I haven't played many live games but I must admit I found it VERY scary sitting round a table full of men and the fear of making a fool of myself made me play much more tight/aggressive than I would when playing online.
The last game I played was in a pub and I was told that there were several woman who played regular and why not come along.
One night I thought, why not, give it a go.
I walked into this pub (that I had never been in before) and not one woman in sight, about 50 blokes all staring at me as if I had horns.
So I sits down at my table and there was total silence and im thinking just go to the loo and climb out the window
I say HI to break the ice and asked all there names which eased the atmosphere a bit.
So im sitting there folding hand after hand, hands I would normally play online and im getting my blinds nicked left right and centre. Ive spotted a couple of players have been knocked out and im thinking you are just going to blind out if you dont make a move.
Next hand i got QQ and I thought to myself you are sat at a table online, these are not real people, just play it as you would online and I tripled up knocking 2 out
After that I was okay, I was bullying big time and I could see the relief on their faces when the table broke up and i was CL woohoo.
Got moved to another table and again they just all stared at me like I had just landed from Mars. Any raise I made they all folded though so at least I had respect LOL
I made it to the last 2 tables with a healthy stack and went allin on a KQ9 flop with 99, unfortunatly matey boy had J 10 so it was goodnight and gg to me but I could see the relief on their faces when I was beat hehe.
I spoke to a young chap who was sat on the second table afterwards and he said well done etc and he said "When you were moved to my table I couldnt take my eyes off your huge stack"
Boy did he turn pink when his mates burst out laughing