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04-21-2020 , 10:51 AM

jelloman

grinder

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 425

Will you return to poker tables as soon as casinos allow ? Wait for testing ?

Watch the hospitalization numbers ?

Personally, I'm in no hurry and would really want a vaccine , but that could be years away. It may be different for me given that I have a loved one here with respiratory issues. Even restaurants, stores are gonna be avoided to an extent.

04-21-2020 , 10:54 AM

aqb

grinder

Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 695

The day everyone washes their hands after they take a leak.

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04-21-2020 , 11:20 AM

drowski

old hand

Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,516

My criteria will be that they're open

04-21-2020 , 11:41 AM

PTLou

JellyBean

Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 5,516

My Criteria

04-21-2020 , 11:57 AM

amazinmets73

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 5,555

Will play as soon as they open and take no precaution

04-21-2020 , 12:10 PM

cantrunworse

journeyman

Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 384

Quote:

Originally Posted by amazinmets73

Will play as soon as they open and take no precaution

this...still see you all as human beings not disgusting germs no matter how

hard they are trying to convince otherwise....

04-21-2020 , 12:12 PM

Hellmuth was right

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Aug 2016 Posts: 5,792

Vaccine

04-21-2020 , 01:11 PM

Nozsr

old hand

Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 1,722

I played several sessions just a couple of days prior to the shutdown.

The danger was already there. Actually, since casinos started hosting poker you could always catch something. Just play cards for half an hour, handle a few chips that were last washed 20 years ago, and just stick your finger in your nose, that will do it.

Only difference in the last 20 years is "no smoking at the table". Everywhere else in a Las Vegas casino, just not at the table.

But I am not going to go to a casino anywhere to play 6 max. That's my only criteria for when to play live again. Have a real poker game, I will play.

04-21-2020 , 02:37 PM

amazinmets73

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 5,555

Quote:

Originally Posted by cantrunworse

this...still see you all as human beings not disgusting germs no matter how

hard they are trying to convince otherwise....

Huh?

04-21-2020 , 03:02 PM

#10

Gzesh

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 7,643

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nozsr

I played several sessions just a couple of days prior to the shutdown.

The danger was already there. Actually, since casinos started hosting poker you could always catch something. Just play cards for half an hour, handle a few chips that were last washed 20 years ago, and just stick your finger in your nose, that will do it.

Only difference in the last 20 years is "no smoking at the table". Everywhere else in a Las Vegas casino, just not at the table.

But I am not going to go to a casino anywhere to play 6 max. That's my only criteria for when to play live again. Have a real poker game, I will play.

Playing live poker in a casino has always carried a health risk just from handling cards, chips, touching the felt, etc.

The big difference, then versus now.is WHAT you could catch.

For years, what you caught from playing live, handling chips, touching the never-cleaned felt was something like a cold or eye infection

Now, what you might catch going forward can be fatal .... big difference.

I'm out, perhaps even after an effective vaccine is available.....

04-21-2020 , 03:08 PM

#11

kvnd

veteran

Join Date: Jun 2013 Posts: 2,236

I am willing to die

04-21-2020 , 03:23 PM

#12

lvBlitzforce

old hand

Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 1,202

I would play right now if any casino opened up a game. I played every day the week leading to the shutdown and the actual day of the midnight shutdown here. If i were older and maybe prone to getting sick i would take precautions but for me i would play right now as is. Playing online boring azz wsop.cuck just isnt cutting it and like watching paint dry.

04-21-2020 , 03:41 PM

#13

amazinmets73

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 5,555

Quote:

Originally Posted by lvBlitzforce

Same. I played until the day before shut-down in my state. I'll likely temporarily move to the first state that opens up in order to play.

04-21-2020 , 03:49 PM

#14

NickMPK

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 11,567

I have accepted that almost every young and healthy person is likely to contract the virus no matter what we do. So if the poker rooms are open, I would only avoid them if I was in an area where I felt I couldn’t receive adequate medical care if needed.

04-21-2020 , 03:49 PM

#15

DooDooPoker

Verified Coach NLHE

Join Date: Mar 2018 Posts: 18,550

How is online like watching paint dry but live isn;t? You get 30 hands an hour and you play 9-10 people per table. That is boring AF

04-21-2020 , 04:04 PM

#16

blue moon

journeyman

Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 276

wont be playing poker inside a casino for atlst a couple months after they open until im fairly safe casinos arent gonna be a giant corona convention passing infected chips constantly from people to people. im young pokers one of my main hobbies im gonna enjoy activities as they start to open up again while social distancing but a casino has got to be one of the worst places to be until this has mostly passed over

04-21-2020 , 04:25 PM

#17

Howard Beale

Formerly red

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 22,190

You read my mind thru the internet. I've got to get that software.

04-21-2020 , 04:53 PM

#18

Trixie2

grinder

Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 475

As long as they require masks until the vaccine is out in a year or so ppl will be there with us playing poker, and all the pit games. No worries, wash often don't touch face. The mask is also there to remind you no toch-a da face.

04-21-2020 , 05:17 PM

#19

KevinGChapman

grinder

Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 656

1. wait 1 month after opening to see if there is a big outbreak.
2. wear mask and latex gloves (once those are available again)

Atmosphere will suck with everyone wearing masks, but I'll deal with it.

04-21-2020 , 06:04 PM

#20

Bighurt52235

I was born to eat hamburgers

Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 24,218

Quote:

Originally Posted by lvBlitzforce

Yeah, I really dislike online NL. Im playing O8B and PLO and stud8. My live experience in those games... less than 5 hours of O8B.

04-21-2020 , 07:04 PM

#21

indifferent

newbie

Join Date: Feb 2020 Posts: 32

Immediately. F everybody.

04-21-2020 , 07:38 PM

#22

acescracked84

old hand

Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 1,613

Undecided currently. The quality of online games is a huge determining factor for me. At least for the time being they are much better than anything I could have imagined and I've been a live player for 12 years. We'll see.

04-21-2020 , 08:09 PM

#23

Mr_Mxyztplk

old hand

Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,557

Plenty O fish

04-21-2020 , 08:25 PM

#24

inmyrav

old hand

Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 1,719

I probably won't play much life poker again until my parents are gone. Just not worth exposing myself to make them sick.

Before that, I suppose if I 'beat it' before then, or if there's a cure or such significant herd immunity that it's rarer than the annual flu bugs. If I lose my kidneys I'll probably die quick as I have no veins left and dialysis isn't an option.

04-21-2020 , 09:35 PM

#25

PUSATFH

journeyman

Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 341

when the wife says you can

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