"Dusk till Dawn" Poker Club In Nottingham Diary (by Rob Yong)

[robyong]

I've signed up (and so has the wife!).

If you need people to sign up now to show the level of interest in DTD, do you want people to spread the word on other forums (or is it fora?)? 

Anything that anyone can do to get genuine poker players to join the club before we open would be much appreciated. As long as the forum that you are posting on does not mind you mentioning the DTD Live Club and putting the link to the site, this would be a great help. Thank You.

There is a fine line between spamming and providing information on a forum. Most live venues in the UK including Grovsvenor, Broadway, Gala etc all "advertise" their services (comps, cash games etc) on forums, so I do not think that posting a link to join the DTD club could be considered as spamming, but I think it would look better if it came from a "non-dtd" person. I am very aware that there a a number of people who are waiting to stick the knife into DTD (or any other new idea) at the first chance (its always the same bunch of jockeys) so I want to be "whiter that white".

I think openly marketing the DTD online card room (waste of time at the moment - as its not launching till Jan now) could be seen as spamming., especially on a forum that operated an online room themselves (such as Blondepoker, Betfair etc), so I would prefer not to market dtdpokeronline on the forums.

Although I want to show the Gaming Board the biggest list of members possible (to prove demand), I will also be sending invites / producing membership cards for these people - so only want genuine sign ups. When a person visits DTD for the first time, they will need to produce photo ID (gaming law). I have decided that although we will have an annual, festival and casual membership fee, every person's 1st visit to the club will be free of charge so they can fully appreciate the facilities before we ask them to pay any type of membership fee (the old "try before you buy" system).

[GlasgowBandit]

Where do I sign up?  that Trumper fellow took my cash off me on PNL last night when he made a terrible call now I must get it back 

[robyong]

Where do I sign up?  that Trumper fellow took my cash off me on PNL last night when he made a terrible call now I must get it back 

www.dtdpoker.com u fish

[The Dundonian]

Signed up and desperately hoping to be home when it opens!

The best of luck Rob although I doubt you will need it. You seem to have all the bases covered!
 

[boldie]

signed up chief.

[Woodsey]

Hi Rob,

I've just seen a demo of the new crypto software and it looks identical to pokerstars software. Can you confirm or deny?

Wouldn't be a bad thing if it is the same, as its probably the best software out there in my opinion.

[robyong]

Hi Rob,

I've just seen a demo of the new crypto software and it looks identical to pokerstars software. Can you confirm or deny?

Wouldn't be a bad thing if it is the same, as its probably the best software out there in my opinion.

Yes, it does look a bit like stars, I guess this will be popular to the masses as stars always gets high scores on graphics etc I'm a bit old fashioned myself and like the old cyrpto style, its so simple, if a bit boring, guess I'm just used to it. There are some addional features as well on the new crypto software but they have not done the "multi-table re-sizing" which Party have, I think this this is a great feature and cant understand why all sites dont invest and do it to look after their big multi screen players.

On another note, can I just say a big thanks to Ben Grundy, Dave Pomroy and Julian Thew who have added www.dtdpoker.com to their blogs as a link, its much appreciated guys. If anyone else who has a blog or site and can do this as well, it would really help me with the membership list for my final Gaming Board hearing, we have just passed the 200 mark in members.

If you do put a link with a bit of an explination, I would rather you just mentioned the "Join Club form" and explained that we need to prove the demand to the Gaming Board to get the licence (please don't mention the online site, as I don't want to spam people and we are some way off the having the software functional anyway). The direct link to the join club form is http://www.dtdpoker.com/LivePokerClub.htm

I am pretty sure that the casinos are going to lobby against DTD after some tip offs from legal/poker people. I'm really dissapointed that they may choose do do this, we are not doing casino games so what will they lose? I genuinely wanted to work with the other casino groups to make sure we dont class DTD events with theirs etc but I guess I have not been living in the real world.

Also, thanks to Dik9 for mentioning DTD (on his own accord) on various forums  (even the ones where it was deleted!). I cant see why any forum would delete your posts about DTD as they welcome Gala, Grovesnor etc to post regular information.

Cheers, and thanks for all of your help Rob

[roverthtaeh]

Signed up. Hope Cornwall is far enough away to impress the gaming board 

[robyong]

Signed up. Hope Cornwall is far enough away to impress the gaming board 

The more I can show the Gaming Baord that poker players will travel from outside Nottingham, the less any local casino can oppose us and argue that we are taking their market. So thanks, Cornwall is excellent.

PS. If anyone does put on a link to the DTD temporary site (www.dtdpoker.com ) from their own blog or site to help us get the members for the Gaming Board hearing, please let me know on this thread or PM me and we will put a link from our site back to yours - I promise you eventually we will have some traffic to offer you back!! Cheers for your help, Rob

[Ironside]

done the form think i live a few miles from nottingham

[Ginger]

Form done here too, Portsmouth isn't exactly on the doorstep (annoyingly enough!)

[Jim-D]

A Devonian has filled the form out and am really looking forward to it.

[Acidmouse]

I wonder what my boss would say if i put the link up on the leeds uni site and announcement to 75k students

[Ironside]

if he is anything like any of y ex bosses he wouldnt notice it untill after DtD has been opened

[Bainn]

Made a post on the Pokerplayer Forum with a link to the sign-up form.