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At the risk of causing upset, I'm gonna Post this anyway, it'll either die, or it won't.

I was given a small donation yesterday for "any future blonde Live Update, anywhere, any time".

The money will get forgotten if I don't record it, so I'll start this thread & record who paid what, & who has the cash, etc.

If agreement cannot be reached, so be it, but I have to "place" this Donation somewhere or I'll forget it.

£40 donated by "Big D" (Dylan) 6th February.

Dylan PAID in cash.

Fund Total - £40.

I owe Tighty (who will be the fund-holder) £40.

If ANY of the regulars here want to make a "pledge", I will stand as middleman & guarantor. Just post name, & amount, & it will be recorded as in the fund, & a debt to me until paid.

Note it is not necessarily for a DTD Update, it can be ANY chosen.nominated Event, though it can be. Donators will get a weighted Vote, based on what they paid.

Donation by PM to be bank transferred. 150. Thanks

Not sure how you want to work it, but maybe keep the OP updated as and when you receive funds from people.  Even if it's a quick edit of the OP to say 'x received from anon on x date'.  Then you've a running record of amounts and everyone knows where the update fund stands.

Anon, I assume?

Fund Total  = £40 + £150 = £190.

£40 owed to Tighty by me Tighty has the £150 already.

Yup, I intend to. If the thread dies, then at least we know where the money is, & how much.

Remember, any regular blonde can donate, & I'll stand guarantor & forward the cash to Tighty. The "owed & paid by whom to whom " will be recorded in this thread.

I owe ya £60 as pledged in the other thread.   ;)

Just out of interest, how much does an update cost? (assuming it isn't one that the updates can travel from home for).

Dtd two people 2 days is 650. Gukpt 2 people 4 days 1300 or so. Ratchet up and down according to location, length of event, numer of updaters etc

Tighty's best answering that.

I've had a pledge from Mondy, but it's unclear how much he's pledging. He writes like what he speaks. I'm seeking clarification.

Fund Total  = £40 + £150 + £60 = £250.

Dylan PAID £40 to me in cash.

Dawn owes me £60.

£150 anon paid to Tighty.

I owe Tighty £40 + £60 = £100.

So if blonde are going to cover this

2 x DTD deepstack a month  £1300
1 x Gukpt a month               £1300       

you are going to need   £2600 a month   

1 gukpt and one dtd is 2000 or so. Hence we don't do them without funding. Ukipts need doing too. I don't ask for much

It seems the problem here is probably down to sponsorship & advertising rights.
I presume Sky now sponsor the whole of blonde forum?
It would have made sense to keep the updates board free from that and let individual companies sponsor updates, dtd theres, ukipt = pokerstars ,g casino, gukpt etc etc so there adverts would run on there updates.

And then the donations on top to keep it topped up.

Why don't we contact business' around Nottingham like taxi firms and takeaways etc and get sponsorship and get tighty to wear a Tshirt with all the logos on around DTD??

Sky are fine with updates being sponsored from elsewhere. Prob is gukpt and stars do not need to pay for and will not pay for update costs. They blog themselves at their events. For dtd I would imagine them having to pay and other live providers not doing so rankles

so im sure blonde have a affiliate account with DTD all we need to do is have a DTD advert every now and again and hope people sign up

Sky Poker may not be too keen on this idea.

No. There is no intention or plan to cover anything, anywhere, regularly. When there's enough in the kitty, the stakeholders (donators) will decide where & when the Update is. The Fund is NOT intended to reinstate scheduled regular Live Updates, just one-off jobbies when money permits. So we don't need any given monthly figure, if & when there's enough in the kitty, we'll do them ad-hoc.

They will have no objection to a blonde Member funded Update.

Fund Total  = £40 + £150 + £60 + £17 = £267.

Dylan PAID £40 to me in cash.

Dawn owes me £60.

£150 anon paid to Tighty.

Mondy paid me £17.*

I owe Tighty £40 + £60 + £17 = £117.

* The "odd" amount is because it's the loose change between Mondy & I on another financial transaction, & he PM'd me & said "bung in the odd £17".

Was talking about this suggestion that Sky may not be happy with.

Are you going to name the events you are raising money for?

I'm happy to donate, but not really bothered about the DtD events.

When you are raising money for a UKPT or UKIPT I'll cough up.

Yes, noted. I'll find a way to cross that bridge in the highly unikely event that we need to. The Sky deal is fairly relaxed as to what we can & can't do, though it's extremely important that we do everything we can to make it a success, or it will cease at the end of March.

The Donators can suggest whatever Event they wish, & ONLY those who donate get a Vote, which will be weighted. If adequate cash were received in time, & permissions granted from the Host Venue & 'Stars, we could cover the next UKIPT or UKPT.

So, if you wanted to say, "£10, but MUST be a UKIPT", I'd identify it accordingly.

I want to keep it as simple & hassle-free as poss.

At present, we have £267 towards an unspecified Update.

Ok, I will donate £100 for your next UKPT or GUKPT update.

Give me a shout when you decide which one it's going to be.

Hmmm - as usual you try and be the something everyone wants - I don't think that specifiying how a donation can be used would work - in fact it makes what is a simple idea of donating too complicayed and unworkable imo. You don't get to donate to Save the Children but say only take my donation if it's used for children in Africa for example. You trust the people you are donating to to make their own decision.

By giving the option of specifiying how a donation can be used is thread suicide imo. If you try and please everyones individual wishes it will be spread over so many choices it become unworkable. What if some numpty coes on and specifies I will donate £50 for updates at the XXX club in the Isle of Bute. It's nonsense.

I love the idea btw (my own opinion I have not been influenced in anyway) but donations should be made without restrictions.

I will donate £50 for updates at the XXX club in the Isle of Bute

I will donate to the march DTD update. As I'm obv gonna ship it!!

Trace, I never read the DtD updates, I know virtually none of the players and really has to importance to me.

The two nationwide tours have lots of people I know and I want to know how they are doing.

I don't feel like this is a charity, I am paying for something I want to see.

I don't really think it's 'that' complicated just to keep a record of any restrictions and ring fence those parts of the budget.

I don't think it'll cause a problem

Mr Booders interest is noted.......;)

We'll let you know when we cover it, & you can pay then.

If the fund was purely for DTD updates I would not give money.

Blondepoker isn't a charity, it's a business.

I am happy to contribute for a service I want to see, but for something that wouldn't interest me, I wouldn't.

Fair comment, Trace, but I've started, so I'll finish......

Top & bottom is, a few bob has been gathered, & it has to go somewhere. I dread the thread ending in acrimony, but the money is safely identified, & will be spent as fairly as I can. If there are objections, the donators can have a full refund at any time.

Thanks Keith.

Fund Update to follow.

Fund Total  = £40 + £150 + £60 + £17 + £100 = £367.

Dylan PAID £40 to me in cash.

Dawn owes me £60.

£150 anon paid to Tighty.

Mondy paid me £17.*

Camel owes me £100. Specified as to be for UKIPT or GBPT ONLY.

I owe Tighty £40 + £60 + £17 + £100 = £217.

I will donate £50 for an update at a nationwide casino. Sorry - bad day - post ammended.

Thank you Miss D. Your name will go in the hat.

Fund Total  = £40 + £150 + £60 + £17 + £100 + £50 = £417.

Dylan PAID £40 to me in cash.

Dawn owes me £60.

£150 from Jakally paid to Tighty.

Mondy paid me £17.*

Camel owes me £100. Specified as to be for UKIPT or GBPT ONLY.

Ding owes me £50.

I owe Tighty £40 + £60 + £17 + £100 = £267.

Of the £417, £317 is for "any Venue", & £100 is for UKIPT or GBPT only.

I will donate £10 but only to the DTD £300 march event!

