BuckHawk75
New Member
Well, this week I played in the largest tournament I've tried to date, with a field of 96. Made the final table, but had a lousy streak and lost or pushed my last 5 hands, and could only manage to finish in 6th (at least I moved up one position, from 7th, on the final hand.)
A new experience for me was listening to people critiquing, practically doing a play-by-play, on my and the other finalists' play from about 2 feet behind me. It was very distracting, initially. When you all play in big tournaments, does that often happen, and can you hear the announcers during the televised tournaments like WSOB?
My question is about handling a situation with another player at your table. In the final round, there were two "wild card" players randomly drawn from all of the entrants that didn't make the finals, to make a total of eight at the final table. Unfortunately, one of them was from my semifinal table, and ended up with the seat right next to me. In the semis he had the chip lead for some time but ended up betting himself right off the table, the first to go, betting pretty erratically with little apparent logic. I got the impression that he was miffed that I made the finals, me being a beginner and all.
At the final table he was clearly intoxicated, and acted it. I don't know if he was deliberately trying to put me off my game or not, but from the time he arrived at the table and sat unevenly down he was totally inappropriate in his behavior toward me. He put his arm around my shoulder, tried to climb into my lap, put his hand under the table and squeezed my leg when I had a promising-looking first card, and so on. Now, I am probably old enough to be this kid's mother, and am pretty darn average looking at best <g>, so it wasn't sexual attraction for sure. I did pointedly remind him that I was here to play the tournament and nothing else, and at one point, in the guise of re-settling myself in my seat I managed to introduce his ribs to my elbow, but he was so intoxicated I only managed to move him a few centimeters away.
I really wanted to ask the dealer or the hovering floor supervisor to remove him, but it was clear in the way that they were talking and joking with him that he was a regular, and no one else seemed to mind his obnoxiousness. I don't want to become unwelcome at the casino, I otherwise enjoyed the tournament and want to play in it again.
Suggestions?
CJ
A new experience for me was listening to people critiquing, practically doing a play-by-play, on my and the other finalists' play from about 2 feet behind me. It was very distracting, initially. When you all play in big tournaments, does that often happen, and can you hear the announcers during the televised tournaments like WSOB?
My question is about handling a situation with another player at your table. In the final round, there were two "wild card" players randomly drawn from all of the entrants that didn't make the finals, to make a total of eight at the final table. Unfortunately, one of them was from my semifinal table, and ended up with the seat right next to me. In the semis he had the chip lead for some time but ended up betting himself right off the table, the first to go, betting pretty erratically with little apparent logic. I got the impression that he was miffed that I made the finals, me being a beginner and all.
At the final table he was clearly intoxicated, and acted it. I don't know if he was deliberately trying to put me off my game or not, but from the time he arrived at the table and sat unevenly down he was totally inappropriate in his behavior toward me. He put his arm around my shoulder, tried to climb into my lap, put his hand under the table and squeezed my leg when I had a promising-looking first card, and so on. Now, I am probably old enough to be this kid's mother, and am pretty darn average looking at best <g>, so it wasn't sexual attraction for sure. I did pointedly remind him that I was here to play the tournament and nothing else, and at one point, in the guise of re-settling myself in my seat I managed to introduce his ribs to my elbow, but he was so intoxicated I only managed to move him a few centimeters away.
I really wanted to ask the dealer or the hovering floor supervisor to remove him, but it was clear in the way that they were talking and joking with him that he was a regular, and no one else seemed to mind his obnoxiousness. I don't want to become unwelcome at the casino, I otherwise enjoyed the tournament and want to play in it again.
Suggestions?
CJ
) and got an 11. Of course I would have used that other 1K to double with. I got the face card and a 2K win would have advanced me while the 1K win left me in 2nd. To this day, I still feel that had the situation been reversed, the favored player would have been given every opportunity to utilize that option. It soured me to the point that I quit playing tournaments at that casino for over a year. 
May there be many more in the future.