The game is a 100-300 live game with blinds being 1-2, no limit. I bought in for a hundred and proceed to get hammered when I had a set and a straight to a guy catching river flushes both times. So I am down to about $40 and UTG. I look down and see I have Aces, but decide against raising and do the dangerous limp well aware of what I was in for if everyone just called, but a guy in mp raised to 7 and there were three callers, then it gets back to me and I push all in and get one caller who had A-Q and they held up. I knew it was a risk limping but it worked out well.

Later on I was dealt pocket queens and raised to $6 as the table had tightened up a bit. There were four of us in the hand at the time, the flop came up 9-j-9 I everyone checked except for the button, and he bet $25. I thought for a minute and announced raise, and put in an additional $48 that put him all in and he called. What did he have? K-Q! Another Q on the turn gave me the boat and I took it down.

I am normally more of a tournament player, this was only the 4th or 5th time playing a live game, but it was a good experience.

u should buy in for 300 if you can in a home game.

everyone is going to be bad and you want the biggest edge

ALso starting with $100 (50bb) and flopping both a set and a straight and only losing $60 is pretty strange! How/Why did you not lose more?

Honestly, the guy had been on a huge run of bad luck lately, as have I and we had talked quite a bit about it over the last few weeks, so basically he had mercy on me, otherwise I would have been long gone.

I would love to buy in for 300, but right now 100 is the limit. Family and bills always come first. I doubled up that night, so next weeks buy ins don't hurt at all.