Re: Moving from Internet to B&M and am \"nervous\". How to fix
 

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just played my first cash game at a casino

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Congrats on your win; like FeliciaLee said, enjoy this time!

In all honesty, it's not a "problem" but it's also not something where there will necessarily be a quick fix. With experience in a casino and at the tables, this will steadily diminish. I'm not sure how many novice casino-goers can directly relate to nerves manifesting themselves as physical signs, like shaking hands, but I still struggle with this at times, and regularly see others with the same. It's one thing if it's after a major hand, but there may be more to the story if it's nearly every pot you enter (doesn't seem the case here.)

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I guess I just need to play more to get rid of the nervousness!

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You know what to do. Get back to this thread in a couple of months if things haven't significantly improved. Don't let this minor thing discourage you.

And one last thing in general - this site promotes a critical analysis of poker, to look for every little window of opportunity to gain +EV situations, raise and track profits, and just out-think and outplay opponents. This is great for our purposes. In a casino, though, a much greater proportion of people are there to just gamble, kill a couple of hours, get away from their spouse, or just be in a social environment. Sometimes, I think, that initial transition from the computer, with the spreadsheets, and PT, and multi-tabling, to the rather monotonous milieu of a poker room, makes it difficult to immediately scale down or manage the level of energy and non-stop competitive drive you may have had in your online sessions to a stone-cold poker face and steady hands for every poker hand you play in the casino.

Re: Moving from Internet to B&M and am \"nervous\". How to fix
 

buy some casino type poker chips, learn a few shuffles/tricks at home, have a beer, relax

Re: Moving from Internet to B&M and am \"nervous\". How to fix
 

I am reltively new to poker. I started in B&M. The first few times that I went I would feel nervous and shake when betting. But that has gone away. It will go away, don't be concerned. When I play on vacation, and have a few beers, I didn't shake. I also found that I would feel cold so I wear a light jacket or hoodie. I don't put the hood over my head! I just get cold sitting there not moving, the jacket helps and helps with hand shaking.

Just my 2 cents as a newbie.

Re: Moving from Internet to B&M and am \"nervous\". How to fix
 

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buy some casino type poker chips, learn a few shuffles/tricks at home, have a beer, relax

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Don't buy some casino chips, don't learn any shuffles/tricks at home, have a beer, relax. Chip tricks don't win pots and contrary to what Dutch Boyd would have you believe, it is *NOT* intimidating at the poker table.

Re: Moving from Internet to B&M and am \"nervous\". How to fix
 

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buy some casino type poker chips, learn a few shuffles/tricks at home, have a beer, relax

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Don't buy some casino chips, don't learn any shuffles/tricks at home, have a beer, relax. Chip tricks don't win pots and contrary to what Dutch Boyd would have you believe, it is *NOT* intimidating at the poker table.

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I'm pretty sure he just said to do this so that OP would get comfortable handling chips. I think it's a good idea. Obviously, chip tricks don't win pots, but handling chips is part of the B&M experience, so a little practice at home wouldn't hurt.

Re: Moving from Internet to B&M and am \"nervous\". How to fix
 

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buy some casino type poker chips, learn a few shuffles/tricks at home, have a beer, relax

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Don't buy some casino chips, don't learn any shuffles/tricks at home, have a beer, relax. Chip tricks don't win pots and contrary to what Dutch Boyd would have you believe, it is *NOT* intimidating at the poker table.

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I'm pretty sure he just said to do this so that OP would get comfortable handling chips. I think it's a good idea. Obviously, chip tricks don't win pots, but handling chips is part of the B&M experience, so a little practice at home wouldn't hurt.

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Telling someone they need to practice chip tricks to play poker is like telling someone who's training for a marathon that they need to practice by setting up a card table with lots of cups of water so they can properly run by and grab a cup successfully during the race - while it may be part of the actual event, it's so insignificant to the actual going ons of the event that it's pointless to practice.

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First, enjoy it. Your nervousness will pass, along with the novelty of the experience. Eventually it'll be just another day at the casino.

There certainly isn't any harm in taking home chips to get comfortable handling them. Personally, I think it is a little therapeutic to be able to do something repetive with your hands when your stressed and shuffling chips is more in character then playing with a stress ball.

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I know what you are saying, but what limits are you playing online? I really don't care if I lose a few bucks live, but if I would lose $500 I would hate it as a 100nl online player. People are so bad live, which is great, but if I get sucked out twice for my full stack, that takes a big chunk out of my bankroll. That is more or less the reason I only play 2/4 limit live.
I have no problems keeping my hands under control there, I seem to be quite good at shuffling chips though. Other people might say it doesn't matter, but when I'm shuffling I feel more comfortable, and so I shake less.

Just ask yourself if the reason you are shaking is because of the amount of money that you are playing for, or simply because you are excited about playing live.

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Telling someone they need to practice chip tricks to play poker is like telling someone who's training for a marathon that they need to practice by setting up a card table with lots of cups of water

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Did you read the post you quoted? Also, flawed analogy. Chips are handled in every single hand you play. It's the major tool of the game, and your hands are where many tells originate. I don't think it's a bad idea at all to get comfortable handling chips, and a good way to do that is home is to practice chip tricks. It's not that one needs tricks to play, it's that tricks are a convenient way to become comfortable with the medium. Makes sense to me.

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I was this way when I first played live. If your personality is like mine, then you are self-aware enough that you want to avoid the embarrassment looking like a clueless idiotic newbie. I'm sure that you probably (except for maybe your shakiness when handling chips) aren't even coming across as a new player.

It turns out that the people who really are clueless morons who hold up the game and annoy everyone are always the kind of people who always think they know what they are doing and feel no shame.