blonde poker

 

Chubbs and me have spent all week speaking to various online poker rooms and all the feedback has been very positive. We sent them all a written specification of the DTD requirements and they sent us their answers back. What was surprising was the differences in their charges. Some rooms want to charge you a helfty price for the set up of the site, some charge a support monthly fee, othes just charge a % of rake and there are numerous scales of rake splits etc. It's a minefield of information that needs disecting and analysing before we make any further decisions. It may be necessary to get on a plane and meet some of these people but we'll cross that bridge when we have narrowed down the shortlist.

Everytime I think I've filled out the last form for the licencing, I get another one from the solicitor, surely I should not have to keep duplicating my name, address, contact details etc on every single form, its a right repetitive process. I'm not even considering the possibility of us not getting the gaming licence no matter how many times people mention it to me, I'm sure the Gaming Board will give me one after all the forms I have filled out, that's good logic.

It would have been nice to go to the EPT at Deauville this week, it was in my poker schedule, but time did not allow it unfortunatley. With being barred from the Broadway my next poker will be at Walsall, hopefully. Playing poker is the reason why I got involved in this venture in the first place, the ironic thing is that that I probably wont be able to play at the DTD club and most of the locations around the UK! Mind you, I've still got my house to play at.

The refit plans have not progressed this week, but we have finally managed to get detailed electrical, structural and mechanical plans from the owner of the building. This will make the job of the 3 designers we have instructed a lot easier. We will only end up going with 1 of them, basically whoever comes up with the best design. From their we select our contractor, who will be most efficient at executing the designers plans. Its a long process as we must get planning permission for our final design, but I am hoping we will be in and starting work in April. The schedule of works from rip out to completion has been estimated at 22 weeks by all 3 contractors, so basically we should definatley open in 2006.

Techology is a key issue in our club. We will have a number of systems that must all talk to eachother:

1. Online poker room
2. Online banking system
3. Internal cashiering and Membership system
4. Card Room management system
5. EPOS food and beverage system
6. Our Web Site

Hopefully Pete, our full time IT guy will be able to get these 6 pieces of software communicating so that we dont have loads of admin and wasted time. He is working his backside off so if the effort converts into results we'll be fine.

I'm gonna have this weekend off and spend it with my family. Too many light nights this week.