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At the moment nothing is sorted.
Potential updaters are there in the pipeline if the funds can be gathered. Anyone fancy contributing? 2 x £100 would get us there. PM me if so, ty.

Just to expand upon that, the cost has come in at about £450-£500, but some pledges have already been made, leaving the shortfall that Chompy described above.

who are the potential updaters??

anyone?

Myself 2 days, rockstar 4 days

makes sense using local people saves on hotels i suppose.

should be a good update if goes ahead mr gotch is a talented writer.

do contributions have to be in 2 blocks of £100 ? happy to contribute £25 for updates on rooks and celtic fish

Don't see any reason why not ITB

Not sure Paul, Chompy is your man for that question

Background is a full scale two person/four day GUKPT update costs around £1400. We haven't been in a position to do those for about 18 months. Firstly IPoker problems and then not earning enough yet with DTD for our share to afford it, even on a one man basis.

Previously Chompy and a few others have funded occasional updates and he offered to do so again, which is very generous and previously I've done around 20 days updating voluntary to try and keep the GUKPTs going, but no revenue uptick meant I had to draw a line under that eventually.

Luton is the cheapest GUKPT to do as, as you say, using local people means no travel or hotel expenses.

and I, and I think many, miss GUKPT updates from the site. So it makes sense to try to do it if we can

Both Adrian and I will do it, myself with Adrian for the first two days and then leave Adrian to it for the weekend and we'll do it for less than the usual rate.

and I think Adrian will be good too, and we always need new updaters.

Luton have given us permission to update, just a case of Chompy getting the funding together, hence this thread.

well if it goes ahead and you get others to contribute let me know who i pass themoney onto.

might be down there a bit myself dont mind doing a bit of chipstack chasing for ya if needed

thanks.

DTD, who will have some 10 or 12 players in the Luton GUKPT, have just rung me & donated £200 towards the Live Update. Phew......

Don't forget, DTD have a SUPER Satellite (5 seats I believe) THIS Thursday at DTD, 9pm, plus another 5 seat Online Super Sat this coming Sunday.

So, TEN SEATS up for grabs.

 

Nice to see that there are gunna be blond updates

The GUKPT blog is generally pretty terrible imo

The one they did in Bolton wasn't too bad.

so do i contribute or not? lol

Well we hope so. We are still considerably short of the cost, so yes, the £25 would help.

blondepoker are not currently able to fund Updates, so the shortfall is coming from donations.

nh Snoops.

no worries, i will forward to adrian

Food+Petrol I'd imagine.

Total cost is 450 or so. Dtd covering 200 so 250 to find from chompy,itb and others. We won't be claiming petrol, food or anything else

I'm sorry it looked confusing. Thats because it was....

The way it panned out, & my preference not to divulge exact names, costs & fees was at the root of this.

When Chompy said "£2 x £100 would get us there", the position was that.....

There was a shortfall of £200, as follows.....

Chompy & myself had already agreed privately to pay around £250 of the required (approx) £450, leaving the shortfall of £200 that Chompy mentioned. If the £200 was not fothcoming, I had agreed to underwrite & pay the shortfall, or any part thereof. So we hoped for £200 to get us over the line.

DTD then pledged the £200 in a phone call betwen Nick Whiten & myself this afternoon.

I confirmed this to Tighty & Chompy straight away.

I then requested of Nick Whiten that he paid the £200 to Tighty, Tighty then confirmed he would sort it out with Nick in Nottingham this weekend.

Chompy then wrote back to me to confirm that Rockstar would get £225 for his work - being £100 from Chompy, £25 from ITB, & £100 from myself. In fact, this leaves Rockstar £25 light, which I'll pay myself if no further donations are received.

Sorry if I presented it in a confusing manner, but now you know the full SP.

My thanks go to DTD, ITB, & Chompy for the funding, & to Tighty & Rockstar for doing the gig at "trade price".

If anyone else wants to pay a bit, it will lessen the contribution pledged by Chompy & myself, & be very welcome.

Just to confirm - The Luton GUKPT Main Event Live Update WILL now go ahead, & we have agreed this with Luton, & GUKPT. This is irrespective of any further pledges that may or may not be received.

