Open Invite

Paul Spillane

In response to the thread by Dagunman….Irish poker I would like to invite any regular boards poster interested in coming to Boylepokers head office in Dundalk to meet us, have a meeting to discuss all or any of the following topics

• Boylepoker
• Irish Poker both online and offline
• Promotions aimed at the Irish market online and offline
• Player Sponsorship
• Merchandising
• TV show ideas

This is a serious invitation; if you are interested in attending please email me at pspillane@boylepoker.com

I’m not sure what response I will get but I will keep you informed.

Paul Spillane
Boylepoker.com Manager

Ste05

What exactly are you proposing?

Is this basically market research? As such, will these people be compensated for their time?

Lafortezza

Why go to dundalk when we can ask you stuff and question your sexuality here? :pac:

RoadSweeper

How about rakeback and a massive bonus and we'll think about it??

yeah-buddy

I'm not gonna go but just want to say one thing, reward the tournament players with freerolls and stuff not just the cash players

RedJoker

yeah-buddy wrote: »

I'm not gonna go but just want to say one thing, reward the tournament players with freerolls and stuff not just the cash players

Don't reward the cash players with freerolls at all, we don't want them and won't play them.

Paul Spillane

Firstly Thank You very much to those of you who took the time to contact me.

I am still waiting to speak to two of you and have sent you pm's to arrange a time to call you.

Its been great to have such positive feedback and arrange meetings for discussions to continue. I hope to be able to post the findings and conclusions of all these meetings (with the players permission) once they have taken place.

Once again thank you for your time and input

Paul Spillane

What is the point of these meetings? What are Boylesports hoping to achieve? Who will be taking the meetings? If this constitutes market research or "expert opinion", will the people be compensated appropriately?

sproodles

Oh pish, why must you be so antagonistic. If you dont like the idea don't go. Give the man his dues after all he only has about five minutes left of grace till he gets torn apart piece by piece...

sproodles

sproodles wrote: »

Oh pish, why must you be so antagonistic. If you dont like the idea don't go. Give the man his dues after all he only has about five minutes left of grace till he gets torn apart piece by piece...

Not antagonising, just asking is all.

Mr.Plough

sproodles wrote: »

Oh pish, why must you be so antagonistic. If you dont like the idea don't go. Give the man his dues after all he only has about five minutes left of grace till he gets torn apart piece by piece...

Come to my house to "discuss poker" plz. If you don't like the idea don't come, but don't ask me what is involved.

RoundTower

prediction: OP has been overwhelmed by PMs from busto live donkament players who want to push their case for sponsorship

CHD

RoundTower wrote: »

prediction: OP has been overwhelmed by PMs from busto live donkament players who want to push their case for sponsorship

was goin to say that aswell!!!

luckylucky

Deleted User wrote: »

Not antagonising, just asking is all.

lol calm down Sproodles. Not every thread is like the rag2gar one aroun here

btw If Boyle or any other site want to sponsor me giv us a bell... 'Paddy in Portugal' has a nice ring to it don't ya think

I wonder if I had put it in bullet points would it have seemed less antagonistic?

Meh, just cannot figure out why on earth Boyle are doing this is all.

Paul Spillane

Hi

The invite was to discuss with players a question that Dagunman had originally posed, ‘Irish Poker, where do we stand?’ I agreed with some points and disagreed with others.

I read it just as I had presented to my boss, the strategy Boylepoker should take over the next 24 months and beyond.

The invite was to discuss Daguman’s post, the way in which we could be involved, suggestions from both players and ourselves on how to improve things and generally have a chat about all things Irish and Poker.

I have been overwhelmed by the positive response and over the next few weeks will be meeting players at our HQ, at various agreed hotels and at Irish Poker venues. As my post earlier indicated I have had to close the invite (for now) as I need to spend time discussing plans with those that took the time to reply to me and of course implementing those said plans.

We did not get overwhelmed by players enquiring about sponsorship, in fact only one player mentioned it and he is a very reputable player that will undoubtedly find sponsorship when the time suits him.

The response we got was from a wide cross section of the Irish community that appear not to have their self interests at heart but the interests of the Irish Poker playing community as a whole and I am extremely grateful that they have agreed to give me the time to discuss this further with them.

I am more than happy to report back (if the players are agreed to this), on the discussions held. I would be happy for anyone I meet to also give their feedback on this site.

I am acutely aware that Boylepoker could have a better reputation in the Irish market and there are many reasons (or excuses) why this is not the case. I intend to correct this in the very near future. Of course, actions speak louder than words; please be patient (ish) but you will be seeing a new ‘Boylepoker’ in the very near future. Of course if you don’t like it we can now blame someone other than ourselves. (That was a joke btw).

HoLLLLLaments

Ill take one sponsorship deal with 100% rakeback please. Thx. Also id like some hoodys with logos.

sproodles

HoLLLLLaments wrote: »

Ill take one sponsorship deal with 100% rakeback please. Thx. Also id like some hoodys with logos.

lol

Frankygolucky

Good Luck with this. Less of the scepticism please those of You who are cynical.This seems a genuine attempt by Boyle Sports to understand what We want.

ocallagh

Frankygolucky wrote: »

This seems a genuine attempt by Boyle Sports to understand what We want.

Of course it's genuine. Other companies that don't have a community to tap into call it market research.

Van Dice

Hi Paul.

If not too late to be taken into consideration, the main issues players have (and I'm obviously not speaking for all, just people I've spoken to) are;
1) rakeback
2) sign-up bonus
3) software ;-
of which there are lots of issues
a) automatic top-up whenever below 100 BBs)
b) re-sizeable tables
c) extremely accessible player notes (pref colour coded).

This is completely off the top of my head, I hope everyone else has provided a more comprehensive list. All the best for future improvements

sproodles

ocallagh wrote: »

Of course it's genuine. Other companies that don't have a community to tap into call it market research.

I agree, call a spade a spade. But market research and the recognition that these type of communities ARE the target audience is a step in the right direction.
I don't see anywhere in his post where he is pretending to be Sr Assumpta of the five wounds.

bohsman

Paul Spillane wrote: »

Hi



The invite was to discuss Daguman’s post, the way in which we could be involved, suggestions from both players and ourselves on how to improve things and generally have a chat about all things Irish and Poker.

Wouldnt it be great if there was some place on the internet where people could get together and discuss these sort of things.

ditpoker

sproodles wrote: »

I agree, call a spade a spade. But market research and the recognition that these type of communities ARE the target audience is a step in the right direction.
I don't see anywhere in his post where he is pretending to be Sr Assumpta of the five wounds.

i agree with sproddles. fair play to boylepoker for actively seeking our opinion. as poker players we moan "why dont people listen to us" and a poker company come on and say "ok, we'll listen" and people look for reasons to give out. yes it equates to free market research, fair play to them for spotting the opportunity.

DubTony

sproodles wrote: »

I don't see anywhere in his post where he is pretending to be Sr Assumpta of the five wounds.

Well he wouldn't, would he. Cos Sr. Assumpta's game is blackjack, not poker. I think she was one of the MIT crowd that "broke" the casinos.

sproodles

Just shows you what a difficult habit it is to get out of