On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 1:58 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Paul Harris hosts a poker radio show and wrote about this on his blog: >> >> >> http://paulharrisonline.blogspot.com/2011/04/online-pokers-black-friday.html >> >> He points out some things that are worthwhile to keep in mind: online >> poker sites can afford top class attorneys to fight the DOJ and even >> if the DOJ is successful at shutting down these companies, casinos and >> card rooms are all over the place and dedicated players will have no >> trouble finding real life games. >> >> As for Poker After Dark, casinos should be able to find a way to >> organize to buy national ads to remind watchers that they can take >> part in a poker game going on locally. >> > > In the blog you reference Harris seems a little less optimistic than you > about the Poker shows. He writes: "There's one interesting bit of media > fallout to watch. Full Tilt Poker is the primary sponsor of "Poker After > Dark" on NBC. PokerStars is the primary sponsor of "High Stakes Poker" on > GSN and has its own shows, "Million Dollar Challenge" and "The Big Game," on > Fox affiliates across the country. ESPN garners a huge amount of revenue > from both sites for its coverage of the World Series Of Poker. Now that > those sites have barred US players, it seems unlikely that they'd continue > to spend the marketing dollars necessary to sponsor those shows.
It's probably worse than that... when the DOJ seizes a website, it is gone worldwide. I believe FTP is going to fight, but unless they win, they're not going to be making any money from *any* cash money gamblers. (Just looked today and FullTiltPoker.com has been shut down. FullTiltPoker.net looks to remain online, so they still have that.) -- Wesley McGee http://www.ambivi.com http://drawing-a-blank.tumblr.com -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
