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Videopoker is a draw poker in slot machine form. Players Hold or Discard from five cards showing and get a second deal, or stand with a pat hand. It has become the most popular game of chance among casino players in the U.S. Eighty percent of respondents to a recent survey in Las Vegas said they played videopoker.

There are important differences between Videopoker and Table Poker worth noting as follows:

  1. In Videopoker the House is represented by a machine not a dealer and the video machine does not attempt to beat you.
  2. You don’t have to figure out what the other player’s hand could be like when playing against other players.
  3. You cannot bluff.
  4. You do not run the risk of being beaten by another player. If you have a strong hand, you win. In Table Poker, you could have a strong hand like three of a kind and lose to another player who has a better hand.
  5. A good decision in Videopoker may be a bad one for Table Poker. What is advantageous to hold in Videopoker may prove disadvantageous in Table Poker and vice versa.

Since its introduction in the early 1980’s, Videopoker has grown into one of the casino’s most popular games. Unlike regular Poker, which is played against other players at a poker table, Videopoker is played individually on a machine that uses video technology to create a Poker hand.

Based on the classic Five Card Stud, Videopoker challenges players to build the best possible five-card hand. The player is dealt five cards and has the option of discarding any or all of the cards. New cards are dealt to replace the discards.

Payoffs are based on a scale, paying players for hands as low as a pair of tens or Jacks all the way up to a Royal Flush. Like slot machines, Videopoker machines are available in many denominations, with 25c and $1 machines being the most popular. Many casinos also offer progressive payoffs or bonuses for Royal Flushes or other special hands. Videopoker provides variety too, with versions ranging from ‘Jacks or Better‘ to ‘Deuces Wild‘ and ‘Jokers Wild‘.

The ranking of hands starting from the highest are as follows:

  1. Five of a Kind
  2. Royal Flush
  3. Straight Flush
  4. Four of a Kind
  5. Full House
  6. Flush
  7. Straight
  8. Three of a Kind
  9. Two Pair
  10. A Pair

Five of a Kind is only possible when using a Joker or Wild Cards and is the highest possible hand.

Note: Las Vegas regulations require that the outcome of any hand in Videopoker not be affected by the number of coins played. If you get a good hand with one coin bet, you would have been dealt the same hand with two or more coins.

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Poker originated in the saloons of the Wild West and has probably the most game variants. It is played player against players and not just against the dealer as in Blackjack, and there is a lot of psychology involved during play. Poker takes a moment to learn and a lifetime to master.

Poker is played from a standard deck of 52 cards. Some variant games use multiple decks or add Jokers or Wild Cards.

The cards are ranked in descending order starting from the highest; Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, Ace. Ace can be high or low. There are four suits; spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs, but no suit is higher than another.

Each player is dealt five cards and is called a hand. The hand highest in ranks wins. In some games there are Wild Cards or Jokers, which can be labelled whatever suit and rank the possessor wishes to.

The Ranking of Poker Hands

The ranking of poker hands based on probability starting from the highest are as follows.

There are 2,598,960 possible combinations of cards in a poker hand you can be dealt. In brackets below next to the ranking of hands, are 1st the number of possible hands of that rank in 2,598,960 possible combinations, and 2nd your chances of getting one in percentage probability:

1. Five of a Kind (with a Wild card or Joker)
2. Royal Flush (4 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 0.000154%)
3. Straight Flush (36 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 0.00139%)
4. Four of a Kind (624 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 0.0240%)
5. Full House (3744 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 0.144%)
6. Flush (5108 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 0.197%)
7. Straight (10,200 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 0.392%)
8. Three of a Kind (54912 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 2.11%)
9. Two Pair (123,552 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 4.75%)
10. Pair (1,098,240 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 42.26%)
11. High Card (1,302,540 possible hands in 2,598,960. Chance to get one: 50.12%)

Five of a Kind is only possible when using wild cards and is the highest possible hand. If more than one hand has five-of-a-kind, the higher rank wins; e.g. five Aces beat five kings, which beat five queens, and so on.

Straight Flush is the best natural hand. A straight flush consists of five cards in sequence and of the same suit. An Ace high straight-flush is called a Royal Straight Flush or Royal Flush and is the highest natural hand.

Four of a Kind is a hand that contains of four cards of the same rank. The hand with the highest rank of four-of-a-kind beats other four-of-a-kind hands. If there are many wild cards, as used in some game variants, there could be two four-of-a-kind hands with the same rank. In this case, the hand with the higher ranking fifth card wins. This rule applies to hands that tie, such as a pair or two pairs. Dead heats split the pot.

Full House is a hand consisting of three-of-a-kind and a pair. Again, where Wild Cards are used, ties are compared first by the three-of-a-kind ranking, then the pair.

Flush is a hand consisting of cards that are all of the same suit in any order.

Straight is a hand consisting of 5 cards in sequence, such as 5-6-7-8-9. An Ace may either be high (A-K-Q-J-10) or low (A-2-3-4-5).

Three of a Kind is a hand similar to the four-of-a-kind hand, except that if the remaining two cards are a pair, then it becomes a Full House.

Two Pair is a hand that contains two pairs only.

Pair is a hand that contains one pair only.

High Card is a hand that is none of the above and is a weak hand. If no player has a pair or better, then the hand that contains the highest ranking card wins. If multiple players tie with the highest card, then the second highest card decides, followed by the third and so on.

Note on Wild Cards

How the wild card can be used depends on the game you are playing and the rules. A wild card can be defined as a joker or standard card that, by player agreement and/or dealer’s choice, can be used to represent any card desired.

When a joker is in play, it usually can only be used as an Ace or to complete a straight or flush. It cannot be used as a true wild card, for example, as a king to make KK75X play as three kings. When playing for low, the joker becomes the lowest rank not already held, so 864AX is played as 8642A, with the joker used as a deuce.

Wild cards add an additional hand, five of a kind, which normally ranks above a straight flush. They can also cause confusion when two players hold the same hand composed of different wild card combinations. The standard rules of poker do not distinguish between such hands, but some players prefer to rank hands using fewer wild cards above less ‘natural’ versions of the same hand.

Playing Poker

In most games players must ‘ante’ a nominal amount just to have the cards dealt. Once the cards are dealt, the betting starts. Players bet into the pot in the middle of the table and it is done in turn clockwise.

The player with the highest rank showing, is the first to speak and to bet. He can either bet or check. By saying ‘Check’, he passes the decision to bet to the next player who can also check. If all players check, then it is the end of the round. Everyone opens his cards and the highest hand wins.

Only after one player places a bet the real betting starts. Each player in turn can either ‘Call’, ‘Raise’ or ‘Fold’. To fold is to pass or drop out of the round and not play. To call means willing to match the bet, and the same amount must be placed on the pot. To raise means to match the bet and add an extra bet.

Say you start with a $5 bet. If someone else raises $10, he puts $15 in the pot. When your turn comes again you need to add $10 difference to the pot to stay in the game, and if you want you can also raise or even say ‘Pot’. Pot is a raise to the maximum, which means to bet the same amount as the total money available in the pot.

If there are no more raises and all the cards have been dealt, then it is the end of the round. Everyone opens his closed cards and the highest hand wins the pot.

