When playing poker online, people tend to be more annoying than if you were playing in a casino or card room, or in a friend;y home game. Why is that? Well, it’s the same reason why people are always more mean and annoying on the internet: because they are anonymous virtual beings on the internet. It’s a lot harder to act like an idiot in front of someone’s face.

So, most of the time when you’re playing online poker there is always one or two people that will hurl insults on the chat feature at an online table. Sometimes it is two people arguing with each other, sometimes it’s one person complaining about every bad beat, or calling everyone a “donk” or some such thing. Anyway, this can get quite annoying and distracting.

So, what to do about this? Well, I generally just turn off the player chat feature on any online poker site I happen to be playing at. Most will allow you to do this as an option, to block any player comments in the chat window.

You could come off as being rude, if someone asks you a questions or says “nice hand” or something and you don’t see it, but that is not such a big deal. We’re here to win money, not to make friends. And if you turn off the player chat option, all the annoying people who write annoying things in an attempt to get you off your game will be powerless. All you have to worry about is taking their money.