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A new online poker site - Mansion, which has yet to be launched, has signed as Man Utd's new shirt sponsor for a 4 year deal for £60,000,000.  Hmmmm, would be interesting to see the cash flow model for this new venture!

http://www.gambling911.com/040206Cnews.html

not in our league

Or Manchester Uniteds...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4873722.stm

lol, its better than the 11 million coral/eurobet spent on a f1 logo.......i cant believe nobody told them that their logo would not be seen as the cars actually go quite fast.

Hehe, subtle stuff.

£60 million? Jeez, well that's certainly the opposite approach to us! But they have to earn £60 milion just to stand still......whereas we will sleep well at night.

The smell of burning fingers fills the air.

I think the boss of Mansion sleeps OK.......he's an Indonesian who made $3 BILLION selling his cancer stick business to the Yanks (Phillip Morris, I think).

Money well spent as far as I'm concerned.

Is it a pokerroom or a casino/sportsbook/pokerroom?

If I remember rightly he has a sportsbook business and is setting up a new poker room as an add on!

He is also buying a London casino - the Les Ambassadeurs, or something like that.

It may well turn out to be money well spent, & Mr Moneybags may well have money to burn.

But it offends a basic principle which I set great store by. Earn the money first, then spend it, don't spend it before it's been earned.

 

Not quite as catchy as speculate to accumulate.

Mansion sportsbook opened a few years ago and also included a betting exchange. This created a very strange situation in that it became possible to arb between the sportsbook and the exchange with the same company. Not all that interesting but a strange situation for one company to be in as they were most certainly seeding the liquidity on the exchange.

It was launched with a very expensive ad campaign and as far as I can see it is a very small turnover sportsbook, adding a casino and poker room makes perfect sense but $60 million is a massive investment in something so new.

At last years wsop I was told Full Tilt had paid 50k to have the huge banner that hung from the ceiling as the players entered the playing area. I chatted to someone about their marketing splurge and plans for the future, this included the revelation that they planned to be in profit before..... 2008.....gulp.


I prefer Tikay's way.

Is it true blondepoker is going to sponsor Brentford?

A packet of crisps and a jar of pickled onions is the deal I hear...

Now that would be a huge price to pay. ;ifm;

lol

Isnt it Mansion that is going to be hosts to the biggest sit & go?
At $10 million a seat. Phil Ivey is the only one to have reserved a seat so far.

No, that's true, but the "earn it first" logic is a damn site safer.

Remember, when you Deposit with an Online Card-Room, they hold your cash. And if they go belly-up, what chance do you think you have of recovering that via the law......?

For me, I need to be sure we take the cautious route, so that Dave & I can always cover any liability.

Well, with our Budget, we cannot afford the High-Flying Super Bees.

QPR should be affordable though, & with change to spare.

Is Alec Stock still the QPR Manager Keith? Venables still play for them?

What about Stanley Bowles, I liked him  :D

Ahh, Stan Bowles, who the Bees rescued. Liked a little bet did Stan.

Rodney Marsh, too. Guess he's nearly retired now.

And the big oaf of a Chairman - Jim Gregory was it? They attempted to take over the Bees, but we were having none of it. "All the Way with Biilly Gray".

my backers are wanting me to enter but i dont think the compertition is high enough for me to get a passport for