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  • Quads - Four of a kind.
  • Qualifier - In poker, the minimum standard a hand must meet in order for it to be eligible for part of the pot.
  • Rabbits - Weak players.
  • Rabbit Hunting - Is the act of asking to see what cards would have come up if a hand had continued. For example, if a hold’em poker player folds a flush draw, but would like to know if the flush would have come in, he or she might ask the dealer to deal out the next few cards. Some cardrooms prohibit it.
  • Rack - Plastic, wooden or metal tray to place rows of poker chips.
  • Rainbow - Three or four cards of different suits.
  • Raise - In poker, a player raises by matching the previous bet and then betting more (adding more money to the pot), to increase the stake for remaining players.
  • Rags - Cards that do not help a hand.
  • Railbirds - Spectators.
  • Railroad bible - Deck of cards.
  • Rake - The percentage of a pot that the casino/house keeps. The money that the casino charges for each hand of poker. It is usually a percentage (5-10%) or flat fee that is taken from the pot after each round of betting.
  • Rank - The worth of a set of cards.
  • Read - To read someone is to have a good idea what their cards are based on the way they play (or by spotting tells).
  • Re-buy - When you first sit down at a game, you buy in with a certain amount of money. Re-buying is what you do when you buy more chips before you leave. Re-buys are also allowed in some tournaments to players who fall below a certain point - usually only up until a certain point and often limited to a fixed number of re-buys. The time during which one may re-buy, usually lasting from the start through the early stages of the tournament, is called the re-buy period. Tournaments with re-buys are called, generically, re-buy tournaments.
  • Represent - To bet in such a way as to indicate that you have a certain hand.
  • Riffling (Card Riffling) - A commonly used shuffling process. To accomplish a riffle, the deck is divided roughly in half and the two halves are interleaved by pulling the card corners up with the thumbs and letting the two halves ‘riffle’ together. Riffling is also sometimes called ‘zipping’ the cards. Like card Stripping (see below), the riffling process can span a range from a fine riffle to a coarse riffle.
  • River - The final (seventh) card dealt in Hold’em, Omaha or Seven Card Stud. In seven-card stud, staying in until the fifth and final round of betting is called going to the river.
  • Road gang - Team of cheats.
  • Rock Garden - A game of tight players.
  • Rolled Up - In Seven Card Stud, three of a kind on the first three cards.
  • Round - Refers to either to a round of betting or a round of hands.
  • Rounder - An astute player who knows all the angles and earns his living at the poker table. The opposite of a ’sucker’.
  • Round of Play - A round or hand of play can consist of a single wager or several wagers made during the time of a short wagering event. For example, in poker the round of play (wagering event) begins with the dealing of the cards and ends when the winning player takes the pot. In casino craps a round of play begins with the ‘come out’ roll and ends when the passline wagers are decided. This may take one or several rolls of the dice. In between, the player might have multiple wagers riding on several different numbers and other betting options. All wagers made between the time of the come out roll and the decision roll are considered to be part of that round of play. In roulette each spin is counted as a round of play, no matter how many bets you place.
  • Royal Flush (Also, Royal Straight Flush or Royal) - An Ace-high straight flush; the best possible poker hand.
  • Running - Two needed cards that come as the last two cards dealt are said to be running.
  • Rush - A player who wins a large number of pots in a short period of time is said to be on a rush.
  • Sailboats or Sail Boats - Pocket fours (4,4 starting hand).
  • Sandbag - To check and then raise the opener, or to check holding back raising to get more money in the pot.
  • Scare Card - A card that when it appears makes a better hand more likely (e.g. In Hold’em, a third suited card on the river is a scare card, because it makes a flush possible).
  • Scarne Cut - To cut by pulling cards from the center of the deck and placing them on top of the deck.
  • Schenck’s Rules - First known rules of poker.
  • Schoolboy Draw - An unsound, unwise draw.
  • Scoop - To win an entire pot, especially in high-low split games.
  • Scoot - Scooting is the practice of passing chips to another player after winning a pot. Typically, scooting partners will agree to ’scoot’ each other a predetermined number of chips after winning each pot.
  • Seating List - In most cardrooms, if there is no seat available for you when you arrive, you can put your name on a list to be seated when a seat opens up. Typically, games are listed across the top of a board, and names are written below each game so that players are seated for games in the order in which they arrive.
  • Seat Position - The position of a player relative to the other players.
  • Seconds - Cheating by dealing the second card instead of the top card.
  • See - To call a bet.
  • Semi-bluff - Similar to a Bluff, except that the Semi-bluff has some chance of making a winning hand.
  • Sequence - Cards of consecutive value as in a straight.
  • Sequential Declaration - The last bettor or raiser being required to declare his hand in high-low poker.
  • Session - The time period in which a poker game is held.
  • Set - Three of a kind with two in the hole. In pai gow poker, players set their seven cards into two separate hands of two and five cards each.
  • Seven Card Flip - Seven-card stud poker in which the first four cards are dealt facing down and then the player turns any two, face up.
  • Seven Card Stud - A variation of poker dealing seven cards to each player, but only five cards are used to make a hand.
  • Sevens Rule - A rule in low-ball poker in which a player with seven low or better must bet or forfeit further profits from the pot.
  • Seventh Street - In seven-card stud, the fifth and final round of betting is called seventh street because players have seven cards.
  • Shiner - A tiny mirror or any reflecting device used by a cheater to see unexposed cards.
  • Short Call - To call part of a bet (short call) in table stakes with all the money one has on the table.
  • Shorthanded - A game is said to be short-handed when it falls below a certain number of players.
  • Short Pair - A pair lower than openers, such as a pair of tens in jackpots.
  • Short Stack - A player who is ’short stacked’ has too few chips to cover the likely betting in a hand.
  • Short Stud - Five-card stud poker.
  • Shotgun - Draw poker with extra rounds of betting that start after the third card is dealt.
  • Shove Them Along - Five-card stud poker in which each player has the choice to keep his first up card dealt to him or to pass it to the player on his left.
  • Showdown - When all the betting’s done, if more than one player is still in the pot, the players who remain in the pot must show their hands in the showdown to determine the winner.
  • Shuffle - Before each hand the dealer mixes up the order of the cards.
  • Shuffling (Card Shuffling) - Is a generic term which encompasses all card mixing techniques used to prepare a deck or a shoe for continued play. All casino shuffling processes employ a combination of mixing techniques. These may include ‘Stripping’ or ‘washing’ the cards as well as ‘riffling’, ‘boxing’, ‘plugging’, ‘cutting’ and other off-spring techniques. All shuffling processes employ multiple riffles of ‘clumps’, ‘picks’, or ‘grabs’ to achieve some level of randomization. The shoe games, which use multiple decks of cards (4, 6, or 8 decks), will often employ the most intricate riffling patterns of all. In these, the picks are riffled together and then re-picked and re-riffled in complex symmetric patterns.
  • Side Money - The amount set aside from the main pot in table stakes. See ‘Side Pot’ below.
  • Side Pot - If the call bet or the raise bet is $20 and a player has $15 only, this player makes an ‘all in’ bet (he puts all his money into the pot). In this case a side pot is created for those players who have more money to bet. The $5 difference is placed into this side pot. All other active players carry on betting and and their money is placed into this side pot and if at the end one of them has the best hand, he or she wins both; the main pot and the side pot. If the ‘all in’ player has the best hand, he or she claims the main pot, and the side pot is awarded to the best hand among those players who were still active in betting. You win a pot that you put money into.
  • Sign on Your Back - Someone identified as a cheater.
  • Singleton - In poker, a card that is the only one of its rank.
  • Sixth Street - In seven-card stud, the fourth round of betting is called sixth street because players have six cards.
  • Skin - A dollar.
  • Skin Game - A game having two or more collusion cheaters.
  • Skinning the Hand - A cheater’s technique to get rid of extra cards.
  • Skoon - A dollar.
  • Slowplay - To slow-play is to underbet a very strong hand.
  • Slowroll (Slow rolling) - An annoying habit that means you slowly reveal that you have the winning hand. To reveal one’s hand slowly at showdown, one card at a time (to irritate other players who think they won).
  • Small Blind - See ‘Big Blind’.
  • Smooth Call - To call one or more bets with a hand that’s strong enough for a raise.
  • Snap Off - To beat someone, often a bluffer, and usually with a not especially powerful hand, is to snap them off.
  • Snarker - A player who wins a pot and then ridicules the loser.
  • Soft - Easy.
  • South - (USA) Fold.
  • Spikes - A pair of aces.
  • Splash (the pot) - To throw your chips into the pot, instead of placing them in front of you.
  • Spread Limit - Betting limits in which there is a fixed minimum and maximum bet for each betting round, and any amount in between these limits may be bet.
  • Squeeze Bet or Squeeze Raise - To bet or raise against another strong hand in order to extract more money from a third player holding a weaker hand.
  • Stack - All your chips.
  • Steal - To (attempt to) steal a pot is to make a bet when it appears no one else has anything. To win the pot by bluffing.
  • Steam - A player who is on ‘Tilt’ is sometimes said to be steaming.
  • Stenographers - Four queens.
  • Still Pack - The deck of cards not in play when two decks are used.
  • Stonewall - One who calls to the end with a poor hand.
  • Straight - Five cards of consecutive ranks or in sequence.
  • Straight Draw - Draw poker not requiring openers.
  • Straight Flush - A hand consisting of five cards of consecutive ranks and of the same suit.
  • strattle - Doubling the blinds.
  • Streak - A run of winning or losing hands.
  • Street - The betting interval in a hand, e.g. the fifth card dealt in Seven Card Stud is known as fifth street.
  • Stringer - A straight.
  • Stripping (Card Stripping) - Is a shuffling technique which reverses the sequential order of the cards in the deck. For instance, imagine if a dealer took the first card off the top of a deck and placed it on the table and then took the second card off the top and placed it on top of the first card. If this process were continued until the 52nd card was placed on top, then the sequential ordering among the cards would have been completely reversed. This characterizes the basic process of striping. The process described above would be a very fine strip. Often the dealers will speed up the process by rapidly pulling small clumps of cards off the top of the deck rather than a single card at a time. The number of cards in the clumps determine how fine or coarse the striping process is.
  • Stud Poker - One of the two basic forms of poker game (the other is draw poker) and played with open or exposed cards (up cards) and with one or more concealed cards known as hole cards (down cards).
  • Suicide King - The king of hearts (showing a sword pointed at its head).
  • Suit - Any one of the four types of cards: clubs, diamonds, hearts or spades.
  • Super Stud Poker - A five-card poker game known as Caribbean Stud Poker and Casino Stud Poker, but with a Progressive Jackpot. The “Super” (used in UK casinos) is to say that the game runs a Progressive Jackpot. Tables of the same game are interconnected with other participating casinos, and any player that makes a Royal Flush wins the Jackpot. There are smaller prizes for the top hands such as “four of a kind” and “full house”.
  • Table Stakes - Stakes in which the betting and raising is limited to the amount of money a player has in front of him. The amount of money or chips a player puts on the table, which he may not add to or reduce, during the hand.
  • Take It or Leave It - See ‘Shove Them Along’ above.
  • Talon - The remainder of the deck after the deal.
  • Tap - Tap the table means to check. Also, to bet all one’s money in table stakes. Also (USA), to bet the amount of an opponent’s entire stack, forcing him to go ‘all in’ if he calls the bet.
  • Tap City - A player having gone broke in a game.
  • Tapioca - Out of money.
  • Tap Out - To bet and lose all one’s cash, forcing one to leave the game.
  • Tap You - A raise. Also, an expression for a player betting an amount equal to all the money his opponent has on the table in table stakes.
  • Tell - An unconscious gesture that reveals information about your hand.
  • Tell Play - Observing the dealer’s body language and expressions to determine his hole card. In poker game ‘tells’ pertain to quirks or readable aspects of a players actions, verbal behavior, or body language that give away information about what cards they are holding.
  • Texas Hold’em - (or simply Hold’em) Is a poker game in which each player gets two pocket cards, while five community cards are dealt face up on the table.
  • Third Street - In seven-card stud, the first round of betting is called third street because the players have three cards.
  • Thirty Days or Thirty Miles - Three tens.
  • Three Of A Kind - Three cards of the same rank.
  • Tierce - A three-card straight flush.
  • Tiger - A low hand from the two to the seven.
  • Tight - Conservative.
  • Tight Player - A player who seldom bets unless he has a strong hand.
  • Tilt (Tilting) - Players who are ‘on tilt’ make bad betting decisions because of their emotions (e.g. frustrated, angry or upset).
  • Time Cut (Also, Axe or Collection) - Money charged each player on a time basis by the casino or by the poker room owner. Charge is usually on a 3 minute or an hourly basis.
  • Top Pair - If there are three cards of different ranks on the flop in Hold’em (or any flop game), and you pair the highest one, you have top pair.
  • Trap - You’re ‘trapped’ if after putting some money in the pot you’re faced with the proposition of calling a raise in order to continue, especially an uncomfortably large raise.
  • Trey - A three.
  • Tricon, Trio, Triplets, or Trips - Three of a kind.
  • Turn - The fourth of five community cards in flop games (e.g. Hold’em and Omaha). Sometimes called fourth street.
  • Two-Card Poker - A poker game in which the best two cards win.
  • Two Pair - A hand consisting of two sets of pairs and a singleton. A hand consisting of two cards of one rank, and two cards of another rank, and an unpaired card (e.g. KK992).
  • Underdog - When two hands face off, the underdog is the one that is less likely to win.
  • Under the Gun - The first player to act after the blind bets is said to be under the gun.
  • Unlimited Poker - Poker in which no limit is placed on bets or raises.
  • Up - Refers to the highest pair of two (e.g AA883 - you have aces up as they are the higher pair).
  • Valet - A jack.
  • Value - The return you get on your betting investment.
  • Washing (Card Washing) - A card shuffling technique where the dealer spreads the cards on the table face down and then proceeds to mix them around with his hands flat in a face-washing-like action before gathering them up and performing a more normal shuffle. Card washing is intended to remove any consistencies in the sequencing among the cards that new decks of cards have, or that were produced in play prior to the present shuffle. In standard table poker the cards are washed after every hand before they are subjected to a more conventional shuffling. In blackjack and baccarat, the the cards are washed when old decks are taken out of play and fresh new decks brought in to replace them.
  • Weak - A style of play characterized by a readiness to fold and a reluctance to raise. Also describes a poor player.
  • Whangedoodle - A round of jackpots played after a big hand such as four of a kind.
  • White Meat - Profit.
  • Wild Card - (Also, Joker) A card that can be labelled whatever suit and rank the possessor wishes to.
  • Wired (Back-to-Back) - A pair, trips, or four of a kind dealt consecutively or back-to-back in a hand, usually in a stud hand starting with the first card.
  • Wire-up - Three of a kind with the first three cards.
  • World Series of Poker - A Hold’em poker tournament with a $10,000 buy-in held every year (in May) at Binion’s Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas.
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Poker Glossary H-P