Yep, I'm not at home til tomorrow but will send bank details out to whoever has requested them then

I'll also get a viewable spreadsheet going so we can see who has funded what, with any special requests for events to contribute to, or not contribute to

then we'll see what we can do with what we have raised

You'll be able to see everything and thus we can be accountable to donors

thanks everyone, so far

Thanks, Rich.

Proper lynchpin, you.

I'm at Luton tonight, so I might garner a few more pledges.

Please don't come to Luton, you'll be wanting that other £400, too......

Fund Total  = £40 + £150 + £60 + £17 + £100 + £50 & £5 = £422.

Dylan PAID £40 to me in cash.

Dawn owes me £60.

£150 from Anon paid to Tighty.

Mondy paid me £17.

Camel owes me £100. Specified as to be for UKIPT or GBPT ONLY.

Ding owes me £50.

Technolog pleged £5 per month s/o, he to sort direct with Tighty.

I owe Tighty £40 + £60 + £17 + £100 = £267.

Of the £422, £322 is for "any Venue", & £100 is for UKIPT or GBPT only.

Just a suggestion Tikay/Tighty.

This is going to become an absolute nightmare to follow on this thread. You've only got 7 pledges and it's already a bit awkward.

Why don't you start a separate stickied, locked thread at the top of the updates board just for recording pledges.

That way everyone will know exactly where the pledges stand.

thanks Matt. I will do tomorrow


Dewi £5 per month standing order to add, thanks. Good thread Dewi.

May be wise, yes, I just sort of started it on impulse, & because I had £40 of someone else's money in my pocket, & was scared I'd forget it.

The only prob with your suggestion is "out of sight, out of mind".

Well done on grimming me yesterday. Never seen you exit a cardroom so rapidly......

I left even faster today.

It was only when I got home and checked on DTD's website that I realised you weren't even playing the 6 max.

I'd have stayed and played cash if I'd known.

It won't be out of sight though will it? If it's stickied it'll be at the top of the update thread. You could even create a new child board on the update thread for pledges. I think they could warrant it.

That way they're on the main page never to be missed again.

Same as Dewi please. I'll set up a standing order.

Same will do in nx few days

Put me down for £20 initially - will pay by bank transfer.

Stick me down for £100 (wherever). PM me info please Tighty.

In for £50

PM me details and will stick in a tenner a month

I pledge £200, but only for a Eureka Poker Tour event.

Please PM bank details to set up a standing order the same a Dewi.

Personally I prefer the money to concentrate on DTD. GUKPT events are updated very well by another forum. Although Blonde would mostly concentrate on it's members I wonder if it would be money well spent. Haveing said that I'll go with the flow.

Kev, I'll put you down for DTD


PMs sent with bank details, and thank you very much to everyone so far.

This thread is getting tough to follow.  What we really need is one of these :-


(http://www.buzzybloggers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Total-Haiti-Telethon-Money-Raised.jpg)

Hopefully this will do

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=t4r7J6rJ1m6RgT4HxhBcoMg&authkey=CM_81YIN#gid=0


Stickied thread at the top of this baord with this in

Sorted, first payment tomorrow.

Never miss a chance, Mr R, well done!

I'll start a "Eureka Poker Tour" Thread (I don't want to derail this one) & perhaps you'll respond to my question.

TK or Tighty pls PM me bank details and will set up a standing order of £10 per month starting 1st marchand am happy for it to be used for any events

Thanks mate.

Tighty will be in touch, or if not, you can owe me, pay me when you next see me.

Was good to see you on Saturday.

Anything interesting on in Southend in the near future?

i'd like to pledge the full amount for febs dtd deepstack if that is  possible. can tell you how bloody well i played and deserved better than 3rd. lol

confirmed, Mrs Herbert's monies to be applied to DTD Deepstack

banking details sent to Eso Kral

Unless I read it wrong, Rich, he said FEBRUARY's Deepstack. Which was last week......

He or she meant March. Hopefully.

i think he meant he wanted everyone to know how well he played this weekend and would pay for you to do an update post hoc lol

this is jason. wife put her £150 in for march so she can keep an eye on me. she gave a mini fist pump every time she refreshed the dtd page from 27 left when a name appeared in the pay out that was not mine. however as soon as i got home and into bed she was wanting to discuss my hands. thought i played well but she thinks i over played a couple of hands and was not aggressive enough short handed. she was also texting me when 12 handed to bust some one as it took almost 2 hours yet the money was the same as 11th and 10th.
i actually meant i would pay for you to blogg feb as tikay pointed out. was so disappointed you were not there as gouty said it was entertaining. come to think about it i thought deepstacks are gonna be televised. i am i wrong or was that once discussed. i will put my hand in my pocket at the next event i see you.

;tightend; ;tightend; rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao

did you need a uni degree to spot that alex...thought it was obv

When Mrs Red discusses my hands in bed, she usually says, "Oi! Watch where you're putting those."

Miss this banter at DTD!




....Fatty

lol

i would like to give £50 and will be at dtd this weekend. 100 f/o fri night and main day 2 sat.

slightly ironic as i have read every dtd deepstack updates for ages and when i get ft there aint one!

i clicked the dtd banner on here a year ago or whatever and tried the sattys and decided that a monthly trip to dtd was in order.

now i have played with tikay i am gonna click that other one over there >>>>

i feel its good for you guys to blog from £500 tourneys and below as not many regs and working peeps get to play in £1000 tournys.

i read this forum a lot and respect your views esp camel but keep the budget for blogging the affordable tourneys.

how did you do this weekend in the deepstaack. ;)

gouty, we're planning on doing the dtd march deepstack, dtd permitting

As I won't be at the UKIPT did you want to bank transfer?

ta

Either that, or give the cash to Tom McCready (Red-Dog), he'll owe me, which he & I can sort any time, but I'll assume the debt & pass it to Rich Prew immediately.

i will give my money in cash to tom if thats ok then tikay. i believe the wife already paid hers through her bank account

I'm liking you more & more......

If you have any SkyPoker based questions, please use the "Sky Poker" Thread on here, or my Diary, PM me, or use the "Ask tikay" Thread on Sky Poker.

Much apprerciated. Any man who can Pass Queens pre to his speech-playing mate - & quite correctly - is OK with me.

That's a pefect way, thanks Jason.

There's always an open account between Tom & I, in fact I owe him a little money right now, so he'll sort it with me, & once again, the moment Tom gets the cash, I'll assume it's "booked" & I'll pay it to Tighty/blonde.

Thank you very much.

This thread needs bumping  ;)

Since I binked a seat for the GUKPT in March, can I do similar to Keith.....£50 on a non DTD event.

Will ship some when I go to a mates. I love the updates for dtd, would have volunteered to help out in one but not allowed in DTD now due to the fact I'm gala staff lol

No no, we're  fine for volunteers here...

Good thing I said "would have" then right? :)

Details sent to JK and ripple11, thanks guys

For the record, a £25 L-L tonight between Dylan DonkeyHead from Wales, & me (in 3 Rebuy Tourneys Online), loser pays £25 to the blonde Live Update Fund.

I'll send him your contact details, Rich, so he can pay.

If you win tonight, that will be the first time ever I think, so gl ;)

You can expect another £25 from Grandad Rich  ;D

I measly point!

Agreed, I owe the Update Fund £25.

Nice to meet you yesterday Alex. Thank you for your donation.

Also, many thanks to Tim Blake. (You're making a nice lad)

Tom - do I now need to give Tighty some money, for Gouty & Tim?

Probably best to record the transaction on here, for the sake of transparency, & so Tighty can update his thingie.

I'll pay Tighty, & you & I can settle up seperately, & whenever.

Yes please Tony.

Gouty = £50

Tim = £40

Thanks Tom. Tighty can include those sums now, & take it that I owe him another £90.

