I have sat on a few tables where no one talks and its just poker straight ahead. I have to say that gets very old very fast. I like a little poker banter at the tables. It make the game go by a little faster and makes the game that much more entertaining because you can strike up conversation with many people all over the world and learn about all kinds of stuff  you would otherwise not know anything about. Now you do have a few of those people who use the poker banter in the wrong way when they start to belittle the other players on the table for bad play or for suck outs that one might hit. I have to confess I have been guilty of this but have watched myself and have gotten it under control.

 

Once you get into your head that poker is full of bad beats and players who play badly and get lucky so you have to go into the session ready for that type of play, because more times than not you will come out ahead. But for the most part you get into some great conversations around the table. The online poker rooms are one of the few places where you have a very diverse group of people from all over the country as well as the world coming together to play a few hands of poker every now and then. Although sometimes you get people from other countries typing in there native language and you don’t know what here saying. But if you ask them politely to speak in English most of the time they will comply with your request. The poker tables can be just like a big social network like a MySpace or Facebook and they are a great way to expand your knowledge beyond poker, talking to the other players is also a great method to approach and learn about the other players’ strategies, knowledge and weaknesses.