  • Hand - Refers to the cards that you hold, or to everything that happens in a card game between shuffles of the deck. A hand begins with the shuffling of the cards, dealing and then betting until a winner is declared which is when the hand is over. To ‘play a hand’ means to be dealt in or to call the initial bet.
  • Hanger - A card that juts out conspicuously when a cheater is dealing.
  • Heads Up - A play between only two players.
  • Help - Someone who needs help needs their hand to improve for a chance of winning the pot.
  • High (High hand) - The best hand.
  • High Poker - Standard poker, as compared to low poker or lowball. In high poker, high hands win.
  • High Society - The highest denomination of chips in a card room.
  • Hit - If you hit it means you have at least paired a card on the flop or hit a draw. If you miss it means you haven’t matched anything or missed a draw.
  • Hold ‘em - A form of poker in which each player is dealt two cards face down, called hole cards. The player may then use none, one, or both of his hole cards, in combination with five community cards dealt face up, to make the best possible five card hand.
  • Hole - Your first two down cards are said to be ‘in the hole’.
  • Hole Card - In stud and Texas Hold‘em poker, the facedown cards dealt to each player. In blackjack, the facedown card that the dealer gets.
  • Inside Straight (Draw) - An inside straight draw is a draw to a straight that’s missing one of the cards in the middle (as opposed to on the end). 4578 is an inside straight, 4567 is an outside straight. Also called a one-gapper or a gutshot.
  • Isolate - To isolate a player is to raise with the intention of removing everyone else from the hand except that player.
  • Joker - (Also, Wild Card) The 53rd card in a deck, sometimes used as a wild card. A card that can be labelled whatever suit and rank the possessor wishes to.
  • Kansas City - Kansas City lowball is Low Ball with the ace as high. Best hand is 23457.
  • Kicker - The highest unpaired card in your hand that doesn’t participate in a straight or flush - i.e., the card that does not contribute to the strength of your hand except by itself.
  • Ladies - Queens.
  • Limit (Limit Poker) - Any game in which there is a fixed limit on how much you can bet or raise in any round.
  • Limp - To flat call an opening forced bet is to limp into a hand.
  • Live card - A fresh card or a card that has not been seen.
  • Live game - A game with lots of betting action.
  • Lock - A hand that is guaranteed to win at least part of the pot.
  • Loose - A loose player plays more hands and holds on to them longer.
  • Lowball - A 5 or 7 card version of poker in which the lowest hand wins.
  • Low Poker - Also called lowball, is poker in which the pot is awarded to the hand with the lowest poker value.
  • Make a Hand - To get a decent hand that has a shot at winning the pot.
  • Maniac - A player who plays extremely loose and aggressive, often raising with just about anything.
  • Match Play - The competition system used in tournaments (usually card games) in which two participants play a series of games which ends when one player accumulates a required number of points. Each game could be worth one, two, or more points.
  • Mechanic - (Also, Greek Dealer) A cheater who manipulates the cards to his benefit when dealing.
  • Mechanic’s Grip - The way a cheater holds the deck of cards to facilitate his manipulations.
  • Middle Pair - If there are three cards of different ranks on the flop in Hold’em, and you pair the middle one, you have middle pair.
  • Mitt joint - (USA) A club where the house cheats the players, or one that turns a blind eye to cheating in general.
  • Monster - An extremely strong hand, one that is almost certain to win the pot.
  • Muck - To ‘muck’ your cards it to put them into the pile of discarded cards when folding.
  • No-limit - A form of betting where players can bet any amount they choose, from the chips or money in front of them.
  • Nuts (or Nut) - The nuts is the best possible hand.
  • Nut Straight - The highest possible straight in a given hand.
  • Odds - The probability of making or not making a hand (e.g. if you have a 25% chance of making a hand, the odds are 3 to 1 against your making it).
  • Off-suit - Not of the same suit.
  • Omaha - A flop game dealt similar to Hold’em but with four down-cards each. A hand is made using five from a possible nine, but two and only two must be used from the players hand.
  • On the Finger - Money given on credit.
  • On tilt - Going ‘on tilt’ is a bad reaction to an unlucky hand resulting in uncontrolled wild play.
  • Open - To ‘open betting’ is to make the first bet in a round.
  • Outdraw - To make a better hand than an opponent by drawing more cards.
  • Outs - Live cards or fresh cards remaining in the deck that may improve one’s hand.
  • Overpair - In flop games, a pocket pair higher than the highest card on the board. If you hold AA and the flop is K62, you have a nice overpair.
  • Paint - A card with a picture (Jack, King or Queen).
  • Pair - Any two cards that have the same rank.
  • Pasadena - Fold.
  • Pass - To not bet, to fold.
  • Passive Play - A style of play that is characterized by reluctance to bet and raise.
  • Pat - In draw poker, a hand that does not need any more hands. In blackjack, an unbusted hand worth at least 17 points.
  • Pineapple - A variation on Hold’em where players receive three cards each and are forced to discard one of them after the flop is dealt. Thus reverting to Hold’em.
  • Play Back - To play back at someone is to raise their opening bet.
  • Playing the Rush - A poker term referring to a player who has just enjoyed a short-run of good luck marked by winning a very large pot of money in one hand or winning several hands in close succession. If the player subsequently begins to play more loosely or more aggressively they are said to be ‘playing the rush’.
  • Play on Your Belly - To play without cheating.
  • Play the Board - In flop games like Hold’em, if your best five card hand uses the five community cards, you’re playing the board.
  • Poker Hand - A collection of exactly five cards that constitute a hand according to the accepted list of hands.
  • Pocket Cards - Cards dealt face down.
  • Position - Refers to your betting position at the table (e.g. the first players to act are in an early position).
  • Position Bet - A position bet is a bet made more on the strength of one’s position at the table than on the strength of one’s hand. A player on the button in hold’em poker is in good position to steal the pot if no one else opens.
  • Post - To post a bet is to place your chips in the pot (or, commonly, out in front of you, so that your bet can be counted). In poker, posting usually means a forced bet, such as a blind.
  • Pot - In a poker game, the amount of money that accumulates in the middle of the table as each player antes, bets, and raises. The pot goes to the winner of the hand.
  • Pot-Limit - Any game in which the maximum bet or raise is the size of the pot.
  • Pot Odds - The ratio of the amount of money in the pot to the amount of money it will cost you to call a bet.
  • Prop - Short for proposition player (see below).
  • Proposition Player (Similar to ‘Shill’ in casinos) - A proposition player, or ‘prop’, is a player who is paid by a cardroom to play poker, usually in order to keep games going when they get shorthanded, or to get games started. Props are paid a salary, but they gamble with their own money.
  • Protect - To protect a hand is to bet so that more people will fold, reducing the chances of anyone outdrawing you.
  • Pushka - (USA) An arrangement between two or more of the players to share part of the pot’s win, or more precisely, the container into which the shared chips are played.
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Poker Glossary A-G