You & I can settle seperately. I should be up in the Midlands in the next day or so, I'll let you know.

donation in the account from "Virgin Games Services"

If that's you, please PM me so I know. thanks!

bump


I have arranged a live update of the DTD March Deepstack, to be funded by these donations

I would like to arrange an update of GUKPT London later in March. Not quite there yet, so if anyone would like to contribute please let me know


Also, if you have pledged but haven't paid please can you do so, thanks..as I am looking to sort the updaters in advance for booking hotels etc

cheers

Didn't feel right with no blonde updates at ukipt so i'll gladly donate £20 now and maybe some more another month etc..

Any comp is fine for my measly donation.

Where/to whom do i ship?

PM with you now Dominic, thanks

Rich, "Big D", with whom I had on that occasion a £25 L-L which I lost, & so I Posted "I owe the Fund £25", tells me that the £25 has NOT appeared on the Spreadsheeet.

Is he correct?

For the record, I acknowledge the £25 liability.

We did it again last night, & he lost £25. So you may get another £25.

Added now

Shipped :)

our lass paid for a blogg at dtd in march.  i notice you and caroline will be going to luton on this date is this correct?

Yes, Sharplea and Joobie will be blogging the dtd deepstack.

fml .. paying the mouth for her services made me feel dirty but good. may have to look at playing luton now.

Luton's Day 1a/b are Thurs/Fri. Play one of those, get Caroline to abuse you in print, up to DTD for Saturday

£880 later and you'll feel nice and seedy.....

lol. am on a freerool for the next  few dtd deepstacks. that site is so soft despite thr tilty software. one of my pupils had won seats to 14 of the last 15 deepstacks plus monte carlo and ukipt's. about £6 grand of comps for peanuts. only played 0ne e500 deepstack which cost me $5 to sat into. was disappointed to only come 2nd but marrakesh was nice and the £27 k meant xmas was good.

What happened in marakech jase? Not heard you mention that before :)

lol. cos same old same old. twas one of my two live events i play each month. had a bad run in dec n jan. afraid to say i can no longer claim to cash 50% of the time live....now dropped to 45%. hope you will have the irish open as one of your recreational games this year.

Sent you a PM Tighty

Bumped into Mr smashedagain at DTD yesterday. He gave me £150 for the update fund, and I promptly lost it on the cash tables.

Cheers Jason.

Cheers Jason

I'll add it to tikay's slate from Tom.... ;scarymoment;

lol. some punk must av got real lucky there then tom.

Just to confirm where we are with the monies for which I agreed to stand guarantor for.

Tighty reckons it comes to £483, including the £150 that Jason passed to Tom over the weekend.

I met Tighty yesterday, & I was a little short of folding, so I gave him £383 of the £483, & will pay him the other £100 when I next see him.

I would appreciate a reminder of how the £483 is arrived at, so I know where I am with it.

All the monies passed via Tom have or will been settled between Tom & I, including Jason's £150, I owed Tom some money anyway, & he will just use set-off.

Ding paid me £50 cash.

Mondy settled his Donation via set-off.

Laxie is deemed to have paid me.

I can't recall where the balance (if any) of the £483 came from, Rich - can you remind me, please? I think it's best to kerp all this recorded, for the sake of transparency.

Big thanks to everyone who has so far donated. 2 Live Updates are now scheduled as a result of all the Donations - the DTD Deepie, & the Luton Deepie.

If we can keep the donations flowing - perhaps bung a few bob in after a win - then further Updates will be scheduled. It'd be handy if we could cover the £1,500 jobbie at The Vic in March.

Thank you, again.

Almost right

You gave me £340

that leaves £92 due

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=t4r7J6rJ1m6RgT4HxhBcoMg&authkey=CM_81YIN#gid=0

details the make up of £432 on your "slate" bottom left of the spreadsheet. £432-£340=£92


The Luton deepie is paid for by D 4, so the monies raised so far are paying for the March DTD Deepstack and the GUKPT London, also in March.

The DTD is sorted, and Sharplea and Joobie will update that

On current funds for the GUKPT I'll do all four days and do a daily commute to save hotel expenses and Pawprint (Leigh) will do a couple of days. He's kindly agreed to waive an update fee in lieu of a donation to the fund and will receive a sum for travel/hotel expenses

I still owe £10 for the march DTD! Will ship when I get chance!

yes thanks

On the spreadsheet those names shaded are those with amounts due. Others have paid, thanks

Prewdentialisms - pls could u send me the acct details. Musta deleted by mistake

Groan at my short-term memory - now you can see why I need it all recorded.

£340 - OK, I'm sure you are correct, & so I owe £92 now. Don't let me forget, please, because I might just.

I can confirm that, effectively, ALL the money I stood guarantee for has been paid to me, or deemed to be. Result, thanks. I just owe £92 to the Fund, & all is well with the world.

Gonna update DTD next month? Ill ship another £10 if u are?

Hopefully yes

Our intention is to Live Update DTD, then GUKPT Walsall next month. So all donations gratefully received


Currently I am going to do GUKPT London next week solo, we have enough for one person for four days, no hotel

Just to confirm tikay paid the £142 outstanding from pledges he is standing for, yesterday

The remaining balance in the fund will provide for a single person Live Update of GUKPT London from this Thursday. No hotels as the budget does not stretch to London hotels, just a daily fee and petrol


Then we need to go again for April, if people wish to donate. PMs on their way soon!

http://www.tunehotels.com/uk

Smallest rooms ever but brand new, comfy beds and hot showers. 15-20 minutes from the Vic and usually £55 or £65 a night IME. Logisitcs of finish times might not work but could be more cost effective the driving and parking and will definitely be less knackering than driving.

Parking is free at the casino and the funds available do not stretch to 4 nights at 60 each. Saved the link though, useful for whenever

mallu always stays over in sussex gardens?? never catch me in there but like the budgie they're cheap. what about sharing a room with one of towers crew, that will split the cost for both parties involved.

Thanks Rich, & confirmed. All money owed by me as a result of guaranteeing pledges now paid to you.

From what I can see, after the Vic GUKPT, the piggy bank will be empty.

Let's hope a benevolent blonde cashes big at The Vic, & the fund can be replenished.

 Days 2 and 3 start at 2pm....so I guess going home and back is OK ish.
However days 1a and 1B start at midday....so at least staying Thursday night makes sense?

Looking on laterooms there are a few OK places nearby for about £50  ie:

http://www.laterooms.com/en/hotel-reservations/73257_hyde-park-court-hotel-london.aspx

As I'm playing , I'm happy to donate half (£25) if someone wants to match it?

Matched.

I owe Tighty £25 for the fund.

I will be there Friday (working) with TSP, & will cough up then. If you remind me.

 Paid by bank transfer.

Top man, Nick, thank you. Thanks for coming along to Luton yesterday, & your kind comments elsewhere.

thanks Nick/tikay

I will indeed stay over Thursday

£50 donated today in cash by "Supernova".

I owe tighty/update fund £50.

Thanks, Sharon!

Thanks to Supernova


I have written today to all those who donated last month, as I am trying to get a plan together for April.

Accepting new donations from anyone for what could be a good update month, finances permitting

DTD Deepstack
DTD MonteCarlo
GUKPT Walsall

Unlikely to be all three, but will have a better idea when people give me indications thanks

Msn Tighty? I've an idea

broken.

PM me or call me pls

thank you to everyone who has replied to me so far


I'm enormously grateful for the support this month, but it seems that many can't help in April which is fine


Current situation is shown at

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=t4r7J6rJ1m6RgT4HxhBcoMg&authkey=CM_81YIN#gid=1


if you would like to see live updates on blonde in April...probably with a priority of

1 DTD Deepstack
2 DTD Monte Carlo and then
3 GUKPT Walsall

please let me know

You can specify a donation towards a particular event, or to the pot as a whole 

I owed the Fund £75, being......

£25 to match Nick Jenkins pledge, for costs associated with the Update from The Vic.

£50 from Supernova, which she paid me in cash, at Luton, last weekend.

I paid Tighty the £75 on Friday, so I'm all square now.

