Card Whale;243464 wroteHi, This weekend I went to Calgary for Halloween and to visit my friends. no one cares about that you care about the poker!

I was very excited to play, been waiting for a very long time. I bought into a 1/2 NL, 9 handed game (me making it 10) with $100. Sat down and everyone looked at me and I could tell they were smirking and just dreaming of how easy it would be to get my chips. Fresh meat.

lost 2 blinds before playing my first hand in late position. Had ace rag and raised to 10 bucks. everyone folded except for the deepstack, who in my opinion was the best player at the table, from watching him for about 20 mins. flop came and he checked to me. I bet 15 bucks and he threw his hand out. First pot ever! tried to steal the blinds once more in the next ten minutes, but folded on the flop. Here is my story. Maybe you could pick it apart for me and tell me what I could have done better.

I had about $100 and the guy I was against had around $350. I was UTG +2. looked down and saw pocket 8's. I limped for 2 bucks. got about 4 callers then a guy raised to 10 bucks. everyone behind him called. got to me and there was at least 5 callers. i think there were 3 left to act or something. so instead of calling the $10, I raised to $40. I did this because I thought if someone else had a pocket pair they would have already raised. I got one caller ($350 behind him) and everyone else folded. I was proud of myself that I had the balls to make a raise and my heart could be seen beating through my chest at this point. I tried so hard to sit still. Flop came JQ7 rainbow. I checked and the guy behind me quite quickly throws in $50 bucks. He looked a little weird to me. It was a quick bet too. This $50 would put me all in. If I folded I would not have a very large stack to play with and I could only stay at the casino for a little while longer. I thought about it for a while then put in my last 50 bucks. I just thought with that huge stack against my tiny one the guy probably thought it would be easy to get this stupid 18 year old off his hand. I didnt think he had a J or a Q so I called. I turned over my 8's and he mucked his hand. The table erupted, with shouts of what! and one guy kept saying that it was a hero call. I guess some people could just think that I was an idiot and got lucky haha. I was very happy. next hand picked up my chips and left.

cool story