Anything that anyone can do to get genuine poker players to join the club before we open would be much appreciated. As long as the forum that you are posting on does not mind you mentioning the DTD Live Club and putting the link to the site, this would be a great help. Thank You.
There is a fine line between spamming and providing information on a forum. Most live venues in the UK including Grovsvenor, Broadway, Gala etc all "advertise" their services (comps, cash games etc) on forums, so I do not think that posting a link to join the DTD club could be considered as spamming, but I think it would look better if it came from a "non-dtd" person. I am very aware that there a a number of people who are waiting to stick the knife into DTD (or any other new idea) at the first chance (its always the same bunch of jockeys) so I want to be "whiter that white".
I think openly marketing the DTD online card room (waste of time at the moment - as its not launching till Jan now) could be seen as spamming., especially on a forum that operated an online room themselves (such as Blondepoker, Betfair etc), so I would prefer not to market dtdpokeronline on the forums.
Although I want to show the Gaming Board the biggest list of members possible (to prove demand), I will also be sending invites / producing membership cards for these people - so only want genuine sign ups. When a person visits DTD for the first time, they will need to produce photo ID (gaming law). I have decided that although we will have an annual, festival and casual membership fee, every person's 1st visit to the club will be free of charge so they can fully appreciate the facilities before we ask them to pay any type of membership fee (the old "try before you buy" system).