Next Update. How much in the kitty, Rich, & what are the (hoped for) plans?

I sense some more monies will be needed.

The Vic Update was terrific value, I thought.

DTD April plz!!

On current plans with 220 or so in the kitty I will do an exes only DTD April deepstack. Sizeable sums needed to turn that into a two person fully paid jobbie, maybe 500 more. Dtd monte carlo mid month. Not much chance of getting that funded. However speaking to a poker products company whose chairman is a dtd reg and blonde update reader about a sponsorship of that. Then gukpt walsall. An iron in the fire for that too

Stick us down for a 'nifty' Richard for the dtd april update.

That's from the commison from a blonde blowout jackpot.

Will pay you cash on the day

Thanks Jim.

Any more for any more?

Just won seat in the April 2nd DS for 32 euros so I'lll chip in 50 quid for update. Can you PM me bank details or I can pay on day?

Thanks Simon, well done tonight, & good luck in the Event.

Tighty will sort out the payment details with you.

Well done simon and thanks jamie too. On the day is fine. A hotel room hoves into view!

Bigfella £20 paid yesterday cash, for the record


Permission permitting, I am updating DTD Deepstack next week out of the donation fund. Expenses plus a small amount left over

Monte Carlo live update, permission permitting, is sponsored by a poker products company


Funding required for GUKPT Walsall, pending negotiations with another third party, and then May DTD etc


If you wish to contribute please let me know

With mine and Bookiebasher's donations you got enough for hotel now?

yes, thanks

my b and b awaits!

What's wrong with a b&b like?

Nothing!

Anything to save a few bob.

Get flushy to buy a cheap Camper van. Kill 2 birds with one stone! Transport and accom all in one!!

Perfect.

http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/urgent-sale-van-tour/76659418

i would chip in for this. as long as mouth and tighty had to both use it. where is the bathroom?

Its a bucket outside.

Thanks very much to TitaniumBean and MC for donations towards future updates, given to me at DTD yesterday

A reminder that donations are required for us to be able to update GUKPT Walsall and then the May DTD Deepstack. How we update them depends on what money we have.

If you would like to help, please post or PM me

thanks

Stick me down for another tenner for DTD may!!

chalk me up for £20 for the next dtd event, be it the MC or the deepstack

tx rich, good job

brilliant, thanks

Another £20 which i'll give you at dtd next week as I took down a $3 mtt for $1500 so im gonna spin it up on the monte carlo  ;sark;

thanks Glenn, see you next week

Any more for any more? Struggling to do GUKPT Walsall or the next DTD Deepstack as it stands.

Put us down for a score for next dtd event Rich .

thanks

Mr Cos PapperEncore has donated £25 for the MC Update fund, the money to be transferred to either Tighty or myself.

TYVM.

Any more for any more?

Walsall is on our list, but we are a shade shy of the pennies so far......

EDIT - I've just realised, our friends at CardShark are sponsoring the MC Update, so unless Cos PapperEncore objects, we will divert his £25 to the (proposed) Walsall GUKPT Update.

that's fine obv

50 quid from me. can you pm bank stuff as won't likely be at either...

Put me down for a tenner tighty, will ship to same account as last time?

Yes thanks Alex

Simon, PM on the way

Monies received yesterday from Eso Kral, Bigfella and Julian which will be put towards the next DTD Deepstack.

Cos has sent £25 to my bank account for the Live Update Fund, so he's fully paid up, & I owe the Fund £25, which I'll give to Tighty when I next see him.

Thanks, Cos.

I think we are currently trying to gather enough to update the Walsall GUKPT.

As a result of the palaver with "Rivered Brentwood", I believe a settlement has been proposed, to be paid to blonde, for about £350, iirc.

If the cash is forthcoming, it will be donated in full to the Live Update Fund.

GUKPT Walsall is definitely happening thanks both to a portion of these donations and support from The Firm Poker

Currently trying to reach a sum that allows the next DTD Deepstack to be updated, on 7th May

Put me down for £15 for May deepstack. Pm me bank details please

Acknowledgement of donations from Gouty and Tonji over the weekend, thanks guys

We are on the way to funding the next DTD Deepstack

I would be inclined to write that off, though you never know, & I hope I'm shown to be wrong.

Yes I am not relying on that payment. Or expecting it.

£100 for next update please, pm me with bank details :)

What have I missed?

WD bud. Nice to see my spewy chips didn't go to waste :)

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=52880.0

Under the radar stuff over the weekend suggests this thing is worse than I ever feared or imagined.

thanks Sunny, PM sent

just in case Rich forgot, I put in a few pounds the other day.  it was in the middle of when he was setting up all his computer stuff for the GUKPT updates so he may have forgot?  is blonde sending anyone to do the DTD 300 next week?  if so ill ship some wonga in for that to whoever is doing the updates/when I next see Rich or Tikay.

No I haven't forgot, I'll get to the spreadsheet tomorrow

Scotty and Supernova donated this weekend

Longines and craigbetts doing so this week, and actionman had a betting groundskinner at the GUKPT and the update fund was on a percentage lol

thanks to all


Sharplea is updating the DTD Deepstack this weekend (this weekend the update fund covered my hotel and travel expenses, my fee was covered by thefirmpoker) funded by blonde Members

Then, with no GUKPTs til Luton in August, will begin funding DTD Deepstack June

Sponsorship opportunities developing too so that will help too, I hope

wp. i dont know you buy seemed to play a great game. nice cash and thanks for helping out

How much would the costs be if a company wanted to sponsor an event on an ad-hoc basis? 

the DTD Monte Carlo was £500 for 4 days, one person, from www.mycardshark.com. From this I covered hotels and travel of course which was  £200 of it

A proper two person DTD Deepstack is £600-700 (one person £300 at best)

A proper two person GUKPT (4 days) is over £1250 (one person £600 minimum)

Of course we are making do on one person updates to save costs

Half killing me, but needs must :-)

Partial sponsorships like Walsall this weekend where the firm covered the wages part (in exchange for updating their site) are always a possibility, and of course volunteers are a huge help and a very pleasant surprise

Basically will try to be as creative as possible to make sure we can be at as many events as possible

The only resistriction is that it would not be fair on Sky Poker to have an update sponsored by another Online Poker site. Non poker companies, staking sites, poker products companies fine

That's very kind of you Ryan, thank you.

Splendid effort at Walsall, too.

No problem.  I really realised at the weekend how muh work goes into the whole operation so shipping a few quid is the least I can do.

And no, it really wasn't.  I know this sounds silly but I'd have rather come 17th than to exit how I did...but alas don't wanna get the thread off course!

SHIP SOME MONEY TO MR PREW PPL.

thank you to Dwayne Quinn and Jason Herbert for pledges over the weekend

Looking to do the DTD June Deepstack (and a Monte Carlo if one is on the way for the summer)

No GUKPTs til August, so the funding pressure can be concentrated on getting the DTD events sorted

Please let me know if you would like to help out

Girgy gave me an extra £10 on top of what he was already donating to go to the fund.

I passed it onto tikay yesterday.

my pledge was actually in cash. gave it to Tom before the start.

I thought i said i was giving a score.

thanks, I'll liaise with Tom

no worries will put the £10 towards next month cheers

No problems.

then liaise with tikay too because i had a chat with him and it may be down to him as part of the Tom/Tikay you owe me this i owe you that thing

None of GP being covered? (Saturday onwards?)

is live streaming by blonde totally out of the question tighty?

Nope.I did the last one free and won't again.the priority in the summer is to fund the dtd deepstacks before the gukpt resumes. As it stands we can't fund those yet, let alone the grand prix

Live streaming?! Lol. We can't afford updates. Live streaming kit would cost a lot and is done more than well by awop.

sorry forgot to pass on some moneys to the blonde many who was doing the dtd updates.

will remember when i next see you/tk

Guranteed at 1600 entrants, surely a decent % are Blondes no? Thats a fair number. Surely the biggest ever tournament in the UK should get some Tightness love and attention?

