IMPORTANT - Changes at the blonde Cardroom.

[TightEnd]

The shareholders are currently deciding on which of the options presented to them last week they are going to run with. News asap. Hopefully very asap

The current card-room closes mid month. News asap on what that involves, questions are with Aqua.

Thanks Rich, by shareholders are we simply taking of Tikay/Flushy/yourself (?), or was their minor stakes given to snoops/jen etc?

The major shareholders, Flushy and tikay. I'm not a shareholder, but work for them.

[TheChipPrince]

The shareholders are currently deciding on which of the options presented to them last week they are going to run with. News asap. Hopefully very asap

The current card-room closes mid month. News asap on what that involves, questions are with Aqua.

Thanks Rich, by shareholders are we simply taking of Tikay/Flushy/yourself (?), or was their minor stakes given to snoops/jen etc?

The major shareholders, Flushy and tikay. I'm not a shareholder, but work for them.

Slave. 

[tikay]

Just to clarify the reply to Chip Prince.

Yes, Flushy & I spoke at length again yesterday as to the decision we need to make, & some other complex blonde stuff. We never made a decision, but I hope we are able to today. The decision is not as easy as it may look, but at least we have a decision to make, & a choice of offers, so yay for that. I have to say, I'm findiing it all very stressful, it needs putting to bed before my head explodes. A dozen or so e-Mails go back & forth between us every day, & it's very wearing tbh.

And then we can tell you the story of these last 4 or 5 weeks. It's beyond belief, quite beyond rational thinking. The standard perceptions of how Online Networks work, & their lack of integrity, has been totally shattered in my mind. Buit that's a story for another day, & it would be wrong to tell it now.

Other Shareholders? Yes, snoops, Jen & Harry Demetrio all have small stakes in blonde. Together with my stake, however, they don't equate to 50%, so for the moment, the discussions have been confined to Flushy & myself, as we control about 85% of the Companies Shares, with Rich feeding us the Data & setting up the deals from which we make our decision.

Anyway, we hope to finalise our decision today.

[Simon Galloway]

I have to say, I'm findiing it all very stressful,

Is this because of the quality of the options available?  Or because of the personal preferences or differing risk acceptance/aversion profiles of those making the decision?

But that's a story for another day, & it would be wrong to tell it now.  In case we sign up with them.

[tikay]

I have to say, I'm findiing it all very stressful,

Is this because of the quality of the options available?  Or because of the personal preferences or differing risk acceptance/aversion profiles of those making the decision?

But that's a story for another day, & it would be wrong to tell it now.  In case we sign up with them.

Only partially - there are other, very unseemly matters, that also need to be resolved. I've also had enough - more than enough - of the aggro that goes with it all, & I want the thing to settle down.

Motives for not telling the story now? As our old Mums used to say, when they denied us something. "it's for yer own good".......

 

[Simon Galloway]

did you ever notice when your mum was tired, you had to go to bed?  When she used to tell me it was for my own good, I similarly used to suspect that it wasn't

Not stirring the pot, (alright I am a little bit) and I'm genuinely interested and grateful that you have chosen to share the minutes of meetings, as I am sure others will be too.  From the 'shareholder's meeting' which was implied was 2 of you, I'm guessing therefore that either you and flushy have diametrically opposed stances and are on a fast track to stalemate, or the "unseemly stuff" is more complicated than imagined and is adding complexity to an otherwise straight forward business decision that the majority of sharp people (you and flushy included ldo) would be able to arrive at.

[paulhouk03]

If the blonde site is producing too many winning players why not remove the other links to major poker sites from the site. So when people (hopefully losing) join up they will not get the options to join the other major sites through blondepoker.com


Surely this will create more traffic to blonde.

Also have you considering targeting students? Maybe do some student freerolls. Students have alot of disposable income so its probs a good market to go down.

[TightEnd]

If the blonde site is producing too many winning players why not remove the other links to major poker sites from the site. So when people (hopefully losing) join up they will not get the options to join the other major sites through blondepoker.com


Surely this will create more traffic to blonde.

Also have you considering targeting students? Maybe do some student freerolls. Students have alot of disposable income so its probs a good market to go down.

The simple answer is that advertising or sponsorships earn us money to cover our costs. Or did, most of the time.
In an ideal world the card-room would have earned us enough to be self sufficient and not promote third parties but it never has. So, needs must. Fortunately our traffic is heavy and attractive so we've usually had interest from others in our traffic.

Of our various solutions, some would be "exclusive" ie no other advertisers, some wouldn't be with different financial arrangements around that issue.

Students have a lot of disposable income? Oh!

[Laxie]

Yeah.  They use the student loan money to go on the tear and play poker.  At least over here they do. 

[Karabiner]

Yeah.  They use the student loan money to go on the tear and play poker.  At least over here they do. 

True but's that's usually done and dusted by Xmas.

[Ironside]

Also have you considering targeting students? Maybe do some student freerolls. Students have alot of disposable income so its probs a good market to go down.

the idea of freerolls is to get winning players a few dollars so they can win more and while winning give you a share of the rake
blonde were getting fined because the players were too good we dont need more

now if we could GTD that the students were losers then what the point of giving them free money for them to lose before they pay it back in rake
unless we can GTD they will deposit afterwards which is more than likely not going to happen as the ipoker software sucks

[Laxie]

iPoker at it again...sigh

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/my-160-000-win-ipoker-still-owe-why-ill-never-play-there-again-tl-dr-700172/

[paulhouk03]

Also have you considering targeting students? Maybe do some student freerolls. Students have alot of disposable income so its probs a good market to go down.

the idea of freerolls is to get winning players a few dollars so they can win more and while winning give you a share of the rake
blonde were getting fined because the players were too good we dont need more

now if we could GTD that the students were losers then what the point of giving them free money for them to lose before they pay it back in rake
unless we can GTD they will deposit afterwards which is more than likely not going to happen as the ipoker software sucks

Yeah.  They use the student loan money to go on the tear and play poker.  At least over here they do. 

True but's that's usually done and dusted by Xmas.

Not all students are winning players.
In business nothing is GTD. I think you are thinking abit negativly.
Pretty sure that alot of students will redeposit when they get there other loan installments.

in the old vc days there free rolls was getting about 180 players doubt all of them are winning

[byronkincaid]

ipoker software sucks

compared to stars and tilt yes. it's better than a ton of other sites tho

[Tuffster]

The shareholders are currently soon deciding on which of the options presented to them last week they are going to run with. News asap soon. Hopefully very asap soon

The current card-room closes mid month soon. News asap soon on what that involves, questions are with Aqua.

FYP.

Oh, sorry, wrong website