Re: FN-FORUM: online poker

date posted 11th October 2006 11:02

Paul Cooper wrote:
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> On 11 Oct 2006 07:47:26 -0000, Simon Dingley
> [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>> the recent Dragon's Den programme where somebody won financial backing=

>> for the same idea. That particular league was located around a single
>> area and I think had about 1000 players over a period of 12 months. Th=
e
>> Poker in the Pub league has been running for about 11 weeks and
>> currently has over 1500 players so the marketing has been very
>> successful and is looking forward to a second league
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> Yeh I saw that and thought it was a great idea. Wasn't he the first
> to get more money than what he originally wanted. I think they
> mentioned it was risky because it could easily be replicated. Not
> sure how long ago the programme was recorded but I doubt the investor
> was happy when they found out about your client.

Yes he was the first to get more money than he asked for. The fact that=20
they considered =A365k(i think) to be worth 40% of the business(from=20
memory) was a good sign, plus our league covers areas across the country =

and is not just concentrated on a single area which was a bad move IMHO. =

We had already spoken to the guy at the NPL before our league started so =

he was well aware of us before going onto the programme and failed to=20
mention it to the investors.