Gallo 1 Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Awesome DNA!! Nice site, I don't know about that spokesperson though. Link to post Share on other sites
mrpaddyx 13 Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Well done, you have obviously put a lot of work into this. Link to post Share on other sites
Pivvy2001 0 Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Just felt like sharing an update, things are going and growing slowly but surely.We have two nights per week going now with 4 tournaments per week.Our average turnout is 25 - 35 per event now.Have 2 more new weekly nights hopefully coming within the next 45 days which will add 4 more tournaments per week.Got my first website advertisement commercial done, not sure if this facebook works for everyone, but hopefully it does ....http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video...id=324538784667Would love feedback on that.Can't remember if I had Budweiser as a sponsor before when I posted last, but they are on board now which is awesome, they are not only giving me their name, but also doing advertisements in my locations as well as additional prize giveaways. Here is a crappy camera phone image I took ....Anywho, just wanted to update people cause FCP has just about everything to do with me being able to start this business.It's great to see this blossoming successfully and your efforts getting rewarded. Here's hoping for continued success. Link to post Share on other sites
Governator 54 Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Of course I've mentioned this many times, but great job, keep it up. Nice logo B) Link to post Share on other sites
dna4ever 2 Posted April 20, 2010 Author Share Posted April 20, 2010 Few little updates cause it keeps me motivated. Up to 3 nights per week now, hosting 6 games per week. Have a total of 2,131 player 'buy-in's to date. Picked up Bud Light and The Riviera Hotel & Casino as new sponsors. Next Monday will be tournament #100 which is a pretty awesome milestone to celebrate. First grand prize tournament will be this May 1st where I will be sending the winner to Las Vegas to stay for 4 days, 3 nights and buy them into a 2 Day WSOP Academy course. Adding a quarterly $300 real cash money tournament each quarter after May 1st. Link to post Share on other sites
TheWynn 0 Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 Few little updates cause it keeps me motivated.Up to 3 nights per week now, hosting 6 games per week. Have a total of 2,131 player 'buy-in's to date. Picked up Bud Light and The Riviera Hotel & Casino as new sponsors. Next Monday will be tournament #100 which is a pretty awesome milestone to celebrate. First grand prize tournament will be this May 1st where I will be sending the winner to Las Vegas to stay for 4 days, 3 nights and buy them into a 2 Day WSOP Academy course. Adding a quarterly $300 real cash money tournament each quarter after May 1st. I wish they had this up here in MI. Nice work, DNA. Link to post Share on other sites
dna4ever 2 Posted April 20, 2010 Author Share Posted April 20, 2010 I wish they had this up here in MI. Nice work, DNA.*sniff sniff*What is that I smell?Franchise opportunity? Link to post Share on other sites
TheWynn 0 Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 *sniff sniff*What is that I smell?Franchise opportunity? lol, lets doooooooooooo it!!! Link to post Share on other sites
Mercury69 3 Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 *sniff sniff*What is that I smell?Franchise opportunity? lol, lets doooooooooooo it!!!YEAH!!!!!!!Nice work, DNA Link to post Share on other sites
Gallo 1 Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Few little updates cause it keeps me motivated.Up to 3 nights per week now, hosting 6 games per week. Have a total of 2,131 player 'buy-in's to date. Picked up Bud Light and The Riviera Hotel & Casino as new sponsors. Next Monday will be tournament #100 which is a pretty awesome milestone to celebrate. First grand prize tournament will be this May 1st where I will be sending the winner to Las Vegas to stay for 4 days, 3 nights and buy them into a 2 Day WSOP Academy course. Adding a quarterly $300 real cash money tournament each quarter after May 1st. Awesome job Alan!! Link to post Share on other sites
dna4ever 2 Posted October 4, 2010 Author Share Posted October 4, 2010 Couple updates: Added two new venue locations Running 12 games per week now across 3 locations 6 nights per week Have had over 5,200 player 'buyins' to date Have had over 300 unique players to date Hired 2 tournament directors and hiring a 3rd TD later this month Company turned a profit in July of this year, but reinvested into new equipment for 2 new locations so should show profit again by year end. Link to post Share on other sites
Gallo 1 Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 Couple updates:Added two new venue locations Running 12 games per week now across 3 locations 6 nights per week Have had over 5,200 player 'buyins' to date Have had over 300 unique players to date Hired 2 tournament directors and hiring a 3rd TD later this month Company turned a profit in July of this year, but reinvested into new equipment for 2 new locations so should show profit again by year end. Glad to hear it's been a success thus far. Congrats DNA!! Link to post Share on other sites
FCP Bob 1,312 Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 Couple updates: Added two new venue locations Running 12 games per week now across 3 locations 6 nights per week Have had over 5,200 player 'buyins' to date Have had over 300 unique players to date Hired 2 tournament directors and hiring a 3rd TD later this month Company turned a profit in July of this year, but reinvested into new equipment for 2 new locations so should show profit again by year end. I think this was how Steve Wynn started out. Link to post Share on other sites
Balloon guy 158 Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 I think this was how Steve Wynn started out.So DNA needs to start thinking about security for his children? Link to post Share on other sites
Mercury69 3 Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Coming soon to the Strip: The DNA, featuring the PM Lounge... Link to post Share on other sites
dna4ever 2 Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 Couple updates as we approach the end of my first full year of this bar poker business. Hit one of my biggest goals which was to have a game running 7 nights per week and starting Friday January 7th I will officially have a game running 7 nights a week. Running 16 tournaments per week across 3 locations although it looks like I'm probably going to kill one of the duplicate nights as turnout has not been great. Have had approximately 7,500 player 'buyins' to date Just hit our 400th unique player yesterday. Up to 3 tournament director employees plus myself Company will indeed show a profit this year which was obviously a main goal for 2010. Picked up a nice major radio station sponsor and working on a few other major sponsors that will boost my league big time if I can close. Revenue goal for 2011 has been raised from original business plan projections from $23,000 to $30,000. Link to post Share on other sites
