First time in casino!

Hi, This weekend I went to Calgary for Halloween and to visit my friends. no one cares about that you care about the poker!

I was very excited to play, been waiting for a very long time. I bought into a 1/2 NL, 9 handed game (me making it 10) with $100. Sat down and everyone looked at me and I could tell they were smirking and just dreaming of how easy it would be to get my chips. Fresh meat.

lost 2 blinds before playing my first hand in late position. Had ace rag and raised to 10 bucks. everyone folded except for the deepstack, who in my opinion was the best player at the table, from watching him for about 20 mins. flop came and he checked to me. I bet 15 bucks and he threw his hand out. First pot ever! tried to steal the blinds once more in the next ten minutes, but folded on the flop. Here is my story. Maybe you could pick it apart for me and tell me what I could have done better.

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  • Card Whale wrote: »
    Hi, This weekend I went to Calgary for Halloween and to visit my friends. no one cares about that you care about the poker!

    I was very excited to play, been waiting for a very long time. I bought into a 1/2 NL, 9 handed game (me making it 10) with $100. Sat down and everyone looked at me and I could tell they were smirking and just dreaming of how easy it would be to get my chips. Fresh meat.

    lost 2 blinds before playing my first hand in late position. Had ace rag and raised to 10 bucks. everyone folded except for the deepstack, who in my opinion was the best player at the table, from watching him for about 20 mins. flop came and he checked to me. I bet 15 bucks and he threw his hand out. First pot ever! tried to steal the blinds once more in the next ten minutes, but folded on the flop. Here is my story. Maybe you could pick it apart for me and tell me what I could have done better.

    I had about $100 and the guy I was against had around $350. I was UTG +2. looked down and saw pocket 8's. I limped for 2 bucks. got about 4 callers then a guy raised to 10 bucks. everyone behind him called. got to me and there was at least 5 callers. i think there were 3 left to act or something. so instead of calling the $10, I raised to $40. I did this because I thought if someone else had a pocket pair they would have already raised. I got one caller ($350 behind him) and everyone else folded. I was proud of myself that I had the balls to make a raise and my heart could be seen beating through my chest at this point. I tried so hard to sit still. Flop came JQ7 rainbow. I checked and the guy behind me quite quickly throws in $50 bucks. He looked a little weird to me. It was a quick bet too. This $50 would put me all in. If I folded I would not have a very large stack to play with and I could only stay at the casino for a little while longer. I thought about it for a while then put in my last 50 bucks. I just thought with that huge stack against my tiny one the guy probably thought it would be easy to get this stupid 18 year old off his hand. I didnt think he had a J or a Q so I called. I turned over my 8's and he mucked his hand. The table erupted, with shouts of what! and one guy kept saying that it was a hero call. I guess some people could just think that I was an idiot and got lucky haha. I was very happy. next hand picked up my chips and left.

