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Well what an evening/night/morning that was. What a magnificent club. Oh to be living back in Leicester and on the doorstep.
Travelled up with Dingdell and as is always the way with these things busted out early but thoroughly enjoyed watching her roller coaster ride to the runner up spot. Barry Nevilles face when our Trace calls his all in with A7 against his pair of 7's and then goes and spikes an Ace.It was also great to reunite with people I had not really seen this year obviously Chippie and I were bound to tangle and sure enough he knocked me out. Good player and great company.

This club is something special. If you have the opportunity to support it I would recommend that you do so. Why? Because they really cared about the players.

Moment of the night though was when Rob got to ban a well known Nottingham face. As Ken from the Gala at least I think it is the Gala,arrived at 3am to have a look round, Rob got all his Christmases at once in escorting him from the premises. I would suggest that the look on his face was a just a small repayment for all the pain that the casino groups put him through.

Thanks to all the team at DTD I had a great night and I will be going back the only question is when

cant wait to get there myself!

hahahaha ken got kicked out! cant say im upset :)

It's funny because I have heard similar reactions from a lot of people.........all very curious. I don't know the guy but he has obviously upset quite a few people

Robs face was a picture! Nice to see Alistair and Nina from G casino Luton there - welcomed by Simon Trumper - Nina won her first ever live sit and go - her face was almost as delighted as Robs!!

after taking nearly 2 hours for what should have been about a 45 minute journey ,
i was thinking to myself ,i hope this is all worth it .
when i got to the doors my mouth dropped ,this was a wow factor .
this is the dogs nuts of a place ,out of all the places i have played in this is truly no 1.
it has to be seen to be believed .
when i entered the card room i was greeted by two women handing champers out .
the first person i bump into was rob ,got he looked a bit pale .
next was nick and aces and his wife all didn't seem to have two minutes to talk .
then i bumped into chubs the only one to have put weight on ,lol.
then there was danny behind the cash desk taking the buyins , hes lost weight to .
ill have to get a job here .
when the tourney got under way danny was back to what he is good at .
no expense spared here ,not only is the card room the best but the backbone of the staff is to .
as for the game i was like a yo yo.
got unlucky against tracy , and bubbled .
any way get here if you can and have a look for yourself .
just one idiot who had a little bit to drink but he was soon put in his place by nick.
i take my hat of to rob and all his staff ,this is what we've waited for so lets all support him ,
not just in the coming months ,but for as long as he decides hes had enough.


       I SAY WELL DONE SIR ROB.
 ;hattip; ;hattip; ;hattip; ;thankyou;FOR LAST NIGHT  may there be many more.

 ;woohoo; ;woohoo; ;woohoo;

Agree with everything you said Barry apart from being unlucky against me. As I said at the time I think a better player would have been able to fold to a reraise but I couldn't. I thought you had two picture cards to be honest so thought my A was good, didn't put you on a pair. I got lucky on the turn.

On the way home Snatty and I discussed the final few tables (to keep ourselves awake!) and agreed that your play had been outstanding and was a different class.

One of the reasons I will be returning to DTD again and again is to play against players much better than me to learn more. Last night was like playing in a poker academy, playing against players and watching and learning. Wonderful experience.

Hi all sorry its been a while
Well what can i say great venue luvly staff and what a srtuctre to the comp it was 5am and there was still play left it wasn't all in or fold you still could call and see a flop then and all in lol
Met some old faces i've not seen for a while and its always good to see blondes on the final well done guys well i'm off there again tonight
Rob great place cheers for a good night

I think there was plenty of players last night could have learnt a thing or two from you last night Ding, you were tons better than most of the players out our first table.

Big Bazza bust me last night in the first (and hopefully last) Barry vs Barry hand at DTD.

dont worry i heard a blondite got banned 6 months before they got there licence

hope thats all sorted now and he will be escorting me to the karoke tonight after i land in ema

thanks for the kind words trace ,i was just glad they went to someone who wasnt going to piss them away.
barry im shure we will lock horns again,lol.

Ha ha this made me laugh, my only real disappointment is that I missed it. Ken got exactly what he deserved.

Hi I was on the first table with you and Barry, well played !

Tell me.......when the flop came A A 10.......and you bet.....did you have the Ace ? I had the 10 and was thinking about putting you to a decision.

If he bet, he didn't have the A  ;) 8)

This was a hand I was involved in Tom - so the question still is "Did you have the ace?" Does the answer change now you know it was me that bet out?   ;carlocitrone;

i hadd kk in the hand .

