DTD Valets

[mporter123]

What on earth were they wearing! Is this a new thing? Comes across as tacky, seedy, and unprofessional imo.

Why don't they use the playing cards with the naked ladies on as well and stick a pole in the middle of the room for good measure. Do DTD really think players are more likely to play at their room if they can leer at young women while they play the game? Sad situation if that is true.

[deanp27]

I"d need pictures before I could comment

[Marty719]

Meh.  Think its just Rob being a smart guy and getting the punters in.  Obv not entirely fair, and was a bit creepy watching people leering all over them at times, but the majority seemed comfortable in them (having come from Hooters) and Im sure they got tips galore!

Was unfair that so many lost their jobs over not wearing them though, and shud be given a choice.

[Marty719]

ps...I liked them  

[Paulie_D]

The new uniforms were a hot topic of conversation over the weekend.

It MAY or may not be connected by when I dropped into Hooters Nottingham (purely in the interests of research you understand) there was a big poster in the window advertising their link up with Alea Nottingham for Poker nights.

I"m just sayin"!

[Paulie_D]

I"d need pictures before I could comment

Basically, the Hooters uniform in all black with DTD branding.

If you can"t picture that...then there is no hope for you as a hetero male.

[deanp27]

I"d need pictures before I could comment

Basically, the Hooters uniform in all black with DTD branding.

If you can"t picture that...then there is no hope for you as a hetero male.

I don"t want to use my imagination though, I just wanted some pics.

[AMRN]

Like any other middle aged pervert, I loved the new uniform style...... BUT I detested it in that environment. If Rob is trying to bring punters in, we have to question the type of punter he wants.... and he certainly isn"t doing anything toward growing the female player base.

I thought DTD was serious about poker - looks like we"ll be getting a lap dance on the final table rather than a free drink.

[duke3016]

looks like we"ll be getting a lap dance on the final table rather than a free drink.

[MintTrav]

About 3 years ago, when The Phoenix was Duff"s, they once had a pole-dancing night. It took place in another room but the punters were few, so the management came up with the idea of having the cash tables taken into the other room.

That was one surreal night, check-folding while girls were pole-dancing a couple of feet away in bikini bottoms only. Apart from the pole thing, they also came round the table trying to inveigle guys for private dances and I can remember one or two of them lay on the poker table at some point. It wasn"t really a success as most of the players were more interested in the poker, so I felt a bit sorry for the dancers. Not something I"m likely to forget though.

[Claw75]

What on earth were they wearing! Is this a new thing? Comes across as tacky, seedy, and unprofessional imo.

Why don't they use the playing cards with the naked ladies on as well and stick a pole in the middle of the room for good measure. Do DTD really think players are more likely to play at their room if they can leer at young women while they play the game? Sad situation if that is true.

It"s one thing I"ve never understood about DTD tbh - why they feel the need to employ such tacky "advertising".  They have what is pretty much unarguably the best cardroom in the country, and that and the tournaments and professional service they provide are plenty to get the punters in.  I"m not sure all this other stuff actually helps, and I really think they underestimate their clientele.  The current advertising banners on the blonde forum are an example of this.  Also remember a promotion they did early doors where they offered a prize of a "bubble bath (from some hotties in bikinis) for the bubble boy" in some tournament or other.  I dunno, I guess a lot of the guys like it, but I"d personally have thought the vast majority of the clientele would prefer something a bit more classy.

Was unfair that so many lost their jobs over not wearing them though, and shud be given a choice.

pretty shocking if true

[Curlarge]

I like a scantily clad female like most blokes do, but it cheapened the place for me, and there wasn"t anything wrong with the other uniforms either.

[Paulie_D]

Apropos of nothing, we should bear in mind that DTD is not a profit making business at the moment.

Rob, by his own admission, puts £1m into DTD every year out of his own pocket.

Now there are arguments that he could save a few shekels here and there by not sticking in those guarantees but, for him, IIRC, they are DTD"s unique selling point.

If he wants to get a few more punters through the door by these means then I"m not going to complain although I do feel that the valets who weren"t given the option were particularly hard done by.

[jbworldwide]

Apropos of nothing, we should bear in mind that DTD is not a profit making business at the moment.

Rob, by his own admission, puts £1m into DTD every year out of his own pocket.

Now there are arguments that he could save a few shekels here and there by not sticking in those guarantees but, for him, IIRC, they are DTD"s unique selling point.

If he wants to get a few more punters through the door by these means then I"m not going to complain although I do feel that the valets who weren"t given the option were particularly hard done by.

TBH if he puts in a million pounds a year into it out of his own pocket then sorry he is an idiot. DTD is not a viable business and looks like it never will be if he keeps on bailing it out which means that one day DTD will go under because that is not sustainable and it is not building a sustainable business. And if that figure is correct I would tell him because DTD is great and he doesn"t need to do drastic things to keep it that way.

I told him to his face on Saturday night that I didn"t rate the new uniforms and that I much preferred a "classier" look.

[Jon MW]

Apropos of nothing, we should bear in mind that DTD is not a profit making business at the moment.

Rob, by his own admission, puts £1m into DTD every year out of his own pocket.

Now there are arguments that he could save a few shekels here and there by not sticking in those guarantees but, for him, IIRC, they are DTD"s unique selling point.

If he wants to get a few more punters through the door by these means then I"m not going to complain although I do feel that the valets who weren"t given the option were particularly hard done by.

If he"s marketing around football grounds and nightclubs with this kind of material then that makes sense - if he"s just putting up the marketing in places where people are going to go because of the poker anyway then it"s going to be largely ineffective