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We will be Updating the DTD 3-2-1 Main Event tonight & tomorrow, with Posh Boy Flops & Poor Boy Kev in the Updaters Seats.

The whole idea of blonde Updates is the inter-activity, so get in.

No idea whose playing, though I'm pretty sure the following are.....

Thewy

Jen Mason

snoops

Redbull

Red

Chili

Dingdell

ChunkyMick

Iron

Karabiner - I hope.

I imagine the regulars will all be there, including last month's winner Pete Linton.

Who else is playing? Post here, please.

And don't forget, if you can't be there & want to follow a particular player, just ask.

I will buy Floppy or Kev a Jack Daniels if they can get a pic of Red tucking into a fry-up. It don't get easier than that, surely?

Playing

Ummed and arrhhed, ummed a bit more and then thought

"Sod it" and bought in

Good man you.

Fingers crossed that Kev is in charge of the camera..............bring on the norkage  ;)
Good luck to all Blondes playing too.

I've decided to play tomorrow's omaha tourney instead of today's ME due to still being jet-lagged.

I keep finding myself wide awake at 7am.

I may pop in for a little early cash this evening..

He stoops so low.

Let he who is without sin....

I've pm-ed Thewey and asked him to cast that first stone.

1/3 I'll do the same and be saying 'sod it' at 7.15pm.  Matt's playing too.

i'm playing, bought in on Wednesday

If i get on your table again TK i'll let you buy me that drink this time hehe

I'll be ;fishing;

I'm in - can't wait!

Im in :)

i feel like crying because im not playing but the kids have a day planned for me tomorow so cant let them down ;grr;

i shall be there later to rail and maybe have a few drinks ;angel;

At least you didnt fall asleep today , only to just wake up and F*****g miss it! :(

Don't forget we allow late registrations for the first 90 minutes today !

ACES

When is the live update starting up? Do we have a player list yet? I'm not playing but am quite excited to be on the "online" rail

Also as its Mothers day tommorow he thought it best for his heath not to rush out  8)

Ditto.

GL Blondes  :)up

unfortunatley due to the fact it is once again a 2 day event the travellers from the north west and indeed leeds area will not be coming , 14 of us supported the first 500 that dropped to 8 for the next and none of us are travelling today........

pure and simple there is no way we can give up 2 days for this event we are all sat at home with nowhere to play, sad thing is its a fantastic place to visit and i hope they continue to get the numbers, but surely they must consider a larger network of players and make it a one day event .

i cant think of a logical reason why it cant be 1 day , there must be some logistical reason , but the travelling players are also the cash players which only adds to the profitbility of the unit..........

i reallly wish them ever success because the dtd cardroom is unparrelled in every aspect of cardrom enviroment and is the euro number one,,,,,,,  i just wish we could go ..........

if you do read this simon could you please offer some rational to this situation, i know we all offered our opinion when you asked for it but it seems to have been largely ignored, this isnt a critisicm ,just  a little frustrtion at not being able to play..

this event was perfect for you to try a one dayer with it being mothers day tommorow ..

all the best
ns

Hi Nick

Actually your partly responsible for this.

We have always intended to end up with a mini festival weekend and after your PM last month i thought about a way to have something for all players ie

Those that want to play a 2 day comp , those that want to play a well structured medium entry one day event and a smaller event .

This led to creating the DTD 3 2 1 Weekend Experience , as you point out the travelling players tend to be cash players as well so i asked our bigger cash players what they would like for a £200 one day comp , the answer was the middle leg of the 3 2 1, our £200 PLO Double Chance 5000 + 5000.

Trying to appeal to a larger player pool has obviously been achieved as we have 170 players for the £300 Deepstack up from 129 last month and that is with the effect of Mothers day , Edingburgh GBPT , £500 first event at Vic GUKPT .

The idea was that players like yourself now had a choice , just come and play the £200 PLO which starts at 3.00pm Sunday so you get your one day event which will also attract players that are staying for the weekend as well as PLO players but i also thought that with a shot at a £17,000 first prize as there will be today, you would actually want to play the £300 knowing the cash action will be good and if you dont make it to day 2 you still have the PLO to play.

I guess we can't please everyone but next month we are likely to have 200 players , we already have 8 cash games going with 131 players left in the comp and tomorrow there will be all the PLO players + up to 45 players from today and 60 - 80 players for the £100 as well as are normal 60 - 100 cash game players so again the cash action will be available.

