With just a month and a half to go, the 2020 World Series of Poker has yet to be cancelled, despite the country it would take place in being under stack in the worst week so far for American deaths from COVID-19.

With Las Vegas no longer Sin City, but a city under lockdown, the decision to delay making a call on whether the WSOP takes place this year or not has been widely criticised. Players can’t make plans, no-one knows whether an online version will happen, and if the whole thing is to be suspended by a year, what advantage do the powers that be have in hesitating to make that judgement?

Even as early as a month ago, the brightest minds in the poker world saw no way that the Series could possibly take place, as Daniel Negreanu alluded to on Twitter.

The notion that we will have a WSOP in 2020 seems very unlikely. Also unlikely that you will see NBA/NHL playoff games with fans in the stands.