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About Us
Poker-Shop was the first and remains the UK's largest dedicated supplier of gambling products for the home and corporate entertainment market.
We can supply you with the very best branded poker goods and we have supplied many on-line poker & casino sites, as well as casinos including the world famous Ritz in Piccadilly, London.
The business is registered as:
Acelink Communications Limited
Registration number 3003874 and VAT registration number GB689 9716 45.
Our registered address (our accountants) is:
Charter House, 103-105 Leigh Road, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, SS9 1JL.
Opening Hours
Our standard office hours are: Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.
We are usually closed on all public holidays for the United Kingdom. Outside of these hours you need to make a prior appointment with us, or there is an answer phone to leave us a message.
Our contact number is +44 (0)1702 600 670. Calls are charged at the national rate.
The Store
Our main warehouse is located at:
Unit 2
Fletchers Square
Temple Farm Industrial Estate
Southend-on-Sea
Essex SS2 5RN
United Kingdom.
Map of where we are
The Staff
Below you can find a brief summary of the personnel that will look after your order with our company:
Simon Rush - Owner
Involved in games professionally since September 1989 when he started his own company writing and publishing sports computer games. Interested in poker as a home game for leisure since seeing the idea on multiple American TV programmes, but only discovered Texas Hold 'Em in January 2003 and has (subject to time and other matters) been regularly playing online and live ever since.
Luke Ford - Artist
Started 26th February 2007 to work on all aspects of orders requiring design skills that he has been trained to use. As well as dealing with the production of custom chips and personalised layouts, he looks after the web site photos and company brochures.
Georgina Blaker - Book keeper
Started 3rd November 2003 and manages most of Poker Shop's bought and sales ledger accounts. She works part time hours 11am to 2.30pm and previously worked in a similar role.
James Davis - Web Organiser
Started 2nd July 2007; James is currently working behind the scenes on improving various websites.
Jay Fullwood - Carpenter
Started 23rd October 2006; Jay builds all of the tables that we make in our work shop. Jay took over from other similar craftsmen that have worked with the company in this department since 2003
Katy Rush - Sub contractor
Katy is the owner's wife and has managed her own poker related company since March 2005, but is often available to assist with larger projects that we handle; covers staff absences, and regularly freelances at busy periods such as the period leading up to Christmas. Katy also plays Texas Hold 'Em since 2003 and had previously worked at a major high street bank for 5 years.
Angela Lidbury - Warehouse Assistant
Started 27th October 2003; Angela has been a reliable picker and packer who only works during non-school terms.
Lena O'Kell - Machine Operator
Started 7th February 2005; Lena has mostly operated the machine that customises chips in the morning shift but also helps at busy times pick packing.
Maureen - Warehouse Assistant
Started mid October 2007 to help cope with the ever busy job of packing of orders, especially timed for Christmas.
Brief company history and significant events
April 1997
The idea to create a dedicated supplier of casino equipment was born from owner's attendance and enjoyment at a charity fun casino.
August 1998
First purchase of casino equipment from America
September 1998
First machine to print chips was purchased
October 1998
First casino hire completed, actually 2 charity events very close together followed by several birthday party events. This created a whole new unexpected business idea.
30th April 1999
www.casino-uk.com was the first URL that was bought to
publish this business area on the internet. This can be verified on the whois register.
October 1999
First corporate fun casino event successfully catered for a local business with equipment more like a real casino.
1st February 2000
First purchase of casino equipment from Asia
12th July 2000
The URL www.casino-shop.co.uk was purchased to create a dedicated site for equipment sales.
13th February 2001
Corporate hire successfully fulfils 50 table fun casino event on behalf of IBM USA at the Hilton Metropole Edgware Road. This was for one night only and was larger than any real UK casino.
1st June 2001
First purchase of dedicated van. A 2nd hand high top long wheel based Mercedes Sprinter.
1st January 2002
Owner decides to concentrate on casino businesses and make previous business operating since September 1989 of writing computer games dormant. This company supplied approximately 50,000 private mail orders and developed over 20 products. Many more units went to wholesale for retail sale during 13 years of business.
6th April 2003
Started to sell a selected range of our products on ebay.
23rd October 2003
Purchased and installed a semi automatic chip printing machine.
1st December 2003
Private casino hire business sold to Matthew Neil.
1st July 2004
Doubled size of storage with additional rented warehouse.
1st March 2005
Sold our ebay business to another company because of punitive margins achieved whilst maintaining high standard level of service to customers.
14th April 2005
Purchased a new warehouse doubling storage capacity.
7th July 2005
Moved the majority of stock and day to day operations into new warehouse. Some goods remain at the former premises.
20th September 2005
poker-shop was approached by an ebay poker chip trader (pokerpassion) that wished to sell up.
13th December 2005
Received another offer from an ebay poker chip trader to buy there slow selling and ever decreasing valued poker stock.
23rd December 2005
Purchase a brand new Ford high top long wheel based van.
1st May 2006
Received 3rd offer from a small poker shop competitor (casino-supplies) that wished to sell us there liquidated poker and casino stock.
26th June 2006
Additional storage space rented to cope with continued growth.
July 2006
Another heavily promoted Ebay trader ceases trading because of financial difficulty.
23rd October 2006
Bought surplus stock from Ebay trader who 1st approached us December 05 to buy the majority of the stock that he was unable to resell cost effectively.
1st November 2006
Bought redundant stock from Ebay trader who closed down their business in July 06.
1st March 2007
Yet another Ebay trader (badbeat) giving up the business and approach us to buy their hard to sell stock.
September 2007
poker-shop successfully completes its largest ever branded chip order for 2.2m chips
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