Shaun Deeb infectado com COVID-19

Shaun Deeb é um nome que dispensa apresentações no mundo do poker, ao vivo ou online, bastando apontar para a fantástica batalha pelo WSOP POY 2019 com Daniel Negreanu, que nenhum venceu. O norte-americano não saiu do seu país para as WSOP Online mas apanhou um avião até ao México para os WCOOP, onde o grind nas mesas da PokerStars rendeu mais de meia centena de ITMs a Shaun Deeb. Longe da família, que poderá ser um dos motivos mas será também com satisfação, Shaun Deeb publicou ontem nas redes sociais que foi contagiado com COVID-19.

So I’ve been keeping this quiet last week and a half but I have COVID now and I think I’m going to need your guys help making a tweet or two go viral so I don’t have to get hospitalized in Mexico

— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) September 21, 2020

Antes de publicarmos os diversos updates de Deeb sobre as mais recentes horas, destaque para dois destes, um a meio com poker à mistura e outro a fechar, ou seja o mais recente:

Poker has trained me for this fight you have to show up everyday ignore the results and do what you’re told I’ll have better days and days I’ll feel I won’t make it but can’t give up mentally then you’ll lose

— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) September 22, 2020

Uma visão diferente, de jogador de poker, sobre como é viver com sintomas do vírus da moda. Na moda está também ter ideias diferentes sobre todos os assuntos, situações e até de factos. Nos USA proliferam as visões extremistas e Mike Matusow é uma das "vozes diferentes", a única que até hoje agarrou Mike Postle. Deeb aceita o papel pedagógico e pode ser que todos possamos ouvir:

And someone just tweeted about @themouthmatusow thoughts on covid he knows I’ll go on his show and hopefully convince him this is bad for a lot of people just because it effects some more or less

— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) September 22, 2020

Tendo em conta as dificuldades e apesar de estar a vermelho, Deeb parece satisfeito com o seu jogo na última semana e meia de sintomas:

I will say this wcoop grind while sick was on a wholeanother level for me I may lost a chunk but I played the best at like 10% Strength sleeping during ever 5m break ever day

— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) September 21, 2020

Fora poker, Deeb aponta aos filhos como o "spot" mais delicado:

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

O post inicial revelava um desejo, o de não ser hospitalizado no México, mas tal foi mesmo o que acabou por acontecer. Update seguinte revela uma avaliação acima das expectativas ao quarto de hospital:

Finally went to my actual room not terrible way better than i was expecting now going to try to sleep and not pull my iv out as I Toss and turn pic.twitter.com/22RJXfGuLo

— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) September 21, 2020

Back to poker, não foi fácil o login para os Dia 2, com a internet do telefone a apontar Deeb para o "play-money":

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

Podíamos pensar ser de possíveis drogas hospitalares, mas no caso de Shaun Deeb o brag é mais provavelmente proveniente da sua cabeça do que do covid:

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

No dia seguinte, o humor é tema dum update mais sério:

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

O tom sério continuou, o desconforto, dor, passagem de água e não só foram motivo de update:

One of the worst things for me with covid is during intense night of chills and sweating attempting to flip to the cool other side of the pillow only to find out it’s twice as wet as your current side both head and body sweat all meet at the bottom of pillow

— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) September 22, 2020

One Terrible thing about COVID is how hard your body is at retaining water. This is 100% what it happens I drink water snap sweat it out my top half of body within seconds no matter how much water. https://t.co/dl2miRqrNZ

— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) September 22, 2020

The changing of tastebuds I’m glad my kids didn’t experience watching me not being able to eat pizza or tortilla chips the simplistic foods I eat the most couldn’t even swallow. Would have set back their habits a bunch

— 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

Antes abrir a porta à presença no podcast de The Mouth, Shaun Deeb já revelava alguma criatividade hospitalar orientadas para o tratamento COVID-19, com ideias para o programa onde Mark Cuban tem uma poltrona:

Would love to see a @ABCSharkTank special just on covid care @mcuban make it happen I’ll def buy something off the show

— shaun deeb (@shaundeeb) September 22, 2020

Gett well soon, Shaun.

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