"Dusk till Dawn" Poker Club In Nottingham Diary (by Rob Yong)

[Graham C]

Has the launch of the online card room been put back or was it always January? I thought it was tomorrow (1st December)

[Royal Flush]

Has the launch of the online card room been put back or was it always January? I thought it was tomorrow (1st December)

Yes it has been put back.

[DTD-Nick.W]

Rob, I was playing at the Broadway last Sunday and there was one excellent dealer who was an absolute speed demon and never made a mistake.

He is rapid, isn't he?  Very good dealers at Broadway, and he's certainly the fastest!

The Broadway is excellent, it really is. Although he was banned from there, I hope Rob takes a leaf out of there book in the construction of DTD.

Just for the record guys,

We have instructed the designer of the Broadway Casino to work with us on the DTD Live club project, but we did decide to run the re-fit in house with our own sub contractors.
This allows us to nail all our contractors down and in turn produce the most fantastic venue with all the whistles and bells exactly how we want it.

Cheers all for joining the live club.

[simonow]

Has the launch of the online card room been put back or was it always January? I thought it was tomorrow (1st December)

Yes it has been put back.

Thanks James, Rob has been trying to get an early Launch,so finger's crossed we will have a new date in a couple of days hopefully this side of Christmas

[tikay]

Has the launch of the online card room been put back or was it always January? I thought it was tomorrow (1st December)

Yes it has been put back.

 



Thanks James, Rob has been trying to get an early Launch,so finger's crossed we will have a new date in a couple of days hopefully this side of Christmas

If I had to guess, I'd say the DtD Online CardRoom may well be up & running within a few days. Just a hunch, mind......

[M3boy]

I would guess at the 12th.............. just a wild guess

[RED-DOG]

Branta canadensis..........just a wild Goose!

[tikay]

Just to pick up on somethig Rob Posted a week or two back.

Yes, Rob & myself have been in detailed negotiations as to a deal together, for DtD & blonde to work together.

We are meeting again tomorrow (Monday), to tie things up hopefully. We are both confident we will cut the deal, & we won't need contracts or signatures - with Rob Yong & tikay, a handshake is all that's needed.

What will the deal entail? All sorts, really. It's best to await the final agreement, but we are talking......

Badging/sponsoring the blonde Forum. (The Poker 425 Blonde Forum Badging Deal is now over).

Running DtD specific Live Updates, combined with the usual blonde Updates. We would Update ALL the 9 nominated "DtD Tour Events". (7 x EPT, 1 x Paris WPT & WSOP Main Event).

Badging the Live Updates.

Promotion of DtD generally, both on the Main Site, & Forum.

DtD Child Boards (3 of) in the Live Poker Section.

DtD to provide substantial - REALLY substantial - support for blonde Bashes, by way of huge prize incentives, restricted to blondes ONLY.

And plenty more besides - we are aiming for a genuine Partnership.

Part of what we wil do is promote the DtD Online Card Room, & I know that's gonna impact upon BPL. Well we cannot have our cake & eat it, so we'll just have to live with that.

Anyway, as soon as we have tied up all the loose ends, Rob & I will make a joint announcement. I am meeting Rob tomorrow.

I am most appreciative of Rob's support for both blondepoker, & myself, at what has been quite a difficult time for me personally. It's a bill I'll repay, with interest.

[Redbull]

Sounds very promising! Best of luck to you both!

[lazaroonie]

Just to pick up on somethig Rob Posted a week or two back.

Yes, Rob & myself have been in detailed negotiations as to a deal together, for DtD & blonde to work together.

We are meeting again tomorrow (Monday), to tie things up hopefully. We are both confident we will cut the deal, & we won't need contracts or signatures - with Rob Yong & tikay, a handshake is all that's needed.

What will the deal entail? All sorts, really. It's best to await the final agreement, but we are talking......

Badging/sponsoring the blonde Forum. (The Poker 425 Blonde Forum Badging Deal is now over).

Running DtD specific Live Updates, combined with the usual blonde Updates. We would Update ALL the 9 nominated "DtD Tour Events". (7 x EPT, 1 x Paris WPT & WSOP Main Event).

Badging the Live Updates.

Promotion of DtD generally, both on the Main Site, & Forum.

DtD Child Boards (3 of) in the Live Poker Section.

DtD to provide substantial - REALLY substantial - support for blonde Bashes, by way of huge prize incentives, restricted to blondes ONLY.

And plenty more besides - we are aiming for a genuine Partnership.

Part of what we wil do is promote the DtD Online Card Room, & I know that's gonna impact upon BPL. Well we cannot have our cake & eat it, so we'll just have to live with that.

Anyway, as soon as we have tied up all the loose ends, Rob & I will make a joint announcement. I am meeting Rob tomorrow.

I am most appreciative of Rob's support for both blondepoker, & myself, at what has been quite a difficult time for me personally. It's a bill I'll repay, with interest.

this all sounds very exiciting - I am assuming that the BP card room is going to be assumed into the DTD card room ?

