Hey, poker playas!
How are you? We hope you are well as the world is moving forward. As part of the world are opening their doors while others are still on lockdown.
However, before that, let us bring you the things you might have missed.
J88PT Millionaire – September 16-20,2020
One of the slowly growing and conservative poker site right now available is J88. They have grown slowly in the past few months and still maintain good tournaments.
A new J88PT is happening this week. The main event is a 100,000 USD GTD event for only 88 USD.
The opening event which has a lower guarantee but is only 5 USD.
interested in the details. click here.
Featured streamer
We began featuring streamers to let people know more about them. The first one we featured was the player from Cebu, Alexis Lim. You can check him out by clicking here.
Last week, we decided to feature an angel.
Yukari Bless is a dealer, who during the pandemic, decided to try streaming live poker games.
Currently, she is also engaged in other activities. Her love for the game is still alive. You can check more details here.
Inspiring others while fighting cancer
Even if there is a pandemic going on, There are people who are affected deeply by it.
Cancer is making waves right now as we have lost a great actor and a poker legend recently.
Vivee Goldman is currently fighting cancer.
But despite the challenges, she is facing. She decided to spread positivity.
She now has her website that shares updates on her health, poker lessons, and inspiring stories.
You can check it here.
Updates on poker activities
Unites States of America
The US currently has a significant number of cases of people infected with COVID-19. However, a lot of its states are pushing for economic recovery by opening its doors to business.
Choosing to stretch the limitation and innovate as the virus is not yet under control, The Venetian poker room will be holding a tournament this September.
To minimize the risk of spreading the virus, they have Shifted the tournaments to shootout, putting barriers in between players, enforcing a face mask policy, and limiting bystanders are some of the innovations.
In countries where there is still a problem with COVID but needing to ease the restrictions to save the economy. They could be the example other countries could follow.
Will Asia follow?
Taiwan
Taiwan was able to contain the spread of the virus due to its effective system. A poker room in Taiwan is also celebrating its 5th year by holding a major tournament with not many restrictions.
However, the question is: “can they continue in effectively containing the spread of the virus?”
Poker is growing in Taiwan. They may become the center of poker in Asia if they can maintain this growth.
The Philippines
The Philippines is a vital point in the growth of poker in Asia. It is one of the countries that have fewer restrictions on operating independent poker activities.
They have poker houses operating for more than ten years and has a good player base.
However, the virus hit them hard and now has more than 250,000 people infected with COVID.
They have implemented lockdowns or quarantine measures to curb the spread of the disease.
The other problem they are facing is the need to open the doors for business. Quarantine measures are slowly relaxed to help the economy.
The IATF, which is the main body overseeing the implementation of safety regulations, has eased up on social distancing issues on transport. Gaming companies have slowly begun to re-open.
Whether poker will be allowed to operate soon is still a question we are waiting for an answer.
stay safe poker playas!
