NUTS ABOUT TOURISM, SAYS POKER ENTREPRENEUR
1 February 2008
Poker league moves into tourism market
Brit poker entrepreneur and Nuts Poker League founder,
Steve Bellis has teamed up with a travel business in
Holywell, UK to offer poker holidays, with this year's
first party of poker players scheduled to travel to the
Sands Beach Resort in Costa Teguise, Lanzarote in June.
Bellis said: "We went out there last year with 50
players and it was a great success. A lot of places have
karaoke and bingo but there are lots of people who want
to play poker. [Arising from that] we had a meeting with
TR4 Travel in Holywell and discussed the possibility of
taking 120 people."
Steve noticed a gap in the market when he did some
research on the Internet. "We did an internet search for
poker holidays and most of them are in Las Vegas and are
very serious," he said.
"We wanted to offer something that was a bit closer to
home, more relaxed and less expensive."
The idea is that families can also go along for a break
as there are an abundance of other things to do at the
resort.
The Bellis path to business success has not always run
as smoothly as the current venture, however. Just as his
pub poker league was taking off following his appearance
on a reality TV show two years ago, the English
entrepreneur faced a legal battle with the local
constabulary, who issued letters to pubs in the area,
claiming that the pub poker league concept was illegal.
Bellis argued successfully that the laws only applied to
playing poker for money, whereas his league is based on
a points system, and the police had to withdraw the
cautionaries. Since then the Nuts Poker League has gone
from strength to strength.
"The business is going through the roof and at the
moment," says Bellis. "We have people playing from
Cornwall all the way up to Scotland. It's growing by the
day."
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