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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.