Got back from Blackpool at about 8pm last night, me and Nick decided to try and win back the Blackpool £4k deficit and played the Stars and Party comps but had no success, I then logged into Louise's Littlewoods account and played 1 hand of cash (got KK v AA) and lost £1k. I also walked into AA 3 times in the main event at Blackpool, I had raised with live cards everytime though, but my 65, 62, 74 did not hold up. I had planned to give tournament poker a rest until the WSOP but Chubbs decided to buy me in to the Barcelona Heads-Up (well, not exactly buy me-in, sort of "enter me", and then I owe him the 2,500 euros).
£10 NLH R/B
Grosvenor Luton, Sat 29/Apr/06
£25 NLH R/B
Grosvenor Luton, Sun 30/Apr/06[68] 8th May 2006 11:26
[67] 4th May 2006 11:32
Dusk Till Dawn Ltd and Matrix Properties are now fully set up on the sf group accounting system and all of the costs to date have been logged in the right catorgories. I feel a sense of relief handing over control of the finances to Rebecca, I know she will control the purse strings and question any expenditure. She has worked with me for 9 years and I have total confidence in her when it comes to managing the finances and dealing with the accountants and lawyers. I don't sign any cheques or invoices for any of my businesses, she has authority to do everything which frees me up. She manages an accounts department of 15 people and one of the accoutants, Pete Jenkins (an internet poker player actually), is going to be soley dedicated to DTD accounting, which will be quite complex due to the amount of transactions and the online rewards scheme.
[66] 3rd May 2006 08:57
We had a meeting yesterday with our structural engineer regarding the proposed layout of the club. It looks like we are going to have some problems with some of the layout due to the methane site that the building is built on, apparently if we break the methane seal we will blow the East Midlands region up, so we will have to make some more adjustments to our plan. This is more frustration as we have already spent a lot of time working on this, but that's life, nothing easy is worth doing I guess. It shouldn't actually halt our progress in achieving a December opening date, but it means more costs and time on the layout plan, and yet again more generation of paperwork to the various governement bodies.
[65] 27th April 2006 09:03
JOBS AT DTD
I am getting quite a few enquires abut job opportunites at DTD through Blondepoker and direct emails. We will be recruiting about 80 staff in total before we open. In about 4-8 weeks we will be putting a full vacancy listing on our web site (when it finally gets done!) and you will be able to email your CV / details through the site. its not clear yet.........but the sort of jobs we will be looking for will be:
[64] 27th April 2006 08:24
Still on American time after getting back from Vegas yesterday. Been away for 10 days and I'm shattered. It was worth it though, we managed to get a lot done:
[35] PARTY TIME!!!
thetank
We got 3rd, when we were a bit chicken nuggered. Retrospective bollox to follow when I'm sober.
I can't do it justice justnow.
But I would like to say pint of lager to everyone who turned up. If you couldnae, I understand and love ya all too. (You see what I maean when I cannae do it justice.)
Off to have casual beers.
[36] Over & Out
4,000 STTs - I should have really written this on Sunday. Due to poor planning on my part, I wasn't really in any state to. There were those expecting a lenghty conclusion post, I perhaps dissapointed.
[34] Day 120
Day 120 (part one) - Morning everybody. We've arrived here at last, the 30th of April. 