I get dealth Pocket Kings under the gun in my very first hand at a live 1-2 NL game. I'm UTG and don't know anything about any of the players (except one that I've played with before who didn't stay in the hand). I raise to $20 and the BB (to my right) calls. The flop brings 6/9/10 all hearts. Neither of my kings is heart. He checks to me (now, if he came out firing, I probably would have folded) and I bet $35 at the $40 pot and he moves all-in immediately. It's $90 for me to call and the pot is now $200. I'll scoop up a $290 pot if I win putting me at $345 and up $145 for the session on my first hand.
I thought about it for a while and I decided that he wouldn't have checked a low flush to me, and that he wouldn't have moved all-in with a high flush, so at best I figured he had one heart. I thought he put me on an ace/king that missed and saw my bet as a continuation bet. I thought it was possible he had top pair and thought he was ahead as well.
I ended up calling and he turns over K/J with one heart, so he has a gutshot straight draw and the flush draw. He hits his heart on the turn and it's over nice and quickly.
Now, knowing what cards he had, should I have folded?
He had 12 outs, so he was a slight underdog to win the hand. I talked with dealer about it and he said I probably should have folded and that I didn't have the correct odds to call that bet. I still think it's one of those situations that could have gone either way. The gutshot straight draw ended up giving him two more outs than I thought he would have had if he was holding a 10.

first hand and you paid $3 to play UTG.... that was your misktake...

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How can UTG be your first hand.

And how can the dealer be that dumb

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It's Vegas and you don't have to post to come in. Nice try though.

I can see the dealer's point of view.
It's quite possible that my opponent already had a flush and I would need to go runner-runner to a full house or quads to win (very slim chances) and I put 3/4 of my buy-in into that type of hand.
It was my very first hand, and how could I possibly have an accurate read on a player who I didn't even see play one hand ever in my entire life. I turned out to be correct on my read, but that was probably just lucky, and even turning out to be correct put me into a coin flip situation. If I were wrong on my read I could have almost been drawing dead.

Then I misread your post, sorry. It sounded to me like he told you to fold after knowing he had only 12 outs.

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After the hand was played he did say to me, "You didn't have the odds." I'm pretty sure I did have the odds, but I could also see the argument in not putting 3/4 of your buy-in into your first hand when you could practically be drawing dead. If I don't make that call, I keep the $90, I don't have to rebuy, I still have $145 in front of me and I would have finished the session up over $200 instead of only up $100. On the other hand, if my hand held up, I could have had a $500 day...
I'm still on the fence. If it's a bad call, I've made much worse bad calls.