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More big names bowing out this is starting to look like abject fail coming for WSOP. Moneymaker has backed out and despite his claim it’s concerns about bringing it home I suspect more it’s about wearing the mask for extended time. Even Matusow has said he’s likely out. If the big names keep pulling out it’s gonna be fail. Even Recs aren’t going to wanna play masked up for hours upon hours for days like would be likely in the ME. It’s also gonna make angle shooting more likely I suspect because people will claim they were misheard through the mask and it’ll be hard to disprove it somewhat.
As more of the big names bow out, that improves my chances of doing something! I'll be there October 1st!
I'm unhappy about the mask thing but I'm used to wearing a mask for 8 to 12 hours at a time for work. As long as they don't put the plexiglass back up I'll be OK.
Not only that but I'm staying at the RIO and I'm not ashamed! I think you have to consider the value of the convenience factor.
In past years my routine during the main event has been: Come down to breakfast at HashHouse, go a few steps down the hall to the gym for a 20 minute workout, soak in the Jacuzzi, then go outside to the pool for a few minutes in the sun, then a walk down the hall to the playing area. Having a room right there also means you can have food available for your dinner breaks. You do NOT want to try to eat at any of the available places in the hotel.
Brother Nicky Pipes will be skipping this years Main Event if you are required to wear a mask.
With the added stupidity of the infamous Rule 115 this year WSOP just slit its own throat if they push forward.. So your gonna pull people out of a tournament who arent even positive necessarily if theyre close contact tracing potentially?? Seriously WTF if masks work and people are vaxxed what the F are they worried about?? If its liability make players sign an absolute waiver.. You tell people they could be arbitrarily pulled from a tourneybecause of a breakthrough case or whatever they arent gonna play.. Bad luck and a cooler is one thing.. Icing a player because another has Covid is just bullshit.
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Hopefully this puts the kibosh on any thoughts for use of the plastic dividers like they had at the Venetian earlier this year
"Experts said desk shields were unlikely to offer protection and may instead disrupt ventilation in rooms. In some conditions, the shields can result in build-up of viral particles, creating so-called 'dead zones' with high concentrations of particles, the report noted."
https://www.foxnews.com/health/plast...ot-likely-help
Last edited by JoeD; 08-19-2021 at 12:10 PM.
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There are a number of interesting topics covered in this podcast. For this thread, the most notable starts around 16:30. Norman Chad talks about how he will be a part of the WSOP coverage once again. However, CBSSN is only going to have produced for television shows of the Main Event way down the line. Final tables and 13 days of streaming main even coverage will all be behind the good ole PokerGo Paywall.
So now you can put the number of causal viewers of the Main Event even lower than originally thought from the move from ESPN to CBSSN. Only true poker fans who subscribe to PokerGo will see any of this shit.
I was listening in the car so I don’t have the time stamp, but will update when I do. Doug says that PokerGo asked him to sign a piece of paper promising to not make fun of them. These fucking guys over there are something else.
Dealers meeting cancelled, well. moved on line. .must be here a few days early for a VIRTUAL meeting,., not safe to gather so many bodies in RIO';s Penn & Teller theater as normal.
I love no dealers need to be vaccinated...on their own dime they travel, lodge, no work for days as they wait.... circulate....
I sense this does not bode well.... virtual dealer meeting? wow,....
If you listen closely to shoeshine you realize this has little to do with Covid and more to do with weak Caesars HR or corporate commitment to success.
There is a superstar out there. Perhaps that superstar is a gifted poker room manager who relates to dealers and is well networked. Perhaps it’s a gifted HR recruiting type. Caesars has never had gifted managers. Of course, “commitment” prolly equals understanding compensation and corporate image
These idiots cannibalizing their own revenue streams.
This is a better story than the poker frankly.
More shoeshine
your best dealers from WSOP pool now want to go work ORLEANS tourney...18$ a down guaranteed.....!!
it used to be when u could not crack WSOP u went to Orleans, Binions, nugget, now them gigs is priority...
Andy rich at Nugget is a mans man.. all his staff is ex WSOP....
So many dealers I know sans internet access have not even been called after 10,20 30 years....
I still am baffled how you let all staff not be Vaccinated/masked when all Players must be?
How many laws/edicts can you ass kiss at once?
How come no one mentions the Countries that Prohibit travel to U.S.A.?
Several Presidential proclamations established restrictions on the entry of certain travelers into the United States in an effort to help slow the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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China
Iran
European Schengen arean (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City)
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Republic of Ireland
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NO one can make sense of these Guidelines that I know....help me out?
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