Every Monday, most of the people involved in DTD come over to my pub, The Broxtowe, for a drink and a catch up. Normally this takes up most of the day. Nightfly, Yogi and Aces were busy looking at poker chip samples while Actionjack, Pete, Chubbs and me worked on the web site and online card room. We've managed to link the pub plasma to Pete's PC, what progress we are making!
The good thing about having regular weekly meeting at my pub is that the takings go up. It was Actionjack's turn to pay, but he did a runner and left Chubbs to pick up the whole food and drinks bill. I love to see my poker pals putting their money in their pockets and buying ME and drink at my pub.......I am sick, I know.
I never realised how much work would be needed on adding and checking content on our web site, the administration of our online reward scheme and the organising of The DTD Tour, so we are going to recruit another person to assist Actionjack, as well as Simon Hawkins. Ideally we want someone with an eye for detail and good formatting skills, its not a tough job, but its very important. I've been racking my brains to think of someone, I could use an admin person from sf group, but we'll see who turns up, ideally I'd prefer someone who was genuinely interested in poker but wanted a normal day job, maybe a recreational player.
A few people have remarked that I seem to be employing a lot of people in DTD, of course I am, there is loads to do, and I want ALL of the poker players in DTD to be focussed on adding value and working on the poker side of the business, not administration. There is no value in me making professional poker players sit behind a desk and do office jobs, I employed them for their experience and contacts in the poker industry. I did a similar method in sf group, I centralised all the administration and made all the consultants accountable for revenue generation, it worked.
TK made his way over the the DTD club today, we have been trying to get together for some time and it was really nice to finally show him the place after having so many conversations about it, hopefully we'll see a Blondebash 5 or 6 there in 2007. I had a good chat with TK, I really hope BP goes from strength to strength, it like my adopted home for sharing my waffle. We had a quick tour of the building, there is not much to see, but you can sort of close you eyes and imagine it. I'm sure Nick won't mind any other interested poker players nipping over and having a look as our re-fit progresses, he'd welcome the company in his little portacabin!
The Gaming Board are asking me for more information, cashflows, balance sheets and all sorts of stuff, its never ending. I'll just keep plugging way, I feel like I have been let down a bit by them in terms of timescales, but what can I do? I really need that final hearing ASAP. I know the DTD temporary web site
www.dtdpoker.com is a bit primative, but its still doing a job, we are getting plenty of people joining the club, and not just UK people. I will be taking this list of people as evidence to the Gaming Board to prove to them that there is demand for the club........so please don't be shy in joining, even if you are not local, the more I can show that the club will
bring in players from
outside of Nottingham, the better.
Cheers Rob
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