It may take a few months to build the PLO event but we want to offer a regular decent buy in with a great structure and i am confident the DTD 321 Weekend Experience will just get bigger as word spreads.

I hope you guys will come down next month , in fact why not come and supprt our first ever PLO event tomorrow.

With 10,000 chips , a 30 minute clock and our Pot Limit structure it will be terrific to play.

http://dusktilldawnpoker.com/tournamentstructure.php

All the best

ACES

so to answer the question why is it a 2 day event.?...................................................................


i would like nothing more than to come tommorow , but my mother will kill me lol

ps;) have you ever asked anybody whether thye prefer 2 day comps, they are only relevant to 7% of your current field..............and i honestly dont know anyone who actually thinks they are nothing more than a pain in the ass,  the monthly 300 at walsall started as a 1 day event they had massive fields and you had 20 to 30 players travelling from th north west, they changed it to a 2 day and not many (if any) travel anymore. i asked the question to find out the answer.......... not to be critical in anyway mate
congrats on the field and long may it continue , should be near 200 though ;)

Simon,

The DTD website says 3:30pm start, is this correct or is it 3:00pm? - Makes a bit of a difference as I'll probably only be able to arrive about 3:20!

Also, is it not possible to buy in online for the PLO event? I can't see it listed.

Rich.

Nick , i dont really need to ask the question if players would prefer a 1 day comp , the figures speak for themselves , last month 129 , this month 170 , all these players know it is a two day event but it didn't deter them .

However in answer to your question " why not do it in one day " It would not be possible to hold this in one day with the size of fields we are getting unless we were prepared to compromise the clock or structure , our intention is to give players the opportunity to play a festival structured event each month for a reasonable buy in then when we finally hold our first festival they will have the experience to play the bigger events.

Surely if players are willing to travel a 100 miles + to play here once a month they would prefer a weekend of poker rather than a 16 hour 1 day event.

As you know we are not like a casino where you have to wait for dealers to become available for cash games so if you guys only want to play for 1 day you could just come to play cash , we have 2 £2 £5 No Limit games tonight as well as dealers choice and these have been available since we opened.

How often have you known a £300 event to have a 1st prize equivalent to 56 x buy in , surely that is worth playing 2 days for ?

All the best

ACES

Hi Rich

The site is correct , it is 3.30pm start and late registration for 1st hour so you will be ok.

Hopefully by next month on line registration will be available for the PLO.

Cheers

ACES

Thanks. Hopefully be there tomorrow!

you dont need to ask,................ interesting statement, like i said it was not a critiscism, it was a genuine question borne out of frustration .......................you and your teAM HAVE A GREAT CHALLENGE AND YOU are doing really well , dont please take a simple enquiry personally. 



although i agree with your answer on comprimising the clock structure etc, but why not start the comp between 2pm / 3pm , you arent a casino , as you so rightly stated so you have more flexibilty.
see you have got me asking more questions than i wanted to because i dont want this to be perceived as anything other than a genuine question and not me being critical, i think the place is fantastic from the time i walk in the front door to the time i leave......

but i think it is a little early to take such a stance saying" you dont need to ask " , i suppose we will still be here attending dtd when the initial novelty of the place settles down so perhaps you may ask then...........

i think i shall close the coment on the subject matter as you have answered the original question, but as Alan ball senior said to AlAN bALL JUNIOR (WHEN HE WAS THE FIRST FOOTY PLAYER TO SIGN A CONTRACT TO WEAR WHITE BOOTS and he asked his dad what he thought) ," make sure you play well every time you play or the punters will give you their opinion , you wont need mine"

I'd second the starting of the competition on a saturday at 2-3ish and I dare say most of the people that have travelled more than 40 miles would too. From a business point of view I reckon most of those that play cash after bust out would probably play up until there natural bedtime anyway, so potentially an extra 6 hours of cash action for you.

Of course this all a logistical issue for you and your staff and we cant keep changing the goalposts, but was this discussed in the previous threads?

wow another opinion, same logic ds start comp at 2pm if you get busted 10 hours of cash , proper day away...........

I was one of those who drove up 120 miles at top speed (71 mph), was out within 15 minutes and spent 10 hours dawdling on the cash tables until they threw us all out at 6am.  I imagine I would be happy to get a hotel if I made Day Two of this good tourney, and just drive down again same day if not.  It all seemed excellent - the dealers, tables, lighting, food in restaurant.  I just need to get a better car and I'd be there every weekend.

Hi - this is a plea to keep the two day event and current structure!

