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The comments here are so heavily jargon laden that I have no idea what I was reading.. gto, plo, nlo, then with numbers behind them, etc.. Is there a glossary to understand those terms?

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Yes, poker enthusiasts tend to use a ton of jargon from the game. There are plenty of glossaries but you need to have a basic understanding of the game to make sense of most of it. Like this: https://www.888poker.com/magazine/poker-terms

The terms you mentioned:

GTO: Game Theory Optimal

PLO: Pot Limit Omaha (different from NL - "No Limit" Texas Hold'em). "Pot Limit" means your max bet can only be as much money as is in the pot at the time.

NLO: No Limit Omaha - That restriction on pot size is not there

NL or PLO/PL with numbers means the amount of money you bring on the table, typically 100x the big blind. So NL200 means a games with blinds $1/$2 (blinds are the obligatory bets at the beginning of a game so that there is something to play for).

On certain sites the same game would be named NL $1/$2, some players might refer to it as 1/2 NL (pronounce one-two NL), but it's the same NL200 (sometimes 200NL) game.

In limit games (with fixed bets) you would usually give the amount of the blinds. And some games have more complicated betting structures, for example with antes, but let's not get into that.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Glossary_of_poker_terms helped for me. gto means game theory optimal, basically an attempt at a mathematically optimal way of playing poker. plo is pot limit omaha, nlo is no limit omaha. Both are variants of poker.

Of course, there are many poker terminology and jargon lists — https://betandbeat.com/poker/terminology/ is one.

Here you go:

https://www.twoplustwo.com/acronyms.php

I am not sure, but I think:

GTO means game theoretic optimal PLO means pot limit Omaha NLO means no limit Omaha

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