Sometimes you don't want to look at the financials, cause you know they are goona ruin your day. Today was one of those days, to take a good honest view (and its soooooooooooooooooooo sik). Since the casinos seem to be convinced that they can get a further adjourment to the case (meaning financial consequences again), I have to give them credit for this and believe this is a real possibility, they are far more experienced that me in these matters.
In terms of another adjournment, my lawyers say "it just will not happen - no chance", the Gambling Commission say "its possible", but I can just smell something and I don't like it. I'm a "the glass is half full - not empty" type of guy, so when I smell something nasty, its not paranania, its cause there is a problem and I "should" (haha) have some sort of back up plan to tackle it.
Any rational half decent (even average) businessmen in my position should be able to answer simple questions like
- what of we get adjourned for another 6 months?
- what of we get declinced?
This makes me sit back in my chair and wonder why I do not have answers to any of these 2 questions. The only answer is that I am not a businessmen, I am a gambler, and so far, the risks I have taken in life, have gone my way. I remember how naive I was when I set sf group up, me and a fax machine (doubled up as a phone) and £5k. I had a really tight prudent business plan (keeping overheads small) but after 1 week, I had committed to £15k of advertising and marketing and taking on a secretary - the budget was out the window.
I can give 100's of examples of "crazy pays" over my business career, but this DTD one is different - I am not in control and thats why its biting me in the ass soooooooooooooooooooo bad.
My normal answer to "what if this happens etc" has always been "I'll just work harder" or "I won't let it happen", but with DTD, the destiny lies outside of my control and always has been, like being all-in pre flop with Ah-Kh v Ac-2d, you should win all things being equal and fair, but you feel when the flop comes down Jc-3c-5c....................its not looking so good anymore lol
I was so damn sure we would get this licence, I always have been. Lets face it, I did not spend all this money for a 50 : 50 shot, I don't mind flipping a coin for £100 after a few beers with a "halmless chubby bloke", but not for these stakes, I respect money, especially what it can do to help people, have I made a gross mis-calculation of risk here and will this be my first setback? I guess we find out in 9 weeks.......
Just a few musings and disjointed comments lol
