IMPORTANT - Changes at the blonde Cardroom.

[Longy]

Myself and MC now have RSA security tokens, gg Tikay.

[Bongo]

Myself and MC now have RSA security tokens, gg Tikay.

Plan B, poison your DNS and capture your login details (and valid RSA token) that way, just have to log in when you do. It's been done for online banking

[TheChipPrince]

Tikay

i know its still early days ...but you mentioned that you are in talks with other sites for moving Blonde...How is that going? i appreciate market sensitivities may make it difficult to comment..

It's going very well, embarrassingly weill actually.

We have 5 or 6 viable options,. & they have all been progressed rapidly in the last few days.

At LEAST one of them is ideal, just what we want, but we want to explore them all before we make a decision.

The work is all being done, non-stop, by Tighty, & Flushy has come up with two viable ones, too. All I do is read & reply to all the e-Mails, though my contacts in the Industry are quite useful. It's amazing how helpful they have been, too.

We will collate all the options, then convene for another Shareholders Meeting, & decide the way forward. A pretty short timescale, too.

One man with no commercial interest in this, but has been astoundingly helpful on a personal basis, is Joe Beevers. Never understimate his value to the UK poker scene.

Is there any possibility of blonde not moving anywhere, and the cardroom at least ceasing to exist?

[TightEnd]

Yes of course if I can't/don't do a deal then that is what happens

As tikay said early on in the thread, you can have a forum on its own for £200 or so a month.

However blonde is a Ltd co with shareholders and staff. You have to replace the (former) card-room income to pay staff, invest to grow and give Flushy and the other shareholders the possibility of a return in the longer term.

If you don't have a card-room, or (super)affiliate relationship into a cardroom,then how do you make it financially viable?

Forums are tricky things, tough to monetise the traffic via ads, tough to get people viewing the forum converted into revenue for sponsors..so we all have some sort of card-room/super-affiliate/multi-affiliate relationship with online poker providers whether you are talking AWOP, THM, EMS etc etc

[riverdave]

Yes of course if I can't/don't do a deal then that is what happens

As tikay said early on in the thread, you can have a forum on its own for £200 or so a month.

However blonde is a Ltd co with shareholders and staff. You have to replace the (former) card-room income to pay staff, invest to grow and give Flushy and the other shareholders the possibility of a return in the longer term.

If you don't have a card-room, or (super)affiliate relationship into a cardroom,then how do you make it financially viable?

Forums are tricky things, tough to monetise the traffic via ads, tough to get people viewing the forum converted into revenue for sponsors..so we all have some sort of card-room/super-affiliate/multi-affiliate relationship with online poker providers whether you are talking AWOP, THM, EMS etc etc

So more GG Flushy than GG Tighty

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[Christo!]

Would be amazing to see blonde resurrect the good old Tribeca.

On a more serious note, I hope all this comes good in the end for Tikay/Tighty and Blonde etc as they don't deserve this as they ave given so much and tbh (myself included) a fair few of blonde members havent supported the cardroom before this episode.

[The-Crow]

If you want to attract more fish, use better bait

A $100 freeroll every night , works on some sites.

 Rest assurred, where ever you go,  I will follow

You guys run a great poker site

[suzanne]

A bit late in the day for that kind of advice Mr Crow.

No worms for you.

[GreekStein]

ok im being thick - whats a key logger?

A kid named Kellett.

Sorry, I'm not quite so good at the subtlety shit.

[scotty77]

wow just read the whole thread, always had a feeling that iPoker were a load of dicks after a bad experience on CD Poker (one of the rooms which I hear they have a piece of).

oh yeah idea for new room to bring in the fish.  get acebarry to spam the worlds messages boards.  that ought to bring in dead moniez weeeeeeeee

[Chili]

ok im being thick - whats a key logger?

A kid named Kellett.

Sorry, I'm not quite so good at the subtlety shit.

What's he done now??

[GreekStein]

ok im being thick - whats a key logger?

A kid named Kellett.

Sorry, I'm not quite so good at the subtlety shit.

What's he done now??

I should do this sort of thing by pm but it's more fun for me not to.

He was in Amsterdam for the Master Classics and let someone play on his laptop.

He had a key logger on his Lappy and then logged into said persons account and.....

[DaveShoelace]

ok im being thick - whats a key logger?

A kid named Kellett.

Sorry, I'm not quite so good at the subtlety shit.

What's he done now??

I should do this sort of thing by pm but it's more fun for me not to.

He was in Amsterdam for the Master Classics and let someone play on his laptop.

He had a key logger on his Lappy and then logged into said persons account and.....

Was that at the most recent Masters Classic the other week? Who was the other player.

You should run an online poker detective agency.

[TightEnd]

Sigh, Cos

Discretion is not exactly your watchword.