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

[RED-DOG]

Rob offered me 6/4 heads up for my entire bankroll

I refused, but i will play him heads up off evens, my entire bankroll against his entire bankroll 

[robyong]

Booderham, you are much smarter than you look, which is not difficult.

Catching me and Chubby after 4 bottles of champers (and god knows what else) and only giving us 20 BB to play you was a sly move which you will be punished slowly for (1 bluff and we were XXXX ed) .

I noticed the next day, you sat directly behind me for 3 hours peeking at my hole cards while I analiated another "fellow fish" of yours, Flushy, and never once asked for a rematch. We tried to temp you again later on but you "hit and run" on us again.

Only joking, Bodders, but we'll be back.

Rob

[Teacake]

Me and Simon had a really good laugh with the Jocks from the Cincinatti club, and spent a lot of time at the bar with them. What a great set of lads, and we're gonna get up there at play at their club soon.

Cheers Rob, you & Simon were class 

It would be great to have you boys up at Cin Cins, I'm sure DC will get something organised 

Stevie

[robyong]

At my trip to the Broadway I managed to get the name of the company that designed and managed the refurbishment of their wonderful casino. I contacted them yesterday, Redgate Contracting Ltd, and arranged that we would meet when The Shrew (refurbishment man) gets back from Tenerife.

Our motley crew of joiners, brickies and labourours are good at grunt work and taking plenty of tea breaks, but we could never achieive the cosmetic finish that is required, so we need to use a 3rd party in this area and we'll add Regdate the the list of potential contractors.

Nightfly (or Rob from Gala) handed his notice in in Nottingham on Sunday. I doubt whether it will be a suprise to anyone that he is joining Dusk Till Dawn, as I have always had a good relationship with him at Gala. The reason he is joining so early, is to ensure that we do a full and thorough job on planning, designing and recruiting for the Card Room, which is the most important area of the club.

Rob is a very diligent person, and cares passionatley about what he does, although sometimes he takes critism and bit too personally - exactly like me, so we should work well togther.

So, our little new company has now become five: me (finance), Chubbs (Marketing), Shrew (Refurbishment) , Bigpete (our IT guys name on Blonde) and Nightfly (Cardroom). We have a few more potential joiners but nothing confirmed yet. Unfortunately, when I did my budget I started from when the Club actually opens, and ignored the fact we would have to take people on early and pay wages with no revenue coming in, I didn't want to make the figures look even worse...........

Our web site is being written. we looked at the Gutshot, Fox Poker, Full House etc and designed our own. Phase 1 of the web site is just to allow people to provide their details for membership online and we hope to launch this end of January. The rest of the content will be worked on until the club opens in late 2006.

Now Simons job really starts, as he needs to collect the details of members so I can show the Magistrates Court at the end of April 2006 ("prove there is demand"). We have finalised the Standard and VIP membership scheme for Dusk Till Dawn and this will be up on Phase 1 of our web site. I noticed that the Fox Club, who have also applied for a gaming licence, put an article in Poker Europe that they will be charging fees of £275-£475 per annum. This just backs up the argument that a UK legal card room cannot be operated without a membership fee due to the additional costs associated with the Gaming Commission etc.

Cheers and thanks again for the weekend. Hopefully Dusk Till Dawn and Blondepoker can have a close relationship going forward.

Rob








 

[Heid]

The Broadway reminded me a lot of the Fontana Bar at Bellagio...I loved the seating areas at Broadway, and it's head and shoulders above anything else in this country casino wise.

If they do as good a job with your club, Rob, you will be onto a winner.

Add me down for membership - and Sarah, she was raving about the place to me today on the phone, and said even as just a nice club it looked fantastic.

[AndrewT]

Add me down for membership - and Sarah

After reading that, I think Rob can charge what he likes for membership and it will still be full...

[snoopy1239]

Rob.

I think the interior design of the Broadway, especially the bar and snack area, is superb.

I think you've taken a wise step in working with that company.

It'll be productive for people to think they can come into Dusk Till Dawn just for a drink and a bit of a chill out, rather than to play poker.

[NoflopsHomer]

Please steal some of those dealers too. They were superb.

[snoopy1239]

Please steal some of those dealers too. They were superb.

and the valets...

... preferably the female ones. 

