Poker Rooms have reopened (kind of) in Florida (2 Viewers)

[IaHawk]

Cones would work better, keep you from touching your face.

 

[Dodger]

Aside from the health/safety issues, I have to imagine casinos aren't excited about their properties being full of masked people. Sounds like a security nightmare.

 

[SuckoutKing]

Maybe GPI will lose so much Casino business. That they with open the full spectrum of colors and edge spots to the home game market! Whoohoo! I can dream can't I.

 

[Blacksox1]

The Daytona room may open June 1. Changes include, but not limited to, are mandatory masks and gloves for everyone in the room. I did not ask my source about anything else. Not interested in playing ATM.

 

[Schmendr1ck]

While I would love to start hitting Orange City again, playing four handed under a sneezeguard doesn't excite me.

And the idea of requiring gloves is ludicrous. They get just as contaminated as bare hands, and they are much harder to wash. Unless, of course, the plan is to give you a new pair of gloves every time you touch your face, the chips, or the cards.

 

[WedgeRock]

Maybe GPI will lose so much Casino business. That they with open the full spectrum of colors and edge spots to the home game market! Whoohoo! I can dream can't I.

Was the full array of colors and edgespots ever open to the public? They sold stock designs... and custom stamped solids, right?

 

[Schmendr1ck]

Seems like it would be better to have UV lighting in the rail to continually sterilize the chips and cards.

Anything at the right wavelength and power to disinfect will also degrade your chips and plastic cards, and more importantly can potentially damage your skin and burn your corneas.

I'll pass.

 

[Mathieu]

I’ve come to accept that live poker will never exist again. Ever.

What do I do with all these poker chips? Sell while the prices are still high?

 

[zo121179]

I do not want to play poker in a porn shop peep booth...

Is that what they look like? I've always wondered.

 

[BGinGA]

Was the full array of colors and edgespots ever open to the public? They sold stock designs... and custom stamped solids, right?

Once upon a time, long, long ago.... you could directly order custom THC chips with colors/spots/inlays of your choosing.

For around 79c/chip.

 

[WedgeRock]

Once upon a time, long, long ago.... you could directly order custom THC chips with colors/spots/inlays of your choosing.

For around 79c/chip.

I wasn't talking about NAGBs....

 

[BGinGA]

I wasn't either.

 

[ChipEnvy]

Seems like it would be better to have UV lighting in the rail to continually sterilize the chips and cards.

If we could get the light inside the chips somehow...

 

[zo121179]

If we could get the light inside the chips somehow...

 

[Schmendr1ck]

If we could get the light inside the chips somehow...

Something like this?

While we're at it, we should also get the light inside the players...

 

[Lemonzest]

Totally neglects that the virus is more likely to spread on communally handled chips and cards.

One thing I have realized through all this is how much managing perceptions is more important than actual safety. Companies especially have liability and just have to appear to be taking precautions and part of the solution. Whether or not those precautions are grounded in reality or common sense really doesn't matter.

 

[k9dr]

One thing I have realized through all this is how much managing perceptions is more important than actual safety. Companies especially have liability and just have to appear to be taking precautions and part of the solution. Whether or not those precautions are grounded in reality or common sense really doesn't matter.

Appearances and mitigation of liability matter to the potential infector, but very little to the infectee

 

[rowlin]

Not entirely relevant, but it's amazing how quickly I have become accustomed to seeing tape on the floor everywhere.

 

[WedgeRock]

Not entirely relevant, but it's amazing how quickly I have become accustomed to seeing tape on the floor everywhere.

Credit: @Nuhockey (Source)

 

[bigdonkey]

I do not want to play poker in a porn shop peep booth...

WTF is wrong with your? I'd pay 2x rake for that shit!

 

[grantc54]

Totally neglects that the virus is more likely to spread on communally handled chips and cards.

It's so simple. The dealer holds each players hand up to the glass when they need to see their cards. The dealer also handles all the chips based on the instructions of the player "cut out half the stack, hold them in your hand and make a motion like you are betting the whole amount but then just drop one chip".

Since the dealer is doing everything the games should go much faster!

 

[arch3r]

Once upon a time, long, long ago.... you could directly order custom THC chips with colors/spots/inlays of your choosing.

For around 79c/chip.

Yea yea yea. And you walked barefoot in the snow uphill both ways to school. The good ol'days.

 

[realcdn]

I’m a degen with the rest of y’all, but no way I would want to play like this. Just curious whether others would be willing to.

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how many times do people hit their head on the glass to look at their cards?

 

[12thMan]

One thing I have realized through all this is how much managing perceptions is more important than actual safety. Companies especially have liability and just have to appear to be taking precautions and part of the solution. Whether or not those precautions are grounded in reality or common sense really doesn't matter.

I went through a Burger King drive through the other day (I know I know, gross, but I haven’t had fast food in 6 months and I was REAL hungry) and I had to laugh at what they were doing. Gloves of course, but not changed at all after handling anything from customers. Then they wouldn’t take anything directly from you, they had me drop my cash in a little tray and then they picked it up out of the tray,then put my change in there to band it back to me for me to grab it out. Isn’t that dumb ass little tray only ensuring that whatever the last customers had on their hands has one more opportunity to cross contaminate my stuff? Then, they grab all my “food” and drink with their gloved up hands and put it in the same tray for me to pick up.

