Opening a Card Room in Texas! (1 Viewer)

Congrats and best of luck! Going to have to make a trip down there.

So no Paulsons as of now, you thinking CPCs or still too pricey for the investors?
 
Rieguy said:
Congrats and best of luck! Going to have to make a trip down there.

So no Paulsons as of now, you thinking CPCs or still too pricey for the investors?
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Have to be CPCs if ur opening a poker room that @pcf’ers will be joining!
 
I played at Poker Knights in Corpus once. Would it be something similar to that? If it’s in Corpus I should be able to stop by in the future.
 
ImCrossland said:
Name is surprisingly difficult to come up with. I think far too long on stuff like this. After tons of research on branding, considering so many factors such as word count, letter count, applicability, ability to search it up etc etc, all was shot down when my fiancé said “the name sounds like a Mexican restaurant. Will you be serving tacos?”
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I'm an advertising copywriter / creative by profession with a good amount of branding experience, so my DMs are open if you need any pro-bono help.
 
Nobleman does not sound Texan. Kings has a better ring for the bravado of a Texan, imo.

I assume you have traffic counts of your location, as well as demographic reports showing income and types of homes in the travelling range of the location to estimate your player base. Will the potential demand outpace your location's abilities? Can you easily expand into adjacent space or are you locked into a set space?

How will you monitor for collusion? Cheating?

I am interested in the behind the curtain operations beyond just the chips, so please share what you feel you can without disclosing security or personnel issues.

Best wishes for your success, will be following out of curiosity. From personal experience, running a business is 25% negotiations with landlord, insurance, & vendors, 25% payroll, paperwork, and personnel issues, and all other time is devoted to maintaining the current business and growing additional business.

Food and liquor add a whole different level for licensing and health inspections. Health inspector can chain your business closed without warning, so learn all the rules and regs, and post all your required disclosures.

Good luck!
T
 
DrStrange said:
Glad to hear you are well funded, the startup phase can burn up lots of capital. Good luck on your adventure. Be sure to post lots of pictures.

DrStrange
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You’d always like more funding but the terms were favorable for both sides. Plus, the place we’re looking at has the option to expand into adjacent spaces that are currently unoccupied.

In this case, having the problem of too little space is better than the alternative. Our most significant recurring expense will be the workforce but half that workforce is dealers who make much of their money in tips.

I’m confident good dealers will want to join us, even at the expense of a greater hourly rate elsewhere. Having casino card shufflers increases your hands per hour enough, on average, that your potential revenue generated from cash tips on ~10+ more hands per hour is worth the risk for some.

It also decreases the likelihood of dealers cheating players via slight of hand, in favor of a player at the table who arranged something with the dealer in secret. This is a significant concern.

It’s hard to put a value on perceived game integrity but if you tell a player they’ll pay the same money at our card room as their usual one they go to, but they’ll see 10 hands or more for the same price, I believe any analytical person within driving distance will give us a try.
 
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BiGGyT said:
Nobleman does not sound Texan. Kings has a better ring for the bravado of a Texan, imo.

I assume you have traffic counts of your location, as well as demographic reports showing income and types of homes in the travelling range of the location to estimate your player base. Will the potential demand outpace your location's abilities? Can you easily expand into adjacent space or are you locked into a set space?

How will you monitor for collusion? Cheating?

I am interested in the behind the curtain operations beyond just the chips, so please share what you feel you can without disclosing security or personnel issues.

Best wishes for your success, will be following out of curiosity. From personal experience, running a business is 25% negotiations with landlord, insurance, & vendors, 25% payroll, paperwork, and personnel issues, and all other time is devoted to maintaining the current business and growing additional business.

Food and liquor add a whole different level for licensing and health inspections. Health inspector can chain your business closed without warning, so learn all the rules and regs, and post all your required disclosures.

Good luck!
T
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Appreciate the info! All of this has been factored into our location. It is in the wealthiest part of our city, 4 mins from a prominent Country Club, which begrudgingly hosts a prominent city resident’s weekly poker game in their club house. (Will certainly be offering our space for that game and other businesses to book times on Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s when we are closed to the public. Retreats, birthdays, and other private functions will have the ability to use our facilities and staff at a pre-determined rate, and have all the privacy they want)
 
ImCrossland said:
Name is surprisingly difficult to come up with. I think far too long on stuff like this. After tons of research on branding, considering so many factors such as word count, letter count, applicability, ability to search it up etc etc, all was shot down when my fiancé said “the name sounds like a Mexican restaurant. Will you be serving tacos?”
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Where in Texas will you open it? Corpus?
 
shorticus said:
You’re a fellow PCFer. Think we’ve played in a game before. Definitely going to be there to support your endeavor! Good Luck, Tristian!
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Still working on the details but I can say that any individual with a PCF membership for x amount of time will receive x as an hourly rate, which to my knowledge, will be the cheapest rate of any hourly Texas card house. Although with limited initial seating, I won’t be able to guarantee a seat at the rate during peak times. Realities of limited start-up funding, but that will change as we (hopefully) expand.
 
