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Des:

--- Quote ---How did you get from working in purchasing into the poker industry?
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I made a deliberate move into betting and gaming at Sky just after APAT launched as I knew I would need gambling industry contacts and knowledge to build APAT as a product.  It"s a decision I"ve never regretted.


--- Quote ---Thoughts on Ginger people in managerial positions?
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Absolutely no problems as long as you don"t piss them off too badly.  We can be very hot headed despite our calm exterior!  ;)

Des:

--- Quote from: Paulie_D on June 01, 2012, 13:36:46 PM ---
Blimey it was back in 2005 wasn"t it?

I was with the London Poker Meetup in its glory days at the time and I seem to recall meeting him and asking him him asking a bunch of us around a poker table (possibly at home game, probably in the Bexleyheath area) whether we'd turn up to a deep stacked, dealer dealt tournament in a casino for around £75.

In fact, it must have been sometime after October 2005 because I think I'd just bought the Audi and ran him and a couple of others to the station afterwards.

The best we could manage at the LPM was a £50 deepstack, self-dealt about once every couple of months and that was in the backroom of a working man's club.

I believe we snapped his hand off at the thought.  ;D

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That was in late 2005 and it was helpful to use the LPM as a sounding board, but if I remember correctly, I was as secretive then as now and very few knew what was coming until we launched in August 2006. 

I will tell the APAT story in some form of chronological order, as it involved bringing in key people like Rich and Tikay, before doing deals with PokerStars and Grosvenor, which were ground breaking at the time.  Stories around the launch alone could take days to tell and the drama and reaction to it all was very intense at the time.  But more of that later when I get a proper period of time to write.

ps - FYP  :)

Des:

--- Quote from: fandango on June 01, 2012, 13:40:28 PM ---
Fantastic... Looking forward to new enstalments, obv coming "soon".. Just out of interest will the latest edition to the Duffy family be a Welsh or Irish rugby supporter???

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This has quite possibly been my toughest negotiation to date.  I"ve had to think far more fairly than I normally would.  I can"t find my way to answer the question though.   ::)

bear21:
 Only one answer to that born in Wales
Support the welsh  -sorted lol ;D

Des:
I"ve just sent an email to the Gaming Director at Caesars Palace to discuss repeating the APAT North American Amateur Poker Championship again, later in season six - probably January or February. 

I don"t necessarily expect a UK contingent to go this time, but with the US market on the verge of opening up it would seem to make sense for APAT to maintain our presence there to build on what we did in October. 

Plus having had the experience of running an event there, I"m sure there is a lot we could do to really create some local hype around any potential event this season.

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