I played for the first time at the Harrah’s Prairie Band Casino in Mayetta, Kansas (20 miles N. of Topeka) The No-Limit structure was a bit strange, the blinds were $2 – $5 but there was a max bring-in of $200
I thought this was a bit low for the blinds but I played it anyway. I later found out this was ONLY tonights structure – most nights there is no max buyin – 
SWEET!
I played an unusually tight game in the beginning because I HATE to re-buy HAHAHAHA.
I had built my stack to around $360 when they moved a new player to our table; He came to my table with just over 1k so he was tearing up his previous table. Which is also a strange thing about this poker room – they will MAKE you move to another table in order to even up the players at each table (not cool!) Anyway – They sit the big stack to my left and this I hate. Now I have enough chips to make some position moves and along comes a BIG stack to my left. Two hands after sitting down Mr. big stack doubles my stack to just under $800 when is flush draw fails to improve against my nut straight. (All money in on turn). The following hand did not include me but occurred within the next 5 hands and I am using this as a great analogy of why you have to observe your table.
Mr. Big stack is now sitting at just over $750 there are 3 players that limped in on his big blind. He holds 2h – 3d and checks
Flop comes 4h, 5s, Qc
He bets $15 on his up and down straight draw. And gets one caller (a player at the other side of the table.)
Turn Card: 6h
Mr. Big stack moves all-in with apprx $730
Now, the obvious mistake here is not the biggest error, He holds the second nuts (low end of the straight) What he thinks he is betting is around $200 because the gentleman at the end of the table that made an IMMEDIATE call with his 7d, 8d (nut straight) had $100 and $25 chips that were to the side of his $5 chips, So when this gentleman said I have $679 I CALL, You could see the amazement on Mr. Big stacks face as he heard the amount. He went from BIG chip leader at this table to well below average in a matter of 15 hands. And the reason is because he did not examine his new surroundings prior to jumping in head first – Had he been aware of how tight I was playing he never would have called a $175 raise on the flop with a draw, Or called my all-in on the turn. Had he known how much each player had on the table he never would have said ALL-IN with that board.One of the most important aspects of a No-Limit game is observation; Even if you are not great at reading other players at least know what they have in front of them.
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