  • Aces Wired - (Also, Bullets) Two Aces back-to-back (in the hole).
  • Act - When its your turn to act, you either check, call, fold, open bet, or raise.
  • Action - A wager or bet of any kind. The placing of money into the pot (e.g. many bets and raises is described as ‘a lot of action’).
  • Add-on - To buy additional chips in a tournament that allows it.
  • Aggressive - A player who frequently raises and re-raises is said to be aggressive.
  • Alligator Blood - (USA) A tough player is good under pressure.
  • All-in - When a player bets all his wagering money available on the table.
  • Ante - In poker, a small bet as the minimum bet that each player is required to put into the pot before a new hand starts. A compulsory opening or starting bet, applied in games with an ante, put up by players before each hand; e.g. Casino Stud Poker, 7-card stud.
  • Back Door - A hand made using the last two cards dealt in seven card stud or Texas Hold’em (e.g. ‘a back door flush’).
  • Back-to-back (BB) - When a player is dealt a pair with the first two cards.
  • Bad Beat - Losing a pot holding a very strong hand you were sure would win.
  • Bank - The financial backer of a gambling operation.
  • Banker - In a card game, dealer or the players who books the action of the other bettors at the table.
  • Bankroll - The total amount of money you have the intention of gambling with.
  • Base Deal - Dealing from the bottom of the deck. A form of cheating.
  • Behind - Before the last cards have been dealt, if you don’t have the best hand you are ‘behind’.
  • Belly Buster - An inside straight draw.
  • Berry Patch - (USA) An extremely easy game.
  • Bicycle Wheel - The hand A2345, also called a wheel or bicycle.
  • Big Bet - The largest betting amount in limit games.
  • Big Blind - In flop games, two bets are usually posted before any cards are dealt. The ’small’ blind by the player to the left of the dealer and the ‘big blind’ (double the small blind) by the player to the left of the small blind.
  • Big Slick - Ace King as your hole cards in Hold’em.
  • Blank - A card that appears not to help anyone.
  • Blind Bet - A bet posted without the player sees any of his cards.
  • Blinds - A forced bet in Hold ‘em.
  • Bluff - To bet strong with a weak hand, aimed at misleading the other players in the hope that they will fold.
  • Board - The community cards dealt face-up in the center of the table in a flop game (e.g. Hold’em) or the up cards in a stud game (e.g. seven card stud).
  • Boat - Another term for a full house.
  • Bottom Pair - Making a pair with the lowest card on the flop.
  • Bracelet - Winning a championship event at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) earns the player a Gold Bracelet. Highly prized amongst poker professionals.
  • Brass Brazilians - The best hand, also known as ‘the nuts’.
  • Brick - A ‘blank’ in seven card stud (e.g. a card that appears not to help your hand).
  • Bring In - To ‘bring it in’ is to make the first bet on the first round of a hand. In seven-card stud, the bring-in is a mandatory bet made by the player with the lowest upcard in the first round of betting.
  • Broadway - An Ace high straight.
  • Brush - The employee at a cardroom is sometimes referred to as the ‘brush’.
  • Bug - A joker.
  • Bullets - A pair of aces in the hole. (Also, Aces Wired)
  • Bump - To raise.
  • Buried - A buried pair is a pair in the hole in seven card stud - a pair in the first two down cards.
  • Burn - A ‘burn card’ is a card discarded from the top of the deck at predetermined points in deals (in case a player has seen it). In card games after a shuffle and cut, one card is placed on the bottom of the deck or in the discard tray, which is called burning the card.
  • Bust - To run out of money. ‘Busted out’ in competitions where its final.
  • Busted Hand - A hand of less value than a pair (e.g. if you miss a straight, you have a busted straight).
  • Button - A flat disc called the dealer button. The player with the button is the last to receive cards on the deal.
  • Buy - To buy a pot is to make a bet large enough that other players would be unlikely to call.
  • Buy-in - The chips which players buy to gamble.
  • Call - To call is to match the current bet.
  • Calling Station - A player who calls too often.
  • Cap - The limit on the number of raises in a round of betting in limit games.
  • Cardroom - Cardrooms are the rooms in which poker is played, or the organizations that run those rooms. Most casinos that offer poker have a separate room, or at least a roped-off area, designated as the cardroom.
  • Card Sharp - A person who is an expert at cards.
  • Cards Speak - Is the rule that the value of your hand is determined solely by your cards. You don’t have to declare your hand properly in order to claim the part of the pot you deserve.
  • Caribbean Stud Poker - Also called ‘Casino Stud Poker’, A casino table game based on the standard 5-card stud poker game played on a Blackjack-type table. Some casinos also offer a progressive jackpot paid to high ranking hands. This table game is played with one deck of cards.
  • Carpet joint - A big card room with comforts.
  • Case - The fourth card of a particular rank.
  • Case Money - Emergency money.
  • Catch - If cards are helping you or are treating you well, you are ‘catching cards’.
  • Catching Cards - Getting favorable cards.
  • Check - Pass the turn of calling the first bet in a betting round to the next player.
  • Check-Raise - To check and then raise a bet in the same betting round.
  • Checks - (USA) Poker chips.
  • Chop - To return the blinds to the players who posted them and move on to the next hand (when no-one wants to play the hand).
  • Coffeehousing - To talk about one’s hand, usually with the intention of misleading other players.
  • Cold Call - To call more than one bet (e.g. one player bets, the next raises and the next calls).
  • Color Up - To exchange one’s chips for ones of higher value.
  • Come Hand - A hand which must improve to be able to win.
  • Community Cards - Cards dealt face-up in the middle of the table and their rankings are shared by all the players.
  • Connectors (Connected) - Cards of consecutive ranks, especially pocket cards, are called connectors. If they’re also of the same suit, they’re called Suited Connectors.
  • Cowboys - Kings.
  • Crack - When a powerful hand is beat it is ‘cracked’ (e.g. pocket aces).
  • Crying Call - A call by a player who is virtually certain they will not win the pot, and probably knows it.
  • Cut - To split the deck of cards before they are dealt.
  • Cut Card - Colored faceless plastic card used to cut the cards after the shuffle.
  • Dead - A hand that is no longer eligible to win the pot.
  • Dead Money - An inexperienced player who has virtually no chance at winning a tournament. Their chips are said to be “dead money”.
  • Deal - To give out the cards during a hand.
  • Designated Dealer - In a poker room where each game has a resident dealer, a different player serves as the designated dealer for each hand. In poker games like Texas hold‘em, the player to the left of the dealer bets first.
  • Deuce - Twos are sometimes called deuces.
  • Discard Tray - A tray on the dealer’s right side that holds all the cards that have been played or discarded.
  • Dominate - A starting hand that will almost always beat another starting hand is said to dominate that hand. For example, in Hold’em poker, AK dominates K2. Most of the time K2 makes a playable hand, AK will make a better hand. However, a 2 might still lose the hand.
  • Door Card - The first card dealt face up to each player in seven card stud poker.
  • Draw - To draw a card (e.g. if you need a card to make a straight, you are on a ’straight draw’ or are ‘drawing to a straight’. In draw poker, the second round of cards that are dealt. The word draw has slightly different meanings in different contexts, although generally it has something to do with receiving more cards, with the hope of improving your hand. Draw games are games where at some point during the hand you are allowed to discard some or all of your cards, to be replaced from the deck. Drawing two is thus exchanging two of your cards. ‘The draw’ is the point during the game at which players may do this. By default, when someone asks you if you want to play some draw, they usually mean five card draw. In other poker games, drawing simply means staying in the game with the hope of improving your hand when more cards come. When you stay in a hand with the hope of improving, you are said to be ‘on a draw’.
  • Drop - (Also, Fold) To abandon your hand or throw away your cards without calling a bet.
  • Down to the Felt - Totally out of money, broke.
  • Eight ball - $800.00.
  • Face Cards - The jack, queen, and king of any suit of cards.
  • Family Pot - When all players enter a pot.
  • Fast - Aggressive.
  • Fast company - Tough players. Sometimes meaning unscrupulous.
  • Favorite - The hand that is expected to win most often in a particular situation.
  • Felt - The surface of most poker tables - A player who is running low on chips is said to be ‘down to the felt’.
  • Fifth Street - The fifth card dealt in a hand of stud poker. In seven-card stud, the third round of betting is called fifth street because players have five cards. In Texas hold‘em poker, fifth street is the fifth card on board and the final round of betting.
  • Fill - To draw a card that makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full house, straight flush).
  • Fill up - To fill a full house.
  • Fish - A poor player.
  • Fishing - A player who stays in a poker game longer than advisable generally is fishing for the card or two that will make the hand a winner.
  • Fishhooks - Jacks.
  • Flat Call - As opposed to calling, flat calling emphasises the fact that you didn’t raise.
  • Flop - A number of games, such as hold’em and omaha, are played with five community cards. The first three of these cards are dealt all at once, face up, and are called the flop. Games with a flop can be called flop games.
  • Flush - Five cards of the same suit.
  • Fold - (Also, Drop) To abandon a poker hand. When a player declines a bet and drops out of the hand.
  • Foul - In pai gow poker, a hand is fouled when the two-card Low hand is set higher than the five-card High hand, or when the hands are set with the wrong number of cards. A fouled hand is a losing hand.
  • Four of a Kind - Four cards of the same rank, also known as Quads.
  • Fourth Street - The fourth card dealt in a hand of stud poker. In seven-card stud, the second round of betting is called fourth street because players have four cards. In Texas hold‘em poker, fourth street is the fourth card on board and the third round of betting.
  • Free Card - Seeing the next card without having to call a bet (e.g. if everyone checks).
  • Freeroll - When you have a hand that will at least share the pot but still has a chance of winning, you are said to be freerolling. Also used in online poker rooms in order to demonstrate a site’s looks and feel to new players before playing for real money. When a site offers Freeroll it means you can sign up and play for free against other players who also requested Freeroll play.
  • Freeze-out - Any tournament format in which you cannot re-buy.
  • Full House - A hand consisting of three cards of one rank and two cards of another rank.
  • George - A poor player.
  • Give the office - (USA) To give a warning regarding cheating.
  • Glimmer - Money.
  • Going All-in (Also known as “All-in”) - In cardroom poker, to call with (to bet) all your chips. If another player bets more chips than you have in a No Limit game, you can go All-in and stake your total stack against an equivalent amount of your opponent’s stack.
  • Goulash joint - A restaurant or bar that runs a regular card game hidden in a back room.
  • Greek Dealer - (Also, Mechanic) A player who cheats when dealing.
  • Grinder - A player who only aims to win a little money each day.
  • Gutshot - An inside straight draw.
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Baccarat glossary

