Eating during tournaments?

theordinaryboy · #1 07-17-2006, 08:29 AM

hey there

just wondered what people do about food when playing live tournaments.

Are there waiters/waitresses going round the tables asking if anyone wants drinks?

If so can you order food from these, is it ok to eat at the poker table?

Are soft drinks or anything else free?

When are the breaks for food/dinner?

I am only playing the main event so if it differs please respond in relation to that.

Cheers

kolotoure · #2 07-17-2006, 08:42 AM

People should never eat at the table IMO

THAY3R · #3 07-17-2006, 02:23 PM

Cocktail waitresses come around and you can order drinks. Basically free but you should obviously tip them. You get a 15 minute break every 2 hours, and a 1 hour dinner break each day, usually after the 6th level.

BluffBlank · #4 07-17-2006, 02:53 PM

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Lawman007 · #5 07-17-2006, 03:00 PM

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Exactly! Eat before you leave home and during breaks and keep your greasy paws off the cards.

pineapple888 · #6 07-17-2006, 03:05 PM

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I wish there was a rule about this, but I guess diabetics etc. would then have potential health issues.

The only applicable tournament rule I could find was #51, "There shall be no foreign objects on the table with the exception of one card cap."

Of course they are not enforcing this rule wrt drinks.

Regarding food, at my tables some players have been eating with the food in their laps and no dealers/floor people have objected.

BluffBlank · #7 07-17-2006, 03:10 PM

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I have no problem with having drinks at the table. But food should be kept away. Even diabetics should be able to think ahead enough to eat during the 15 minute breaks/dinner breaks. I think food just slows down the game, greases up the cards, and frankly is rude. But ban drinking at a card table and I might need to find a new hobby... [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

benfranklin · #8 07-17-2006, 03:25 PM

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I have no problem with having drinks at the table. But food should be kept away. Even diabetics should be able to think ahead enough to eat during the 15 minute breaks/dinner breaks. I think food just slows down the game, greases up the cards, and frankly is rude. But ban drinking at a card table and I might need to find a new hobby... [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

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Ditto. There is nothing wrong with a cup of coffee, bottle of water, etc., at the table, but any kind of food is rude and infringes on others. Even small snacks tend to scatter crumbs on the table and gunk on the cards. And anything more than your chips and a drink tends to sprawl out into other peoples' space. Space at a table is limited enough as is.

And at the risk of being a complete grump on the subject, watching most people eat is disgusting. Do your private business in the bathroom and your eating in the restaurant.

Wolf359 · #9 07-17-2006, 06:54 PM

Well, I like eating at the table. I've only really played cash games live, but I've logged probably 1000hrs doing so. The cards do NOT get greasy, and people are good about keeping crap off the felt. The only issue is that it does occasionally slow down the game when someone incapable of multitasking is chowing down, but then they're paying less attention to the game and are therefore playing worse...

In short, it's incredibly convenient and I've never seen it mess up the cards or the table at either Foxwoods (back in the day when you *could* eat at the table), the Bike, or Commerce. Perhaps people at other casinos are bigger slobs.

Sorry that this doesn't answer the original question about main event food at the table, but I figured I should toss in my apparently lone voice in favor of table-food.

MeanGreenTT · #10 07-17-2006, 07:22 PM

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Obviously you don't know any diabetics....but "a low" will not be quick fixed with food as easily as with glucose from tablets or any soda, juice, etc....to say they should "plan ahead" is simple ignorance of the disease.