I wonder if the new gaming supplier found new locations he likes more and will be starting over complete with new staff in new locations at some point.

Also, while they’re still operating, I heard the charity that was supposed to service Players South Sunday daytime, Monday and Tuesday evening, and Wednesday daytime back out due to fear of Coronavirus. The Sunday night, Monday and Tuesday daytime charity still plans to operate.

That could be it. I genuinely have no idea.

Thank you for the info about the charities though; I had no idea about that.

I wonder what's gonna happen with the Player's crowd. I'm guessing a combo of migrating downtown, to vision, and home games? I would think someone's gonna start hosting home games because those games were too good...

Yeah, I just learned that as I sat down with my old fashioned to enjoy the tournament. Took me a little bit to realize it's last years tournament.

They needed to focus on getting the sports betting set up first. The tournament is supposed to be rescheduled in the future.


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Ohio casinos about to close. How long do the Detroit Casinos have?

Who knows but I’m looking for a tourney to play today.


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Two players at my table at MGM last night said it sounds like Monday, but I have a suspicion that they made that up.

It's quite humorous how they're getting away with the 250 people to a room ordinance; they have the slots and table games roped off every few sections, to make sure that there aren't more than 250 people for each section. I'm curious how long that lasts.

Another player said Motor City is limiting poker tables to 7 players. No idea why someone would make that up, so I'm gonna assume that's true.

I don't know about you guys but I won't be playing poker for 2 weeks minimum. Don't want to be a carrier even though I'm in my 20's and healthy.

Using this time to:
1) complete online certifications + boost my resume for my side income source/backup career.
2) Play some Ignition Cash games
3) Study up

Guess this is a great example why you you should have a minimum of 6 months emergency expense roll stored away. Happy grinding.

Sounds like a smart plan. It's a good example indeed. Unfortunately, from what I've read, not many people have much of a savings, let alone 6 months built

OLG just closed Caesars Windsor. https://windsorite.ca/2020/03/all-ol...dsor-to-close/.

Anyone hear additional info about the Casinos on our side?

I heard from a friend they plan to close down until at least April 5 as soon as tomorrow. In fact here's an article in the news.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...ys/5055388002/

6am closing I'm hearing.

Greektown closed as of 5pm Monday. I assume that means the others will be as well, they're just slower on their email.

Motorcity closing by noon, but will keep their hotel open. MGM to close by 5 PM today (Monday) I believe MGM and Greektown are closing their entire properties, including the hotels.

I can't imagine many people will be staying at the casino hotels. Major conferences and concerts and events are closed. All the bars and restaurants will be closed. The spas are closed. Motorcity is going to lose even more money keeping the hotel open (I bet in a week they've closed the hotel as well)

Safe to assuming charity licenses are being pulled by MGCB as well, correct? Between casinos closing and now all bars/restaurants closing for in-business eating and drinking, there's no way charitable gaming is being allowed.

Might be the end of Players North and South in Farmington and Livonia. Word was they were possibly closing May 2 anyways, but I never heard that officially. I can't imagine they're up and running again whenever the casinos re-open.

I've heard of a 'suggested' 50 person max but have not looked very hard to see where it came from. The only GR charity room that's open on Monday's will be open as of Noon today. But as we all know, it will only take one of the 3 entities to pull out ... Landlord, Charity or Supplier.

Charity workers tend to be older .. may be an issue. I've heard that many restaurants are closing ... may be an issue for a Location. Lots of moving parts still .. GL

Governor just pulled all the charity licenses ... GL

It came from the CDC

Oh hell no!!!

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sp...ed/5062016002/

The link has been updated and now it's ok to golf

Wanted to let everyone know that I'm taking a leave from live poker for a while.

Time to fast track online poker.

Looks like the Detroit casinos will need to stay closed until at least April 13 given new orders from the Governor. Honestly, I'm guessing it's going to be May before they open again.

As for online gaming, the MGCB literally has nothing to do right now with all gaming shut down. Sure seems like a great time for them to work with online suppliers to fast track online gaming and online sports betting (whenever we get to actually bet on sports again). The technology is ready. Other than not hearing anything yet about online poker sites pairing with brick and mortar facilities (which seemed to be required the way the law is written), there's no reason they can't be working to get things approved.

Until then, Poker Bros is my main source of poker fun. Hate the name, but the action is great

I've been working under the assumption that everything was going to be shut until at least May 1st for a while now.

Based on the duration of the incubation period it looks like it's going to take at least two weeks for us to even *see* any effects from the progressive lockdowns, then more time for recovery and *some* return to normalcy. The real tough question is if we'll see more flare-ups once we let people back to work again.

It sounds like 2 weeks is the long end of the incubation curve, with 5 days being most common.

There will almost certainly be more flare ups after people start moving around again. But if after 1 month of this extreme social distancing we've managed to knock out 99% of the cases, then it will start back up slowly again. With a more prepared response and a population more actively taking steps to avoid transmitting, those mini outbreaks might be containable with more traditional methods like contract tracing. Plus they will have the added benefit of some herd immunity from all the recovered infections.

But it's also possible that this virus is so infectious that hand hygiene and traditional outbreak management techniques that don't involved shutting down entire countries won't really work. It basically took 5 weeks for this thing to overrun the US. Maybe next time we can keep it at 7 or 8 weeks, then back home for 3? Then maybe we can control it for 3 or 4 months before the next lockdown? Hopefully people much smarter than me have a better handle on this.