I turned over to reveal two pair on the board and villain mucked. The dealer pushed the pot in my direction as I stacked the newly added chips to my stack. That was the very first pot I'd ever won in a real poker room. It felt amazing.
It's wasn't as if I had rolled craps and won, or placed it on black and hit for roulette, I had won by not just having a good hand by luck, but by extracting value out of worse. I also remember that being one of the very few pots I won my first night playing "for real.