As an idea and a barn full of maps of Europe's largest shop for casino and poker was accessory.
As Detlev Erhardt over ten years ago a visit to Las Vegas, was done without any ulterior motive. As an employee at Activision in Santa Monica, California, took the opportunity from time to time been true in the player's paradise in the desert away. Erhardt also looking for something just distraction and not a profitable poker game. Poker, he plays only rarely, and when, he laughs, "then I belong mostly to the people who finance the winners."
The idea
The impulse to deal with a new business idea in Germany to build an existence, however, but arose in a casino. During a conversation with a roulette player Erhardt asked suddenly, where he is actually the necessary equipment could be addressed only if he himself wanted to organize some games. And further: What is actually getting their casino tables and chips come from? A brief search revealed that there is no dealer of its kind in Germany, and that apparently no one had tried to fill this niche.
The stable
"So I have two palettes with all sorts of what might need to casinos, packed and sent to Germany." Starting then everything in the online auction house Ebay, in 2001. Erhardt initially sold almost exclusively online, and for good reason: "We had no real bearing and therefore have the whole material kept in a stall. If someone personally passed, I was rather embarrassed."
The ascent
Nevertheless, and this is quite unusual, "actually ran the business from the beginning." So Erhardt founded the "Gamblerstore", referring to sales space and began to recruit staff. The poker boom in Europe, of course, did his rest in order to stimulate business, so that even today 80% of annual turnover in this area take place. Today, the team not only from sales and administration, also employs two carpenters and two interior designers - "for the specific jobs." And what does that mean? "There are people who want a poker table in the old style, because their body fits. So then what do our carpenters, "says Erhardt, and adds after a moment's reflection, adding:" But of course we must first ask what Old English at all means. "
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And what was the most unusual job? "Have you ever built a table that is not burning and not from an airplane falls?" No, we have not. "We do. The order came from an air finisher. A poker table, anchored in an airplane. The number of Safety requirements for such a project are innumerable. " And how do you get with the fire under control? "It takes every part of a poker table, holding a lighter turn, and if it starts to burn, just looking for alternative materials."
Moving
In the last year, the Gamblerstore 5 million euro turnover made. "I am rather a businessman," said Erhard. In cooperation with Everest Poker Animazing held in early June a live tournament, where two seats for the WSOP to win are, as guests have the professionals Michael Keiner and Hans Martin Vogl, Stephan Kalhamer strategist, DSF Poker commentator Michael Körner and Kartentrick specialist Michael Dworschak. now moves to the shop. The new hall in Regensburg has an area of 4000 square meters.
source: pokerlistings.de
2009-05-22
Finland is planning poker site - and the advertising?
Known can be seen in Finland during the winter months does not make much. Therefore the government is planning its own poker site to open. The only thing on the hook: poker advertising could soon be banned!
The fact that politicians like to shoot the target should be known recently. Thus the Finnish poker player does not come up with the idea to foreign Poker platforms to make their money, the state plans to regulate the advertising of foreign bureaus to ban poker. That would bring the government to play like the Finnish citizens, and a huge competitive advantage. Indeed, so it should not just online poker providers have a hard time, even Finnish tournament organizers can then sponsor their events no longer imagine. Because who wants a tournament financial support if he can not advertise?
According to our information, would such an advertising ban is not against the EU law. It is every member of the European Union allowed, even on the present facts are.
Pekka Takki, players lawyer, believes that such a ban can not be kept. "In my opinion the present Finnish model can not hold. But political opinion and public opinion here are always in support of the monopoly."
We Pokerlistings.de you are obviously on the other operations to keep up.
source: pokerlistings.de
The fact that politicians like to shoot the target should be known recently. Thus the Finnish poker player does not come up with the idea to foreign Poker platforms to make their money, the state plans to regulate the advertising of foreign bureaus to ban poker. That would bring the government to play like the Finnish citizens, and a huge competitive advantage. Indeed, so it should not just online poker providers have a hard time, even Finnish tournament organizers can then sponsor their events no longer imagine. Because who wants a tournament financial support if he can not advertise?
According to our information, would such an advertising ban is not against the EU law. It is every member of the European Union allowed, even on the present facts are.
Pekka Takki, players lawyer, believes that such a ban can not be kept. "In my opinion the present Finnish model can not hold. But political opinion and public opinion here are always in support of the monopoly."
We Pokerlistings.de you are obviously on the other operations to keep up.
source: pokerlistings.de
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