjoyable because I won a bit) and I'll be looking to play some more there when I get the chance.
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