This is why James Keys is the shizzle (but if you 3 bet me with 97 suited again so help me God....)

I'll take £25 too pls

That would be terrific, thank you. Another £25 off my liability!

Please pass the cash to either Chompy or Rockstar, both will be at Luton. Rockstar, well, looks like a rockstar, sort of a cross between Metallica & a 70's rock band drummer, very handsome in a rugged way, though a touch effiminite. Chompy is a hairy plump chap, in his mid-fifties, usually wearing a dated Peterborough shirt.

The Luton "shoe Policy" remains intact, thank God, a last bastion against those dreadful plimsolls, trainers & Jesus sandals.   

Thank you.

If you plan to be at Luton for the GUKPT, give it to Chomps please, then he & I can square up when I next see him.

Alternatively, give it to Tighty in DTD this weekend, & he'll give it to me in due course.

Appreciated.

I'll bring £50 to the party

I'll pop into DTD on the way home from work over the weekend

Regards

M

Happy Days, thanks John. I may even be in Nottingham on Sunday, though not Saturday.

I'll split any "saving" (on the £200 that Chomps & I are sticking in) between he & myself 50/50.  Someone will need to work all this out though, I'm going dizzy here.

Given the recent embarrassing issues relating to monies being owed/repaid, would it not be a good idea to set up a more formal mechanism for this rather than the 'give it to me next time you see me' route?

I agree Blonde should have a Donate button linking to Paypal or something

Should of been done months ago IMHO

Regards

M

Perhaps, John, but it came together quickly, & I have had a trusting relationship with most of these guys (Chomps & John in particular, but no money issues whatsoever with any of the others, either) for many years.

The original plan was that Chomps & I split the whole cost down the middle, so the fallback position remains that, & so even if the worst came to the worst, we'd be no worse off. 

Might be worth looking into setting up something more formal for the next one.

Yes, it would make sense.

it was just all so "last minute", & I did a gentleman's deal with Chomps a few days ago which I was happy to accept as was.

Then, today I think (I'm a little confused, as a lot is going off right now) he wrote to me again & suggested that he or I start a Thread to try & get others to contribute, which made sense, & he did.

Really, I was stuck for £350+ at worst, so anything less than that is a sort of freeroll for me.

Really good to see the updates coming back, great work Tikay.

I'd like to pledge £50.

Is there any chance of the updates coming back again after Luton?

i will pledge £5 for every level im in. Ul blonde.

I really think as a community we can get these updates done for all the GUKPTs without any cost to blonde.

Really? At £1400 a piece?

Maybe at the cut down £450 there'd be a chance but you're relying on the updaters working at very low cost to get that. I wouldn't expect that to happen too often because it just wouldn't be fair.

Can't see it happening too often but would be great to see obviously. I'd like to pledge £50 but I can't cus I'm busto.

+1

One day you might have a fifty again mate.

Until then please dont talk to me.

I think Cos meant volunteer updating as a community? Therefore no real costs.

Local people grab a laptop and camera and get stuck in. Means people busting their balls for a weekend for nothing but could work?

I'd love to get the broader updates service back up and running. Would benefit blonde a lot.

The reason it isn't currently active is purely financial.

For that to change we need to have more people supporting us by playing on DTD via us. Then there is a commitment from DTD (ie they are by then covering costs thorugh supporting us at a minimum) to help us get things back up and running. As it stands though we're not near that.

In the absence of that its easy enough to do a one off GUKPT for a local venue where expenses will be minimal, where the updaters will give a little bit of slack on pay and a small number of people will kindly chip in to help out as is the case for next week

Rolling that out across a venue where costs will be higher, lets say Blackpool GUKPT later this year, then it becomes tougher.

We can compromise on the £1400 figure by doing it one person but without trying to sound like a drama Queen a 4 day GUKPT on your tod is tough. Have done two, and its really tough.

Asking for people to do it voluntarily isn't really an option either.

