How was your first live tournament?

[rickypr18]

My first (and only) live tourney (more like a 20 or 30 people rebuy and add-on tourney) went perfectly well. I think it was a $5 buy-in. Everyone there knew each other, except me. I was a stranger in a midst of friends. I began the tourney by making a bluff and showing it. Since then on, the began to think that I was a troll and I kept getting called with the best hand and folded to when I was bluffing (and showing the bluffs). Needless to be said, they were mad as hell and seemed to be contemplating teaming up to eliminate me. It was hilarious. I kept eliminating people until I was heads up with one of the few people who was not pissed off at me. I had a bigger stack than him and we put it all in on a flop where I had a flush draw and a straight draw and he had a pair. I hit my hand and won the tourney for $70 something bucks.

 

[etherghost]

My first tourney ever was 2 years ago in the Czech Republic. It was an event for Pokerbuli members. Almost 150 people signed up. It was a 2 day tourney and a lot of fun. I managed to make it to the final table. Short stacked had to move all in with pocket 5's. Unfortunately ran into rockets and was knocked out in 7th place. Made 640 euros though. Oh, and buyin was 70 euros so I was quite pleased!

 

[DyzzD]

My first live tourny was when I was 18. There was a small poker room off a bowling alley that had weekend freerolls with $20 add ons. It would get around 10 tables weekly and I did fairly well. Didn't cash but made it until the $40 tourny started that night where I cashed with 20 players. Now I play locally, but as my state has a $250 buy in cap it's hard to escape a tourny without bad players at every table.

 

[gohan2015]

I never played in one before but I hope to play soon .

 

[MissJoice]

My first live tourny was bad! I was too new to poker to even think I had a prayers chance of doing good. But I had to wait on Hubby and it was very educational to watch the good card players.

 

[swarovsky1]

My first poker tournament was a disaster, I knew what was the strength of the cards, but did not know the name of the flop, turn and river, terms of poker in general. But it was cool, gave it to feel the emotion that is poker.

 

[PLAYINBIG]

My 1st live casino tourney I was nervous.My mind wasn't focused that good.I even had a hard time counting my chips because I was so used to online poker & the computer would do all the counting for me.The regular casino players pick up on that fast. I would make my bets,calls or raises verbally.I was afraid of putting too much or not enough chips in.Something that a player will never forget.

 

[hawgfan1]

I was a nervous wreck for my first live tourney! I was literally sick on the 3 hour drive to the casino. I was playing pretty well but got short stacked and got JJ and shoved on the button. Of course the bb has AA and I finished on the bubble.

 

[etojeLucker]

no live tournament but i think in february i will do it

 

[wagon596]

My first real live tournament was at a casino,,,needless to say I was very intimidated, but since have played a few more times... not bad now

 

[simaguru]

no live tournament, only on line

 

[jj20002]

not calling AA

How was your first live tournament? Yesterday I went for the first time to local poker club and played....well it didn´t end well. I was so nervous! Even though I do well online I busted really quickly from this 47 man tourney. I was dealt pocket KK and play them horribly but I was like okay, it can happen anyone for the first time. But two hands later I was dealt AA in middle position and I raised to 350...there was 1 limper before me and so far it seemed that everyone just calls with speculative hands. So I wanted to make my bets slightly larger to get paid off. But what I didn´t notice that level was just 25/50. I raised 7 big blinds! What an idiotic move! I felt like super rookie and it was awful experience for me. Anyone had similar experience? Online poker is easy, you see how much a pot is, how much are blinds....I was kinda lost yesterday. :/ Have to improve my live play!

I played an online mtt today, the 5.5 in pokerstars,

i was really needed of chips since i had like 4500 chips and the table avg was like 9000 chips,

there were two typical bullies in the table, and i could not enter without pushing, because everytime i put somthing they immeditely raised and tried to oust me from the mtt,

so i waited until the AA came, i was in the BB, expecting no one but both tried to steal my blinds as they did everytime before,

but for my unfortune, nobody, i mean, nobody even check, so i only got the small blind,

so in your case, yes, your raise was dramatically high, but consider that sometims nobody wants to bet in a particular hand (no more aces, no pairs, no connectors, no suited cards) and at the end nobody enters

 

[woodsy44]

I just played my first live tourney on Tuesday night. £33 buyin christmas tourney (150 buyins).

I wasnt as nervous as i thought i would be. I ended up finishing around 50th place. was a little under the average and needed a double up.
Had 79s and the flop was 7-9-K. I was raised and then went all-in. My opponent had Q8 and a flush draw. pretty obvious what happened next.

A few things i did notice was although the blinds were rising every 25mins, they seemed to go up really quickly.
I also noticed that the quality of hands was a lot lower than i expected. But i suppose compared to getting seeing a hand every 30secs online, you are seeing a hand every 3-5mins due to chip counting, shuffling etc.

I actually rebought, but luckily i won at blackjack on the break so i got it for free! An Xmas buffet was put on with a free beer also, so I quite enjoyed the experience overall.