Poker Pro With COVID-19 Plays Online From Mexico Hospital BedFour-Time WSOP Bracelet Winner Shaun Deeb Continued His WCOOP Grind, Despite Being Hospitalized With Coronavirus |
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Being hospitalized with COVID-19 won’t stop Shaun Deeb from playing online poker.
With more than three weeks of tournament action in the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker, the four-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and high-stakes tournament regular left his Albany-area home at the end of August and traveled to Mexico so that he could battle against online poker’s best. It’s a trek that many tournament professionals decide to make so that they can play against the rest of the world on the international-facing poker site.
Unfortunately for Deeb, he contracted coronavirus a couple weeks ago and the symptoms hit him hard. Sunday afternoon, Deeb tweeted that he had been keeping quiet about his positive diagnosis for about a week and a half, but that he might “need your guys help making a tweet or two go viral so I don’t have to get hospitalized in Mexico.”
In a subsequent post, he said that playing tournaments while infected with the virus was extremely tough. He was sleeping during every five-minute break. Even worse, he was unsure what to tell his two young children back in New York.
I will have to say scariest thing was debating with my wife making a video to my kids since they were asleep Incase I got intubated and whether to tell them I was sick or not
— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) September 21, 2020
Now I know 95% of you already know this but I use humor as best I can at dark times been meaning to do some quips about COVID some more serious than others none should undermine how scary and deadly it can be
— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) September 22, 2020
I will never give a person shit for complaining about pain I had no idea your own body could do that much to itself so quickly it was/is crippling at times
— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) September 22, 2020
Later Sunday evening, he was admitted into a hospital in Playa del Carmen. He shared a video of his hospital room, which also showed the IV he was hooked up to.
Time to rest and recover, right? Wrong.
Deeb was frustrated with an error message claiming that he wasn’t in the proper jurisdiction to play for real money on PokerStars.
Trying to get it to fix my connection in my room because it won’t connect try to use phone tether when get this warning @PokerStars should be able to tell I’m in Mexico and let me play my day 2s pic.twitter.com/Wt4sirOqHm
— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) September 21, 2020
After getting his connection squared away, he confirmed that he was still going grind the last few days of the tournament series from his hospital bed.
You not really a #wcoop grinder if you’re not one handed 10 tabling on touch pad in a Mexican hospital with covid
— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) September 21, 2020
As luck may have it, the trip to the hospital may end up doing wonders for Deeb’s results for the rest of the series. In a response to Brian Horton, who implored him to stop playing and get some rest, Deeb said that he felt “better today than any other session in two weeks" with "the meds and IV helping.” He also mentioned that he had some side bets that were motivating him to keep playing.
There are few things that will cause Deeb to miss a WCOOP series. He infamously missed the birth of one of his children in 2016 to stay in Canada and play the series. On the day his son was born, Deeb won one of his eight WCOOP titles.
So two years ago today I missed the birth of this guy for #wcoop and won a tourney that day this year i decided to do it again happy bday chance pic.twitter.com/NNEfFVP2xJ
— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) September 8, 2018
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