Worth getting interest in a seperate donation for the Saturday onwards?? I'm happy to start the ball rolling with a £25 donation. Obv if you are busy or don't want to then tell me to GTFO.

It just a question of priorities, if the next deepstack was funded I would consider the weekend of the gp. It is a killer to update though, and solo. Gp2 was a 5am monday finish!

5am!! Puke. I FTd that and they snap dealt after i went busto, that was still early. Left a bit of change over for first place. They must have gone at it for an age!! Thought it was worth gathering some sort of interest. nvm. PM bank details and i will send for June updates. Cheers.

Umm, watch this space, developments are afoot, hot news in the last few minutes.......

Tighty will keep you appraised of what may - or may not - happen.

Fingers xx'd.

ooooooh. i meant to put a fingers crossed emoticon thing in, but couldn't find it. sigh. fingers crossed.

goooooo tony  ..... gg weekend off tighty ;)

I popped into DTD yesterday on the way South from Leeds to conduct some business, see a few peeps, & settle some bills, & whilst there, was given some Update monier, as follows......

Neil Giblin, aka JAKALLY, gave me £50.

Sharplea pased on £10 from Girgy!

Tom, in a seperate transaction, paid me £50 which Jason "THM" Herbert had donated via him.

Therefore I now owe Tighty £110 for these paynments.

Working quite well, this Live Update Fund, I think, so thanks to all those who have donated.

Ryan, we can short-circuit this.

Name the amount you wish to donate, either on thread, or via PM, & I'll assume the debt, & add it to what I owe Tighty, & you can pay me when we next meet, later this week probably.

TYVM, it's much appreciated.

PS - Good luck in the VLV Final!

ok cool put me down for 30!

Thanks Ryan.

I now owe Tighty £140 (previous Post, plus this £30), & you have £30 on my slate.

TYVM.

it is the least we can do sir

Please don't address me as "sir", it makes me feel incredibly old, like a Chelsea Pensioner.

everyone knows you aint from  Chelsea ;)

If someone awesome does one with me, I'll volunteer to do an update. Don't want any payment or expenses though.

That would be epic.

I mean, like really epic.

Name some suitably awesome would-be Updating partners. Do they need to understand Level 5 Poker, & TRM?

Crow?

Vinni?

PrewdyPants?

EvilPie?

Chili?

I would make an awesome updating partner for Greekstein as we have natural chemistry

 :hello:

obv dont fulfill tikays critria - and there might be a typo or 2 thou

s
Make this happen please. I will come along and help too.

i'd be about as handy as toothache, and probably cause a lot of headache

Greeky and others, if you want to help do the next DTD Deepstack, let me know

First weekend of June

I'll do the boring stuff (uploading photos and all the facts and figures), you guys can have fun

More the merrier

I think my role would be something like...

(http://www.danielsato.com/portfolio/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/referee.jpg)

Please please please make this happen.

My stupid feud with mantis has long since passed so if he's up for it, I'm game.

wht what happened?

He said marrakesh was soft and that the hendon mob was shit. Naturally I went a bit crazy at him as I took such offence that he punched my first born child, james keys in the face.

is it just me but do james keys and jamie sykes look close relatives. even their names are similar obv differing heights means that they may have been from the same horse but different jockey or the same jockey may have got two rides at one meeting?

DTD are kindly funding an update for the Weekend of Grand Prix 3. Thanks to them

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

+1

spot on only right that the best forum should be covering this record breaking event by the best venue.

I today paid in £30 in the Leigh on sea branch of Natwest to the Blonde poker bank account under the reference ESO KRAL for next months update, i would prefer it to be used for the June Deepstack event if poss.

thanks, yes it will be used for the June deepstack

Bump.

Mantis confirmed?

I'll be doing the June Depstack. If you both want to come along and help for some of it, great

All you'll need is a laptop and a sense of humour.

I am live updating all three days of the New DTD Deepstack this Friday to Sunday, funded by the Update Fund. Thanks to all as usual

For July we'd like to update the July DTD Deepstack and the 4 day DTD Monte Carlo, and would need donations to do 1 or both. Clearly its a heavy month, cost wise, but both would be superb to update.

If you are interested in helping please let me know or speak to me at DTD this weekend thanks


 

do you know anything about DTD's intention to provide a live feed tighty?

Nope. which events are they scheduled for? gp4?

Updates can run alongside any live feed, as per any other venue, but they need funding, please

Rob has had live feed on his things to do list since DTD opened and seeing as he has cracked just about every other nut he has set his mind to i would think its gonna come soon. did not know if it could tie in with blonde in someway. i have to say you and the team are the best bloggers on line but do watch the video coverage along side at the same time. even the the mighty stars bloggers are not a patch on you.

thank you

Live feeds are an obvious one for DTD, hosted on their own site I would expect

I'd expect anyone to watch a feed online and interact on any updates alongside, same as for many other events

It can work well, and better than interacting in a feed chat box where the page scrolls quickly

A live feed would be the nuts.

lets hope a blonde binks a  braclet

Tahnk you very much to donations for the July updates over the weekend from

Eso Kral
Bookiebasher
BAM
leethefish
bobalike

If you would like to contribute to once more watch anonymous poker players be pains in the backside, please let me know

We are on the way to be able to do the Deepstack, but more would be required

thanks

More donors required to enable us to do the DTD Deepstack in just under three weeks please

As it stands there will not be an update, or of the Monte Carlo (though that may be sponsored)

So if you would like to contribute, please let me know

How much do we need, Rich?

About 100 for the deepstack. The monte carlo over 4 days is another matter, 500ish. Sponsorship meeting on thursday

Can you PM me details of where the monies need to be paid into and I shall send some later in the week.

Cheers.

Please tell me I didn't go number dyslexic and send to some random account Tighty.....

It arrived safely, just checked

thanks very much

sent thank you

After nice cash at Caesar's last week I will send in 100 quid to the "usual account" in the next 48 hours. Just unwinding after Vegas. Hopefully we will have enough for an update?

Thanks simon that will take care of the shortfall for the next deepstack

Thanks guys, much appreciated.

Tighty - if we look like falling short of budget, let me know, please.

I would like to donate $100 (which is what like £61 atm?)  Where do I send it to

Sent you a PM sir, thanks

Will be updating the DTD Deepstack next weekend thanks to the donations

Should have the DTD Monte Carlo update sponsored, so will be putting this and any more monies towards a hectic August with DTD Deepstack, DTD Grand Prix 4 and GUKPT Luton on the agenda, money permitting.

Is Luton local for you? You know I ain't gukpt's biggest fan but think you should defo be at all these. Have you noticed Colin mctaggart is now doing a live feed at the circus Liverpool. Will toss some more dough in when I see you at Dtd next. Don't know how I managed to get trapped into this but Chinese Frankie has somehow managed to get me to let him gave 10% (5% originally) so with the wifes 50% I only seem to have 40% of my own action these days

Yes Luton is my local

The plan has always been to update this, one of the best GUKPTs of the year. Helpful that I can stay at home and update it with v low expenses

It clashes with Grand Prix 4 though, so will be needing extra funding to ask someone to update that, and I don't currently have the funding hence the need to keep posting on this thread

Whats Taggart doing in t'pool?

GUKPTs are a lot more expensive to update than DTD events Jase, 4 days minimum plus it's a big ask to get one person to update all 4 on their own, so 2 are preferred. Looking at 4 figs for one event for a proper 2 man update. Not only that but any event not at DTD is harder to update for a few reasons, most notably inability to identify players properly/location of updating areas/issues with TDs at important times (I've updated GUKPTs where I've been unable to get anywhere near the action on the H4H bubble, for example).

He's the cardroom manager of Circus Liverpool, I believe.