ImCrossland said:
Still working on the details but I can say that any individual with a PCF membership for x amount of time will receive x as an hourly rate, which to my knowledge, will be the cheapest rate of any hourly Texas card house. Although with limited initial seating, I won’t be able to guarantee a seat at the rate during peak times. Realities of limited start-up funding, but that will change as we (hopefully) expand.
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I’ll be following this thread for details. Definitely planning on making a trip at some point.
 
Frogzilla said:
I’d call it something simple like
Texas Coast Poker
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While I understand the mockery that comes with making a statement like this as evidence for my thought process of a small Texas card house (but goals to expand!), look up the Forbes 100 most valuable brands today. How many of them have a single word brand name is not coincidental. I believe the average is 7 total letters or something close. I’m also considering simply calling it “Noblemen.”
 
ImCrossland said:
While I understand the mockery that comes with making a statement like this as evidence for my thought process of a small Texas card house (but goals to expand!), look up the Forbes 100 most valuable brands today. How many of them have a single word brand name is not coincidental. I believe the average is 7 total letters or something close. I’m also considering simply calling it “Noblemen.”
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XXX Poker

Eight letters, easy to remember, easy to look up
 
ImCrossland said:
Apple
Tesla
Motorola
Amazon
Target
Walmart
Starbucks
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Have you checked out Gematria?

It makes about as much sense as thinking those names made their success. A longer name that has an easy to remember slang name can work as well. I used to live in an area where Eskimo Joes started. People just said “let’s go to Joes”. They even trademarked that and put it on their shirts.

I’m too lazy to look it up, but I bet a lot of those companies had longer names but eventually moved to the popular shorthand. Like Kentucky Fried Chicken going to KFC

So maybe a longer name, like Tex’s Gaming Palace (because Tex’s sounds like Texas) and people would say “let’s go to Tex’s” and your marketing could play off of the pun

I’m bored and taking breaks from moving firewood. 2 cords. So I’m looking for any reason to keep replying to anything.
 
ImCrossland said:
Apple
Tesla
Motorola
Amazon
Target
Walmart
Starbucks
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Starbucks brands its stores “Starbucks coffee”
Apple founded as “apple computer company”
Tesla was “Tesla Motors” until 2017

Id strongly consider putting the word “poker” somewhere in the name so people know what they just drove by
 
ekricket said:
I think nowadays it has to be Nobleperson or Noblethem

I know this is going to make you mad, but Noblemen sounds like a gay bar.
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ImCrossland said:
I’m already pissing off the strip clubs by competing with them at their peak times. It would just be rude to name it something like that.
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Contract with them to hire their talents for wait/drink staff. You get staff, they get marketing…Synergy. :tup::unsure:

Sounds awesome what you’re doing. Something I learned from being in the design field: Opinions are like a-holes. Everyone has them, and they all stink. :LOL: :laugh: Good luck!
 
ekricket said:
Have you checked out Gematria?

It makes about as much sense as thinking those names made their success. A longer name that has an easy to remember slang name can work as well. I used to live in an area where Eskimo Joes started. People just said “let’s go to Joes”. They even trademarked that and put it on their shirts.

I’m too lazy to look it up, but I bet a lot of those companies had longer names but eventually moved to the popular shorthand. Like Kentucky Fried Chicken going to KFC

So maybe a longer name, like Tex’s Gaming Palace (because Tex’s sounds like Texas) and people would say “let’s go to Tex’s” and your marketing could play off of the pun

I’m bored and taking breaks from moving firewood. 2 cords. So I’m looking for any reason to keep replying to anything.
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Definitely not arguing with your points at all, and as I even said, it’s silly to even use these companies as a real defense of the name.

The name stems primarily from the motivations I initially outlined. I have endured quite a few experiences in my 26 years and I’d like to honor those (in a small but personally meaningful way) through this effort.

This is all good and fun banter (hard to ensure someone understands that when chatting virtually) but at the end of the day, the service will speak for itself.
 

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