Slow live game

So I played live with some friends last night. $20 NLHE SNG. 2 of the 8 haven't really played with us before, so we didn't know what to expect. Overall, it was really tight with a couple of walks in the first couple of blinds rounds, which is really weird. Normally, there's at least 1 caller or raiser, and even with 1 raiser there is usually a caller. It's not uncommon to have 4-5 or 8 in a pot when we play that size. Wasn't the case last night.

The major problem with last night was that they were calling for smoke breaks every 2 blind levels, which was ridiculous. Half the table smoked and the other half didn't , and most of the time smoke breaks are accommodated, but they were too frequent and then each one was too long. Our blind levels are 15 minutes and yet after 2 hours, I think we'd only played like 6 blind levels.

One of the guys who doesn't smoke, Eric a.k.a Mon Oncle, had a rough night. First, it took him 2 hours to get there since there was construction traffic on the highway, then everything he did at the table backfired, and finally, he had to endure all the wasted smoke break time. When he got knocked out, I've never seen him so upset. He launched his chips at Mark, who had knocked him out, and then he left for his trek back home. Hopefuly he gets over it. We've got another game in a couple of weeks.

As for the game, the blind levels jumped faster than our usual schedule, and I didn't change my game accordingly. Put that in with the general tightness of the table, and I should've bet more often with less. I had position on the two unknowns, so I didn't have to worry about them. I just felt like my cards were not quite strong enough. I'll open with 97o late, but not with 75o. I'll open with QXs, but not JXs,(where X doen't spread to a str8) and so my cards didn't give me enough to pull the trigger. Then when I did, with a mediocre Ah7h, unknown 1, who had limped PF, calls with JJ. Turns out, that was their M.O: Never raise PF, only limp or re-raise. I saw him pull the limp/re-raise play with AA. Oh yeah, he won the tourney, but it helps that he either doubled up or knocked a decent stack out with the aforementionned AA, and JJ, as well as knocking Kenny out with KK.

So, it wasn't as fun as it could've been, and a little sour with the way Eric went out. I'm exhausted today. Was supposed to take the kids our to our towns' "Family Day" with inflatables and the like, but it's raining and sapping my energy by the second.