World Series of Poker<\/a> — an event that attracts upwards of 6,000 entrants — has not yet been officially canceled.<\/p>\nThe Series is scheduled to kick off on May 26 at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, which, like all casinos in Las Vegas, is currently on lockdown.<\/p>\n
The WSOP has canceled several circuit events, including two scheduled for May in Calgary and Paris. But its silence on the flagship event is perplexing, especially for those who booked their flights in advance and have been left in limbo.<\/p>\n
Organizers may be playing a waiting game to see if the event can be pushed further into the summer or early fall. But COVID-19 is unlikely to be defeated by then. Even if social distancing measures are relaxed considerably, an event that packs thousands from across America and the world into a convention center is unlikely to be the smartest move.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the deaths of three for whom poker was no championship clash, but a simple, bonding social event, drives home the brutality of the coronavirus, when an apparently harmless game of cards with friends can end in horror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Three members of a regular Florida poker game have died from COVID-19 after all eight contracted the disease in March, The Florida Sun Sentinel reports. The group of senior citizens, all originally from New York, had played in the same friendly poker game in Aventura twice a week for ten years, according to one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":133202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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