Dot.Net
Dot.Net is the poker nickname for Marc McNabb.
Origin
Marc, a very talented and successful poker player, received the name "Dot.Net" from an off-handed remark made at a Killearn Poker Tour event.
Firstly, it's important to understand that commercial poker websites are not legally permitted to advertise if they allow online gambling. The way this is circumvented is for the advertisements to direct viewers to the ".net" domain which is always free to play and does not allow gambling, but is loaded with advertisements for the ".com" domain for the same site. This is very common (pokerstars.net/pokerstars.com, fulltiltpoker.net/fulltiltpoker.com, partypoker.net/partypoker.com). As such, the ".net" site is the "not really playing poker" site, while the ".com" one is the real site that allows playing for cash.
So on this evening, a two-table tournament was starting and as standard, the computer randomly seated the players. Marc was seated at a table with predominately inexperienced players, and Jon jokingly razzed that Marc's table must be the "dot-net" table while the one he as at was the "dot-com." The irony, of course, is that Marc was by far a more experienced and successful poker player than Jon, and that irony was not lost on Marc.
Marc adopted the nickname, Dot.Net almost right away.
Notable Poker Achievements
- Marc is the winningest player at the annual Jon Reddick Birthday Poker Invitationals, having taken a first place in 2006, and chopped for first in 2009
