A Big Change At DTD
Rob Yong , the owner and brainchild has made public a statement of his thoughts and now actions leading to a big change at Dusk till Dawn, if you frequent the Poker Mecca then please keep reading.
After a chat with his mom this weekend, she asked why he didn’t go to DTD anymore? He must have dwelled seriously on this question and has now gone back to the basic principle of why DTD opened in the first place.
DTD was originally opened after Himself and Nick Whitten got turned away from a local comp due to their local rules. Whilst looking for a game on their way back they came up with the original concept of the now called Dusk Till Dawn.
It was never supposed to be a business, it was a place where he could socialise with his friends, entertain business partners and have a decent game of poker when he wanted. Recently Rob has not been into the club very often, and the emphasis was leaning more and more to the business side. To his credit he has taken a step back and reassesed the situation, and now has taken steps back to achieve his original goal.
Dusk Till Dawn will now be closed on Mondays and Tuesdays!! Rebuys are a thing of the past, all comps will be freeze outs. This will start from 4th August 2008.
Hopefully the place will now start buzzing again as the atmosphere IMO had started to get a little flat, the locals were now spreading their attendance over 7 days, by condensing the fields should now get back to how they were. His statement can be read here. ….. Rob Yong’s Press Release
Fantastic decision IMO but some of the staff seem very downhearted by the looks of facebook comments, only time will tell
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Hi,
I have been to the club tonight (the last Tuesday we will open!) and spoke to a lot of people, we had 62 runners for the comp plus another 48 people come for cash games/drinks etc, I have also read the posts on this thread, so I thought it would be approriate to reply, so here goes:
1. Opening Days – these are set in stone, these extra 2 days will really allow us to plan and organise DTD a lot better, the quality of service has dipped below what I consider to be acceptable even though we still get plenty of compliments, myself and Nick have “other jobs” as well as DTD and the strain on the other members of the management team of supporting a 7 day operation + planning 3rd party events + planning festivals has been way too much. I do not want to recruit more people into the management team as this will dilute the passion, In 2009 we will have 12 3rd party events, 12 321’s weekends and 4 DTD festivals, we need those extra 2 days to get things right. Also, when we were open 4 days we would use the other 3 days to train the staff, the 7 day schedule has made this impossible. Maggie and Yogi both did over 80 hours last week – thats is too much to be effective and happy working at DTD.
2. Opening/Closing Hours : These are not set in stone, when we first opened for 4 days, we said 4am closing but on Fridays and Saturdays we ended up closing at 6am because a lot of players wanted to stay later, we are licenced till 6am so we can review the closing hours on a weekly basis and make the correct tweaks to satisfy our customers.
3. Re-Buys – We get 80-100 runners on the Friday £20 RB and plenty of cash game players – but you can get this type of comp in most casinos across the country, we set DTD up to offer a different product and I played this comp one night and the whole table went all-in first hand after a player had raised with AA, of course, he got busted and left the club 5 minutes later, I felt bad – I don’t want to feel bad. I never wanted re-buys at DTD as I wrote in my diary thread, and I want to be true to my word.
4. DTD as a Business – I have 2 types of businesses in my portfolio, “commercial” and “lifestyle”, DTD is the latter, like my Pub and Football Club, this means it should be a pleasure to operate even I don’t get any “wages” from it (yes – believe it or not “dealers choice crew” – we have not made 1p of profit since we opened), the enjoyment should outweigh the financial benefits. It has not been “pleasureble” to run a 7 days poker club, so I have made these changes. If DTD was a “commerical” business I would stick machines and casino tables in the club, therefore, I want a smaller, more exclusive and easier to manage operation.
Thanks for your comments,
Cheers
Rob