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Online Poker Chat Lingo

Do you find yourself lost when your opponents at the online poker room chat to each other using terms like NH and VNH? To you, they are nothing but letters, but to the more experienced players of online poker, they mean a lot more than that.

Why do online poker players use these weird terms anyway?

Remember that chat in online poker rooms has little difference with other chatrooms. It can be very tiring to type the whole world, so why do so when you can just use the abbreviated terms.

The mastery of these online poker terms is a way of showing just how online savvy a person is. This is because a newcomer to online poker usually has a little online poker vocabulary. Thus, these terms separate the newbies to the experts of the online poker, even if it only in the arena of chatting.

So, my advise would be do not be left behind, learn some of these terms and convince the other players at the online poker room that you are not a newbie, even if you really are. After all, bluffing is a poker player's way of life.

If you see a straight being played, and want to recognize this, you may use str8 in place of the whole word "straight". This would save you time, which you can use on concentrating for your next action.

When someone says something funny at the online poker room, or the previous play seems funny to you, or you have made a mistake you want to laugh off, then use LOL. The LOL is familiar to chatters out there, even outside the online poker room. It means Laugh Out Loud. Using this term creates a more friendly atmosphere, which is needed in a competitive game.

On the other hand, if you want to express boredom, you may use ZZZ. This is commonly used when there is a player at the online poker table who is taking a very long time to act. You should know that taking too much time is improper in poker, even in the online poker world.

Lastly, if you are about to leave, and you want to acknowledge that the game was a good one, then type in GG, which stands for good game. It would not hurt to be polite in online poker rooms sometimes. Who knows, your poker opponents may remember you for that and would love to play with you again next time.