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

[da_poker_monkey]

I know that everyone is, understandably, focusing on the on-line card room at the moment, but I was wondering, and have been for some time, what the current plans for membership/entry fees are for the live club. If nothing has been decided yet (unlikely) when will it be decided or made public knowledge.  I ask because it is likely that a minnow like myself will have to save to cover a yearly fee if there is going to be one.  If any of this has already been answered in a previous mail and I have missed it please forgive me and feel free to ridicule me on the forum.

[matt674]

If any of this has already been answered in a previous mail and I have missed it please forgive me and feel free to ridicule me on the forum.

As a fellow monkey please dont encourage them to ridicule us, they do it enough as it is!!

[Karabiner]

Stil no confirmation email received here therefore no activation code, been waiting since 2.30pm yesterday.

[Colchester Kev]

Stil no confirmation email received here therefore no activation code, been waiting since 2.30pm yesterday.

Tell them you hate the @rse and it will be there in 2 minutes

[bigpete]

Stil no confirmation email received here therefore no activation code, been waiting since 2.30pm yesterday.

Sorry if this is an obvious question, but it needs to be asked.
Have you checked your junk e-mail folder?
If you have and you still have not received a confirmation e-mail, send me a message through this board, stating your e-mail address and I will personally look into the matter for you.

[Karabiner]

Thanks to BigPete I am now all set, all I had to do was shout "I hate the spuds" very loudly seventeen times.

This new technology is marvellous 

[tikay]

Minor quibble Pete.

When you input the info to join the live club, giving your date of birth is a pain in the bum. It gives you one of those calendar wotsits that is used for booking flights etc. It starts at todays date and you have to cycle back thru month by month to get back to your birthday.

Now it's not to bad for me I only had to go back 404 months, but if Tikay was trying to put his birthday in then it would take him a week!

I totally agree with you on that, the control is not obvious, although it is quite quick to use when you know how.
If you click on the month year hyperlink, you can go back 10 years wit 1 click by using the < and > hyperlinks at the bottom.  This is obviously not ideal and we are looking into improving this input mechanism in the near future.
To test this, I actually entered tikays DOB in a few seconds (01/04/1900) with no problems whatsoever, although if we made it Tikay proof, we'd have to supply each user with someone to do it for him!!!

Behave. I wiill input 10/9/1977.

[Graham C]

Mine came within seconds - I registered, then logged on to my email and it was there.

[ariston]

surely you mean 1897 tikay?

[simonow]

Thanks For all the support guys

[kinboshi]

The date thing didn't work for me in Firefox (1.5), but others with Firefox managed OK (maybe they were using 2.0).

I started to scroll back month by month, and then gave up and registered using IE.  I did have a laugh at the time, and hoped that Tikay wasn't using Firefox...

[tikay]

The date thing didn't work for me in Firefox (1.5), but others with Firefox managed OK (maybe they were using 2.0).

I started to scroll back month by month, and then gave up and registered using IE.  I did have a laugh at the time, and hoped that Tikay wasn't using Firefox...

Meaning WHAT exactly?

[Karabiner]

The date thing didn't work for me in Firefox (1.5), but others with Firefox managed OK (maybe they were using 2.0).

I started to scroll back month by month, and then gave up and registered using IE.  I did have a laugh at the time, and hoped that Tikay wasn't using Firefox...

Meaning WHAT exactly?

I think that Firefox must be a euphemism 

[tikay]

The date thing didn't work for me in Firefox (1.5), but others with Firefox managed OK (maybe they were using 2.0).

I started to scroll back month by month, and then gave up and registered using IE.  I did have a laugh at the time, and hoped that Tikay wasn't using Firefox...

Meaning WHAT exactly?

I think that Firefox must be a euphemism 

!

[robyong]

I'm sorry its been so long since I posted, I have been working 15-20 hours a day since the site launched 6 weeks earlier that I had planned.  We've been open a week now and we are already generating more daily rake that some online rooms who have been open for years BUT I am really regretting doing the whole DTD thing at the moment, its such a headache, I never realised what I was getting myself into. All I wanted to do was to create something special for the poker community, my friends and obviously myself. I'm not being negative or complaining, I'm just telling the truth, this is why I did this diary in the first place, so I could be honest.

All I am getting from this DTD venture now is a load of grief, here are just 5 examples, I could go on for pages:

1. I am really getting it in the neck from other online card rooms, especially for the Rakeback section on our home page. Apparently, its a "cardinal sin", an "unwritten industry agreement", to mention Rakeback publicly, as players who get 0% will start asking for it. Jesus, these sites are happy to give rakeback through affiliates, plaster it everywhere on banners, and give xxxx all to their loyal customers who do direct the their site. Is that my fault?

2. I'm getting players moaning about the 30% rake back deal we are offering. They claim they are on 50% rake back blah blah blah. I'm sick of explaining the difference between net and gross rake, yes, you can get 60% rake back on some sites, but 60% of jack XXXX is less than 30% of your total rake. I'm also sick of telling people that is the max any crypto site can give from 1/1/07..........why would I lie?

3. Players (inc. some friends) asking me to sponsor them and they will play on the site, or asking me for "sweeteners" etc They just treat me like a meal ticket, where is their loyalty?

4. Certain people working for me in DTD are not supporting me and simply dont care enough, I am having to do everyone else's jobs and some of the issues they waste time discussing are so petty, its a joke. Why can't think about what is best for DTD, not themselves?

5. The Gaming Board are really dragging their feet, after such a positive application process, I reach the final hurdle, and I don't know what is going on with my final panel interview (and they wont even let me play in my own club). Why are they messing me about?

I remember so well why I got out of the "business world"  4 years ago, it was the parasites, the backstabbers, the bullxxxx politics, and the selfishness of so many "people". I swore to myself that was "it" for me, no more business, and now I find myself right back in the middle of it again and nothing has chaanged. When I was in my twenties, I was driven to keep  achieving against the odds, I wanted to prove to myself that I was as good as the people who were "born into money". Now, I'm 34, and I don't need to prove anything to anyone or kiss anybody's ass to get them to give me their custom, I do not have the same energy or drive anymore to deal with all the crap.

Don't think for one minute that this is "a feeling sorry for myself post", quite the contrary, its a "I am very xxxxed off post". I cannot blame anyone but myself amd now I've made my bed I have to lie in it. What I need to do is make this venture enjoyable for me, it should be, I can't just jack it in now because I am too far advanced in the process, but I really need to make some changes in the new year, to keep my sanity!

Ending on a positive note, we are having a big family xmas at my pub this year, it will be like Eastenders!

Merry xmas and a happy new year, Rob