Some of the WPEX publicity you've been hoping for

[jman220]

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Next, anytime I go slum at micro Party limits, I'm going to tell them that I'm El Diablo.

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Sorry, that job is already taken.

[blinden84]

off topic, which is actually on topic...

I did hear an ad on Stern today, as someone mentioned, and they really stressed the 'free poker' thing. It was a pretty decent ad, although I don't listen to stern regularly at all, and don't know how often this runs.

[MicroBob]

since it's on sirius they are probably more willing to play with fire and run ads for dot-com stuff (as opposed to all the dot-net play-money ads on 'regular' airwaves).

I imagine the DOJ wouldn't be too thrilled about these commercials but I'm not sure they will try doing anything about them.

Kind of cool that the fact that satellite is taking off and getting higher ratings means good things for the real-money online-poker advertising abilities.

[NomadCat]

I'm an avid Stern listener and of the hourly breaks they take, WSEX probably has an ad in every other one. In the last week or two, the ads have been talking up the "rakefree" thing quite a bit. I really hope it helps.

[ilovebadbeats]

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I imagine the DOJ wouldn't be too thrilled about these commercials but I'm not sure they will try doing anything about them.



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Makes playing online poker for Real Cash (yes, at a .com site!)
a little risky, and hence, adventurous.

Maybe in 30-50 years or so, we'll all be telling our kids and grand-kids
about how we all were flirting with danger of playing online to make money before it
was all "legal and regulated" (and taxed, of course).

What guys like Doyle did for us, we are now doing for our kids and grandkids.

(and just for legal clarification, playing poker online for money is NOT illegal. It's also not legal. It's neither. The DOJ has a "stance," and that stance is
that it is that
it is illegal to play online for money. Unfortunately, in order for them to make it illegal, they have to follow the
wwhole lengthly process of passing (not to mention enforcing it, which would mean locking up a few to tens-of-millions of its (otherwise law-abiding) citizens) an actual law.
The DOJ, as it stands now, is like a big scary pit-bull, but one that has no teeth and
can only gnaw at you with it's gums...(but this may change very soon).

Look at the recent events with the "Illegal Immigrants!" The "lawmakers"/Gov't officials, etc.
now have conceded that even though
they should boot all of them out of the country, they can't because they don't have the resources to be able to do so. So,
the next step they are saying (b/c they can't boot them all out, not to mention secure the boarders once they did!), is to do the
"responsible thing." Which is to have a program to make them all citizens if they've been
here (in the US)
for X number of years or greater. Give me a f*ckin break! That's like them saying "if you've been illegally playing online poker
for 2 years or more you can keep playing, otherwise you must stop.
Soapbox preaching and actual reality are 2 totally different things.

Sorry for the semi-hi-jack.

The hypocrisy of it all make me angry sometimes... [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]

[MicroBob]

I also think Stern on Sirius is likely hitting precisely the demographic that an online-poker site should be interested in.

Between the Stern ads and being on the cover of freaking CardPlayer I anticipate good things.

[Jstyal]

I'm interested in picking this issue up. I haven't shopped for this mag in the past, so where should I go to pick this issue up? Is cardplayerpopular enough that I can go to a Walgreens, CVs Pharm, bookstore to buy an issue? Thanks to anyone who helps.