Smoking at tourney table

I wish all tournaments would enforce a nonsmoking policy! At the final (crowded) table at a local tournament last night..,, a woman in seat 5 lit up a smoke and blew it in everyone's faces. Its been over a decade since I've smoked..but I can remember how nice a smoke was when in a stressful situation. With 8 other non smokers at the table...was her smoking rude? When she first took out the pack and a lighter and indicated she was going to smoke...,a couple players asked her to wait until the tourney was over ....but she said we were in one if the few places that smoking was allowed....the rest if us could go almost anywhere we wanted that was smoke free.!

I'm curious what others ...smokers and not...think?

Mica

 

no smoking

I am a smoker and I believe that the non-smoking rules should apply during a tournament not that I am not biting at the bit to have a smoke during a tournament but a round in a tournament is about 30 minutes. Yes I think this is rude of her to blow smoke in everybodys face during a tournament. My guess is that she is a older women or asian female. I try really hard not to blow smoke towards anybody at the blackjack table in normal play. I just try to respect the non smoking players and dealers. On the other hand some of the non smokers are very rude also and treat smokers like a criminal not just in a casino but anywhere.

 

Mica, you are in the Great Northwest and that is a well-known area for a very few local BJT players who will stop at nothing to win, even cheating. Blowing smoke isn't cheating but it might knock down your concentration.

First, if I were you, I'd approach the tournament directors outside of the event itself and point out how rude it is and how it could cost them players. Second, I'd work on my own mindset so that stuff like that doesn't affect you.

I used to do rotten little things early in my bowling tournament career to distract my opponents. Nothing rude like blowing smoke - stuff like wearing a wrist support on the non-bowling hand or wearing shoes that were obviously from two different (and horribly ugly) pairs. Affecting their concentration was paramount.

 

Smoking

I agree with Leftnut. There are those who will do anything to sidetrack your thinking. At a local tourney, some of the poker players would "take a break" from poker and come play the bjt. They were obnoxious, loud, rude, and would smoke cigars to annoy us. They were finally banned from playing since they started "borrowing" chips from a round where they had dominated the table (like making 23,000 chips from 1000) and didn't need them to win their table (2nd highest would be like 3,000) and taking those chips (extra 3-4000!) to the final table...slipping them into play without anyone noticing! Making tournament tables non-smoking is very reasonable.

 

Most of the northwest tournaments are in card rooms which are non-smoking anyway. Only in the rare tournaments at a tribal casino would that be an issue. Palming chips on the other hand .....