At the same time as this we pay about £100 a day for an updater where the going rate through PokerNews for example is about 4 times that. Or was last time I heard

So I'd be the first to try and arrange a more comprehensive schedule of GUKPT updaters, or UKIPT updates or any non DTD updates if we had the funding to do it. In the realistic absence of repeated benefactors then the only real solution is to earn more money. Our way of earning more money is via DTD Online. Where we know most of you have issues playing.

I suppose we could speak to Alistair and Phil and team at AWOP. I also think the NutzTV do a great job. I suppose we could carry that feed, or try to work something out with them commercially but I happen to believe that the blonde updates..in their style, tone, content, readability, humour etc are pretty unique and worth trying to build back up at this stage. I'd be able to fast forward a number of months to achieving that if our revenue picked up though.


 

+1 for awop doing a good job, saves you money too innit.

But it wouldn't actually save them money as they'd have to pay someone else for the service. 

and not generating future revenue etc

As a regular updater I can safely say that doing a solo job on an event with more than 150 people is horrible. Trying to keep up with the pace at the start is pretty much impossible unless you decide to just provide the most basic of updates. Updating "blonde style" on your own is a definite no-go, by the time you've written up 2-3 hands you've missed out on another 10-20 exits. Even at the start of a DTD event with 2 updaters, we still miss so much because unless you happen to be at a table when a big hand happens, you end up only getting 2nd or even 3rd hand descriptions from people sat at the table.

AWOP have invested a sick amount of money into producing nutz.tv and because of this, I often feel that their text based updates are basic, mostly because of the way they tend to get them (well, the way they got them last time I saw the Nutz guys in action, which was 2008), in that Phil Heald wanders the tables and commentates on big hands through a mic, which James Roberts and others listen to in the press room and copy to the forum. Their updates TV wise and live streaming are great, but for the forum to follow via a thread written down, I don't feel that is what Blonde needs.

Poker News pay £400 a day for updaters? I'm goin back to the day job....

AWOP forum updates suck. There's none of the blonde style feel to them. They're as basic as you can get. Their video feed is pretty pointless imo unless there's someone on the final you want to watch. And even then I'd rather just have a forum thread to refresh every now and then.

Must be for their top drawer updaters only.

Yeah, good point, and not that crap one Blue Square used at Bolton.  :kiss:

Tighty answered that in depth, but he may have omitted one possibility, whereby a certain set of circumstances might enable us to get quite a few more blonde Updates in the near future. See the DTD Website for "DTD RoadShow". Maybe, maybe not.

For the sake of record, these are the pledges so far. (Hint, bump).

I'll amend this Thead/Post as & when each pledge is fulfilled.

ITB £25

James Keys £25

Cos £25

MPower £50

Stu Rutter £50

Dubai £5 per level.......

MPower is passing the money to myself or Tighty this Sunday, at DTD. Payments can be made in person to Rockstar or Tighty at Luton, or to myself.

We might end up with more than the required funding, in which case the surplus money will be shared between Rockstar & Tighty.

Thanks again, much appreciated.

They sure do.

 ;tightend;

No shame in that imo, I think you would get lots of small donations towards live updates.  I cant just 'pop' into DTD, and am very unlikely to see anyone off here before such events, but would happily contribute if I knew it was going towards updates etc in a secure manner.

Given your unstinting support of the blonde Cardroom since day one, & until the very end, & now, of the DTD Cardroom via blonde, your credit rating is AAA+ with me. So if you wish to make a small donation, just say how much, & I'll add it to the pool myself, & you can pay me when we next bump into each other.

ty Tikay.  £25 please.  :)

Tikay it's now looking like I will not be able to make it to Luton due to a commitment next friday - please could you send me a bank account to send the money to or a full tilt account?

Alternatively I can deposit on Sky and ask them to transfer it across to your account if this is allowed?

Whatever suits

Thank you very much. I'll amend the pledge page, & mark you as "paid".

Thank you. I will PM you my Bank Details.

SPAM ALERT: My FT Account is dormant, & I've lost my Password, so I'd rather avoid FT, & Sky Poker don't have a cash transfer facility. But they do have a £1,000 minimum sit-down televised (in near real time) "BIG GAME" this Saturday, if you are interested, with a really expert Analyst to give you advice, & a drop-dead gorgeous Presenter in Lisa-Marie.

