He even sent one of his assistants down to London to watch the Gutshot case. He's really keen to get involved with this project as he has seen the growth in poker over the last few years and thinks that using us as a test case could bring him future business in the poker licencing area.
Hopefully, he will bear this in mind when I get the final bill, which he has estimated at at around £80,000, £40,000 legal bill + £45,000 licencing fees (more negotiation need here I think, an an element of the fee to be success dependant). Our licencing targets are:
March 2006 - Certificate of Consent from Gaming Commission
April 2006 - Liqor Licence (we are applying for 24hrs under new legislation)
April 2006 - Hearing with Nottingham Magistates Court for Gaming Licence
After that I popped in to see our IT guy, Pete, who was waking up from an afternoon nap after working through the night. He's making steady progress with the plan we agreed but the results are still hard to measure at this stage. I'm a massive fan of using technology to make peoples jobs easier and control a business.
Tomorrow Chubbs is coming down at 12pm to work on the marketing stuff, then I'm doing a guided tour of premises for a few people who have asked, then back to work on more marketing, then some HEADS - UP, then Blonde Poker Bash on Saturday.
I can't believe the amount of people who know about the club plans, even when I play online, players are asking me how its going and wishing me good luck. Word of mouth spreads quickly in poker and I'm sure this diary on BP has helped loads. I've had 3 requests for interviews from newspapers (but thats Chubbs job) as well as loads of emails from people I have never met or spoken to, its getting real interest which can only be a positve thing and hopefully mean we wil be able to meet out target membership.