You weren't on the table at that point, this was miles beforehand. It was when when I was on Dave Shoelaces's table.
 This was before the drunk man got drunker and made his opinions known........  ::)

I think are probably capable of betting with or without the ace, and then looking totally innocent. I would have set you in if I had the 10......Maybe.....

hi all

Just to put the record straight, I was not escorted off the premises at DTD I choose to leave of my own accord. So please if you are going to write stories please get your facts right or you will look like a twat when someone tells the truth.

regards

Ken

I hav to agree with Ken here.
E.B

oops..........could you clarify...you chose to leave of your own accord or were asked to.......you know just for accuracy......as regards being called a twat.......I have been called far worse and by better than you mate

See you there next Thursday then Ken...... ;popcorn;

yep i would love to have been there.
its not before time that little twerpps like you cop for it .
KEEP OF THE GRASS.

im sorry ken you seem a decent guy , buttttttttttttttttttttt to use language like that on a poker forum  is disgusting  , i will be formally writing to gala telling them that as a proffesional representing a corporate body you (or they) should consider your position.

you should welcome the competion dtd brings to the poker community , it will enhance your role and make it more viable and unless you embrace it you have no future working with US AS PLAYERS.

PLEASE APOLOGISE OR DELETE YOUR POST.



 Qs

Terrible language..do not know KEN but from that post I do not wish to either..

Ken has sent me a pm (probably just not me) about thursday nights event and insists that he was not escorted from the premises. To be honest i don't think it really matters , DTD is now up and running. I will never personally play poker at Gala Notts again (not that they will care as i wasn't a donator at the tables) due to recent events and Galas role in recent months is frankly dispicable. If Rob did chuck him out, good on him.

i think all this is discusting ,how can you ken justify walking into dtd after all that has gone of .

to think he let you join in the first place says what type of man rob is .

then you have the cheek to walk in to see who is there from the gala.

not only that your getting people to ring up to get them back into gala .

look tell your directors its you lot who have shot yourselfs in the foot ,through letting people come in and blatantly cheat.

thats why so many people stopped coming in the first place .

come on ken admit it on here you've lost.

I've had this image for a while now of the only people left playing in Gala Nottm. are all of the cheats and chisellers.

Mr Karabiner, that statement is a little unfair.  Yes there are people who cheat in the poker room at Gala Notts, nobody can deny that, but there are plenty of decent people who play there who will continue to do so from time to time even though DTD has now opened.  You do not like Gala - fine, but it's not fair to sling the mud at decent people who just go there for a night out.

Im sure there are plenty of respectable players left in Gala such as yourself, but why on earth would you stay one moment in a club which in your own words 'Yes there are people who cheat in the poker room at Gala Notts, nobody can deny that'.. Its like when people who claim that Stars/Party/Tilt etc is rigged but stay there week in week out.

Every poker room I have been in has its fair share of cheats, low life's and angle shooters just like every where else in society.

I was a regular at gala going almost daily for a year before i moved away from notts and i am a little surprised that ken has been into DTD because i remember him saying openly on more than one occasion about the resistance gala is putting up to it and made it clear that he didnt want to see it open.

Not everyone at gala notts was a cheat but there were a few and im glad to have seen the back of them. However, i met a lot of good friends from there who i will stay in touch with for a long time and look forward to making my way up to DTD to see these guys again. It will make a huge difference to a lot of them in notts now theres an alternative to gala. It seemed to me that the main issue with gala was that one or two customers seemed to have the management bending over for them and were able to influence decisions about the place.

Well done to rob and everyone else at dtd

Little bit concerned about this thread...am a student at Notts and I often go to Gala late on a Friday night for my live poker fix...can't say i've ever suspected any cheating they always seem like fairly soft games...only reason I would go to Gala over DTD is convenience after a night out in Notts...perhaps not now, there is substance to these "rumours"?

So would you have passed to my alli-in ?

I would have called you like a shot  ;D 

I could not agree more, but a room where house dealers are not provided is fertile soil for them.

OK Tracy I believe you ;o) no doubt we will cross swords at dt (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload)d (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload) again sometime in the future, it was a pleasure playing with you.

karabina  i play gala and deal fair and fast and know everyone  all good people
if you can ...........please for the record name me one cheat   as you know f ....all
as you never bin welcome 4 years
                                                   regards sleepy...

 ;hide;

fire in the hole

Who exactly am I not welcomed by ?

I'm not not aware that I am unwelcome at Gala as i was there this summer and it was never mentioned.

