DTD victim of its own success tonight

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I was slightly miffed at not getting to play tonight. Fell between 2 stools as I only found out I could definitely play after 6.00pm when the online entries for the £55 had closed. Then drove the hour and a half to get there and arrived at 7.50pm for the 8 o'clock start to be in a queue a mile long to pay into the £55. When I arrived i guessed what it was gonna be like before I even got in there, as they had closed the gates on the car park as it was rammed. I had to park on the strip clubs car park (honest) The £55 had already sold out when I arrived and I was about 25th on the list of alternates. They still made me pay the £55 which was a bit daft as I then had to queue for a refund at the end of level 3 to get my dough back! It was all due to the massive success of the £330 deep-stack 2 day event, which had 360 runners for a prize pool in excess of £100,000. Because of this they had no dealers for the £55 regular Sat night comp. It really looked poor to see them running self deal tournaments, you expect that at some grotty casino in a £5 re-buy, even up to £20 comps. But I would not expect to have to self deal at £55. As I couldn't play in either of the tournaments, I went to the cash game desk only to be told that they had so many on all the lists that they couldn't even take my name for any table! I'm sure they will sort this out for next month, but if they don't they could end up being a victim of their own success. I certainly will not go again for the £55 when the £330 is on as I may as well go to the Broadway (in Birmingham) and be dealer dealt in comfort. They had absolutely loads of people just stood around hoping to get called as an alternate to either comp or the cash games, it was completely mad. The place has never had so many people in it. If they had another dozen tables and 100 chairs spare they could easily have filled them. I don't wish this post to sound like a pop at DTD which is a brilliantly run venue. (My one and only real gripe is that i tried to ring them from 6.30 on wards and all i got was the answer machine. I did leave a message and no one rang me back, whats the point of having a phone if they don't answer it?) On a positive note it seems that poker players have no understanding of the term "Credit Crunch" :ok

[JulioArca]

Re: DTD victim of it's own success tonight Time for a DTD2 me thinks! Any chance they want to franchise this somewhere a bit closer to South Wales!