Comments on: Black Friday: Nolan Dalla

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 04:48:52 +0000

Some of us saw this coming a long time ago. My site started refusing gambling related advertising years ago. My legal advisor said that it was too riskly. Guess the money I paid him was well spent.

And Yobbo, always have plan B. Some day you will need it.

By: mister z

mister z — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:50:16 +0000

I mean some kind of lifestyle/learning hedge, upskilling, postgrad coursework, whatever. EG like what professional women who have had a few years out of the workforce to raise kids do on the way back in. Maybe you didn’t have time for this though, I mean I have no idea what making a comfortable living on poker entails - is/was it a 20/40/60/80 hour a week effort?

By: yobbo

yobbo — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:20:30 +0000

Hedged against it how mister z? Of course I can go back to work at a minimum wage job somewhere if I have to, I’d really rather not though.

The only way I could have “hedged” this is to have gone short on Party Poker shares, but I don’t have enough money to do that.

By: mister z

mister z — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:18:38 +0000

Yobbo, it’s pretty damn pants when anyone’s livelihood is threatened, but as a man working daily in a field of where you’re assessing odds & risk, you surely hedged against this happening? You haven’t really just sat playing poker for 7 years? Seriously?

By: ChrisV

ChrisV — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:23:10 +0000

“B. Online poker sites and sportsbooks will no longer be able to advertise (.COM-related services) inside the US. Media outlets will simply refuse to accept the ads.”

The .net sites are not gambling sites. That’s the whole point of them.

By: yobbo

yobbo — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:45:18 +0000

Or to be more accurate, no business will ACCEPT advertising from partypoker.net, because doing so could open them up to criminal charges.

By: yobbo

yobbo — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:44:20 +0000

You can’t run big tourneys if you don’t advertise them. And according to Dalla’s article, they WON’T be able to advertise the .net site. No internet gambling operator will be able to advertise anything in the US anywhere.

By: ChrisV

ChrisV — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:27:33 +0000

Also losing players dont care about rake in the slightest and who can blame them? They’re just going to lose their money anyway. They care about big tourneys like they have at Party and Stars.

By: ChrisV

ChrisV — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:26:38 +0000

They can advertise the .net sites, just like they did at the WSOP.

By: yobbo

yobbo — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:56:03 +0000

“My earn will likely drop, but I will be able to cope UNLESS U.S. pros are still playing and U.S. casual players aren’t.”

I think the whole point of this article is that US casual players won’t play. How are they even going to know where to play if the sites aren’t even allowed to advertise? Have you seen how many ppl play on WSEX that aren’t pros there for the 100% rakeback? Approxiamately zero, because they don’t advertise. Even though they offer the best deal of any poker site on the planet, nobody plays there.