 ;popcorn;

Anyone notice how most of the pro gala posts are all along the line of.....

'me not cheat, gala good, DTD bad, you all pile of bastads'

i didnt really want to post on this but i just think that it needs to stop before it gets out of hand.
i play at gala alot and i will now be at DTD alot.i think its unfair that everyone who plays at gala are being portayed as bad dishounest people.i have some very good friends at gala and there are people there that have helped me through what has been a very difficult year for me.
please dont judge all gala players when you dont know each and everyone of them.i think the name calling needs to stop from everyone.im not taking sides and for most notts based players its not about gala or DTD,but about getting the best of both.

FRAN

 ;iagree; Pleasure to play on your table at dtd -- and I think you are correct this could get into a "my place is better than your place" and will get out of hand. Regardless of the past histories this should now be water under the bridge. Freedom of choice is great. So go choose......

I don't play at Gala, and never have done so.

However, I don't see the positive side to alienating a part of the poker community.
There may be elements of the Gala experience that inevitably don't match with DTD, but at least Gala have provided an opportunity of live poker in Notts over the last few years, and I am sure many of you have benefitted from this.

As for the players there being cheats etc.., as already has been alluded to, some of the players are, or will be, common to both DTD and Gala, therefore you cannot criticise one without, by implication, criticising the other.

There appears to be a perception that Gala, as an organisation, is all things bad - in part this must be due to their resistance to DTD, and the way they went about this.
But sinking to a level of petty and bitchy criticism doesn't exactly smack of taking the moral high ground.

I think that some people are missing the point here.

Nobody, especially me is suggesting that all of the Gala Nottm. players are dishonest, that would be ridiculous and untrue.

Speaking personally I look forward to playing poker again with 90% of the old Gala brigade who's company  I have missed greatly after enjoying it for many (15+) years, and I also look forward to not playing with the other 10% who have caused me to make a point of avoiding them for the last couple of years since Rob(Nightfly) ceased being the cardroom supervisor.

As I have said in my post http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=3985.1680 Ken from Gala Nottingham was not escorted from the dt (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload)d (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload) premises, like many things, this has been exagerated a touch. My apologies to Ken and anyone else at Gala for any misunderstanding.

I appreciate that many people are still a bit annoyed at how Gala have behaved over the last 2 years and also some people genuinely want to support me and dt (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload)d (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload), but I think we should all move on, players have a choice now where to play, some players will prefer Gala, some will prefer dt (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload)d (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload), so its a win win for everyone.

In terms of cheating at Gala, I played there for 4 years and 3/4 times per week, there were only a few isolated instances of cheating, nowhere near the level of cheating that their card room gets accused of by many UK players (many of them are just repeating what they have heard second or third hand). I loved the bantor there and have many good memories of the place, life just moves on and I am sure when the dust settles and the novelty value of dt (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload)d (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload) wears off, both card rooms can operate successfully in the same town.

Cheers Rob

edit - atrocious spelling

gala will always be a place that i myself play, alot of the staff there are genuinely friendly and while i personally cannot stand ken's ties, the banter there both with ken and the other gamers has educated and entertained myself for a while...

besides dt (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload)d (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload) is not open 7 days a week yet :(

Thank you Rob for clearing up the point that I was not escorted off your premises

Regards

Ken

No problem Ken. When I secured the premises at dt (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload)d (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload) I chose not to attend Gala anymore, despite not being barred, this was out of respect for the card room as I did not want to cause any disruption or discuss a new poker club on Gala's premises with Gala's customers.

There was a significant negative reaction in the dt (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload)d (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload) club when you visited that evening (even though you were not directly connected with the legal case versus dt (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload)d (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload)) and I took the decision that it was best for all parties to let sleeping dogs lie and not have any more reactions like this in the future.

We both go back a long way and understand the situation perfectly. I know that you personally are very "pro poker", I remember when I started playing you lent me the "how to play poker" book, its a little unfair that yourself and Gala Nottingham are coming in for so much flack when it was a corporate decision to fight the opening of dt (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload)d (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload).

Nevermind, we all move on......it is my honest view that Gala and dt (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload)d (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload) will be the strongest card rooms in Nottingham going forward both attracting 50+ runners per evening and that Stanleys and LCI will fall by the way side. There are 2 different markets in poker customers, so we may actually end up complementing each other and both promoting poker well in Nottingham to each customer market.

Cheers Rob

thank you for clearing up why i was barred and i wish you all the success in the future

regards

Ken