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Coronavirus has caused the postponement of the WSOP 2020! (Coronavirus quarantine thread)

View Poll Results: Will the Corona Virus will alter their plans to attend WSOP this Summer (if it's not canceled)

Never planned on attending.

177 32.48%

Definitely wont attend.

112 20.55%

Probably wont attend.

93 17.06%

Probably will attend.

71 13.03%

Definitely will attend.

92 16.88%

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03-12-2020 , 12:06 AM

#1376

parisron

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 20,826

Another team will get quarantined probably

03-12-2020 , 12:08 AM

#1377

parisron

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 20,826

By the end of the week there will be no sports.

03-12-2020 , 12:15 AM

#1378

Xenoblade

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Sep 2017 Posts: 4,309

there will be e-sports

03-12-2020 , 12:30 AM

#1379

rakemeplz

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 11,990

03-12-2020 , 12:47 AM

#1380

AngusThermopyle

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 14,929

Quote:

Originally Posted by rakemeplz

Woody has it.

Is Buzz quarantined?

03-12-2020 , 12:48 AM

#1381

parisron

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 20,826

03-12-2020 , 02:09 AM

#1382

parisron

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 20,826

03-12-2020 , 02:12 AM

#1383

BDHarrison

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Nov 2016 Posts: 4,532

Fake. Misspelled "inconvenience". Not on EDC's Twitter. Way to early to decide to cancel something like that.

03-12-2020 , 02:14 AM

#1384

parisron

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 20,826

Vital Vegas is reputable afaik.

Hmm, now I see the comments, not sure why he would do that. Sorry.

I thought I saw it on news also, but can't remember, so many cancellations.

Last edited by parisron; 03-12-2020 at 02:20 AM.

03-12-2020 , 02:21 AM

#1385

DHPoker

enthusiast

Join Date: Oct 2019 Posts: 89

Haven’t read last few pages but does anyone still expect WSOP to go ahead?

03-12-2020 , 02:21 AM

#1386

Dynasty

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 26,060

Quote:

Originally Posted by parisron

No way NFL draft still goes next month in Vegas. Even tho they just said early today that its all go.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Videopro

That would suck if canceled. I'm scheduled to work it.

The 2021 NFL Draft is already scheduled for Cleveland. But, the 2022 draft doesn't have a location yet.

03-12-2020 , 02:24 AM

#1387

parisron

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 20,826

The Draft that is scheduled in April 2020 is the 2020 draft right?

03-12-2020 , 02:26 AM

#1388

parisron

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 20,826

Quote:

Originally Posted by DHPoker

Haven’t read last few pages but does anyone still expect WSOP to go ahead?

No official word but based on all the cancellations today, its not looking good.

03-12-2020 , 02:28 AM

#1389

Well Read Ted

adept

Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 930

Tom Hanks tests positive:

https://deadline.com/2020/03/tom-han...ie-1202880431/

03-12-2020 , 02:28 AM

#1390

Bobo Fett

Carpe Diem

Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 57,426

Quote:

Originally Posted by akashenk

Aside from human poisons like lead, asrsenic, etc.. what exactly are these "things" that you claim "science" says "should not be eaten" at all?

Bicycles.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ArtyMcFly

You realise that Vegas hosts conferences all year round and hotels/venues for major events are often booked a year in advance, don't you?

Maybe it's different in Vegas, but in Vancouver, if you wait until a year ahead, your selection will be pretty limited. An organization I work with that has a couple conferences a year for 500-1,000 people books them 3-5 years out.

Quote:

Originally Posted by NickMPK

It's still seems way premature to me to be speculating on the cancellation of the WSOP. If it were next week, sure. But it's still three months away.

2.5 months now, but that's just until the beginning - longer for most events, of course.

Quote:

Originally Posted by NickMPK

In each of the countries so far that have seen a major outbreak of the virus, you've seen a pretty clear pattern of surge and decline in the number of new cases, with new cases peaking about two weeks after the first notice of an outbreak in the country.

China saw their peak around the 2nd week of February. Korea in the first week of March. Italy and Iran are probably peaking right around now.

If the US follows the same pattern, we are probably about 1 week away from the peak. But we should be down to a smattering of cases by the end of April.

I think one week is very, very optimistic, considering the piss poor job done of testing, and how late in the game any kind of containment/"social distancing" happened.