dscoot 0 Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 Couple updates as we approach the end of my first full year of this bar poker business.Hit one of my biggest goals which was to have a game running 7 nights per week and starting Friday January 7th I will officially have a game running 7 nights a week. Running 16 tournaments per week across 3 locations although it looks like I'm probably going to kill one of the duplicate nights as turnout has not been great. Have had approximately 7,500 player 'buyins' to date Just hit our 400th unique player yesterday. Up to 3 tournament director employees plus myself Company will indeed show a profit this year which was obviously a main goal for 2010. Picked up a nice major radio station sponsor and working on a few other major sponsors that will boost my league big time if I can close. Revenue goal for 2011 has been raised from original business plan projections from $23,000 to $30,000. WTGnice site too Link to post Share on other sites
K_dense 3 Posted December 18, 2010 Share Posted December 18, 2010 dna, I went thru your website and it seems like you really give a shit. I play in something of a joke just outside of stl and would love to have someone like you doing our poker league .. a link to the barpoker i play here ,,, http://barpoker.com/ Link to post Share on other sites
Chet Chetterson 0 Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Congrats on the success dna, keep it up Link to post Share on other sites
dna4ever 2 Posted December 30, 2011 Author Share Posted December 30, 2011 Couple updates as we approach the end of my first full year of this bar poker business.Hit one of my biggest goals which was to have a game running 7 nights per week and starting Friday January 7th I will officially have a game running 7 nights a week. Running 16 tournaments per week across 3 locations although it looks like I'm probably going to kill one of the duplicate nights as turnout has not been great. Have had approximately 7,500 player 'buyins' to date Just hit our 400th unique player yesterday. Up to 3 tournament director employees plus myself Company will indeed show a profit this year which was obviously a main goal for 2010. Picked up a nice major radio station sponsor and working on a few other major sponsors that will boost my league big time if I can close. Revenue goal for 2011 has been raised from original business plan projections from $23,000 to $30,000. I realize no one probably cares about any of this anymore, but I update this more for me than you so suck it! :)Got 1 day of poker left for this year and I've found myself becoming quite complacent and content. I've really maximized what I can do in my little cornered area and unless I want to branch out into other areas then I'm pretty much stagnant. I originally wanted to grow this huge, but now I'm not sure and again have become content just having fun 'playing with my friends.'I ended up voluntarily closing a couple of my outer area venues that were not getting the traffic I wanted and have been focusing on the area in which I live.Here are some updates as of 12/29/2011Running 14 games per week, 6 days per week, across 3 venues Have ran right at 1,150 tournaments Currently have 3 employees, was up to 4 at one point until I closed one of my venues. I currently only run 6 games per week myself and have hired TD's to run my other 8. Have had 945 unique players play in my league Have had nearly exactly 22,000 unique 'buy-ins' in my league Picked up Horseshoe Southern Indiana Casino as a nice sponsor which gives a free casino weekend for 2 every 3 months to my quarterly winners. CRUSHED my 2011 revenue goal (which was originally raised from $23,000 to $30,000). Looks like revenue will end up around $41,000 for the year. I will post some 2012 goals soon, but I actually expect my revenue to stabilize or even decrease a little unless I look to expand to other cities or do some major advertising investing. Some stats I found interesting: Of the 945 unique players, 471 only played 1 day which basically means a little over half the people that play in my league never return. This is an awesome stat to know and learn from. If I can get more one time players to become repeat customers then that is GOLD My 'best customer' has played 779 out of my 1,150 tournaments which is an INSANE statistic. He is 70 years old We have had 2 royal flushes (that i know about) in my league. We had 1 player literally win 3 quarterly championship tournaments in a row (out of hundreds of players). He won 2 quarterly trips to Horseshoe and the Grand prize to Vegas. sick sick feat Guess that is about it for now.PEACE! Link to post Share on other sites
KingJames 11 Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Congrats and gl in 2012 Link to post Share on other sites
dna4ever 2 Posted March 30, 2012 Author Share Posted March 30, 2012 End of Q1 2012 Update as of 3/29/2012 Running 16 games per week, 7 days per week, across 4 venues Have ran 1,362 tournaments to date Currently have 4 full time directors and 2 part time directors Have had 1,081 unique players play in my league Added Bad Beat Jackpot promotion Added Referral Program promotion Met 1st Quarter Revenue Goal Completed 1 charity tournament that raised $7,000 for a local humane society. Goal of hosting 2 more charity tournaments by year end. Guess that is about it for now. Link to post Share on other sites
r23y 2 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Looks like you have been working hard Link to post Share on other sites
dna4ever 2 Posted November 21, 2012 Author Share Posted November 21, 2012 Howdy strangers! Have I told you how much I love this thread? I can look back to my first post in April 2009 when this was just an idea and see how far this idea has come and how everyone here had some input and ideas that helped this league become what it is today. Several weeks ago we shot our first league introduction 'commercial' and published it yesterday. Would love to hear your thoughts and yes I'm a big boy and can take criticism and redneck comments Link to post Share on other sites
FCP Bob 1,312 Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 Congrats on your success. I like how you edited this version compared to the one you showed me last week. Link to post Share on other sites
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