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Originally Posted by yimyammer
Yes it is, I came over from rec.gambling.poker and never went back as this place was a breath of fresh air.
Anyone else here participate at that old forum? It was friggin insane! I'd love to find an archive of all those posts and go down memory lane. IIRC, D Negreanu, Annie Duke and some other folks people would recognize used to post there.
I was reading rec.gambling.poker when this place was first established. I kind of ignored 2+2 for a long time, because it seemed like an attempt to moderate the conversation, and at that time, I was just enjoying the conversation as it was unmoderated -- what with Russ G. accusing everyone and his wife of cheating, and Kid Poker (still a kid at the time) getting drunk and tearing a strip off everyone and his wife.
At some point though, Usenet just became unusable and I came over here, genuinely grateful for the moderation. When I initially arrived, the place seemed to be dominated by those Eastern Europeans -- one of them had a daughter who was flirting with Sklansky, another had been banned because he was arguing with Sklansky over theory. There was some discussion about them starting a bot ring in some god-forsaken place -- but the names and the name of the place all escape me for the moment -- Alzheimers setting in, obviously.
But I really got addicted to the place duting the Brandi Hawbaker/Colonel Tom/Newhizzle debacle. After that kicked off I couldn't drag myself away.