Relevance of RGP?

[Point Point]

A veteran told me that RGP was once the only poker forum. But over the years, it has been surpassed by 2 + 2. Is this true?

Regardless of whether this is true or not, do any of you ever visit rgp? And if you do, what value can that place provide you? How important is rgp today?

[phydaux]

RGP was once the only poker forum. True.

But over the years, it has been surpassed by 2 + 2. Also true.

do any of you ever visit rgp? Ages ago, not any more.

what value can that place provide you? None whatsoever.

How important is rgp today? Not at all.



With 2+2, Cardrunners, Stoxtraders and a whole host of wannabes, RGP isn't worth the signal-to-noise ratio. In the 90's RGP was all there was. It isn't 1997 anymore.

That's because RGP isn't really a forum - it's a newsgroup. That boils down to mean there are no moderators. Any asshat can post whatever he wants and it's up to the reader to sift through all the porn ads, bad beat stories and outright BS to find a post with actual poker content. THEN the reader is left to figure out if the poster actually know what he's talking about or is just talking out his ass.

Forums like 2+2, NPA, pocketfives, twodimes, flopturnriver and others have moderators that lock & delete off topic and zero content threads.

Pay sites like Stox & Cardrunners offer instruction from legit, full-time pros like Stox & green plastic. You can trust what they say because "See this watch? It's worth more than your car. THAT's who the [censored] I am." And they bought that watch with money they won playing poker.