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1. A Florida casino is betting a new partitioned poker table design can keep gamblers safe and get business rolling again amid the coronavirus pandemic.
2. 'The One With All The Poker' is the eighteenth episode of the first season of Friends, which aired on March 2, 1995. 1 Plot 2 Cast and Crew 2.1 Main Cast 2.2 Supporting Cast 2.3 Crew 3 Trivia 3.1 General 3.2 Goofs 4 Memorable Quotes 5 External links 6 Episode Navigation 7 Notes and references The guys teach poker (Five-card draw) to the girls, who lose spectacularly. They ask Monica's aunt.

Quiz nights and poker games: What it's like inside coronavirus quarantine. A teacher who was flown back from Wuhan explains what his experiences have been while held in isolation.

Robert Gray, a poker player who lived in Las Vegas and was known to many fellow grinders as 'A-Game Rob,' has died from COVID-19, according to his friend Robert Goldfarb. Gray was 56 and died sometime between Tuesday night and Wednesday night.

Goldfarb reported the news in a lengthy Facebook post:

I never thought it was a hoax but I also hadn't yet been personally touched by Covid-19 until a few hours ago when I learned that my friend Robert Gray had been infected. A week ago Sunday he said he wasn't feeling well and had developed a cough. Monday he said he was coughing less but still feeling sick with chills and body aches. Tuesday he texted that he was craving a Subway sandwich. Wednesday he was feeling better still but it was difficult to sleep and his appetite wasn't back to full grown. This past Sunday when I asked for my daily update his reply was simply 'no good.' Monday he replied 'still sucks.' Yesterday he complained that he was able to breathe fine but that deep breaths were difficult. He was finally able to get a test and would have the results in 3 or 4 days. Hopefully it wouldn't matter and that it would have come and gone by then. Today he didn't reply. It turned out the results don't matter but not because of why we had hoped. Sometime between that conversation Tuesday night and 8PM last night he passed away. I have many stories I hope I can share and I'd love to hear any story you might have of him but I don't have time for that now. I write this so that maybe a tiny bit of good can come from his death and that anyone reading this realizes the most important thing you can do to avoid dying from Covid-19 is to avoid getting this disease.

Gray's Poker Career

Gray used to be a regular in games on the East Coast where he was from and then moved to Las Vegas several years ago. There, he registered a number of cashes at various events around the city, part of his $440K in tournament winnings according to The Hendon Mob.

Last year, he had his biggest cash ever when he came very close to winning a bracelet in Event #27: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better. Ultimately, he'd have to settle for second place and $88,254 when Michael Mizrachi got the better of him heads up.

Allen Kessler, who called Gray a good friend, said that heads-up loss brought out one of Gray's greatest qualities, his ability to take bad luck in stride and remain positive.

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'He was always upbeat despite any setbacks that would arise,' he said. 'That was just him.

'Rob didn't care about the prize money. He just enjoyed playing and chatting it up with the players.'

Another friend, Jason Lipiner, said anyone watching that stream could see Gray's positive attitude.

'He was happy, animated, very cordial the entire final table,' he said. 'Fun to watch.'

Gray had 10 tournament wins on his ledger including a WSOP Circuit ring from 2018 in a H.O.R.S.E. event. According to several players, he could regularly be found playing in mixed games around Las Vegas. Kessler said his favorites were Omaha hi-lo and stud hi-lo.

Friends Around the Game in Mourning

Heard last night that you weren’t with us no more and I was praying it wasn’t true. Robert Gray Aka A-Game Rob was… https://t.co/6ElShK9Nim

— Ronnie Bardah (@RonnieBardah)

Hate this. Guy was always super nice and polite. Had been playing online mix with him on and off over the last few… https://t.co/AGS2WRn6OA

— Eric Crain (@EricCrain)

@RonnieBardah Damn Rob was most of the most happy-go -lucky poker players I have ever played with. RIP ##

— Christian Harder (@realcharder30)

@RonnieBardah Damn this is awful. I was on his rail when he was heads up in the Stud 8 @wsop last summer. Very fun… https://t.co/IwOZFZEUqj

— Yaser Al-Keliddar (@ytrainyaser)

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Kharn Lambert is one of more than 90 people being held in quarantine in the UK over coronavirus fears.

Mr Lambert, who was teaching in Wuhan, has been staying at the Arrowe Park Hospital in the Wirral for the past week.

Here, he tells of his experiences in isolation.

The end is in sight. Thursday 13 February will be the 'release' date.

No, this is not prison - this is quarantine.

However, living inside a fenced off area makes it seem somewhat like prison.

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This week has been a mixture of emotions: relief to be home and away from the dangers of Wuhan, but also a sense of sadness at leaving so many friends behind.

It has been a real emotional roller-coaster. Nevertheless, we have tried to keep spirits high to help time pass faster.

With a week gone and the days seeming like years, we are suddenly a week away from going home and the likelihood of anyone having the virus is decreasing day by day.

The mood has changed.

People are more willing to come out of their rooms and interact with each other.

A few of the 'inmates' are planning to have their second poker match, and as Lady Gaga sang, they 'can't read my, can't read my, no [they] can't read my poker face'.

I must admit I lost £60 on the first night - but all in the name of fun.

To keep us further entertained, I have decided to write and host a quiz on Sunday evening.

Hopefully that will separate the strong from the weak, or at least give us an indication as to how boredom has affected our intelligence - that would make an interesting study.

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I should also mention how fantastic the staff here at Arrowe Park Hospital have been from the moment we arrived on Friday evening.

There are no words to express the admiration we have for these heroes who have been pulled from their regular day-to-day posts to help deal with the situation and make us feel as comfortable possible under the circumstances.

Saying thank you doesn't seem to do it justice.

Then we have the people of the Wirral who have all pulled together to offer support.

The amount of stuff they have donated is insane (in a good way).

From knitting material to hand-written notes and cards, each and every item has truly touched the hearts of those in here and has brought many a tear, as well as huge joy.

Words cannot express how grateful we are to them.

The love and compassion shown towards us from people on the Wirral and the wider community has been nothing less than amazing and we cannot wait to meet some of them when we get out of here.

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As for my personal feelings, it's hard to describe what I'm really feeling.

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Maybe if they, the Chinese authorities, had listened rather than trying to cover things up, we wouldn't be in this situation now.

In the coming months, China is going to have to answer a lot of difficult questions.

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For a country like China, this is going to be unprecedented.

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This is far from over and the only way for China to regain its credibility is to start being more open to the international community.