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Poker Terms
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This A Big Poker Glossary
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Maverick
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starting hand of Q-J.
Maniac
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Nickname for a player that is loose-aggressive.
Maniacs are involved in too many hands and will almost always bet
and raise when given the opportunity, often with garbage hands. Also
known as an animal.
Marry
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To become too attached to a hand, usually seeing a showdown
when
it was clear that you should have folded earlier.
ML
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An abbreviation for “Middle-limit”.
Monster
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A superior hand that is unlikely to lose.
Made Hand
- A hand to which you're drawing, or one good enough that it doesn't
need to improve.
Micro-Limit
- Games so small that they couldn't be profitably dealt in a real
card room. They exist only at online poker sites. You might
arbitrarily call games $.25-.50 and smaller "micro-limit."
Muck -
The pile of folded and burned cards in front of the dealer.
Middle Pair - Pairing
the second highest card on the board.
Middle Position - A
position in which you act somewhere between most of the other
players during a round.
Miscall - An incorrect
verbal declaration of the ranking of a hand.
Misdeal - A mistake on
the dealing of a hand which causes the cards to be reshuffled and a
new hand to be dealt.
Missed Blind - A
required bet that is not posted when it is your turn to do so.
Must-Move - In order to
protect the main game, a situation where the players of a second
game must move into the first game as openings occur. |