Believe he has some sort of new, swanky table like DTD had last year which means he can stream online with hole card info.

yes after his gukpt win him and caroline got back together and she spent it all and left again so he had to get a job...... yes this is tongue in cheek as i know 100% caroline never had a penny. i like colin and think he is a good man but i love caroline more and know she is  a good man

IIRC the last GUKPT you updated was in January 2008. Although I am no longer involved with the GUKPT, I think your comments are a little outdated as by the time I left things had definitely changed regarding many of the negatives you mentioned, notably:

1. Identifying players was definitely not an issue, in fact this was the first tour to give players ID cards and do full chip counts on breaks. This was in place even in 2007.
2. Updating areas at most of the events were right next to the tournament area from mid 2008 onwards
3. Any decent TD should restrict access to the playing area during the bubble, both for the players' comfort to stop crowding of the table by spectators during all-ins and so that the hand-for-hand can be efficiently managed. Press still had access but the number allowed inside the ropes at any one time was limited.

Cant vouch for how things have been managed in the last 12 months since I left, but that was the situation this time last year.

Yep, Jonathan is correct. All of that is still in place in 2011

Those factors do make a GUKPT update-able as a solo effort, if you can find someone prepared to have a go  :hello: and as the GUKPT blog shows. The AWOP guys are also extremely helpful in sharing info, so the whole thing can work.

Of course its better for an interactive blog on here to be updated by two people, but its unlikely that would be funded by member donations so, sponsorship aside, solo updates it is

Thank you for correcting me, Jonathan. Glad to see the main issue for me personally, the updating area, has been sorted.

Rich, you know I'm always up for updating anytime, anywhere. Just gimme a shout.

Money sent, plz confirm receipt ty guys

can confirm this arrived (and redsimon)

thanks very much

August is a busy month

DTD Deepstack

GUKPT Luton

GUKPT Grand Prix

and we'd like to update them all

I received some cash donations towards the DTD Deepstack last event, and that's only a start

GUKPT Luton can be done quite cheaply as I am local so no hotel/travel

c£200 required for the August Deepstack for starters, and then we can go from there

Let me know if you would like to help

thanks

Rich, send me the bank details and I'll contribute.

Paul.

+1

£20 on its way from me as promised on nonte carlo update. I've got the account details i'll confirm when paid

Glenn

I have obtained sponsorship to enable us to do a live update of GUKPT Luton

I will be updating DTD Deepstack August from current donations

If you would like us to live update the final weekend of the next DTD Grand Prix, please send money!

PMSL :) 

The tables are made by Andy Booth who some of you may know. He's in the Blue Sq Hall of Fame and a pretty decent guy all round. They use a chip to read the hole cards without cameras - I think. I wouldn't actually know as Colin barred me from the Circus.

hey caroline, no shit does andy  make these. Dik9 says they did the Irish Open is that correct too. if its correct good luck to Andy and i hope it really takes off.

Not sure if it was the same table, as I think Liverpool was the first place to have them in. But yes, I do wish Andy all the best with these, he's a top guy who I've known since I started playing poker, at the Gravel Pit in Liverpool. He's on Twitter with a link to his tables but I am too technophobic to be able to post that link for you, sorry :(

hey cazza

Hey Patty

<3

How much to upate GP 4 Day 2/3??

£300 including exes. I have an updater standing by, but my previous request didn't lead to any funds


This weekend's Deepstack is obviously covered from donations

GUKPT Luton is sponsored

D 4 Deepstack in Birmingham in September is sponsored

Now looking for the September Deepstack too, which I will start collecting for this weekend if anyone gives cash

£50 on way to usual acc, either for GP4 or DS...hopefully get ball roilling!

cheers, as always

DTD have agreed to sponsor a live update of the Grand Prix weekend in a fortnight. Thank you very much to them

That weekend will see two live updates, the Grand Prix and GUKPT Luton, both sponsored

Money collected yesterday (£90) and the regular small direct debit donations will be put towards DTD September deepstack, for which we still require funds to do

If you would like to help, please let me know

Count me in for 30, not been at dtd this weekend as going to Edinburgh next week so will pay direct into the b/account.

same old faces. much appreciated by all, not just tighty

Less of the "old" :)

+1 too you simon

DTD Deepstack Live update funded for early September

Alan Armitage gave a generous donation from his final table at the last deepstack and that together with others in person at DTD funds it

thank you to all

Moving on to worrying about the October events, DTD Deepstack and GUKPT Coventry now

I;ve promised £20 which i've not paid yet - i'm playing dtd next week so will give it to you there Tighty.

Put me down for £20 + Sausage Rolls   :)

Put me down for £25 which I'll pay at SPT.

I didnt get chance to pay in so will pay in cash on friday!

thanks guys

bump

tighty can you please pm me bank details of where to send donation to plz,ty

sent thank you

Sent ya a fb pm Richard - call me when you get a minute ...

Thought id state it for the record £50 for gukpt coventry... tighty catch me tmmr..quick before i do the lot :)

An update

The next DTD Deepstack is mostly funded from donations at the weekend from Scotty77, Jamie O'Connor, Paul Romain plus the regular direct debiters. Thank you to all

Beyond that....

GUKPT Blackpool runs over two day ones in November, four days in total. Caroline "mouth" Cove who lives reasonably locally and knows the players there is happy to update it for blonde, by necessity this would have to be solo, but I know she's able to do that!

However,as ever, this requires funds

It is a three night hotel job, so although we can save a lot of travel expenses by Caroline doing it rather than me, the accomodation expenses are higher. Whether we do it or not depends on if we can raise enough to make it viable for Caroline to give up her time

If you would like to help, let me know

thanks

Why would she need a hotel if she lives reasonably closely?

I've broken both my legs and find the tread on my wheelchair tyre's starts to smoke on journeys over a mile.

because the hours are long, especially solo and "rest" time is important..a 40 mile (guess) commute both ways eats into that a lot

Within a couple of miles maybe reasonable but I'm assuming 2 flights on day 1 to add to an already long day & doing it on your own is a heck of a job.

Get a taxi.

Blackpool will have TWO seperate Opening days, & so will be a 4 day Update-a-thon.


Somewhere close by to stay is an absolute necessity.

hotel is cheaper.

are you intentionally being a dousche?

No. Just asking the question. If i lived close id wanna be in my own cot so worth a short drive home imo

Updating days are VERY long & tiring, & Caroline will want a drink, too, so driving is not an option.

If we can't fund her Hotel costs, (we will) we will not ask her to do it.

touting for business imo

Put me down for 40 please, will give to tighty at SPT

I'm in Southport, about 40minutes from Blackpool (over an hour when Blackpool lights on however!) so would be better to be able to fall into a hotel bed relatively nearby. (insert obvious joke here)

I also have a dog who likes to welcome the postman quite effusively each morning so never any chance of a lie in: getting home at 3/4am and waking to that at 8am isn't conducive to 4 days of updates.

Blackpool is always great fun when the GUKPT is on, for locals and visitors (apart from Neil Channing), so I'm hoping Blonde get enough donations to be able to cover it all. Thanks in advance guys.

who's looking after the dog?

would u go bum girgy

The dog will film it.

sigh beat me to it

why the jibes?

If you aren't interested, don't donate.

If you are, do.

Not sure why the jibes have to come out

i wasnt jibing, was genuinely interested.

if the dog can operate a camcorder im pretty sure it can open a tin of dog food and fill himself a bowl of water up.

why? fkin random question.

Stick me down for a score Tighty. Like railing the fish from out here.

because i wanted to go to madrid with gf this weekend but couldnt because of dogs.

will seek your approval before future fkn random questions though. x

Two for the price of one..

Forth Thistle is playing Friday but has offered to come a day earlier and help out.

If the fund gets there then this will be a massive help for me as solo updates can be hard work, thanks dave, see you soon!

Just make sure the funds cover Caroline.

This is my thanks to Blonde for enlightening me to poker and
Getting to know Cos(FML). Maybe Gramps will throw me a Sky poker Hoodie;).

