A monotone board refers to when every community card is of the same suit. For example, is a monotone flop. Learn how to play monotone boards here! 5 Expert Strategies for Monotone Flops

Match the stack means that you can add on in a cash game for as much money as the current largest stack at the table. In live poker, having the ability to match the stack can lead to big games as the night goes on. If you see a table with a $500 buyin, but…

MTT stands for Multi-Table Tournament, which is a poker tournament with players filling multiple tables, as opposed to single table tournaments/sit & gos. The World Series of Poker Main Event is perhaps the most famous multi-table tournament in the world.

MDF is short for Minimum defense frequency, which describes the portion of your range with which you must continue when facing a bet in order to remain unexploitable by bluffs. In other words, MDF is the minimum percentage of time you must call (or raise) to prevent your opponent from profiting by always bluffing you.…

A “miracle card” is a mathematically unlikely card that hits the board and makes a winning hand for a player that had a very low probability of winning.

Minimum defense frequency (MDF) describes the portion of your range with which you must continue when facing a bet in order to remain unexploitable by bluffs. In other words, MDF is the minimum percentage of time you must call (or raise) to prevent your opponent from profiting by always bluffing you. The formula to calculate…

In the world of tournament poker staking, markup is a premium charged by a player to investors. For example, if a player is selling a 10 percent share of a $10,000 buy-in tournament, at 1.2 markup, as an investor you would pay $1,200 ($10,000 * 0.10 * 1.2) for a 10 percent share of that…

In the world of poker staking, makeup is the amount of money a player has to win in order to recoup their backers original investment. For example, let’s say a backer invests $10,000 in a player with a 50/50 profit sharing deal, and they player plays in nine $1,000 tournaments and doesn’t cash in any…

Any pot which involves three or more players (as opposed to a heads-up pot) is a multi-way pot. “I raised to $10, three other players called and went into a multi-way pot.” Want to improve your play in multi-way pots? Check out this guide: 7 Multiway Tactics You Should Know Going Into 2021

A Monster Hand is one that is very likely the best hand on a given street. Hands like AA and KK are monster hands preflop, while on later streets hands like flushes, full houses and four-of-a-kind are monster hands.

Mid-Stakes are poker games played at a level of stakes that is above low-stakes poker, but below the high-stakes. Online cash games from $1/$2 up to $3/$6 (aka 200NL up to 600NL for No Limit Hold’em games) are considered mid stakes. Live cash games from $5/$10 up to $10/$25 are mid-stakes games (aka medium stakes).

Micro-Stakes are the smallest stakes available to play poker, usually only found in online poker rooms. Micro-stakes cash games include all games with stakes up to $0.10/$0.25 (aka 25NL for No Limit Hold’em games). Want to learn strategies to break out of micro-stakes? Check out this guide: 5 Tips To Help You Break Out of…

A Multi-Table Tournament (MTT) is a poker tournament with players filling multiple tables, as opposed to single table tournaments/sit & gos. The World Series of Poker Main Event is perhaps the most famous multi-table tournament in the world.

Muck can mean: 1. Folding one’s cards. “I mucked my hand preflop because I had 7-2 offsuit.” 2. The pile of cards which are no longer in play is known as the muck.

A missed bet is the required bet that was not posted by the player whose turn it was, typically due to being away from the table at that time. Rules vary as to when this blind must be made up.

Miss can mean: 1. Failing to make a drawing hand after all of the cards have been dealt. For example, if you hold A♠ K♠ and the flop comes 6♠ 2♠ 8♦, but the turn and river runs out 2♣ Q♦, you’ve missed your flush draw. 2. Can also refer to not connecting with the…