  • Banco - Banker.
  • Bankroll - A player’s total gambling money.
  • Carte - French for request a card be dealt.
  • Coup - French for a round of play.
  • Croupier - French for dealer.
  • Down Card - A face down card.
  • Face Cards - The Jack, Queen, and King of any suit of cards.
  • High Roller - A player that wagers big bets.
  • House Edge - The casino in-built advantage, usually gained by paying less than the odds.
  • Ladderman – Casino employee who oversees the baccarat game. Personnel working this game are two dealers seated together at the center of the table, a caller standing at the table across from the dealers, and the ladderman, supervising the action from a chair above the table.
  • Le Grande - French for natural 9.
  • Mini-baccarat - A smaller version table baccarat.
  • Monkey - A term for a face card or a 10.
  • Natural - An 8 or a 9 with the first two cards.
  • Palette - The tool (usually a long flat wooden baton) used in the Baccarat game to move cards on the table.
  • Punto - Player.
  • Shoe - Device, usually a wooden box, used for holding and dispensing playing cards to be dealt.
  • Shuffle Up - Premature shuffling of playing cards by the dealer.
  • Standoff - A tie.
  • VIP - A Very Important Person. Usually a big bettor or a high roller.
  • Upcard - A face up card.
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Casino Gambling glossary T-U-V-W

