Hello to you all! 

After following this forum for a while my experience of my first live game last night prompted me to make a posting.  Just so you know, I am based in london and have only been playing poker online for 6 months or so, usually $5 No Limit S'n'G's - and thoroughly enjoy it - so when a meeting was cancelled in leeds last night I entered the £20 Pot Limit rebuy tournament at Napoleons (I think there were 57 entries).  My thoughts on the experience are as follows:

1, The things that you guys take for granted concerned me before the start: which chips were worth how much, were they labelled?  Do I physically move the dealer button around the table?  These points sound insignificant but were the issues I was thinking about before the game as much as the play.

1, At the table it was all a bit of a blur.  I was so intent on making sure I avoided screwing up by playing out of turn etc that I really struggled to observe how other people were playing and, to be absolutely frank, only really started to settle down after my third (and final) rebuy just before I left the table!

2, The guys on my table mostly knew each other and there was some amusing banter.  However, they were all very friendly towards me: I enjoyed their company.

3, I was amazed at how quickly people were going all in and then re-buying: I guess this is a legitimate strategy in a re-buy tournament?  I think my next live experience won't be a re-buy as people will be less willing to risk all with nothing (although based on other recent threads maybe not).

Anyway, I had a great time, feel much more confident about live play, and look forward to playing live again soon.  Any thoughts on the sort of tournaments I should play in next time would be greatly appreciated...