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Hey! The extra seats I released have now been sold out.

There are still some seats I am holding for some of the Pro UFC fighters who might be coming.

(There are some big names on that list!)

Me, Shoemoney and Dave Dellanave ran into the champ today (Randy Couture) when we were visiting the gym. Randy looks confident and ready to rumble!

This shoud be an amazing poker event tonight!

If you still want to play and are not registered, go ahead and show up at the Venetian Poker room tonight 9:00, and you can see if there are any no shows opening up a seat or two.

Get ready for history again!

If you want to just hang out and watch you are very welcome!

We had an amazing party last night at the high limit room at the Mirage, thanks Mirage, and thanks Azoogle, We Build Pages, Epiar Negative Keywords, Easy Tweets, and our main guy, Fighters.com and Shoemoney Tools!

Check the pics out here.

Just got final approval from Venetian!

The tournament will now offically be a charity event!

$60 from your entry goes to the Xtreme Couture GI Foundation.

I have seen them buy expensive, bad ass running legs for American Marines and Army guys who have gotten their legs blown off in Iraq.

I am a total anti war guy, but love to help those who have worked to try to help me.

So let’s play some poker, and raise some money for some guys who have it touger than us!

And Randy! Kick the living crap out of Brock this weekend!

(More spots opened up for poker after sell out last night.)

Poker Tournament Sold Out last night.

Just arranged a few more seats that are now available.

Click on “Sign Up”  Above.

Expect those to sell out fast.

Howdy!

In case you didn’t know, we are having a poker tournament!

The great news is that the Venetian is busting their behind to get us approved so it will be a charity tournament, and it looks like it probably will be. It will be up to the Venetian now!

The above is the final graphic for the poker tournament.

I and another designer have had our hand in it too, but it is 98% Dean!

Now we have to choose the colors. The graphic will go on the back, but these show it on the front. All American Apparel t-shirts.

Take a look at the options, and then I am going to ask you to vote.

In reality the colors will not be as bright, or as clear on a t-shirt.
This first one was olive.

This one is asphalt

This one is black.

This one is natural color.

This one was white.

NEXT QUESTION

Should we put this emblem on the chest?

THIRD AND LAST QUESTION:
Should the sponsors logos be down the arm?
This is just a fast crummy drawing to give you the idea.

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YES SERIOUSLY – PLEASE GO TAKE THE SURVEY – 15 SECONDS!

I would like us to all give a standing round of applause to the following companies for stepping up and giving us our beloved poker tournament this year.

Azoogle Ads hit it out of the park with what they did! They basically proved that even in a supposedly crummy economy, if you know what you are doing, you can deliver value to your customers and thrive! Good job Azoogle, and thanks so much for all the help! Without their help, we might well not have been able to have a poker tournament! Azoogle has some big surprises coming out in the near future, so keep your eyes on them!

Shoemoney, as the head of Fighters.com took the lead and was the first one to spearhead the poker tournament. He’s Shoemoney! He dipped into his sacred shoe, and all I can say is he has been very, very, very generous with us! From the bottom of my heart! Thank You!

We Build Pages stepped up too! They also asked me to pass on a huge chunk of their change to Heaven Can Wait, a really cool doggy and kitty place that keeps them from having babies, and keeps the extra ones from having to check out!

Neil Patel introduced me to his buddy who runs Epiar. They are a very cool company that does SEO, and have their own search engine. They have a really cool tool I was reading about that gives you a mess of negative key words to use when doing PPC and other aplications, that I am very curious about.They kick out like 10,000 negative keywords. Their stats on this are through the roof allowing wasted money on PPC to go way down! Without giving away some of the future surprises, all I can tell you is that Ken the president has a fantastic sense of humor.

Easy Tweets jumped in and signed up as soon as they heard about the sponsorships. I have been playing with the Beta of the tool, and it just makes a lot of tweeting easier. Hence the name! It is easy to use and self explanatory.

The Unique Blogging Design guys came through with this theme. What do you think? I spent an hour on the phone with Nate describing what I wanted, a few weeks later Nate told me to check my themes and blammo! There it was! They really pulled through to give the tournament the image and feel it deserves.

Michael Dorausch of Planet Chiropractic also kicked in for a final help to make the tournament even better. Michael is a great friend and a fellow chiropractor. I told him I just love to have the word chiropractic on the t-shirts!

Kevin K. from Chipotle is a man on a mission armed with killer burritos. I told Kevin we were having the poker tournament again. He just asked how many burrito certificates we needed. I smiled. He smiled. The next time I saw him he delivered a grip load of certificates for the winners. There are way over a 100!

Dean Yeagle, the famous playboy cartoonist is doing the graphic for us. I love it. I hope you do too! Huge thank you Dean! The guys (and gals) are going to love it!

