First trip to a casino.

[jme1222]

First post, so be nice.

So I took my first trip to a casino to play poker earlier this week (I'm 19) and I had a great time.

I read over a ton of the B&M threads and they helped me not feel and look like a total newb to live play. Many regulars didn't believe me when I told them it was my first time.

The casino is one sick place. Tons and tons of old people pumping money into the slots, sad...

Half the people in the poker room were readable within 10 minutes of sitting down with them. I didn't know it would be that easy. The guy next to me folded to a preflop raise on my first hand and said "If those last two guys had folded, I'd play, but now I don't have pot odds." Then 2 hands later his AA beat k10 all in on a flop of k10x and thought he was ahead when the $$$ went in!!


Anyway, I got there at 11pm and sat down with $100 at 1/2. I built it up to $400 by 3 am and tried to sleep but it was too hot in the car and I was way too excited. So by 5 am I was back in for another $150, only this time I busted quickly and rebought for $100. Then I got really hot and somehow ended up with $700 in front of me. I was feeling good.

At this point my friend who I went with sits down at my table since it was the only one going. He has been to the casino dozens of times, wins a bunch and loses a bunch but has plenty of money to spend. I, on the other hand, was taking a big shot playing 1/2 since the highest my online BR can support is .25/.50. I brought $400 of offline money with me. Now to the biggest hand of the trip.

My friend was down about $500 and I was up around $700. I felt kinda bad for him even though he has way more $ then me. Before we got there we planned on not sitting together, but since he wanted to play this was the only running table.

He has $150 in front, I have $700+ UTG with 44

I open for $10, then he calls and we go HU to the flop. Flop comes 4910 rainbow. there was like $20 bucks in the pot and before I act I tell him to lay down his hand. "John, I got you. Fold. For your sake, fold." Then I bet my entire stack. He laughs, obviously thinks I'm stealing the pot. I get worried because he was way down and if he lost this buy in we would leave because he wasn't gonna lose anymore and it was his car. So again I tell him I have him beat 100% and he needs to fold.

He calls, I shake my head and flip my set, he flips JJ.

I just didn't understand. He small balls it with me preflop then calls $140 into a $20 pot, was so sick.

Oh yea, obv the turn was a jack. Was there anything else I could do? If I check he bets his overpair and then if I only call more $$$$ is just in the pot, thats mean. I was not going to slowplay my friend for money. If I CR all in he calls with his overpair. I thought just going all in and telling him was fair. It just sucked. Thoughts?

Anyway, I still left the next morning up over $550 so it was a good trip and I wanna go back real soon!

Thanks for reading and all the helpful advice in the forum.