Yeah, because people who haven't been working and sitting home collecting unemployment are chomping at the bit to leave their towns and come drop some coin in Vegas the moment that shelter-in-place orders have been lifted.

No more golf for OJ in Vegas

Video shows how a virus can be spread in a supermarket:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/113597...arket-lingers/

Re: electronic tables. Not interested. I don’t play video poker. And I don’t play online. I want a real dealer, not a computer algorithm doling out cards.

Re: opening schedules... I don’t get the line of thinking by some on this board. If the casinos are allowed to open, then they will open. So if that happens April 24, or May 1 or May 16 or whatever, then that is when they will open. The only factor for opening, assuming the venues have the financial ability to reopen, will be what the infection situation looks like in the future. The trend looks pretty good, and if we are to believe the US task force, we are at or near the peak infections. But who knows where we’ll be in a few weeks.

As for poker, specifically, I believe it will be slower to come back after casinos reopen, only because it is labor intensive. In the early part of re-opening, locations may be looking to operate with thin numbers of staff until demand catches up. So you might not see tournaments for that reason, not anything covid-related. But eventually they too will come back. Not likely with much in the way of guarantees... again until demand returns.

Need to make one for when people fart in the grocery store

yea..not going to watch this. kind of like a video on what a hot dog is made of

I stopped eating hot dogs like 5 years ago. They stay undigested for years.

Don't worry OJ, you can use this time to continue your hunt for the real killers.

How does that explain the lack of growth in Bangkok/ Phuket? Thailand was one of the first countries with cases and it's a really popular destination for Chinese tourists. Definitely think there's something to the weather theory.

Actually I've enjoyed both electronic poker tables and those electronic craps machines that have those big dice in a plastic bubble. I don't like to see people lose their jobs but times and conditions change. Hell I just just used one of those scan your own groceries for the first time this week and liked not having to wait in line or having people sneeze on me...
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Some of the advantages of the electronic live ring poker tables that can seat up to 9 people are:

No handling of cards or chips.
No bent or marked cards.
Always know the exact chip count of all your opponents.
The games move faster.
don't have to worry about dealer's mistakes.
no betting out of turn.
no tipping.
more tells can be observed than on internet poker

Yes, there will always be people who prefer a live dealer but there is no law that says you can't have both live dealer tables and digital tables, or have both live dealer tournaments and digital table tournaments at the same event.

And with this Coronavirus thing increased digital casino games might become a necessity to keep casino gambling viable.

You don't poop for years at a time ? Undigested or not, they won't take years to come out the other end.

Ted's Electronic Poker Hotel?

TheFly aka TheDerailer strikes again and again.

Past post:

Face it Ted, you’re always going to be that guy.

There was some stuff on Twitter yesterday that one casino was looking at May 18th and another at May 21st for 'soft' openings and then opening other properties as demand increased. (Obv they can't go against any restrictions the state has in place.)

Depending on where we are May 1st I think the WSOP should consider holding just the $50K PPC and the ME in early July as usual. But open it up to 5-6 Day 1s. It very well could be the largest ME ever ... maybe not. Obviously it would be a task to organize that many Dealers for such a short time, but at least it wouldn't be a total bust and would garner tons of attention.

It's also possible that since July is 'out there' that no one will be able to take time off work to get into Vegas ... since we're assuming that most folks will be back to work by early July. GL

You would probably be surprised at how many, at least domestically, would travel...cheap airfare combined with being ready to get the eff out of the house coupled with the fact that there are plenty of people who actually DO have discretionary income earmarked for things like travel equals a flocking to certain destination spots in areas that have NOT become huge blobs on the map. Vegas fills that bill...

I'm still seeing plenty of flights to LAS ex-IAH for roughly thirty bucks each way. Flights ex-AUS were higher, but could be had in May for ~$35 (probably Frontier). Granted, once the lights get turned back on in Las Vegas, airfares will quickly move up, likely back into the $75-100 range each way.

And everybody would adopt the Christoph Vogelsang method for PPE:

Does the facial recognition technology that casinos use work on patrons wearing masks or other facial protections? This seems like is might be a logistical problem to casinos reopening.

Not as bad a problem as social distancing.

I don't agree with that article. I already heard this morning on a VSIN sports show that had someone from Circa management on, that MGM is planning to open some casinos May 15th and like I already posted, Venetian plans around the 20th.

I have heard nothing about any doubt of NFL starting on time and much talk about MLB and NHL starting in a month or 2.

That is a generally very well-written article. Only two points I might differ on,

1. A large percentage of Las Vegas business traditionally arrives from California by auto and so is not constrained by airline operations.

2. I do not see how the Strip properties would stand by and watch Stations, SouthPoint and local operators like Dotty's, supermarkets, gas stations open without their being also allowed to do so.

How come in Sweden, they're basically getting on with their lives, apart from with the odd restriction (eg. banning crowds of more than 50)? Yet other countries are in complete lockdown.

So much for that

Same reason why some flu seasons hit some countries and states much harder than others.