On March 2020, there are a lot of poker tournaments which are postponed due to this Covid-19 pandemic. I know all of us wants to watch those live tournaments because of getting bored as we don't have an access to play poker physically in some casinos. Some gamblers are only relying on playing poker through offline and online gambling platform.
There are some casinos that are reopened in May to continue operating and it includes
"The Seminole Hard Rock Tampa",
"the King’s Casino Rozvadov",
"Derby Lane", and
"Bestbet Jacksonville and Bestbet Orange Park. This is a good news for those gamblers who are homesick in watching or playing poker in the internet.
“We are going to start offering tournaments again in July,” bestbet Director of Poker Jesse Hollander told Card Player. “We will likely have three tournaments a week in Jacksonville and two a week at Orange Park, no-limit hold’em tournaments with buy-ins of $60 and $150. We will offer those in July, and hopefully will offer more starting in August.”
This Multi-Table Tournaments are located in different countries and i'm pretty sure that it can bring a lot of influence to the slowly improvement of gambling industry amidst this pandemic. This is complete possible to happen because probably there are a new set of rules and regulation that are implemented inside a poker casino. There are more casinos that will soon to reopen in the month of July and August.
“The top priorities for us are to make sure that the players are safe and make sure our staff are safe,” said Savage.
Although, it is not that safe to play and go to a physical casinos, it is good that staffs are still prioritizing safety for all.
Do you think this will bring a huge development or improvement in a Gambling Industry? Will poker be the only safest option to play gambling right now?
Source:
https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/25049-live-poker-tournaments-are-slowly-returning-around-the-globeNot only that there are companies who are taking into account COVID-19 and at the same time they opened the consultation for the people and the companies engaged in gambling.
They said they assumed that all the working staff and the people are positive and from there they moved on making things safer and at the same time using the security measures so that it's a safe zone for the offline poker and gambling section.
I don't really remember where I read it but I will try and list the source.
This is really good since we do understand that we just have to do 3 things according to scientists :
1. Wear a mask
2. Wash your hands frequently
3. Keep social distancing
This would actually make it easy to reopen the business and at the same time make them Efficient in handling the pandemic situation.
Sooner or later they had to open it , any company cannot take that much loss , they would have to shut down eventually. Therefore poker tournaments is just the starting we will see most of the casinos functioning soon .