“I raise”

No it’s not some form of algebra, heaven forbid we’d be here all day. This is the language of online poker.

Thank you, nice hand, good game, good luck.

Short hand abbreviations, because lets be honest we don’t have enough time for language when we have all this action happening at our fingertips.

ty (thank you), quite clearly the most pointless statement in history. You’ve just taken a guy for all his money and even more moronicaly he has said nh (nice hand), so naturally you say ty. What you actually meant to say, and what the underlying connotation of this was… "sucker!" or "good god I can’t believe you called that!" or very rarely (I hope) "christ on a bike I got lucky there!", but no, you say ty.

nh (nice hand), of the 4 abbreviations dicussed and in contradiction to what I have said above, this is the only one actually worth using. If I lose a big pot I will say this. Especially if it was ridonkulous. If this guy just called my AA check raise all-in on a KJ2 flop with A2, and hits his 2 outer trips on the river, so what, shit happens, don’t get angry get even, and don’t tap the aquarium. I say nh here because I want him to do it again. I’m not going to go crazy and berate the guy, jeez 95 times in a 100 I take all his money, so what if every now and again he wins, it’s a long term game.

gg (good game), I don’t have time for this. You’ve either been knocked out, in which case I’m long gone before any pleasentries have even started, or it’s being said to someone else, and inevitably they probably haven’t played a "gg" as they’ve just bust.

gl (good luck), give me a f’king break. It’s a cut-throat game with money at stake, only an idiot would want his opponent to have good luck. I propose a new abbreviation….

FOAD, no explanation neccesary  , this could be followed by a few "LOLLL" "OMGzz!!!11!!!" just so they understood.

So remember folks, think before you type, I could be judging your intellect.