For many bars and taverns the big-game on Super Bowl Sunday means big business. But one local bar owner is just trying to get back in the game.

Larry Bob's Oasis re-opened this Friday. It had been closed for a week, serving part of a 30-day liquor license suspension for violating Iowa's statewide smoking ban. It was supposed to be closed for a month after two violations of the smoking ban. On Friday a judge granted an injunction to stop the suspension short, allowing the tavern to open back up. However, it may not have been fast enough to bring the crowds back.

"There's a lot of people that don't know we're open yet so it's not like it would have been," said Larry Hergert, owner of Larry Bob's Oasis.

Hergert says he is just happy his doors are open for the big-game, and a few customers are happy too.

"It's close, a family atmosphere, I know everybody here," said Dan Arps, an 8-year patron at the bar.

"We got open just in time. We're going to be here for the Super Bowl and Daytona, but a lot of people figuring we're not going to be here," said Hergert.

According to Hergert, business has been tough all around since the smoking ban took affect in July 2008. He has been fighting it since the beginning, because he says the majority of his customers come to smoke. "After the smoking ban hit it just cut my business right straight in half."

It also cost him hundreds of dollars in fines and a liquor license suspension. With that, Hergert says it would have been easier to close the bar all together, but he didn't.

"I would be heartbroken because during the suspension we were like, 'Oh my gosh where are we going to go,'" said Connie Norris.

On Sunday loyal patrons had a place to watch the big-game on the big-screen. But the crowd was not as big as it may have been in the past. That had some questioning the smoking ban and its affect on businesses like Larry Bob's Oasis. "I think it should be the bar owner's or the establishment's choice and posted on the door, let customers know, we smoke here or we don't smoke here," said Chris Reed another long-time customer.

Hergert has appealed the license suspension and will still have to go to court to try to get it thrown out. Until that happens he can still stay open. In the meantime, he says he won't take any chances. The numerous "No Smoking" signs are up to stay, and his business and its customers will adhere to that rule.