How much will the Blackpool updating cost?

have we even met?

at a rough guess three nights in a travelodge is £50 a night tops. Say £150, hopefully less

Some petrol and four days updating

Even at a discount from Caroline you are talking £500 or so all in

Transferred £50 to the update account.

brilliant, thanks

So, & assuming £500 is correct, how much, including Simon's kind donation, is in the kitty now?

Alex 40 (to come)
Cos 20 (to come)
Simon 50

Total £110

will bank xfer if that's easier to keep track of tighty?

its fine, spt cash is good/easy

 50 quids +bag of pick n mix towards Blackpool pay u at spt

£50 cash will pay on Saturday at DTD + standing order now set up Richard.

thanks both

We have £190 of the £500 needed for Caroline to do the GUKPT Blackpool update next Thursday onwards

Before a final decision is made, any more kind donators?

Umm, yes, any more for any more?

Much gratitude to those who have donated, thank you, but at this level of interest/donations, the Live Update thing is not sustainable for much longer, I'm afraid.

I dont play the GUKPT's but as I binked a satty to the deepstack last night

• brag and due to the fact that IMO Golden Goulder is going to do a WIN so need to see the update, I shall give tighty £20 on Friday when i see him.

Top man, Mr B, thank you.

Think I still owe a tenner for pic of angry bird <3

Plus tenner from Shelley so will give you 20 quid Friday Tighty

thanks

Chuck me down for £30 and I'll send it now. Account ending in 547 still?

 Yes, thanks very much

No worries, just sent now

rest. been waiting to say this on a thread. happy to either pay the £310 here as it for my mates benefit too

Thank you!

really?

would be fantastic

see you at dtd at the weekend for it? I can then get it to the Cove's account on Monday

yes saturday  will sort you out..... i did have another idea too about one time caroline doing the dtd deepstack blog and i put you in the deepstack to play for blonde and yourself tighty. i see how hard you work on these blogs for far more abuse than reward and thought it might be one time you got to play at dtd and enjoy the experience ;)

nice thought thanks

one thing at a time though, lets get Blackpool done.....

Nice.  Will take a percent too.

Nice tekkers Sir Herbie  ;hattip;

Hero

<3Herbie

Will get the Hotel Booked.

WP Herbie..

i love herbie!

is there enough money for the monte and 300 for dec?

no, deepstack and blackpool


December is a heavy month


DTD Deepstack
DTD Monte Carlo
GUKPT Grand Final

in that order of priority

will cross that bridge after Blackpool, talk to sponsors etc see what we can do

I will ship some money for dec just pester me on the next deepstack

Cheers J :D

Looking forward to catching up with all the Blondes playing this, thanks to everyone who has donated.

How much will a update cost and to put tighty in the 300? I will buy a slice also
It's incred how much work he puts into this

No problem Caroline. Pretty impressed with the response and the thread gets a flurry of hits.

<3 herbie

lol. you are making me blush now. Caroline is a good friend  so its never a problem. i put a lot of thought into the idea of putting tighty into a deepstack on a freeroll with a view to a  small %age going to the fund  as a show of appreciation for the years work. in my mind tighty wins £25k plus but that might just be applying too much pressure :)

or you put him in and knock him out on the bubble when you're 1 and 2 in chips you evil bastard!

Caroline Cove has agreed to update the DTD December Deepstack for blonde

This is funded by the generous donations for a number of blondes at the last Deepstack, thank you

I have taken the decision, given a limited pot of money, to do the Deepstack rather than the GUKPT Grand Final that is concurrent, as I feel it is the most cost effective use of the donations given the length of the GUKPT event and London expenses

After the Deepstack we have the DTD Monte Carlo over 4 days in mid december. blonde has live updated all four so far won by Wadey, Fraser, Julian/Sunny/Tom and Alex G and they have been amongst the most popular on the site. Unsurprisingly, they are great tournaments

Donations so far have raised about half the cost of this update, and around £250 is left if we are to do it, possibly a bit less if we knock a night off a hotel stay etc

Please let me know if you would like to contribute

£50 quid from me and Mrs B pls Tighty.

Thanks George. Julian Thew donated £50 towards this as well at Blackpool, thanks Julian!

Looking forward to it, I really doing enjoy these updates and all of the Blondes I have met are top people, so hopefully will be able to continue doing them. (The updates, not the Blondes)

^lol how do you do it everytime?!

do you have any prefered place to stay or any special discounts. for Caroline i recommend the Village inn at chirwell. Free swimming pool, beauty  suite (not hinting or anything), decent enough coffee shop,  food is not too bad and the bar serves peroni on draught and is always busy. :)

Caroline knows the amount we can pay her, the cheaper she arranges the accomodation for, the more she keeps after the expenses!

The Village is nice, I know some good b and b's. Caroline's call what she is after

 

 :-X

would offer the guest room in my house to keep expenses really low.

wouldn't go down great though

unlike - oh no stop me

Would Hannah really object to a bloke staying in the guest room?

You're rapidly going the same way as David Johnson - to hell in a cardigan.

 :-*

plz PM me the bank details

will send some money over as soon as my secure key thingy comes in the post

not sure if I will play the next deepstack, as I am hoping to play the GUKPT Grand Final, so having the update thread available is excellent news.  ty to caroline for agreeing to update.

shipped

Do we know for sure that DTD will allow us to update?

Was there not a suggestion they would be doing it themself, in future, or did I read that hint wrongly?

Allowed, discussions around their updates and how the blonde updater can help eg doubling up, continue

Would they be on blonde, in an interactive format, or elsewhere, as "read only"?

do you think the £5k wager has done some harm to the relationship between Blonde and Rob and if so what can we do to repair any damage?

DTD will be live streaming with chat box alongside and updates. The blonde updates would be as is. I don't want to lose the updates on here and DTD are happy to have them. Having established that, other things are being discussed which I can fill you in on privately, at the moment

No Jason there is no indication of a problem. The thread happened to be on blonde that's all

great excellent news...the updates are the best thing about the competition for me latley... varience  innit :)

1) Yes, obviously it has, as you well know, judging by your repeated comments on that thread.

2) Not much now, bit late for that. I've dropped a note to Rob, expressing my views, hopefully we'll be OK.

What will be will be.

i wont know if its done any damage until speaking to Rob himself. its a rock and a hard place situATion  and taking either side would not solve anything. if you think it has done damage then maybe you would have been better off stepping in earlier and expressing your views and then it may not have escalated in the way it did. i for one listen to you and feel like i'm being told off by my dad when we converse. i only asked tighty because he is the man on the ground with his finger on the pulse as it were.

You are correct. I should have stepped in, & stopped it, & I very much regret that I did not. I became mesmerised by the whole thing, like watching a car crash, & even now, I don't know why I never stopped it. I blame nobody but myself.

Sometimes, two "impossibles" collide, & when they do, a little lateral thinking is necessary, which seemed beyond most.

We all knew - as a fact - that ALL parties involved were wholly honest, & possessed total integrity in the matter. Therefore the solution HAD to be that a misunderstanding had arisen somewhere along the line. That was evident from the very first Post. Instead, all that mud-throwing went off, & no parties emerged blameless. I had numerous PM's about it, & replied identically to all - "it's bang obvious a misunderstanding has arisen".

In these "enlightened" times, common etiquette appears to whoosh most, times have changed.

We need to remember that blonde do NOT have a God given right to do DTD Live Updates, we have that concession just as long as Rob chooses to allow it. It's highly unlikely that the blonde Live Updates generate much commercial gain to DTD. It's a big mistake to take anything for granted.

Even now, I'm not sure why I never intervened, but I did not, I just did not want the hassle, I guess. Add it to the "regrets" list.....page 93.

you should not beat yourself up about it. a vast amount of your time seems to be solving or cleaning up other peoples problems. something i regret :(

Not beating myself up, it's just a squabble on a poker Forum, but as you suggested I should & could have intervened, I replied as I felt. That's not to say I take the whole blame for the thing, others have blame, too.

