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Covid impact on live poker in the future?

VespaPXVespaPX Member Posts: 12,029
edited May 2020 in Poker Chat
Will all live poker become 6 max in the short/medium term to have social distancing?
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    kapowblamzkapowblamz Member Posts: 1,527
    I seriously doubt that people are going to be allowed to sit next to random others and pass around objects to each other. Not for a very long time, at least. Even HU would be daft.

    It would take something very innovative, and probably atmosphere ruining, to make live poker safe.
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    kapowblamzkapowblamz Member Posts: 1,527
    Fwiw the Nevada board have said when places reopen that poker will be 4 max per table and EVERYTHING must be cleaned any time there's new deck, new dealer, new player and some other things. No railing allowed.

    It does not sound fun and recs will almost certainly feel that way too tho no doubt there will be a good few die hards getting involved anyhoo.

    Good for us online guys, mind you.

    SPT Vegas 4 max anyone?
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    TheEdge949TheEdge949 Member Posts: 5,186
    I'm really missing live poker but I fully understand that it will be a long time before we get to sit around the felt, riffling our chips and telling lies.
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    EvilPinguEvilPingu Member Posts: 3,462
    Consider is how much space the entire casino has. Slot and Roulette machines all lined up next to each other will have to be 2m apart, while all the table games will probably be limited to something like 2 people per table plus the croupier. If a casino needs to make more room for those products, it's going to be at the expense of Poker since it's the least profitable game in the casino. Even when casinos reopen, the majority of us probably won't have live Poker back for a while after.

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    I'll be amazed if we have any live MTTs whatsoever before 2021. The casino already makes very little money on MTTs, and the extra dealers/cleaning staff needed would make them unprofitable for the casino to run. And that's before you consider things like whether the casino would be allowed to serve food/drink outside of a designated bar/restaurant area, for instance.

    Cash is easier to get back up and running, but whatever you do, you'll always have the issue of 1 dealer for every 4 players and the casino needing to make money somewhere. Maybe they'll run (probably private) games with a known table game whale participating since they know they'll make the money back even if spreading Poker is -EV, or possibly some bigger cash games if those games ran regularly beforehand and the rake makes it worthwhile. But I don't see any value in a casino running a 4-handed 50/1 or 1/1 NLHE cash table for punters interested only in playing Poker.
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    EvilPinguEvilPingu Member Posts: 3,462
    edited May 2020
    The one good thing if we have no live poker for the foreseeable future... I can brag that I have been "GUKPT Leeds bounty side event defending champion every year since 2019", and the longer we have to wait for live poker to return, the more impressive that sounds :D
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    TheEdge949TheEdge949 Member Posts: 5,186
    That's a very well put argument, however, I feel that once mass sport is green lighted then everything will reset.

    It will be difficult to say to Premier League teams that its ok to have 50,000 plus inside the stadiums but then say you cant have 150 poker players together in a casino.

    Social distancing cant work at sports stadia because each spectator would have to take the middle seat of 9 leaving the 3 in front and behind vacant and one either side, that would effectively reduce capacities to less than 7 or 8,000.

    Once the precedent is set then its the go ahead for everyone else. That's why they've got to get it right.
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    EvilPinguEvilPingu Member Posts: 3,462

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    Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 160,573

    Blimey, that looks fun. Not. Think I'd need to be pretty desperate to get involved if it's like that.
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    EnutEnut Member Posts: 3,279
    Tikay10 said:


    Blimey, that looks fun. Not. Think I'd need to be pretty desperate to get involved if it's like that.

    Looks more friendly than the head down, hoodies, dark glasses, headphones and mobile phone using individuals that used to play some events though.
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    tai-gartai-gar Member Posts: 2,593
    Surely they have to touch the cards?
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    mumsiemumsie Member Posts: 7,367
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    tai-gar said:

    Surely they have to touch the cards?

    They're wearing skin textured gloves. 😏
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    Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 160,573
    tai-gar said:

    Surely they have to touch the cards?

    Yup, & the chips.

    Then those cards & chips end up at another table with other players, & so it goes on.

    Does not make a lot of sense really, does it?
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    misterpjmisterpj Member Posts: 3,204
    The Guvnor ..full of, time served Poker Royalty,

    " Sarf.Coast.wanneBe" full of,effluence.😂😂😂
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