Rob Yong's Blog V3 "WSOP 2010 & Life After DTD Opened"

[The Baron]

First one of these was abs amazing. Lookin forward to it.

[Mitch]

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii should be a great read!

My personal mission is now to get on this trip.

Red Dog, your gonna have to actually come into the club again at some point to win a seat! Were all missing you! 

[pleno1]

Tried hard to read the first one, but just so many pages hard to keep up. Will def keep in touch with this one, don't know you personally but agree you seem a natural writer and obv got lots of stories to tell. GL.

[Royal Flush]

mev an incred balla in Vegas, should be good.

[action man]

mev an incred balla in Vegas, should be good.

incred pre nip

[kinboshi]

He's back!

[The_nun]

He's back!

Looking forward to this.

[TheChipPrince]

Looking forward to this.

[outragous76]

Rob

In terms of funding the seats - why dont you try and hold a few "Double Shoot Outs" at DTD

£100 +10 buy in - 10 tables of 10 - playing a SNG format down to 1 winner at each table who move to a final table of 10 (im sure you know the format).

Ok you are only generating 10k - but knowing your generoisty - you have frequently overlaid events - but a 10k payday would go a fair way to paying for someone.

These can be held during your "event weekends" and you could easily get to 100 runners later on the saturday when people are going busto from the main game. The ave live SNG time should be no more than 1.5 hours - therefore (including flex) - you should have a winner within 4 hours. You could even turbo the first part and then standard clock the final table?

Given that you are talking about trying to generate 15-20 seats in circa 10 weeks -  i think this could be one option. I would happily take a few shots at something like this. I guess the main problem is that you would have to offer 1 package with no HU chop available (unless top 2 want to strike a private arrangement for payment).

Just a thought - good luck wiht this thou

[Blatch]

DTD only have 9 player tables.

But 11 x 9 handed tables is a good idea.  Could even host on a 300 evening if organised in advance and could cancel if not got the runners.  Although I would say make it £200 and give 2 seats if sold out.

[outragous76]

DTD only have 9 player tables.

But 11 x 9 handed tables is a good idea.  Could even host on a 300 evening if organised in advance and could cancel if not got the runners.  Although I would say make it £200 and give 2 seats if sold out.

minor problem with that thou?!?!!!? - you could squeeze 10 surely? tables arent going to be 10 handed for long in a SNG

Also I think people would snap play for 100, whereas people would think about it for 200 - i think to fill 100 runners you need the buyin to be low enough

I dont know whether the DTD software allows but you could obv do it on-line too

[kinboshi]

DTD only have 9 player tables.

But 11 x 9 handed tables is a good idea.  Could even host on a 300 evening if organised in advance and could cancel if not got the runners.  Although I would say make it £200 and give 2 seats if sold out.

minor problem with that thou?!?!!!? - you could squeeze 10 surely? tables arent going to be 10 handed for long in a SNG

Also I think people would snap play for 100, whereas people would think about it for 200 - i think to fill 100 runners you need the buyin to be low enough

I dont know whether the DTD software allows but you could obv do it on-line too

Even have preliminary shoot-out rounds online for £10/£20 a time - winners get a ticket into a live shootout first-round proper.  Like the FA Cup, sort of.  That would attract the less balla, and I'm sure increase the interest?

[AlrightJack]

Rob, I suggest you take legal advice before you schedule any live sats for the WSOP, because as far as I am aware it is illegal due to the USA not being a white listed territory. We would have liked to run them at Grosvenor, but cannot because of this.

[outragous76]

DTD only have 9 player tables.

But 11 x 9 handed tables is a good idea.  Could even host on a 300 evening if organised in advance and could cancel if not got the runners.  Although I would say make it £200 and give 2 seats if sold out.

minor problem with that thou?!?!!!? - you could squeeze 10 surely? tables arent going to be 10 handed for long in a SNG

Also I think people would snap play for 100, whereas people would think about it for 200 - i think to fill 100 runners you need the buyin to be low enough

I dont know whether the DTD software allows but you could obv do it on-line too

Even have preliminary shoot-out rounds online for £10/£20 a time - winners get a ticket into a live shootout first-round proper.  Like the FA Cup, sort of.  That would attract the less balla, and I'm sure increase the interest?

Thats a great idea - just have 1 or 2 tables continually playing sattys all day for £10 or £20 -  you would generate loads of runners. You could even do 1 handed sattys for this amount - where Trumper does his 4 hole cards - turning 1  card per street single handed sattys.

[outragous76]

Rob, I suggest you take legal advice before you schedule any live sats for the WSOP, because as far as I am aware it is illegal due to the USA not being a white listed territory. We would have liked to run them at Grosvenor, but cannot because of this.

boooooooooooooooooo! 

No doubt very valid input Jon

but surely you could dress this up as a £15k VIP vegas pasckage with $10k worth of poker buyins to be chosen by operator? It just so happens they buy you into the WSOP main?