  • TAB - Totalisator Agency Board. The body appointed to regulate off-course betting (bets made by people who are not present at the race track).
  • Table Hold - The amount of money won by the casino table game from the players during an eight-hour work shift.
  • Table Stakes - In poker, stakes in which the betting and raising is limited to the amount of money a player has on the table in front of him.
  • Taking the Odds - There are two fundamental forms of wagering, ‘taking the odds’ and ‘laying the odds’. In most casino games the player is ‘taking the odds’ by wagering an amount that is less than they will receive if they win, that is; if you wager $1 you would win more than $1. In most forms of sports betting, some odds are so high in favour of the likely winner that winning wagers get paid an amount less than the amount wagered by some percentage, and this is what is meant by ‘laying the odds’.
  • Tapping Out - Losing one’s entire gambling bankroll and thus having to stop playing.
  • Tell Play - Observing the dealer’s body language and expressions to determine his hole card. In poker game ‘tells’ pertain to quirks or readable aspects of a players actions, verbal behavior, or body language that give away information about what cards they are holding.
  • Third Base - In blackjack, the spot nearest the dealer’s right hand, which will be played last before the dealer’s hand is played.
  • Third Street - In seven-card stud, the first round of betting is called third street because the players have three cards.
  • Three-Card Monte - A three-card game similar to Bragg.
  • Three of a Kind - In poker, three cards of the same rank.
  • Ticket - A card.
  • Time Cut (Also, Axe or Collection) - Money charged each player on a time basis by the casino or by the poker room owner. Charge is usually on a 3 minute or an hourly basis.
  • Toke - Toke is short for ‘token’. A tip given to the dealer in the form of money or chips. Unlike tokens, tokes are more specifically the tips that the game dealers receive from the players. A player who is known to toke the dealer heavily is sometimes referred to as a ‘George’ or a ‘Real George’.
  • Token - The casino own coins used to play slot machines instead of real coins.
  • Touch Wand - A pointing device used on some video keno machines to select numbers.
  • Tournament - Basically, a competition game between a group of players over a period of time. For example, in Poker tournaments a bunch of poker players sit down with the same number of chips, and eventually only one player has any chips left. In order to ensure that the event will finish in reasonable time, tournaments institute a schedule by which the blinds and/or antes increase. Tournaments are usually played with chips that have no value outside of the tournament. So a buy-in of $30 might get you $500 in tournament chips to play with, but you can’t cash them out in the middle. The winner of a tournament (the last player to bust out) as well as several of the other top finishers are typically awarded prize money according to some predetermined schedule. Tournament details vary widely, but a typical arrangement might include an initial buy-in, a re-buy period during which a player who runs out of tournament chips may buy more, and an opportunity to add on to one’s stack after the re-buys have ended. Other details about the structure can vary widely.
  • Trips - Three cards of the same rank.
  • True Odds - The real odds of something happening. Actual odds taking into account the casino edge. The ratio of the number of times one event will occur to the number of times that it will not. The odds posted in a casino are usually not the true odds.
  • Underlay - A bad or unfavorable bet. An event that has more money bet on its happening than can be justified by the probability of it happening.
  • Unit (Betting Units) - Technical term used to express the smallest amount of money used in wagering without specifying the actual Dollar or other currency amount. The player’s actual ‘chip’ bet may be $1, $5, $25, $100 or other value. However, for purposes of simplifying gambling related calculations, the wager is specified as simply one betting unit or one chip.
  • Up Card (Upcard) - The face up card of the dealer’s initial hand in blackjack. Standard casino rules require the dealers to deal their own opening hands with one card face-up and one card face-down. The card that is dealt face-up is the dealers ‘up card’. The card the is dealt face-down is said to be the dealers ‘hole card’.
  • Vig., Vigorish - The casino edge, fee or commission taken by the house.
  • VIP - A Very Important Person. Usually a big bettor or a high roller.
  • VLT - Video Lottery Terminal
  • Wager - Any Bet.
  • Washing (Card Washing) - A card shuffling technique where the dealer spreads the cards on the table face down and then proceeds to mix them around with his hands flat in a face-washing-like action before gathering them up and performing a more normal shuffle. Card washing is intended to remove any consistencies in the sequencing among the cards that new decks of cards have, or that were produced in play prior to the present shuffle. In standard table poker the cards are washed after every hand before they are subjected to a more conventional shuffling. In blackjack and baccarat, the the cards are washed when old decks are taken out of play and fresh new decks brought in to replace them.
  • Web Wallet - A secure and convenient software tool for managing your online transactions, such as depositing money with online casinos or making a withdrawal from your balance.
  • Whale - A player who makes extremely large wagers. Unlike high rollers who consistently wager $100 or more per round, whales are typically those who make wagers amounting to thousands if not tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars per round.
  • White meat - Profit.
  • Wild Card - A joker or other card that can be used as any other card to complete your hand in card games.
  • Wild Royal Flush - A Royal Flush that makes use of a wild card.
  • Wired cards (also, Back-to-Back) - In poker, a pair, trips, or four of a kind dealt consecutively or back-to-back in a hand, usually in a stud hand starting with the first card.
  • Withdrawal - A request you make to receive money from your account.
  • Wong, Wonging, Wonger - (named after Stanford Wong) In Blackjack, to count the cards dealt at a particular table and to then join play only when the count indicates the game has swung to the player’s advantage. The term has been expanded to include playing in favorable situations in a number of other games.
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Casino Gambling glossary R-S