The final supporter of the tournament is also the first, Best of The Web. Gregg Hartnet who started it pretty much invented the internet. Greg is an amazing guy who has been involved with a lot of plays on the internet, is a way, way cool, laid back guy, and is your friend even if you haven’t met him yet. Thank you so much bro, I am proud to have you part of it. He also fricken loves poker!

The charity portion of the tournament? We are currently pushing the Nevada Gaming Commission to approve the charity portion of the tournament. My hands are tied until this gets through. Then we have to get it through the Venetian Casino legal department. If it does not turn out to get approved in time to be a charity poker tournament, it will still be a tournament, with oddly more money left over for the purse! If you are in the mood to make a donation, I highly recommend Heaven can Wait, or the Xtreme Couture GI Foundation! Stay posted until the Nevada Gaming Comission and the Venetian sort it out!

Last year the only complaint we got was that there were not enough cocktail waitresses. I am currently working with the Venetian on a solution to this, so you can enjoy yourselves in the velvety comfort of the Venetian Poker Room!

It is going to be a mind blowing time in Vegas. I say to turn off the T.V., create your own economy like the people mentioned above are doing! Let’s have some fun, make new contacts, share new ideas, and creates some new value on the internet that no one has even thought of yet!

Some of the partnerships and businesses that have already come out of the Think Tank are mindblowing! There are is no shortage of opportunity out there for those who are ready to create things of value! Join me and the companies above in creating a new vibrant economy full of creativity, value, and most of all…fun!

I came across an interesting Digg analysis tool. It let’s you analyze your digg submissions and your friends list to figure out which of your friends are digging your stories and which are not. The tool also shows you who in the digg community consistently digs your stories. These are your fans, and people you want to add to your friends list, since they already have your back.

The tool is useful for those looking to find out where to invest their time, friendship and resourses on Digg. It also lets you quickly see who to remove from your friends list if they are not digging your posts and taking up your time, you can cut them loose like dead wood.

It is a raw tool, and doesn’t have any fancy graphics, but you can tell there is some hard core programming behind it. Don’t expect a fancy UI. It takes a minute or two to run its majic, and then you will be shocked when you see the results. Nope, no body paid me this to write this, and I have no financial ties to the site. You wouldn’t believe me if I told you how I found out about it either Check out the Digg tool!

A few things are now set in stone.

We are having the poker tournament, of course!

Here is a peek of the poker graphic. There is a whole girl there though, trust me! The drawing is done by Dean Yeagle, famous cartoonist and illustrator for Playboy Magazine. He is doing this graphic just for us and our poker tournament!

We are also having a FightClub taught by Shawn Tompkins, the fight trainer of Randy Couture, at Randy’s personal gym where he works out regularly. FightClub will be on the Tuesday of Pubcon at 2:45 2:15 in the afternoon, and over at 4:00 3:30. Apologies to whoever is speaking at that time.

The fight training will be in the same practical fighting skills used by real UFC fighters. It is going to be taught at whatever level you are at. Most of us are absolute, trip over our own toes beginners.

At ThinkTank more than one person said that the fight training may have been the best experience of their life. Wow! At the worst it is good exercise, and you will learn practical skills you hopefully will never have to use in real life.

Those on my mailing list will be getting the secret code to register later today or tomorrow for both events. Jump on it, as I expect both things to sell out fast. If you are not on my list, then let me know who you are and you just may get on my list!

The art for the t-shirts and graphics for the tournament is almost done. As soon as we get the last few sponsors wrapped up this week, we will be able to finish it.

We still may have room for a few more sponsors at the less expensive levels. Just get in touch if you are interested.

ThinkTank was non stop, never a break and the fun just kept rolling.

I have a whole slew of prizes left over for the ThinkTank attendees.

We still have the online contest to finish off too!

Stay tuned to this blog for details for the ThinkTank attendees about how they can win the fun prizes.

There are at least $5k+ of actual prizes still to be released!

Thanks for being patient.

We have now gone full bore on planning for the big poker event on November 13th.

Dean Yeagle, the playboy cartoonist is currently working on the artwork for the t-shirts and other give away stuff. It should be off the hook.

I am also going to get to work with the Unique Blog Design guys on a site redesign just for the poker tournament. I will be releasing info here about them as we go. It will be a great case study for anyone thinking of using Unique Blog Designs.

Pubcon is going to be soo much fun!

dk

9:00 Cameron has surfing down by the tent.
10:00 Breakfast first opens. An amazing crepe place, three blocks south of the hotel.

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You can arrive there up until 11:30.

Call me if you get out of step with the group!

Much Love,
dk

Meet in the hotel lobby for breakfast at 10:00.

Dress casual for a great breakfast.

If you are running late, just call me on my cell, and I will direct you!

Much Love,
dk