Me and DC had a drink after we were both out to drown our sorrows and he told me it still takes him 2/3 days to get over being knocked out of a major tourney - I was hoping the pain got easier! Poker hurts you, I've played 4 comps this year and had big chips in all of them and should have done much better.
Paul Parker had a chat with me in Vienna about the Sporting Odds Monte Carlo sateliite, when I got disconnected with 3 people left and him and Rob Cooper played on. He must have spend over 2 hours chattering away explaining why he did not sit out and what he thinks should happen. It really is not a problem to me what happened, there was no guarentee I would have won and it was a freeroll so I lost nothing.
On the positive side news of the DTD club had spread outside of the UK. Even Dan Goldman, the Marketing Director of Pokerstars knew that the club was in a "little place called Nottingham". It was really nice to speak to so many people who have been following this diary aswell who I did not actually know as they were reading it as "BP guests". In fact, I'm amazed that people actually log in each day to check if I have posted, its a real complement and makes me determined to do my best.
It really cheered me up a bit as it seems nearly all the poker players are behind what we are trying to create. Mick Jones had a good chat with me about the club, what a nice fella. Dusk Till Dawn is definatley big news on the poker world, and we owe BP a lot for giving us this free PR, 3 other web sites have asked me if they could run my diary etc and I told them no, politely, nothing against them.
I don't think I am going to Monte Carlo next week as I have loads to do on the club and my pokers running really bad. I have written a to do list for next week:
1. Submit floor plan designs to landlord and arrange approval meeting
2. Pay Gaming Board licence fee from new DTD bank account
3. Finalise and order DTD logo pokerwear for me, Chubbs, Nick and Aces
4. Transfer all my property accounts into sf group head office and meet Rebecca
5. Recruit Sarah from sf group as my PA to help me get organised (as per Karibiners advice)
6. Choose and agree deal with online poker room and check out legals with Poppells
7. Meet with Pete to review latest web site draft
8. Meet with Nightfly to review staffing requirements and give him more jobs
9. Put project plan on my server so me and Pete can share it
10. Take my sister out on Wednesday and visit my Grandma
I always do these lists in 10's for some reason. The bottom line is that I need to get more organised, as everything is getting on top of me a bit. The amount of interest that DTD is getting is way above my expectations and the pressure is on to deliver what I have promised and I feel like I've been walking through quick sand over last 4 weeks - lots of effort with little tangible results.
