Saturday, April 6, 2013

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Dusk Till Dawn Rallies UK Poker Community Around ISPT

Posted: 05 Apr 2013 02:39 AM PDT

 

 

5 April 2013 (London, UK) Rob Yong, co-founder of Nottingham's famous Dusk Till Dawn(DTD) poker club, appears on the front cover of Bluff Europe magazine this month with a rallying cry to poker all over the UK to get behind the forthcoming ISPT at Wembley Stadium. Rob talks candidly about DTD's decision to operate and manage the tournament, as well as guarantee it for €1m to the winner, vowing that he would make the event a real success for UK poker.

Yong stressed that the guarantee of a minimum of €1 million to the winner stands regardless of the number of runners the tournament attracts, with a maximum of 20% taken out of the prize pool for first place, leaving 80% to the remaining places.

The live event will take place on 31 May until 5 June 2013 at the iconic stadium in north-west London, with players having qualified from a series of €300 day ones, played online all over the world. Ten per cent of the field from each day one will be spirited, with their stacks, to Wembley to play for the big prize. Trumper explained that the structure of the event will closely mirror that of the WSOP Main Event.

"The most exciting thing about this tournament, apart from the financial guarantee – is that this is a unique situation," Rob told Bluff Europe. "ISPT has booked Wembley stadium for a week for a significant amount of money and we have the opportunity to go and use that facility. This chance may never happen again in our lifetimes."

It's Rob's ambition to galvanise players and the industry to make the ISPT a success, something he feels that DTD is in a unique position to do. "We're not seen as competition," he says. "You’ve got the industry, you’ve got poker players and I think our position is in between, so we have a chance to unite everyone together. I would love to have, on an ongoing basis, in some form, the biggest poker event in Europe in the UK, with all the UK poker industry involved."

 

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BETDAQ DECLARES ‘TURF WAR’ ON BETFAIR AHEAD OF GRAND NATIONAL

Posted: 05 Apr 2013 02:11 AM PDT

 

Friday 5 April 2013 BETDAQ, the global betting exchange, will park its tanks firmly on rival Betfair's lawn ahead of the Grand National on Saturday as it continues its Purple Revolution.

Flanked by an army of BETDAQ foot soldiers, the two white and purple twenty-foot-long military tanks will be an unmissable sight at Aintree as they patrol outside the course, warning punters off Betfair's expensive premium charges and high commission rates.

The people's exchange, which was recently taken over by Ladbrokes, is outlining the eight-point BETDAQ Manifesto it drafted in response to customer feedback.

The Manifesto includes the promise of hundreds of pounds worth of free bets for new clients, a commission-free first month of trading and a commitment to keep rates low forever, along with a policy not to implement premium charges.

"The people have spoken and it's clear they won't settle for Betfair. The BETDAQ Manifesto is here to give them a better, fairer deal. We are making a simply unbeatable commitment to our members," said BETDAQ Managing Director Lewis Findlay. "With zero commission and hundreds of pounds of free bets for new customers, there is no reason to bet with anyone else on the Grand National. We're taking our tanks to Aintree – as far as we're concerned we've declared a turf war on our rival, more expensive exchanges!"

 

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