Glad to hear you sometimes regret, too. If you did but know......

Tony/Tighty,

I didn't mean for that thread to cause any damage to your relationship with DTD - I was unaware it had until I just read this thread.

The views in that thread were mine (and the others who said their piece) but I was in no way representative of the official 'Blonde Opinion' and didn't think I would jeopardise a relationship for updates which I sometimes contribute to.

I'll call you when you get back from Vegas. I stand firm on what I said in the thread but apologise to you/Tighty/Demps for causing any bad blood that you didn't need to deal with.

As stated elsewhere

Intending to live update the DTD Monte Carlo (4 days) and the DTD January Deepstack (3 days)

Currently about £150 away from being able to do the Monte Carlo (including staying with a friend to avoid hotel exes, anything to help get the update done), and assuming I will raise some at that event for the £500 deepstack update to happen

It's Xmas, so I know its cheeky to ask, but if you would like to help, let us know

thanks

so why did you not put her in one then :(
Any ideas on getting a long term sponsor for updates. I follow most live feeds and updates and without doubt blondes are second to none. I'm pretty sure that for the sake of a few quid we willbe able to keep em going from community donations but for how long it can go on for I have no idea.

I don't know Jason

There is one option on a list of possibilities going forward that would include update funding, but that would have to be part of something larger that was right for blonde, rather than just the updates alone.

That aside, its month by month according to amounts of donations

I'm prepared, and have done on several occasions this year, to keep the updates going wherever possible by doing an update for whatever sum is available but that comes at a bit of a personal cost (no free weekends, working for beans) so I would rather they were properly funded and I could use a variety of updaters, paid the going rate, as I won't ask them to work for little after expenses

Yes I know how hard you work hence my offer to get you put in the last deepstack whilst Caroline does the updates.
I am sure all those behind the scenes are looking to secure the future

Just adsense the forum at bottom. I have no idea about the forums traffic but based on my own experiences you could make a nice sum per month.

sky should let blonde be a sub skin of their network. could have blonde only tables and think alot of people would deposit and play. money that we would receive in affiliation would more than cover updates.

also the fact that blone doesnt offer anything to dtd is laughable. i'd have no idea about the deepstack or perhaps even dtd/gran priz etc etc if it wern't for blonde.

AdSense publishers are not permitted to place Google ads on sites with gambling or casino-related content

Wow, i see them on other gaming forums :( maybe place in the general section hehe

Yes, have investigated this

Because we drive traffic, in theory, to a sponsor via links and banners we fall foul of the regs

If we were merely a discussion forum, then that would be ok

this is an option?

a) Up to Sky. Highly doubt it. Even if they wanted to continue the sponsorship I don't think they have skins in their plans. Not even sure the software/back office would be functional for it

b) DTD. Entirely up to them, but as we know they are now streaming/updating themselves

No.

Because of player value?

Because of everything - it just does not fit at all, there is abso no business logic to it.

Any idea how Dtd's blog and live chat went. Logged on for 5 mins but hands were pretty much what Caroline was blogging without the interaction.  Did it affect traffic on blonde very much compared to normal. The pnly real time i spotted very few members and guests was the friday night saturday morning that is usually quiet any way.If they got their act together then it could be curtains for our up dates.

technical, theoretical, realism, many different reasons.


Oh and tighty pm me fund details again and i'll donate £20 for the Monte ta.

Jason our posts, viewers, traffic was fine. No reason why our updates cannot coexist with a venues, eg gukpt, ukipt.

Stick me down for £20 for the fund.

John, DTD's updater, is on placement at DTD from his uni marketing course. Very nice kid, and made my life easier, as we pretty much worked together - for instance on the final table he watched and then reported hands back to me, so I could add the little extra bits to try and liven up what was essentially a pretty boring game.

Over the weekend we both copied and pasted off each other's sites at times: Don't think it affects traffic having the DTD updates, IMO.

makes literally no sense for either party for a lot of reasons.

player value is one for sure, but prolly not even the major one.

how do i make a donation btw? someone PM

How old is he Caroline?

bahahaha. Even I have a line.

He's 24.


Far too old for me.

Luckboxed a mtt this week so going to donate £50 - banks details pls & i will tfr

Cambridge Alex has kindly donated £150 to future, unspecified, Updates.

I also have another "unspecified" donation from someone, but I need, with good reason, to keep their name anon for the time being.

Did you receive those details, neeko?

£210 was raised in cash over the weekend (thank you Tim B, Fraser, Anon and Chinese Frankie who gave from his winnings)

Of that I used £60 on a hotel room last night, not wanting to drive home at 3.30am when knackered

So £150 carries forward towards the DTD January Update

Combine this with the cambridgealex £150 and we are sorted for the January deepstack, thanks

£20 pledged by cf.

I will pay to Tighty when received.

Slight confusionaments on my part here, apologies, was Fraser's for the Live Updates, or the "Tighty MC Fund", please?

Money left my account on the 8th Dec. PM if i need to chase my bank.

Fraser was cash for live updates

there may well have been an amount subsequent for MC on the other thread

Possibly, hence my confusion - Fraser kindly PM'd me when I sent him my Bank Deets to say (words to the effect) "I paid cash whilst @ DTD", so I'm a bit in the dark what it was for, or how much.

No, assume it was paid unless you hear otherwise from Tighty, I was just checking we had done our bit.

Thank you.

£25 received from Marky147 for LU Fund, I now owe that to Tighty.

To which account should I send the 150 pls?

£20 Sent AM today

Regards

M

pm sent

Cancel that for now.

As you were......

shipped

This weekend sees the DTD £500 Deepstack, funded by donations thank you

Beyond that the next few weeks bring, in order of priority

a) DTD February Deepstack

b) GUKPT Manchester

Any donations received in person over the weekend or via the forum over the next few weeks will help those updates take place

thanks

jonnyplum, acknowledging the update donation as per your instructions via tikay...thanks

Gukpt date please. May have to get fingers  n wallets out sharp ish

26-29 Jan

Not currently planning to do it, though have funding for DTD in February after this weekend

£20 received from CF, & donation from JohnnyPlum, as noted by Tighty above.

GUKPT Manchester.

We are not presently planning to Update this, but we COULD, assuming Funding is in place, which, with some help from you guys, & some anon donations which are expected.

Finance for it is less of a problem than staff. Manchester GUKPT has been scheduled against Sky Poker Tour, Luton (2 day, £220, 15,000 chips, 40 minute clock, spam ftw), & Tighty will be obliged to attend the SPT, as he has the role of Tour Manager for SPT.

So, we would need someone to Update Manchester, assuming we could arrange finance. 

Speculate away.......

Caroline ldo, thats if shes not playing

yes I wrote to her asking and am awaiting a reply back.......

I said Yes obv, love doing Blonde updates and hopefully that comes across in the posts.

Will probably try to avoid going out all nite with certain party animals this time. Have never felt so ill as that Saturday doing a full day of updates while still drunk.

Will try.

 ;applause; :)

Anyone fancy putting their hand in their pocket for the Manchester GUKPT Main event? No funding in as yet and I've now cancelled all of my social engagements (walking the dog) to do these updates!!

How much do  you want?

Just had a quick chat on FB with girgy, who suggested I sell my body.

Apart from the fact I don't think I'd get enough for bus fare, it seems a little illogical to sell my own ass in order to fund myself to do the updates. However, if it's for the greater good...

Good morning.

With DTD now funding the Live Updates going forward, the unspent cash from those who have donated will be returned to the donors.

I believe Tighty wrote to all, or most of you, to whom this applies, earlier this week.

Full refunds have, or will be sent, where appropriate.

Your pledges & donations were gratefully received, but DTD have saved the day, God bless them.