[booder]

Rob.

I think the interior design of the Broadway, especially the bar and snack area, is superb.

I think you've taken a wise step in working with that company.

It'll be productive for people to think they can come into Dusk Till Dawn just for a drink and a bit of a chill out, rather than to play poker.

 

[snoopy1239]

 

 

[Royal Flush]

Nightfly (or Rob from Gala) handed his notice in in Nottingham on Sunday. I doubt whether it will be a suprise to anyone that he is joining Dusk Till Dawn

Great news, i don't know Rob very well but whenever i have spoken to him he seemed to know EXACTLY how a cardroom should be run but so hugely restricted by gala.

[jammer]

Well yes, as well as the broadway's valets all being extremely good looking, they were all incredibly courteous. (and often foreign I noticed).

In fact all of the staff are incredibly friendly and polite whether you throw them a large tip or not.

I find this a huge plus point for a casino/card room - its something that I personally do not find at most of the casino's i've been too - and if Dusk till Dawn can operate at as high a standard as the broadway in this area, I can only see it maintaining a high clientele base.

[Scottish Dave]

Me and Simon had a really good laugh with the Jocks from the Cincinatti club, and spent a lot of time at the bar with them. What a great set of lads, and we're gonna get up there at play at their club soon. I could go on and on about the Blondepoker do and how much I enjoyed it and I really hope that we can have a strong link with Dusk Till Dawn and Blondepoker when we get up and running.

Aye yous are not bad lads yourself lol

Looking forward to saturday night now, hit the town eh.

[robyong]

Nice to see all those good luck comments on Nightfly in Chiill's thread, strange how I'm calling people by their Blondepoker names rather than their real ones aswell! "robyong" wasn't a very creative forum name was it, should have though of something more snazzier.

Andew Woods, my gaming solicitor is coming round to my house tonight with reems of licencing paperwork to fill out. My sister, Patricia, stays at my house on Tuesday evenings and Wedndesday day times every week, so I am unable to do meetings during these times, not a bad thing really, it gives me a break and allows me to review things.

2 years ago my parents and my sister moved next door to me which allows us to manage the transition to Patricia living full time with me, my sister needs a lot of help due to her disiabiility and it makes sense to do things gradually. It also makes it easier to liase with my mum who runs my disabled chairity. I'm terrible for having things geograhically close to me, I even moved the head office of sf group from Birmingham to Nottingham and it is now in walking distance of my house.

I intend to visit the Cincinatti Club, in Glasgow, this weekend to play the £10,000 Littlewoods guarenteed tourney, its a bit of a hike from Nottingham, but after meeting the Jocks at the Blonde Bash, I'd like to support their event. Chubby and Nick should be coming with me and it won't do any halm to see what the clubs like, maybe pick up some advice / tips

Then tomorrow I have a meeting with Richard Altoft, my Nat West bank manager, to sort out the bank account for the club etc. He's a good bloke, although he's not really jumping up and down with excitement about this venture! These types of people are often very safe and risk adverse, but I'm gonna spends some time explaining to him exactly what we are doing, even though we're not asking him for any loans (yet!), Bank Managers just like you to keep them informed, it makes them feel comfortable and you never know when you might need them! No matter how you are doing, going broke can be just around the corner for any entreprenneur, there were times in my recruitment business when I expanded it too quickly that I could not even afford to pay the VAT bill and Richard bailed my ass out many times.

I feel there is a fundamental difference when I do business projects nowadays that make things run a lot smoother, mainly cause I have managed to build long term relationships with accountants, lawyers, banks etc. You need these guys behind you, they ask the difficult questions and cause they have become tied into you financially they actually have your best interest at heart for a change. Above all, they trust you and you trust them, they are more like friends than business contacts. I used to hate paying them extortionate professional fees but now I realise their importance.

Admittedly, the poker business is new to me, and I have found that its been harder to get people to trust me, even Nighfly keeps saying "whats the catch, you gonna pay me more wages and give me my dream job, there must be a catch". Other people I have talked to in poker have also been sceptical about my intentions, but you just gotta gain their trust over time or walk away, as the bottom line is, most employers and business people are actually out for themselves and there is nearly always a price that they will shaft you for, but hey, XXXX them.

Bit of a waffly post today,

Cheers Rob