I work long hours and also have to work on Saturdays. I have to travel to get to DTD. An earlier start for me, and those who work in retail, other service industries or who like me are self employed and who are not that local, would mean us not being able to play the £300. 

I love the two day deep stack structure, because of the weekday starts for the GUKPT I can't play them, so this is one of my only opportunities to play a good structured comp.

IMHO I can't imagine travelling for a quicker game. I would have thought that the 321 idea is better for those who are travelling, that way if you get knocked out you have another game to play the next day while your mates are still in.

I stayed over, it was cheap because I prebooked, and I didn't have to get involved in a donk fest because of a quicker tourney.

From the people I played with it appeared that a lot more had travelled and were staying overnight to play than last month. There was one guy from the Isle of Man (works for poker stars) who next month is bringing all his mates. It seems that people think it's worth the trip.

I only have 1 day off a week and I chose to spend this at DTD this weekend. It is great to be able to mark one weekend a month off as the DTD poker weekend. Please don't start the Saturday earlier, I would hate to be at home reading the updates.

Thanks.

I cannot see a problem with the way it is now, perfect structure, perfect timings, perfect venue, great work.

Its so hard to please all our friends in poker, we are doing our upmost, I can promise you that. We have chopped and changed a lot during our first few months of opening to try and find solutions for all scenarios and types of players. Its almost impossible to cater for everyone but we are trying to put players first and coping with staffing etc to fit whatever comps we put on.

We have had over 3,500 different poker players through our doors in Dec/Jan and Feb, I never expected that. With the 2/3 major events we have planned this year plus the monthly 3-2-1 and our regular weekly schedule moving to 7 days by May, we are trying to cater for everyone without consideration of costs and complications.

I apologise to any poker player (or group of players) that cant come to dt (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload)d (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload) for any reason (even Nick (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=309) Slade (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=309) lol), we are still learning all of the time and I know that every bit of feedback in taken into consideration.

Cheers Rob

PS. I tried to make a move on Dave "never fold a pair" Smith in a NL cash game tonight and of course he still called me with one pair for £600, on the basis that I am that stupid, it may take quite a few years for dt (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload)d (http://www.dtdpoker.com/aff/BlonditesDownload) to really become the dogs bollox!

Hi Nick

What i meant was last month we had 129 players , if this month we had dropped by 41 to 88 instead of increasing by 41 to 170 we would need to ask the question " do the players prefer a 1 day comp "

Also you agree it would be wrong to compromise the structure .

Day one lasts approx 9 hours , today the final ended at 11.30 a total of 18 hours , therefore it would not be possible to play this comp with this structure in one day starting at 2pm and from the feedback we got this weekend it is possible we will get in excess of 200 next month.

Once we expand to 7 days it is possible we will consider there is room to have another £200 to £300 comp every other Saturday and this could be a one day event with 10,000 chips and a 30 minute clock starting at 3.00pm.

Cheers

ACES

Simon

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't change the £300, It was perfect

the only thing i would ask is get your dealers never to deal me Kings when he's dealt the chip leader Ace's !!!

The updaters did a fantastic job, i've updated for other poker forums and it's not an easy exercise, Well done to both of then

Mark

Just to add my complete concurrence withl Dingdell and Rookie.

For those of us that work Monday to Friday, a deep stack two day event over Sat/ Sun, once a month, at £300  is a fantastic addition to the poker calender.

i loved the slow structure of the comp infact it went a little too fast for me as i would love to be sat there playing now

i think as Aces pointed out alternate between 1 day and 2 days during the month

1st sat the 3-2-1 2 day event
3rd sat of the month the 3-2-1 endurance event

ask a simple question ......


thanks for the response fromthe single no kids brigade,,,,,,,,;)


like i said it was a simple question and i received an answer which i acept whole heartedly,  i spoke to a number of players that went and im pissed we missed a good weekend , it was never meant as a critiscism .


congrats on a fannny tastic field and long may it continue..............................



thanks for the apology rob ;) but you should realy thinking about a creche if you are making it more succesful i have 3 matt has 4 zac has a couple ....................then we can come for the weekend .......


wishing your success is onwardsand upwards.............................



ps gateshead on a saturday in march ,taddictions are a terrible thing mr yong lol...........up the town 

has sofa king taken over your account??

dont know what that means lol

just kidding fella  ;)


as simon says its not easy keeping everyone happy just a shame you matt and the others cant get down to as many as you would like

.................hate not playing , esp at that gaffe,

Err i have 2 Daughters, But i still play the 2 day events !