Nottingham could soon be host to the Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club - and it's going to be big - in every sense of the word.

Rob Yong is the brains behind the Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club. His vision is for a dedicated poker club that can host large poker events with the ability to accomodate large numbers of players.

It will be the premier poker club in the UK, and his plans go further than that.  In an interview he outlined some of his ideas:

This is not a "money making" venture, so we are not concerned with competing with other card rooms. We will create a club that has the capacity to hold tournaments with 500+ runners, we will focus more on freezouts than buy-ins and we will have a set of rules that will be enforced without exception.

The club will be dedicated to poker and all decisions will be made for the benefit of the poker players, even down to the menu in the restaurant. This club will suit the serious poker player but all bankrolls will be catered for, even if this means running the club at a financial loss. The club will also generate money for my charity through employee donations (it will employ 60 people) and tourney prize pools.

That sounds pretty impressive to me. 

I wish him all the best with it, and hope it's an unqualified success.  You can read all about Rob's plans on a thread on the Blonde Poker forum.  

I reckon I might be there a fair bit…

(Edit Feb 2008:  Dusk Till Dawn is well and truly open and now a regular weekend haunt for me)