These guys are good?

First of I want to thank everyone who replied. I took everything into consideration and decided to play a little 5/10. Single table. Playing mostly my game. It was hard to raise a few times when I should have.. but I probably would not have done so at 3/6 either.. I am really happy to have people who will take money out of there boss's pockets to help me with my Poker game.

My stats for my first game were as follows:

VP$IP: 14.29 (Was not getting anything playable)
4.51 PF Raise
Aggression Factor: 1.03! Nice!

Here are my notes for the first night of Poker. I started playing. Here are some hands people showed:

-- Against a raise: 53o, Makes straight? Are these players really better?
-- A4 in EP wins. lol! I wouldnt show that! I would fold just to not show.
-- K9 Bluffing against J10o, why did K9 raise, and why did J10 call? A on the flop,
and K9 is raising 3-Bets!
-- J7 S000ted against a raise? What are these guys smoking?

Was I on a crazy 5/10 table or do they play more questionable hands at 5/10, and bluff there asses off when they miss? The night was pretty good. I started the night losing twice against 78, once with a flush vs his boat, and the other time with AK hitting my K on the river against his two pair.

Someone named Phish called me a fish! She said she was just joking after I ripped into her! I wonder if Phish is a blogger we all know and love? Hope not or else I will feel bad. Here is the hand for the hell of it. Names changed to protect the innocent. Inserted my thinking for you to review:

***** Hand History for Game 1163877639 *****
$5/$10 Hold'em - Wednesday, November 10, 22:26:37 EDT 2004
Table Table 11674 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 7: tp95 ( $489.5 )
Seat 5: SirFWALGMan ( $243.5 )
Seat 9: phish ( $244 )
Seat 4: pr ( $756 )
Seat 8: Ice ( $179 )
Seat 2: tru ( $260.5 )
Seat 1: many ( $318 )
Seat 10: rags ( $182 )
phish posts small blind [$2].
rags posts big blind [$5].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to SirFWALGMan [ 5h 5s ]
many folds.
tru folds.
yardley folds.
pr folds.
SirFWALGMan calls [$5].
JNazzer calls [$5].
tp95 folds.
Ice calls [$5].
phish calls [$3].
rags folds.

>>>>>>> Nobody is betting this up. 55 is playable in Middle Position. So
I am in.


** Dealing Flop ** [ 7s, 8d, 9s ]
phish bets [$5].
SirFWALGMan calls [$5].
JNazzer folds.
Ice calls [$5].

>>>>>>> From what I can tell any scary straight draw flop,
or a real straight draw is going to call this. Yeah, someone could
have 10-J, but someone could also have 77. I decide to see another card.

** Dealing Turn ** [ 3c ]
phish checks.
SirFWALGMan checks.
Ice bets [$10].
phish calls [$10].
SirFWALGMan calls [$10].
** Dealing River ** [ 3d ]

>>>>>>> Nothing has really changed here. If I was losing before, I
am still loosing. Nobody wants this pot except ICE now. I have been
playing with ICE and he is a total LAG in my estimation without
looking at PT. (Checking PT I am probably right. 44% of the time in the pot. Agression rating of 1.15!) He bought in for $94. Caught some lucky hands and built
it up, and then busted out over $260. His bet does not scare me, and
phish is now checking showing she missed her overcards. My read on this
hand is my 5's are going to hold up. I could be wrong, but it's not costing me
huge money.


phish checks.
SirFWALGMan checks.
Ice bets [$10].
phish folds.
SirFWALGMan calls [$10].
Ice shows [ 2s, 4s ] a pair of threes.
SirFWALGMan shows [ 5h, 5s ] two pairs, fives and threes.
SirFWALGMan wins $87 from the main pot with two pairs, fives and threes.

>>>>>>> Now here is my only mistake. Phish is out. I respect Phish. She is a rock.
If she hit her overcard I would have folded. Ice could have ANYTHING at all! My mistake was not raising him and maybe getting another $10. I had this good of a feeling on my read, but chickened out.

So did I way over play this? I think my reads were correct and it paid off. I understand I could lose money doing this, but I trust my instincts. Sometimes they are wrong but that is the game.

So my take so far playing one table for 84 hands. Not better than 3/6. VERY loose! Alot of bluffing going on, so it gets hard to read people sometimes. Alot of turn raises to knock people out. Could get nasty in a multi-way pot! heh. I am up $73 which is modest. I have my first taste and I like it. I do not think every table is going to be this bad but if it is then I can make alot of money!

Iggy popped in around 11. If I did not know better I would think he has me tagged as a fish and is tracking me down. heh. I was ready to go by 11, so I said goodbye and left the fish to him. I wanted to leave feeling good about the night, so I decided I would pack it up a little early. All in all a nice introduction.