Your sitting down in an online game with a dime? Please tell me this is true!

Not sure if that's a level, or a request that we reserve a Seat for you? If so, just say the word, though remember your hands wll be shown & analysed to the viewing millions.

Obv, my role was as described in my Post.

I'll back Dubai's £5 per level too, and add that to the pledge.


Anyone got change for a tenner?

:) Completed levels only, so no need for change, just get that fiver out

Why have I got this horrible feeling that you're going to surprise us all, and grind your way into level 16?

Careful guys, he does not arrive until Level 3.

Yes, with the stipulation of a minimum pull-up of, or to, £1,000. It's 6 handed, & starts at about 7.30pm on Saturday, with the television coverage running from 8pm until, assuming the game lasts that long, 11pm. I'll send you a PM with more details if you are interested. We appear to have a few "lively" Tables, & it should make a good game, & good TV.

I think all the Pledges are in, or can be said to be in. Here's the position, if I have missed anyone, please advise.

DTD £200 - Tighty has arranged for DTD to pay him direct.

James Keys £25. Paid Tighty in cash, Tighty passed it to me yesterday.

Cos, £25. Paid me by Bank Transfer.

Chip Prince, £25. Deemed Paid.

Stu Rutter £50. Paid me by Bank Transfer.

MPower, £50. Paid me in cash, yesterday.

ITB, £25. I think ITB is paying Rockstar direct.

So, the £200 to Tighty is sorted.

I believe we agered £250 for Rockstar, & I've rung him this morning to confirm that, & agree with him how best to get him the money, but had to leave him a Message.

If I recall correctly, £250 was agreed for Rockstar, so we are £50 short, & Chompy & I will split that down the middle.

I'll make arrangements to pay Rockstar the £225 cash soonest.

Many thanks to all of you who contributed, & I'm quite sure - especially judging by the DTD Update - you'll get terrific value for money. Hopefully, if it goes well, we can do more do of this sort of thing in the future.

Chris Brammer (NigDawg) has just pledged £20 via PM, & will pay the money to Tighty, who will pass it on to Rockstar.

Thanks Chris.

A further pledge of £20 has been made by Evil Pie, in lieu of his failure to honour a long-estbished Last-Longer bet at DTD yesterday.

Mr Pie will pay the £20 to Tighty at Luton, & Tighty will pass it on to Rockstar.

Thanks Matt.

I have spoken to Rockstar, & have told him I'll try to pop into Luton to pass the money across to him, & failing that, I'll do it via a third party.

I sense a profit coming here...

I have received all monies which were due to be paid to, or via, me, & I drove up to Luton this afternoon & paid Rockstar £250 in cash. InTheBelly is also paying Rockstar £25 direct.

Big thanks to the donators, & Tighty & Rockstar for doing the job at trade price.

Well I'll show my last embarrassing poker scores

€20 Re-buy online for a Live £550 10 Seat WSOP DTD ROAD TRIP ( won a seat)

£550 Live sat for a £8300 DTD Vegas road trip ( Won a seat ) Won a seat went to Vegas ( I've been to Vegas twice for the WSOP with online sites )
DTD Road Trip was the best by a country mile. Could not play the main so took $10k cash

Played the morning $65 at the MGM we split 4 ways for $600 each and a $80 saver for 5th ( Knocked out Chris Moneymaker ) he's dead little you could use him as a keyring.

Played the $165 7pm @ Caesars won for $8200

Played the £50 rebuy at DTD as a Freeze Won a seat for Luton

Had 35% of a star of the future in last weeks £336 DTD Deepstack. They made the final.

So things are going ok.

I'll Pledge 5% of my winnings to Blonde at Luton this week in the £1k main event.

all about karma

Regards

M



 

Chris M - did he fob you off?

5% pledged to blonde? TYVM, top man. It'll be used to fund further Live Updates, a'la Luton.

Chris M - did he fob you off?

Nah I had AA he had KK

All about timing.

Swapped 5% with Julian for Luton. How lucky is he!! 

Regards

M

he texted & i quote:
"over a glass of very good wind on me."

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