You're not alone here. I still feel sick to my stomach with the thought that my tournament last week was the last game I'll host or attend this year, and possibly a bit beyond that. Although I acknowledge that I'm in the privileged position of being one of the first that will probably get a vaccine, it's going to be several months from the time it first comes to market until a good chunk of the population will be able to receive it. Things aren't going to be totally back to normal until at least this time next year at the earliest. That said, I wouldn't rule out safe, mask free PCF meetups by this coming summer.
Here's a nice story. My first home game I attended outside of the bubble of my own high school regular group was just earlier this year at
@Irish 's place. I finished 6th or 7th out of a field of about 15 players and saw for the first time that I could hit a bit above of what my self-perceived weight class is in terms of poker playing.
I was actually doing really well that tournament. I was up to 2nd or 3rd highest stack at the final table when I woke up to pocket kings in the small blind. I shoved all in preflop with a little over 15 BB's.
@Irish was the only one to call in the cut off with 9's. Flop went something like J 7 Q. Turn was a 10, and you guessed it, the river was an 8. I I had
@Irish covered by just a but but I was out a few hands later.
I was playing at his place again a couple weeks ago and then this happens:
I flop middle set and shove all in with my 10 BB stack early on.
@Irish snap calls and he shows me the bad news. I runner runnered a boat and I stayed alive enough to cash the tournament in the end. We are officially even after those two coolers now
This game has turned into a somewhat regular PCF meetup game with
@Irish hosting, and
@Phish1321 ,
@CantSpellPoker ,
@sgago84 ,
@Nuhockey ,
@LordEpyon , and
@theewpice rotating in any given night.
I'm really sad that I have to recuse myself from playing at this juncture until things get better, but God willing, we all get through this healthy and stronger than before so we can continue to have this game with regularity once this living nightmare is over.