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

[OrigamiSensei]

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Turn it around and use it to your advantage. Lots of seasoned players notice everything around them (we're bored spitless and have nothing else to do, after all), so use that nervousness to completely confuse us. Don't try to hide the shaking when you DON'T have a big hand, and get us to fold. Since you've played online 18 months and have that experience, think of every reverse tell that you can use to your advantage while playing live, and use it, don't squander it. It only happens once, might as well make some extra money before it goes away.

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Felicia, you are so right about this. I play very little live and I'm always doing something silly to expose my lack of experience in a B&M environment (and it's not deliberate because it's quite embarrassing at times). I'm hopeless at handling chips, my hands shake, I ask stupid questions - sometimes I just want to crawl under the table and hide. However, it seems to work in my favor because people assume it means I don't know what I'm doing poker-wise, either.

Just make sure to be polite and if you screw up, for heaven's sake apologize and offer to buy a drink or something. Keep the table loose and happy. People will tolerate quite a lot from a "nice fish".

So OP, as you have been told revel in it and take advantage while it lasts.