Thanks for some good comments.

Don't understand the blackjack reference (I sure don't play it).

I can appreciate that I need to learn to beat 25 cent blinds first. Frankly, I am taking a little time off playing (easy with the French Open on), and will try to find a site where I feel I can play 25 cent better.

I've already decided that tables can be TOO loose.

Mistakes I made per the above hand:

First - staying at that table. It was too loose. So I tilted a bit and over-bet. (When someone raised to 85 cents from the 25 cent blind, 60% of the players were seeing the flop, unreal).

Second - the over-betting, which was triggered by the first mistake.

Third - the later hand when I went all in on a bluff and lost - well, it was a semi-bluff but I caught neither my flush nor my straight.

For your information, I had pocket tens on the above hand.

So based on my cards, another mistake might have been even trying to play that like a strong hand. With all the limpers ahead of me, and knowing how raises get called, it might have been a good decision to just limp in.

If I was justified in playing in strong, I might have played (and still lost) a reasonable hand with a failed continuation bet. If I had not overbet, that wouldn't have been a big deal, I had a fair number of successful continuation bet hands in the session.

Nancy