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Title: Interesting perspective on DTD
Post by: AMRN on July 30, 2008, 08:33:51 AM

DTD grew bigger than RobYong ever intended, but given that his client base has pledged their support to DTD, is he right to scale it back to the small club atmosphere and environment that he first envisaged.

The phenominal growth is down to the fact that his clientelle just love DTD - is it a good thing or a bad thing to take the decision that he has?

http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/newsitem.php?id=476&affiliate=newsletter

Personally I love the fact that he is scrapping the casino style fishing tournaments - that"s not real poker. But as for cutting back the hours and days, not quite so sure....

Title: Re: Interesting perspective on DTD
Post by: duke3016 on July 30, 2008, 08:52:29 AM

I think it makes sense. Cutting back to what is essentially one shift for the staff can only help with customer care (and costs). Keeping the games to freezeouts and scrapping the rebuys is a matter of choice for some people (personnaly I do not like rebuys).

You can"t please all of the people all of the time, but DTD goes very close and will continue to do so (my opinion of course)

Title: Re: Interesting perspective on DTD
Post by: RioRodent on July 30, 2008, 09:00:20 AM

I think it is absolutely the right thing to do.

I"m not a regular but I think that gives me a clearer view of the way the place has been going, when you visit somewhere very regularly you don"t tend to notice small changes. I have only been there about 4 times but those visits have been spaced over the period it has been open and in my last two visits I thought things had gone noticeably downhill.

Nothing huge, but just a feeling about the place that it was becoming less welcoming and more like playing in every other British casino I"ve played in... some of the dealers not as bright and cheerful as they could be, often asking passing floor staff, "Isn"t it time for my break?"... the standard of behaviour and language of some of the regulars, Rob"s original intention was that the atmosphere should be friendly and somewhere where he could take friends for a pleasant evening, like a big home game - well if people behaved like that in my home they would soon be shown the door... an air of stress and overwork amongst the floor-people... and then there"s the toilets - what is it with the people up there, are they not potty trained as children? How hard can it be to pee in a urinal and not on the foor underneath it? Is it a northern thing? Surely not!  ;)

If the changes bring the club back to type of atmosphere and experience it was when I first went there then I think we should all applaud Rob for standing by his principles and trying to operate a club for the enjoyment of civilised poker players and not just a money making venture.

Title: Re: Interesting perspective on DTD
Post by: HaworthBantam on July 30, 2008, 11:42:10 AM

Can"t add anything more to what Ger and Alan have said, spot on posts.

Title: Re: Interesting perspective on DTD
Post by: Mikeyboy9361 on July 30, 2008, 12:12:24 PM

Nottingham, is Midlands and not Northern! >:( How is it that Southerners think any where North of Warford is Northern! ;)

Title: Re: Interesting perspective on DTD
Post by: Paulie_D on July 30, 2008, 13:26:09 PM

Anywhere outside of the M25 is foreign territory!  ;D

Title: Re: Interesting perspective on DTD
Post by: RioRodent on July 30, 2008, 13:58:15 PM

Quote from: Mikeyboy9361 on July 30, 2008, 12:12:24 PM

Nottingham, is Midlands and not Northern! >:( How is it that Southerners think any where North of Warford is Northern! ;)

It"s north of here... don"t know where Warford is?

Title: Re: Interesting perspective on DTD
Post by: LongshanksED on July 31, 2008, 05:12:16 AM

Quote from: Mikeyboy9361 on July 30, 2008, 12:12:24 PM

Nottingham, is Midlands and not Northern! >:( How is it that Southerners think any where North of Warford is Northern! ;)

lol

why is it the english think anything around manchester is northern

last time i checked the UK map, id say manchester is in the south compared to the highlands

Title: Re: Interesting perspective on DTD
Post by: Jon MW on July 31, 2008, 08:44:34 AM

Quote from: LongshanksED on July 31, 2008, 05:12:16 AM

Quote from: Mikeyboy9361 on July 30, 2008, 12:12:24 PM

Nottingham, is Midlands and not Northern! >:( How is it that Southerners think any where North of Warford is Northern! ;)

lol

why is it the english think anything around manchester is northern

last time i checked the UK map, id say manchester is in the south compared to the highlands

Northern England, obviously we don"t think it"s worthwhile taking into account the heathens north of the border :D

Title: Re: Interesting perspective on DTD
Post by: WarBwastardo on July 31, 2008, 11:38:20 AM

Quote from: LongshanksED on July 31, 2008, 05:12:16 AM

Quote from: Mikeyboy9361 on July 30, 2008, 12:12:24 PM

Nottingham, is Midlands and not Northern! >:( How is it that Southerners think any where North of Warford is Northern! ;)

lol

why is it the english think anything around manchester is northern

last time i checked the UK map, id say manchester is in the south compared to the highlands

Northern England.  We don"t include the colonies, if we did, Manchester is still north.

Title: Re: Interesting perspective on DTD
Post by: RioRodent on July 31, 2008, 12:17:34 PM

Quote from: LongshanksED on July 31, 2008, 05:12:16 AM

Quote from: Mikeyboy9361 on July 30, 2008, 12:12:24 PM

Nottingham, is Midlands and not Northern! >:( How is it that Southerners think any where North of Warford is Northern! ;)

lol

why is it the english think anything around manchester is northern

last time i checked the UK map, id say manchester is in the south compared to the highlands

I was referring to the more habitable regions of the British Isles, Manchester is definitely in the far North. Everyone knows that north of a line between the Humber Estuary and the Wirral it is essentially a barren wasteland, covered in ice and perma-frost for 10 months of the year. Didin"t you do geography at school??

Just look at this pic... it"s GiMac and Morlspin, sharing the transport, on a recent trip down to DTD when they bumped into David Attenborough and a BBC film crew... somewhere in S Yorkshire I believe...

(http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s71/RioRodent/GiMac.jpg)