saw an add for pokerstarts.COM about 5 days ago on espn

ouzacprice · #1 01-13-2007, 12:53 PM

anyone else catch this or know anything about it? i am positive it said .com and i made sure to point it out to my friends watching tv with me. whats up with this?

BK1248 · #2 01-13-2007, 01:13 PM

they are on during the celtics game all the time, foxsports new england, i dont know why they dont say .net anymore here

blackjack777 · #3 01-13-2007, 09:56 PM

It's Pokerstars.net, not com.

NathanRJessup · #4 01-13-2007, 10:15 PM

Someone watches Celtics games?

MicroBob · #5 01-13-2007, 10:33 PM

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they are on during the celtics game all the time, foxsports new england, i dont know why they dont say .net anymore here

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it's up to the tv stations whether they want to take the risk.
There isn't a specific law against dot-com spots.
Just intimidation that the Dept of Justice might come after you if you try it.

I'm guessing that it's also possible to sneak through a dot-com spot past a station-manager who isn't looking closely enough or doesn't know the difference.

The spot that the OP said was on ESPN could have been a local cable-insert, or a mistake where they lined-up the wrong spot to run.