Finally balls'd up and made it to the local casino to give the lowest NL games a shot. They seem to pretty much play like $25 NL from what I've seen so far, so I feel pretty comfortable in them. I don't bluff overmuch...not really a pure nutcamper but I'm not going very deep without a strong hand.
I've made pretty good money so far in 2 4.5 hour sessions - up about $350...but there are a few hands that are bugging the crap outta me cuzza how I fouled 'em up...so I'm posting all 4 of them for "edification through self-denigration" purposes.
I certainly won't object to additional berating.
Oh, and stacks - even some suits, are not precise - I'm not taking notes as I play so these are all just from memory.

I'll start hand 1 in this post, but I will post the others in follow-ons, as the post was horribly long - that way if anyone wants to pick just a single hand apart, they don't have to read through all 4.
Hand 1 is a poorly played hand, Hand 2 is poorly played and a bad laydown, and hands 3-4 are all about lost value.


Hand 1 - (Day 1, hour 2)

I had not had to make a difficult decision thus far today - I hadn't hit much of squat either - at least not that got paid. I had bought in for the day at $200, so I was down from blinds and missed hands. I should have rebought prior to this hand, but I'm still not so familiar with the mechanics of all that live.
My primary opponent in this hand raises fairly tightly preflop, calls a bit too loosely preflop, and plays a little loosely postflop. 2 hands I remember that he showed down were limp-calling a pfr (with odds to call the raise due to # of callers) with J8o and check-calling down with a pair of 8s chasing a weak flush on a A38 all board and rivering a J vs. AK (with K of clubs and betting well enough that this guy should have been gone on the flop); second hand was one in which he limp-called a raise with TT in LP, and reraised the blind-raiser allin with a set on a fairly coordinated flop.

NL $1/$2 blinds, 9 players.

SB (xxx)
Hero ($150 and change)
...
UTG+1 ($200+)
MP1 ($100+)
...

Preflop: Hero is BB with 7, 7 .
UTG+1 calls $2, MP1 raises to $10, Button calls $10, SB calls $10, Hero calls $8, UTG+1 calls $8.


Flop: ($50 ish) 5 6 7 (5 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $25, UTG+1 calls $25, MP1 folds, Button folds, SB folds.

Foul-up #1 - I actually bet $50, but I didn't announce the bet amount first, only that I bet, and then I moved the chips in two stacks - this is a string bet and is not allowed - the first stack of $25 stuck as my bet - at this point UTG+1 indicates that he is a little confused - he can't call $50, but he can call $25, and does so. At this point, I'm putting him more on a pair and a straight draw type of hand rather than a flush draw, but both are possibilities. He is putting me on an overpair.

Turn: ($100) Q (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG+1 bets $70, Hero calls $70.

Foulup #2 - I am fairly certain that UTG+1 is attempting to bluff me out of the pot, and not that he thinks he has the best hand...but I'm not folding any river other than a 4th diamond so there's no reason for me to just call here - I could open push the turn card, or check-raise All-in - but check-calling with $30ish behind is silly.

River: ($240) 8 (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG+1 puts Hero All-in for $30ish, Hero calls.

This isn't so horrible as I'm pretty sure that Villain does not have 9x so he does not have a straight - I don't think he has a flush either so I think my hand is best and that he will put the rest in, but might fold if I bet - doubtful so I should probably just push the river but meh.

Final Pot: $300ish

Results in white below:
Hero has 7s 7h: (three of a kind, sevens).
UTG+1 has 8s 5d (two-pair, eights and fives).
Outcome: Hero wins $300ish.

Outcome is not the key here - I played this hand horribly, and a lot of that is due to the fact that I screwed up with the string bet on the flop...ugh...have not repeated that mistake so it's just a learning-curve to playing live kinda thing.

Of note also is the fact that I basically tilted UTG+1 because I called him down and didn't buy that he had a flush. This comes into play in the next screwed up hand.