So I was taking the bus home through the ghetto today...

[xLukex]

And I see a huge ass billboard for BOSPOKER.COM.

Is this not against the law?

I had a nice chuckle since it was right at the entrance to one of the worst areas in Pittsburgh (the Hill).

Like, I always assumed it would be .net, as Party and PS both advertise as .net

[smb394]

Must....refrain...from...so...many....jokes...avai lable...


But, yes that does seem a bit strange that it's .com rather than .net

[CountDuckula]

[ QUOTE ]
But, yes that does seem a bit strange that it's .com rather than .net

[/ QUOTE ]

Not really; the only reason Stars and Party have set up their "free poker sites" as .net is that they already have the .com domains for their regular sites. Bospoker.com might be using the free poker school/site approach to get around the advertising issues with the Justice Department the way Party and Stars are (I don't know anything about Bospoker, though; I'm just guessing), but there's no particular reason they can't use a .com domain for that.

-Mike

[Aces 'n Eights]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
But, yes that does seem a bit strange that it's .com rather than .net

[/ QUOTE ]

Not really; the only reason Stars and Party have set up their "free poker sites" as .net is that they already have the .com domains for their regular sites. Bospoker.com might be using the free poker school/site approach to get around the advertising issues with the Justice Department the way Party and Stars are (I don't know anything about Bospoker, though; I'm just guessing), but there's no particular reason they can't use a .com domain for that.

-Mike

[/ QUOTE ]

Except that one quick look at the site shows that it is for REAL money. The REAL question is - who's gonna bother to report it?

A8

[dealer_toe]

I see .com commercials all the time now

[Zetack]

[ QUOTE ]
And I see a huge ass billboard for BOSPOKER.COM.

Is this not against the law?

I had a nice chuckle since it was right at the entrance to one of the worst areas in Pittsburgh (the Hill).

Like, I always assumed it would be .net, as Party and PS both advertise as .net

[/ QUOTE ]

Probably not. The reason we have the .net adds is that the Justice Department has threatened the Media outlets. The .net makes the media outlets feel comfortable with the adds.

Either the structural arangement with the billboards company is such that unlike a tv or print outlet, they have more insulation from the content that goes up (for instance they lease the land, or the bilboard itself to the poker site and have nothing to do with putting the content up) or the Justice Department never got around to threatening billboard companies, or the billboard company talked to its lawyers, are confident they aren't breaking the law and are less fearful of a fight than your other media outlets.

Or the poker site owns the land the bilboard is sitting on.

--Zetack

Oh, and it definitely has not been established that showing a .com poker add is in anyway illegal.

[daryn]

i have seen commercials on TV for partypoker.COM and pokerstars.COM, as well as their .NET counterparts.

i have also seen pokerstars.COM billboards.

[Arnfinn Madsen]

A gem from Pokerstars.net:

[ QUOTE ]
Note: All references using dollar signs ($) are for illustration only. Betting on PokerStars.net involves zero cash value 'play money' chips only.

[/ QUOTE ]