The very first time I played live cash, was at Coventry Grosvenor casino in the UK. My OH had played in the Goliath and it had not gone his way with 2 bullets - it was about midnight and we had about 70 cash so we went on cash game I bought in for 30 I think, I won a couple of small
hands and he lost everything to some woman who wasn’t even really playing anything but bingo - well his table broke and she came on mine - so first hand I played with her I had A7 spades and flopped a flush she pushed all in for about £80 with AQ off suit - which i snap called - and took down. She rebought and the very next hand i was dealt 88, flop came 8Q7 (2 diamonds) she was clearly chasing flush as was someone else, she bet £20 he called I called T was Q diamonds - she pushed all in he called and of course so did i, the river was 2 of clubs so I had full house 8/Qs took the pot which was about £350. I played one more hand and decided it was time to go home 😃.
Incidentally I won a ticket to the Goliath on
party poker and had the wonderful luck to be seated next to Will Kasouff. Not a lot of live experience he’s really good at knocking your confidence lol