I am working my ass off, we did not finalise DTD online reward scheme till 3 hours ago, its been chopping and changing for the last 6 months, and at the conference we had in St Kitts where Cryptologic put in a uniform policy accross their whole network forced us to re-think again. Anyway, I think we have done our best for all potential DTD players.....we'll see what happens.........
The bringing forward of our online launch has also meant a lot of extra work on the web site. Our web programmers have actually produced us a decent back office system, but they are such IT techies, so it's been a nightmare to operate as a user, however, we have made a lot of progress over the last 2 weeks with BigPete working 24 hrs with me on MSN.
I wanted to make a project meeting with Nick today, he was meeting a number of key suppliers and I wanted to nail them down, but I just could not make it. He popped round tonight and told me everything was going really well with the club re-fit, I asked him "are we in budget", he answered, "ish".....hmmm
I finally met with TK tonight to agree a deal between DTD and Blondepoker
1. DTD will replace William Hill/Poker 425 as the official sponsors of The Blondepoker Forum............so it will be "The Blondepoker Forum sponsored by DTDPOKER"
2. DTD will pay the full costs of 2 BP updaters + TK (flights/hotels/expenses) to report on the 9 events on the DTD Tour. These are all 7 EPT's, WPT Paris and the WSOP.
3. DTD will have a forum "within" Blondepoker's forum, and BP will set up and moderate this. DTD will pay a monthly service charge for this service.
4. DTD will put up £8,000 per annum for added value poker tournaments such as Blondebash etc. TK can use this money at his discretion, and even use as player bonuses in the BP Card Room is he sees fit, basically, its £8,000 that must go to the BP members.
5. DTDPOKER will have a download banner on the forum and live updates page. The banners must be be approved by TK before they are given to BP techical team.
6. TK will help me generally promote DTD using his contacts, thats a bit woolley, but I think he is a good guy for us to bounce things off and he has lots of interesting ideas on the live poker side.
We put a target of 1st January 2007 to get all these things in place, but I can't see past tomorrow at the moment. Whatever happens the contract will start from the 1st January anyway, I 'm glad we have finally sorted this out and shook hands on a minimum 12 month deal.
Of course we will be both be operating online card rooms, but I don't see that being an issue between me and TK, and why can't people play on both sites.........nearly every member of this site will have a Ladbrokes, Party Poker or Pokerstars account, so its really no big deal.
Gotta work through the night now. Have not slept much in last 2 weeks.......
