I don’t think the most important factor is if and when casinos open back up and offer live poker. It’s about which players those games would attract.
In the vast majority of small stakes games, a decent amount of money comes in through older players. Will they still play if that might expose them? Will they play in those 5max or 6max games they usually hate on if that’s what the casino needs to do to implement social distancing?
In most higher stakes games, at least in my experience, a substantial amount of money comes from business executives, doctors and other highly paid professions. What will they do? Do you take the risk if you work with patients during the day? Or if you’re self employed and depend on being healthy? How will your professional network react to rumors you got sick because you felt the need to degen away some money?
I just have a very hard time to see how games won’t get significantly less profitable if losing players are replaced by 21-49 year olds with plenty of 6max experience from playing online.
Personally, I definitely won’t take the risk of getting me or my family sick to sit in a game where I might not even be able to beat the rake.
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Originally Posted by borg23
As for wsop- it wouldn't start for a month and a half. canceling it now is a negative free roll for them.
It wouldn’t be a negative freeroll for them if they were spending even half as much as they claim on preparing for the WSOP. For years, when players complained about high rake/fees, they always said how much work goes into planning and setting up stuff months in advance. If that was true, they had canceled already to save a decent chunk of that money.