Also, as momentum grows behind cancelling practically everything, there is the possibility that public pressure and/or government decisions kill it before there's any opportunity to get to the peak, whenever that might be.

I don't think it's impossible that WSOP could still happen, or simply be postponed/lose some of the early events only. However, the chances get slimmer daily, if not hourly.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Well Read Ted

Tom Hanks tests positive:

https://deadline.com/2020/03/tom-han...ie-1202880431/

Your pony is slow.

03-12-2020 , 02:41 AM

#1391

DHPoker

enthusiast

Join Date: Oct 2019 Posts: 89

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bobo Fett

I don't think it's impossible that WSOP could still happen, or simply be postponed/lose some of the early events only. However, the chances get slimmer daily, if not hourly.
.

I’m clinging to the hope that maybe they’ll still run part of the series if possible. I’m due to arrive on June 12. I wonder if they have an all or nothing view of the series given it runs for over 6 weeks.

03-12-2020 , 03:11 AM

#1392

excaxante

adept

Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 785

Quote:

Originally Posted by eobmtns

OMC here.

I came down with something on Mar. 7, could be flu, a cold, or COVID-19. No testing is readily available in my area. Here is how I think I was infected:

I'm over 60 and have other medical conditions (a "comorbid condition.") I've been wearing an N95 respirator in public since Feb. 15 (typical OMC behavior, right?) So I went to Winco Foods at 2 AM and I figured **** it, nobody at Winco that time of night is going to come within 10 feet of me. Mask stays in pocket.

Wouldn't you know it, there is an Asian woman in the meat department standing near me and coughing and sneezing like, well, a caricature of someone uncontrollably coughing and sneezing.

So 5 days later I can't move a muscle and have a fever. It's now 3 days after that and Tylenol has made the fever mostly go away. But if it is COVID-19, the odds are 1 in 6 that it will come roaring back in a few days, possibly sending me to the ICU (if there's any hospital capacity left). I'm updating my bucket list to see what I can get done within the possibly few days I might have left on this Earth.

GG, maybe.

Good luck sir.

03-12-2020 , 03:21 AM

#1393

Jay Why

adept

Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 1,053

I can foresee it definitely wont happen. The decision to run it is being held on commercial reasons alone, as the health grounds not to hold it are comprehensively clear it should not be held.

Now that foreigners can't play, and lots of Americans are rightly too scared to play in the series, the fields would be low, and the organisers would get less money than cancelling it and running it again when a cure is found.

03-12-2020 , 03:31 AM

#1394

BluffNutts

banned

Join Date: Mar 2020 Posts: 7

The Colorado Poker Championship, scheduled to start tomorrow, was just cancelled. Bummer. Fascinating times. I understand this is a wicked and super contagious virus, but these things are only going to continue to develop... I'm not sure that quarantining everything is going to do any good. If at risk people want to self-quarantine that is understandable, but the forced quarantines and life disruptions seem draconian to me. What is the realistic mortality rate for this thing?

03-12-2020 , 03:33 AM

#1395

OldManDecaf

journeyman

Join Date: Apr 2019 Posts: 338

Those hanging there hopes on the diminishing cases in places like China and South Korea need to be wary. Cases are dimishing there because of the massive travel restrictions and huge use of self isolation. Naturally cases will diminish because transmission opportunties are very limited.

The problem is what happens after all the restrictions are lifted...or will we keep everything locked down until a vaccine is available.

Fingers crossed that warmer weather might have some sort of impact, but other than that it seems this thing is here until either a vaccine is operational or until herd immunity reaches a threshold level (and that only happens after the majority of the population has been infected).

Apologies if all that seems horrendously pessimistic, but hey most of you are not in high risk groups and I am, so I take zero joy in writing this.

03-12-2020 , 04:03 AM

#1396

synth_floyd

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 7,074

Seems unlikely that this thing will be totally under control in the next 2 months. And they just put a ban on travel to Europe. Looks like it's gonna be cancelled. It's looking bad for the Tokyo Olympics too.

03-12-2020 , 04:19 AM

#1397

GazzyB123

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 5,999

I have been to the series every year for the past 4 years. As an adult it is what Christmas used to be for me. I ****ing love the WSOP.

And I will be utterly flabbergasted if they don't cancel it. It needs to happen.