We won't actually complete on the premises until the liquor licence comes through. This could take 8-12 weeks, but we should "exchange" subject to contract in January. The actual building is built on a methane site so we will need to have a structual survey and sumbit our plans to building control at the council. Lots of fiddly admin and red tape.
I've had a few posts asking about the poker schedule in the club. I have asked the Card Room Managers who have applied for jobs to come up a complete monthly schedule of what they would like to do, as part of the application process. All I can say at the moment is that we will be avoiding crapshoot and re-buy events and looking at catering for early starts. We may even look at running 2 comps each evening with less runners and different start times to achive these objectives.
In terms of cash games, I am sure hold'em, omaha and dealers choice will be catered for at various limits We have planned to have 2 cash game rooms of 13 tables , one high limit, separate from the regular tournament area. Of course, what we end up putting on will untimately depend on the what the members want, and external competitions we are able to attract. There is so much to around setting up the club, we probably won't know the details of the poker schedule until 2 months before we open.
I've had a lot of requests for membership forms (which is positive), we will be setting up a web site where people can log in to join. This should me up some time in January. No money will be collected, people can just indicate which type of membership people want and enter their details into the site. Everyone who joins will be invited to the opening night party and be given their membership cards on their first visit. All fees will be able to be monthly. At £1.25 per vist for Gold Members I have no concerns at all that this will put off the type of players we are trying to attract.