  • Racinos - Racetrack casinos.
  • Rack - A plastic container in which you can transport and count large-denominational coins, slot machine tokens, and casino plastic chips.
  • Rake - The money that the casino charges for each hand of poker. It is usually a percentage (5-10%) or flat fee that is taken from the pot after each round of betting.
  • Rank - In poker, the worth of a set of cards.
  • Rated - Determination by the casino that a player’s skill level is above average or on a professional level. A player’s rating may be stored on computer and referred to the pit.
  • RFB - Comped with free Room, Food, and Beverages.
  • Riffling (Card Riffling) - A commonly used shuffling process. To accomplish a riffle, the deck is divided roughly in half and the two halves are interleaved by pulling the card corners up with the thumbs and letting the two halves ‘riffle’ together. Riffling is also sometimes called ‘zipping’ the cards. Like card Stripping (see below), the riffling process can span a range from a fine riffle to a coarse riffle.
  • River - In poker, the final card dealt in a hand of stud or hold‘em. In seven-card stud, staying in until the fifth and final round of betting is called going to the river.
  • RNG - (Random Number Generator) A computer generated randomness that randomly assigns the outcome of a result such as a roulette spin, a keno game or a cards shuffle.
  • Roulight / Roulite - The most modern variety of Roulette. A table game that has been developed in the first instance by specialists at the Wiesbaden Casino, Wiesbaden, Germany. The game is dynamic and very fast. Players, who like to play sectors and neighbours love it. Bets can only be placed on full numbers (staight up), on two connected numbers (split), neighbours and sections of the wheel. No outside bets.
  • Round of Play - A round or hand of play can consist of a single wager or several wagers made during the time of a short wagering event. For example, in poker the round of play (wagering event) begins with the dealing of the cards and ends when the winning player takes the pot. In casino craps a round of play begins with the ‘come out’ roll and ends when the passline wagers are decided. This may take one or several rolls of the dice. In between, the player might have multiple wagers riding on several different numbers and other betting options. All wagers made between the time of the come out roll and the decision roll are considered to be part of that round of play. In roulette each spin is counted as a round of play, no matter how many bets you place.
  • Royal Flush (Also, Royal Straight Flush or Royal) - An Ace-high straight flush (Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Ten, all of the same suit); the best possible poker hand.
  • RVP - Recreational Vehicle Parking.
  • Sawdust Joint (US) - A term for a non-luxury gambling club.
  • Sawbuck - Ten dollars.
  • Scared Money - Money that you cannot afford to lose.
  • Session - A period of play or a table sitting at any gambling game.
  • Set - In Pai-Gow poker, players set their seven cards into two separate hands of two and five cards each.
  • Seventh Street - In seven-card stud, the fifth and final round of betting is called seventh street because players have seven cards.
  • Shark - A good/crafty player often posing as a fish early in the game. See also “Fish”.
  • Sharker, Sharper, or Cardsharp - A cheater.
  • Sharp - Astute bettor.
  • Shill - A person who actively plays in the game for the house, club, or casino. Usually seen at a Baccarat table to fill empty seats, until more real players join in.
  • Shiner - A tiny mirror or any reflecting device used by a cheater to see unexposed cards. A reflecting device used to try and glimpse the dealer’s hole card.
  • Shoe - Device, usually a wooden box, used for holding and dispensing playing cards to be dealt. Shoe games are typically composed of six or eight decks of cards.
  • Short Run - A short series of wagers or game events.
  • Showdown - In poker, after the last betting round, the players who remain in the pot must show their hands in the showdown to determine the winner.
  • Shuffle Tracking - A high level blackjack playing strategy used by card counters.
  • Shuffle Up - Premature shuffling of playing cards by the dealer.
  • Shuffling (Card Shuffling) - Is a generic term which encompasses all card mixing techniques used to prepare a deck or a shoe for continued play. All casino shuffling processes employ a combination of mixing techniques. These may include ‘Stripping’ or ‘washing’ the cards as well as ‘riffling’, ‘boxing’, ‘plugging’, ‘cutting’ and other off-spring techniques. All shuffling processes employ multiple riffles of ‘clumps’, ‘picks’, or ‘grabs’ to achieve some level of randomization. The shoe games, which use multiple decks of cards (4, 6, or 8 decks), will often employ the most intricate riffling patterns of all. In these, the picks are riffled together and then re-picked and re-riffled in complex symmetric patterns.
  • Shutter - A window covering a number on a reusable bingo card. The shutter can be pulled down to mark each number as it is called.
  • Silver Mining - Also called Slot Walking. The practice of looking for coins left in unattended slot machines.
  • Single - A Straight bet on one selection, also known as a straight-up bet.
  • Singleton - In poker, a card that is the only one of its rank.
  • Sixth Street - In seven-card stud, the fourth round of betting is called sixth street because players have six cards.
  • Skin - A dollar.
  • Skin Game - In poker, a game having two or more collusion cheaters.
  • Skinning the Hand - In poker, a cheater’s technique to get rid of extra cards.
  • Skoon - A dollar.
  • Slot Club Member - Slot clubs were invented for slot fanatics. By becoming a member you are given a card (like a credit card). Using your card while playing the slots (also table games in some casinos) helps you earn free points / cash. The rules, number of points needed to achieve regular club status, and the benefits given to the player are different at every casino.
  • Slot Walking - Also called Silver Mining. The practice of looking for coins left in unattended slot machines.
  • Snake Eyes - When you roll a two in craps, it is called ‘Snake Eyes’ - eyes because they look like eyes, snake because they are bad news (for the shooter).
  • Soft Count - (To do with gaming machines). The count of the contents in a drop box, bill validator or video game receipt collection.
  • Soft Count Room - A room where the soft count is carried out.
  • Soft Hand - In blackjack, any hand that contains an ace counted as eleven is called a soft hand.
  • Spinner - A winning streak.
  • Spooking - Used in blackjack game. The act of standing behind the dealer to peak at the hole card and then secretly convey the information to a partner player sitting at the table. An illegal form of cheating.
  • Spot - Any number from 1 to 80 that a player selects on a keno ticket. It also refers to the number of numbers that are marked on a ticket.
  • Stack - A stack of chips, usually 20 chips in a column commonly used in Roulette.
  • Standing Hand - In blackjack, meaning a hand which hard-totals to 17 or more, which is very likely to bust if one more card is called and therefore the player is expected to stand.
  • Steaming - A blackjack term where a player has become frustrated with how badly the events of a session of play have turned out. ‘Steaming’ in blackjack has practically the same meaning as ‘going on tilt’ in poker. In either case the player has lost emotional control and is betting more aggressively and often recklessly in an attempt to turn things around.
  • Stiff (A Stiff Hand) - In blackjack, a hand that is not pat and that may bust if hit once. Stiffs include hard twelve through sixteen.
  • Straight Keno - The basic keno game, played by marking individual numbers on a keno ticket.
  • Streak Betting - Also known as ‘Progressive Betting’. A system of raising or lowering the size of one’s wager based on what happened on the previous round or rounds. There are basically two kinds of streak betting systems; negative and positive. In a positive streak betting or positive progression betting system the size of the player’s wager is raised on the next round after a winning round. In a negative streak betting or negative progression betting system you do exactly the opposite by increasing the wager size on each subsequent loss. There is an almost endless number of variations of both negative and positive streak betting progressions, each one distinguished by when the progression is invoked, how much the wagers are raised or lowered, and when the progression is terminated.
  • Stripping (Card Stripping) - Is a shuffling technique which reverses the sequential order of the cards in the deck. For instance, imagine if a dealer took the first card off the top of a deck and placed it on the table and then took the second card off the top and placed it on top of the first card. If this process were continued until the 52nd card was placed on top, then the sequential ordering among the cards would have been completely reversed. This characterizes the basic process of striping. The process described above would be a very fine strip. Often the dealers will speed up the process by rapidly pulling small clumps of cards off the top of the deck rather than a single card at a time. The number of cards in the clumps determine how fine or coarse the striping process is.
  • Stud Poker - One of the two basic forms of poker game (the other is draw poker) and played with open or exposed cards (up cards) and with one or more concealed cards known as hole cards (down cards).
  • Suit - Any one of the four types of cards: clubs, diamonds, hearts or spades.
  • Sulky - (The Sulky) The modern harness racing vehicle (a driving rig) developed from a single-seat. Earlier racing had used carts. In its final form the sulky is little more than a U-shaped shaft mounted on two wheels with a seat at the end of the U.
  • Super Stud Poker - A five-card poker game known as Caribbean Stud Poker and Casino Stud Poker, but with a Progressive Jackpot. The “Super” (used in UK casinos) is to say that the game runs a Progressive Jackpot. Tables of the same game are interconnected with other participating casinos, and any player that makes a Royal Flush wins the Jackpot. There are smaller prizes for the top hands such as “four of a kind” and “full house”.
  • Surrender - In blackjack, to give up half your bet for the privilege of not playing out a hand. In roulette, you effectively lose only half on an even-money bet when the ball lands on 0.
  • System - A method of betting, usually mathematically based, used by a punter or bettor to try to get an advantage. A prominent factor in most systems, is the criteria used to determine when the player’s wagers should be raised or lowered. See Systems on this site.
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Casino Gambling glossary O-P-Q