WTF are we doing? I take this seriously but this is just stupid. All the while the doors aren’t required to be propped open so people going inside are forced to touch the same handle all day? The ATM machine that has 12 buttons for us all to touch is okay? im not starting to take this virus any less seriously, but I am most definitely getting fed up with this charade, this stuff seems more ridiculous than the security theater TSA puts on at the airport.

 

[moose]

Anything at the right wavelength and power to disinfect will also degrade your chips and plastic cards, and more importantly can potentially damage your skin and burn your corneas.

I'll pass.

In FLA that could be a negative but in Canada if you could play poker AND get a tan...that would be awesome!

 

[moose]

I went through a Burger King drive through the other day (I know I know, gross, but I haven’t had fast food in 6 months and I was REAL hungry) and I had to laugh at what they were doing. Gloves of course, but not changed at all after handling anything from customers. Then they wouldn’t take anything directly from you, they had me drop my cash in a little tray and then they picked it up out of the tray,then put my change in there to band it back to me for me to grab it out. Isn’t that dumb ass little tray only ensuring that whatever the last customers had on their hands has one more opportunity to cross contaminate my stuff? Then, they grab all my “food” and drink with their gloved up hands and put it in the same tray for me to pick up.

WTF are we doing? I take this seriously but this is just stupid. All the while the doors aren’t required to be propped open so people going inside are forced to touch the same handle all day? The ATM machine that has 12 buttons for us all to touch is okay? im not starting to take this virus any less seriously, but I am most definitely getting fed up with this charade, this stuff seems more ridiculous than the security theater TSA puts on at the airport.

Umm those measures are not to protect you. It's to protect their employees.

 

[WedgeRock]

I went through a Burger King drive through the other day (I know I know, gross, but I haven’t had fast food in 6 months and I was REAL hungry) and I had to laugh at what they were doing. Gloves of course, but not changed at all after handling anything from customers. Then they wouldn’t take anything directly from you, they had me drop my cash in a little tray and then they picked it up out of the tray,then put my change in there to band it back to me for me to grab it out. Isn’t that dumb ass little tray only ensuring that whatever the last customers had on their hands has one more opportunity to cross contaminate my stuff? Then, they grab all my “food” and drink with their gloved up hands and put it in the same tray for me to pick up.

WTF are we doing? I take this seriously but this is just stupid. All the while the doors aren’t required to be propped open so people going inside are forced to touch the same handle all day? The ATM machine that has 12 buttons for us all to touch is okay? im not starting to take this virus any less seriously, but I am most definitely getting fed up with this charade, this stuff seems more ridiculous than the security theater TSA puts on at the airport.

BK has commercials abut contact-free drive through... sure... "contact free" means they hand you your food on a tray instead of handing it to your directly. How in the fuck does that help?

Charade. Great description.

 

[12thMan]

Umm those measures are not to protect you. It's to protect their employees.

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm explain to me how Me putting my card or cash in a plastic tray and then them grabbing it with their hands protects them. What about gloves worn all day through multiple customers and then them touching their bodies, their phones, their whatever, explain to me how that helps them. It doesn’t, it’s a charade, we would be much better served by propping the doors open than them handing me my food on a plastic tray. actually, we’d all be better off if no one went to Burger King, but that’s my own battle I’m fighting. ;-)


edit: voice to text sucks and I couldn’t abide with all the typos and wrong words.

 

[Lemonzest]

I went through a Burger King drive through the other day (I know I know, gross, but I haven’t had fast food in 6 months and I was REAL hungry) and I had to laugh at what they were doing. Gloves of course, but not changed at all after handling anything from customers. Then they wouldn’t take anything directly from you, they had me drop my cash in a little tray and then they picked it up out of the tray,then put my change in there to band it back to me for me to grab it out. Isn’t that dumb ass little tray only ensuring that whatever the last customers had on their hands has one more opportunity to cross contaminate my stuff? Then, they grab all my “food” and drink with their gloved up hands and put it in the same tray for me to pick up.

WTF are we doing? I take this seriously but this is just stupid. All the while the doors aren’t required to be propped open so people going inside are forced to touch the same handle all day? The ATM machine that has 12 buttons for us all to touch is okay? im not starting to take this virus any less seriously, but I am most definitely getting fed up with this charade, this stuff seems more ridiculous than the security theater TSA puts on at the airport.

Exactly, many of the precautions are just that - a charade. So if we make people's job harder and add more complexity then that means we are doing something right?

TSA theater at the airport is a great comparison. They have run tests on TSA and something like 90+% of test bombs make it through security. The whole thing with airport security is almost completely just for appearances.

 

[One Eyed Dollar]

At Home Depot the other day I had to wait in line to go in. I was behind an old guy that seemed nervous about getting too close to people, so I tried to give him space. Problem was he kept standing in between the Xs instead of on them! So he had 1.5 spaces in front of him, and I had to decide whether to stand on the X half a space behind him, stand 1 space behind him in between the Xs and pass this problem further down the line, or stand way back on the X 1.5 spaces behind him. Oh man! Coronavirus problems. Fortunately as a dude I had a lifetime of urinal spacing experience to help inform my decision.