    cool story
  • You forgot the "bro", GTA . . .
  • i was waiting for a huge ending, like the guy went on tilt and attacked you or something
  • Hit and run ITT.
  • Bad play preflop, bad play on the flop, bad play after the hand. For starters $100 is a pretty small stack to be playing 1/2 with even more so if its the only $100 you have to play with, I know they dont offer smaller but get a bigger roll before donating 100. I get it though excitment of first time so thats fair. The reason it is to small is because preflop raises are to $10, thats 10% of your stack just to raise. Then a continuation bet is another $15, so just to play 1 hand correctly its 25% of your stack, and if you happen to miss then basically you can only play 4 hands if your raising. Otherwise usually others on the table are raising. Now to the hand, with your stack I really expect nothing more then a limp with 88, with 8 people in the hand and a raise to $10 you decided to go for it all with 88 when you raised to $40, if you were gonna call off on the flop, its hard to imagine what flop you would fold too, might as well just put it in pre haha. I prob wouldve just called, hope to hit a set and get rich if not save your other $90 because this play wont work often with the stack you have in front of you. Now on the flop of qj7, if you are gonna call all in, you might as well bet all in that way maybe he folds a draw like A10. I think you were very fortunate to win the hand the way it was played. Now that you won the hand you shouldnt of left, for 1 its bad etiquette to hit and run and the other reason, the other guy and the table prob think your a huge donk for calling off with 88, so you couldve used that to your advantage because when you pick up a hand you prob would get paid off and couldve doubled that stack a few more times.
    Just my opinions on the matter haha
  • Bad play preflop, bad play on the flop, bad play after the hand. For starters $100 is a pretty small stack to be playing 1/2 with even more so if its the only $100 you have to play with, I know they dont offer smaller but get a bigger roll before donating 100. I get it though excitment of first time so thats fair. The reason it is to small is because preflop raises are to $10, thats 10% of your stack just to raise. Then a continuation bet is another $15, so just to play 1 hand correctly its 25% of your stack, and if you happen to miss then basically you can only play 4 hands if your raising. Otherwise usually others on the table are raising. Now to the hand, with your stack I really expect nothing more then a limp with 88, with 8 people in the hand and a raise to $10 you decided to go for it all with 88 when you raised to $40, if you were gonna call off on the flop, its hard to imagine what flop you would fold too, might as well just put it in pre haha. I prob wouldve just called, hope to hit a set and get rich if not save your other $90 because this play wont work often with the stack you have in front of you. Now on the flop of qj7, if you are gonna call all in, you might as well bet all in that way maybe he folds a draw like A10. I think you were very fortunate to win the hand the way it was played. Now that you won the hand you shouldnt of left, for 1 its bad etiquette to hit and run and the other reason, the other guy and the table prob think your a huge donk for calling off with 88, so you couldve used that to your advantage because when you pick up a hand you prob would get paid off and couldve doubled that stack a few more times.
    Just my opinions on the matter haha

    i didnt want to say it and bust the kids courage...thanks phil lol
  • As far as etiquette goes, yeah . . . least you could have done was waited for your turn to post and rack off then. Glad you had fun.
  • Villain probably had AK and lost the flip.

    IMO, the re-raise pre is horrible given that we are getting 40% of our stack in with a spot where we are flipping or a 4/1 dog, and unless we hit our set we are rarely going to be confident come the river.

    As for the hit and run, it is horrible etiquette. I know they are your chips and you can do as you please with them and, if this hand was any example of your play, the chips would've most likely donated it back to the table....but yeah, it was just bad.
  • Yes, this was played terribly. Villain raises and there are 4 callers behind and its up to you. So there is $50 in the pot already and you raise to $40 having $60 behind. You pot committed basically on the flop. You should just ship $100 preflop and take the $40. That would be huge for your stack.
    You have to think that the 4 callers behind are calling pretty light and practically every over-pair is out of their range. There might be a 99,1010, but by then, you are repping a bigger overpair and you'd get those to fold. Then the initial raiser, I'm guessing range is pretty wide and he is playing the big stack, so you are getting huge equity by pushing.
  • Am I the only one thinking that too much credit is being given to the skill level of the four preflop callers? Yeah, the OP would have been better off shoving, but I am willing to bet that he gets at least 2 callers, in addition to the original raiser, to come along if he does . . .
  • all righty then . . .
  • Milo wrote: »
    Am I the only one thinking that too much credit is being given to the skill level of the four preflop callers? Yeah, the OP would have been better off shoving, but I am willing to bet that he gets at least 2 callers, in addition to the original raiser, to come along if he does . . .

    Yes. Only one person called his initial raise. A push would of took it.
  • You're right . . . misread the OP. Apologies . . .
  • Milo wrote: »
    but I am willing to bet that he gets at least 2 callers, in addition to the original raiser, to come along if he does . . .

    If he gets 2 or more callers he probably doesn't win. One of them most likely will have one of the overcards that hit the flop.

    IMO, the only good thing that came from his PF raise was he thinned out the field by getting rid of the limpers and getting it heads up in a flip.
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