[tikay]

Just to pick up on somethig Rob Posted a week or two back.

Yes, Rob & myself have been in detailed negotiations as to a deal together, for DtD & blonde to work together.

We are meeting again tomorrow (Monday), to tie things up hopefully. We are both confident we will cut the deal, & we won't need contracts or signatures - with Rob Yong & tikay, a handshake is all that's needed.

What will the deal entail? All sorts, really. It's best to await the final agreement, but we are talking......

Badging/sponsoring the blonde Forum. (The Poker 425 Blonde Forum Badging Deal is now over).

Running DtD specific Live Updates, combined with the usual blonde Updates. We would Update ALL the 9 nominated "DtD Tour Events". (7 x EPT, 1 x Paris WPT & WSOP Main Event).

Badging the Live Updates.

Promotion of DtD generally, both on the Main Site, & Forum.

DtD Child Boards (3 of) in the Live Poker Section.

DtD to provide substantial - REALLY substantial - support for blonde Bashes, by way of huge prize incentives, restricted to blondes ONLY.

And plenty more besides - we are aiming for a genuine Partnership.

Part of what we wil do is promote the DtD Online Card Room, & I know that's gonna impact upon BPL. Well we cannot have our cake & eat it, so we'll just have to live with that.

Anyway, as soon as we have tied up all the loose ends, Rob & I will make a joint announcement. I am meeting Rob tomorrow.

I am most appreciative of Rob's support for both blondepoker, & myself, at what has been quite a difficult time for me personally. It's a bill I'll repay, with interest.

this all sounds very exiciting - I am assuming that the BP card room is going to be assumed into the DTD card room ?

No, it is not. Thats what makes it awkward, but we've hammered something out, & although we are not wholly there yet, we have shaken hands, &  deal of some sort HAS been agreed in principle.

Rob will Post on here shortly, & I'll follow it up.

Please bear with us, it's very complicated. We made a number of changes today to what was originally drawn up, but all of it was to both Parties mutual benefit.

[robyong]

I am so stressed, the launch of our online card room has been brought forward to tomorrow, but I dont think we will be ready till Wednesday.............so many complications, my accountants are so wary of the online industry and are causing me so many problems with paperwork issues etc.

I am working my ass off, we did not finalise DTD online reward scheme till 3 hours ago, its been chopping and changing for the last 6 months, and at the conference we had in St Kitts where Cryptologic put in a uniform policy accross their whole network forced us to re-think again. Anyway, I think we have done our best for all potential DTD players.....we'll see what happens.........

The bringing forward of our online launch has also meant a lot of extra work on the web site. Our web programmers have actually produced us a decent back office system, but they are such IT techies, so it's been a nightmare to operate as a user, however, we have made a lot of progress over the last 2 weeks with BigPete working 24 hrs with me on MSN.

I wanted to make a project meeting with Nick today, he was meeting a number of key suppliers and I wanted to nail them down, but I just could not make it. He popped round tonight and told me everything was going really well with the club re-fit, I asked him "are we in budget", he answered, "ish".....hmmm

I finally met with TK tonight to agree a deal between DTD and Blondepoker

1. DTD will replace William Hill/Poker 425 as the official sponsors of The Blondepoker Forum............so it will be "The Blondepoker Forum sponsored by DTDPOKER"

2. DTD will pay the full costs of 2 BP updaters + TK (flights/hotels/expenses) to report on the 9 events on the DTD Tour. These are all 7 EPT's, WPT Paris and the WSOP.

3. DTD will have a forum "within" Blondepoker's forum, and BP will set up and moderate this. DTD will pay a monthly service charge for this service.

4. DTD will put up £8,000 per annum for added value poker tournaments such as Blondebash etc. TK can use this money at his discretion, and even use as player bonuses in the BP Card Room is he sees fit, basically, its £8,000 that must go to the BP members.

5. DTDPOKER will have a download banner on the forum and live updates page. The banners must be be approved by TK before they are given to BP techical team.

6. TK will help me generally promote DTD using his contacts, thats a bit woolley, but I think he is a good guy for us to bounce things off and he has lots of interesting ideas on the live poker side.

We put a target of 1st January 2007 to get all these things in place, but I can't see past tomorrow at the moment. Whatever happens the contract will start from the 1st January anyway, I 'm glad we have finally sorted this out and shook hands on a minimum 12 month deal.
Of course we will be both be operating online card rooms, but I don't see that being an issue between me and TK, and why can't people play on both sites.........nearly every member of this site will have a Ladbrokes, Party Poker or Pokerstars account, so its really no big deal.

Gotta work through the night now. Have not slept much in last 2 weeks.......

Cheers Rob

[Pab]

Sounds like a good deal for both parties, hats off to rob n tikay

[Rookie (Rodney)]

Yep, nice one

[ariston]

Good luck with the launch guys.