Virgin Poker Festival

[nb1961]

I played in the Virgin Poker Festival yesterday after qualifying from the 4kingpoker game. This was my first ever live game and to say I was nervous was a bit of an understatement. I got to Dusk Till Dawn early as they were offering lessons in live game etiquette for first timers, this was given by a poker pro and was a great start for me to avoid making a complete fool of myself

I was lucky to meet sinner01 who is also a member here at the learning table and we had a little chat it was great to meet another member, he was far more organised than me he came with a plan I was just there trying not to look to stupid

The game is all a bit of a blur really, the fist table I was on was sooo tight it squeaked with 1 player folding K K pre-flop and another folding A A with J 5 3 on the flop. I wasn't getting any cards and when I did bet all I picked up were the blinds. After a while I was moved to another table and i was lucky enough to get a run of decent cards and built my stack up to about twice the average. I then was moved fairly reguarly and couldn't get going again and my stack went down to about average, until I was moved to the chip leaders table and he just picked me out for the complete novice I am and took most of my chips. Then after 1 more table move I decided to go all in with the little I had left with 4 4 I was up against A 8 and the flop came down with an 8 and that was me gone.

I was happy I finished 55th out of 259 which for a first try was far more than I expected. I have to say it has open my eyes on how hands come out live. I think there were at least 6 or 7 times AA was against KK all in and KK won I thought this only happened on the net

Thanks Bob for the game that allowed me to go to this it was a great experience, i think I need a bit more practice before I make my WSOP debut, maybe about 10 years

[jeffsbabe]

Sounds like you had a great time and did very well, especially for your first live game. It is interesting to see that the cards will let you down in live games too. If you only play on the net it's easy to think it doesn't happen in live cards the same way.

So cool that you met another 4kinger. See you at the tables!

[NUCKING_FUTS_4]

Sounds like you enjoyed it. A very credible result indeed

[nb1961]

I've had a couple of days to reflect on my first live excursion and I've watched some of the final table videos online. I recognised 2 that made the final table as players I tried to play against along the way.

Anyway on reflection although I make a small profit playing online my game is full of holes and after seeing these players first hand I see I'm only a very poor to average player. So I have invested in Pokertracker and some books and I'm going to work a lot harder on my game so no doubt I will lose badly for a while but hopefully in the long run I either come out a better player or if not I'll give up

[scrawnybob]

hi NB

great to have your trip report and sounds like you had a great experience ;-)

good experience to for you future live games and yes it's funny how playing live makes online seem like less of a badbeat central - those awful hand matchups and bad beats still happen live

some of the hands Ive seen just in our home games make your eyes water and you'd have thought 4 full houses in consecutive hands would just not be possible but it happens

anyway I think you had a great 1st live result - that's 4/5th of the field you got through so I reckon your 1st WSOP appearance will be alot sooner than 10 years away

cheers scrawnybob

[Cracker]

Originally Posted by nb1961

I played in the Virgin Poker Festival yesterday after qualifying from the 4kingpoker game. This was my first ever live game and to say I was nervous was a bit of an understatement. I got to Dusk Till Dawn early as they were offering lessons in live game etiquette for first timers, this was given by a poker pro and was a great start for me to avoid making a complete fool of myself

I was lucky to meet sinner01 who is also a member here at the learning table and we had a little chat it was great to meet another member, he was far more organised than me he came with a plan I was just there trying not to look to stupid

The game is all a bit of a blur really, the fist table I was on was sooo tight it squeaked with 1 player folding K K pre-flop and another folding A A with J 5 3 on the flop. I wasn't getting any cards and when I did bet all I picked up were the blinds. After a while I was moved to another table and i was lucky enough to get a run of decent cards and built my stack up to about twice the average. I then was moved fairly reguarly and couldn't get going again and my stack went down to about average, until I was moved to the chip leaders table and he just picked me out for the complete novice I am and took most of my chips. Then after 1 more table move I decided to go all in with the little I had left with 4 4 I was up against A 8 and the flop came down with an 8 and that was me gone.

I was happy I finished 55th out of 259 which for a first try was far more than I expected. I have to say it has open my eyes on how hands come out live. I think there were at least 6 or 7 times AA was against KK all in and KK won I thought this only happened on the net

Thanks Bob for the game that allowed me to go to this it was a great experience, i think I need a bit more practice before I make my WSOP debut, maybe about 10 years

A great post, well done my Dear good job