  • Odds - Ratio of probabilities. The casino’s view of the chance of a player winning. The figure or fraction by which the casino offers to multiply a bettor’s stake, which the bettor is entitled to receive (plus his or her own stake) if they win.
  • On tilt - Going ‘on tilt’ is a bad reaction to an unlucky hand resulting in uncontrolled wild play.
  • Open - In poker, the player who bets first.
  • Outside Bets - Roulette bets located on the outside part of the layout. They involve betting 12 or 18 numbers with one chip.
  • Overlay - A good bet where the player has an edge over the casino.
  • Paint - A Jack, Queen or King. Picture card. Face card.
  • Palette - The tool (usually a long flat wooden baton) used in the Baccarat game to move cards on the table.
  • Pass - In card games, to not bet, to fold.
  • Pat - In draw poker, a hand that does not need any more hands. In blackjack, an unbusted hand worth at least 17 points.
  • Payline - The line on a slot machine window on which the symbols from each reel must line up. Slot machines can have as many as 20 paylines, although most have only one.
  • Payoff - The return or payback the player receives for his or her wager.
  • Payoff Odds - The form of odds that are conventionally posted in the casinos. Payoff odds specify how much a winning wager will be paid for each wager or chip that was bet. The casinos post the ‘payoff odds’ in terms of the number of chips won relative to the number of chips bet.
  • Payoff Schedule - See ‘Payout Table’ below
  • Payout - The amount of money paid out to you as a win.
  • Payout Percentage - Also referred to as the payback percentage, the percent of each dollar played in a video or slot machine that the machine is programmed to return to the player. Payback percentage is 100 percent minus the house edge.
  • Payout Table - A posting somewhere on the front of a slot or videopoker machine that tells you what each winning hand will pay for the number of coins or credits played.
  • Pigeon - An uneducated, naive, or unsophisticated gambler.
  • Pit - An area of a casino in which a group of table games are arranged, where the center area is restricted to dealers and other casino personnel.
  • Pit Boss - A supervisor who oversees a gaming area. Usually supervises more than one table at the same time.
  • Pit Manager - A pit manager is in charge of all the table games, enforcing casino policy. He deals with any problems that may arise during the shift where a crucial decision must be made that may lead to a customer being dissatisfied or angry. Also, he handles Comps and dodges undeserving customers who are trying to get free Room, Food, Beverage (free RFB).
  • Playing the Rush - A poker term referring to a player who has just enjoyed a short-run of good luck marked by winning a very large pot of money in one hand or winning several hands in close succession. If the player subsequently begins to play more loosely or more aggressively they are said to be ‘playing the rush’.
  • Plug - A shuffling technique that is sometimes employed in card games like blackjack where the game is often dealt from a multi-deck shoe. When freshly shuffled cards are brought back into action a substantial portion of the cards are kept out of play by the insertion of a cut-card at the back of the deck or shoe. The placement of the cut card marks the place where play will be stopped and the cards are again shuffled. During the play, used cards are stacked in a discard tray. When the cut-card is reached, the game is stopped, and the remaining un-dealt cards are inserted somewhere into the middle of the cards that have already been stacked up in the discard tray. The cards so inserted are referred to as a ‘plug’. Such action is called ‘plugging’ the deck.
  • Pocket Cards - In poker where some of the player’s cards are dealt to them face down. These cards are called pocket cards.
  • Point (The Point) - The number that is established on the come-out roll. Only place numbers (4,5,6,8,9,10) can become the point. The shooter will attempt to repeat throwing the point before throwing a 7 in order to win that round of betting.
  • Poker - Basically a card game. But poker isn’t just a card game - it is many card games. The majority of poker games do share some common features, especially betting in rounds and the ranking of hands. Poker is commonly played in cardrooms (often within casinos) and in private home games. The games played in cardrooms seem to divide into stud games, draw games, and flop games. In home games, however, anything goes, including games that seem to have no reason to be called poker. The varieties played in home games probably number in the hundreds. Some common cardroom games include Texas Hold’em, Seven Card Stud, Omaha, Razz, Lowball, and Pineapple.
  • Pot - In a poker game, the amount of money that accumulates in the middle of the table as each player antes, bets, and raises. The pot goes to the winner of the hand.
  • Press a Bet - Adding the winnings over the current bet, to ‘let it ride’.
  • Pressing - A player is pressing the bet when they let winnings ride by wagering them along with the original bet.
  • Probability - A mathematical calculation that establishes the likelihood that an event will occur. Probabilities are expressed as numbers between 0 and 1. The probability of an impossible event is 0, while an event that is certain to occur has a probability of 1.
  • Progression Betting - A system of betting applied to many games where bet-size is systematically changed, up or down, across as series of rounds of play according to some predetermined formula.
  • Progressive - A slot machine whose potential jackpot increases with each coin that is played. When the progressive jackpot finally hits, the amount resets to the starting number.
  • Pull Tab, Pulltab - A game similar to the lottery game. Tickets sell for 25 cents or 50 cents or even more and typically offer prizes ranging from free tickets to $500. Each ticket has perforated windows which open revealing symbols similar to those found on slot machines or some lottery games.
  • Punch Board - Another lottery-type game. The player punches out a slot on a board for a chance to win a merchandise prize. Punch boards offering cash prizes are also common.
  • Punto Banco - European name for Baccarat; Punto is for Player and Banco is for Bank
  • Push - A tie hand between a dealer and a player. A round of play where neither the player nor the casino wins.
  • Quads - In poker, four of a kind.
  • Qualifier - In poker, the minimum ranking a hand must have in order for it to be eligible to take part of the pot.
  • Quartet - Quartet Pool are conducted by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club. The investor is required to select the first four place-getters in a selected event in the correct order. Generally fields are confined to 14 starters.
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Casino Gambling glossary M-N

  • Marker - A check/cheque that can be written at the gaming tables by a player who has established credit with the casino. An IOU.
  • Martingale - Betting system based on doubling-up after each loss. See the Martingale System on this site.
  • Match Play - The competition system used in tournaments (usually card games) in which two participants play a series of games which ends when one player accumulates a required number of points. Each game could be worth one, two, or more points.
  • Maximum Bet - The highest bet you are allowed to make. Also in slot machines, a button that lets you bet the maximum coin size and the maximum number of coins taking into account the total number of paylines.
  • Mechanic - Slang meaning a dealer who cheats.
  • Megalats Jackpot - A Jackpot system (similar to the Mystery Jackpot) operated in the Bumerangs gaming clubs (www.bumerangs.lv) now owned by Olympic Casino, in Latvia, which unites their gaming machines spread over several Bumerangs gaming clubs (see www.megalats.lv). When playing on any of the gaming machines, in addition to winnings on the particular gaming machine, the player has an opportunity to win the Megalats Jackpot accumulation irrespective of the combination of bets and winnings. Unlike the progressive Jackpot system (where the accumulation is granted when, playing for the highest stakes and the maximum possible combination is hit), Megalats works according to the mystery system: any player can win who has dropped at least one token and played on a machine connected to the system. The more it is played on machines connected to the Megalats system, the greater the Megalats accumulation gets. Additionally you can find the Jackpot system “Minilats”, which connects only the gaming machines in the club it is played in.
  • Mini-Baccarat - The scaled-down version of baccarat, played with fewer players, dealers, and formality but following the same rules as baccarat.
  • Minilats Jackpot - A smaller version of Megalats Jackpot. See “Megalats Jackpot” above.
  • Money Put In Action - This is not the actual dollar amount of money you bring to the table to play with. Suppose that you sat down at a roulette table with a $100 and proceeded to play 90 spins over, say, three hours, betting $10 on each spin of the wheel. If you multiply 90 spins by $10 totals $900. This would be the amount of ‘money you put into action’ even though your actual bankroll was only $100. This is one of the criteria some casinos use to assess your rating and eligibility for comps.
  • Multi-Player Casino - A feature offered by online casinos that lets you play against other players.
  • Mystery Jackpot - See “Megalats Jackpot” above.
  • Natural - In blackjack, a natural is a two-card hand of twenty-one points. In baccarat a natural is a two-card total of eight, or nine.
  • Negative Expectation - The long-run disadvantage or loss of a given situation without reference to any particular outcome; that is, what you figure to lose on average after a considerable time of play, or after a large number of repetitions of the same situation.
  • Net Winnings - Total payout less your stake.
  • Non-negotiable Chips - Promotional casino chips that cannot be exchanged for cash.
  • Non-value Chip - A gaming chip which the dollar value is determined by the amount of the buy-in and the amount of chips taken (example: in roulette). Thus, a buy-in of $300.00 for 60 chips equals a value of $5.00 per chip. In roulette, this is uaually established by the “Table Minimum Bet” amount displayed on the table.
  • Number Pool - The range of numbers from which you select the ones you want to play. A typical lottery pool ranges from 1 to 60, and the keno pool is 1 to 80. A Bingo pool can be 1 to 75 or 1 to 90.
  • Nut - Either the overhead costs of running a casino, or the fixed amount that a gambler decides to win in a day.
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Casino Gambling glossary K-L

  • Kicker - In a draw poker game, an odd high card held that doesn’t contribute to a straight or a flush, usually an ace or a king.
  • Ladderman – Casino employee who oversees the baccarat game. Personnel working this game are two dealers seated together at the center of the table, a caller standing at the table across from the dealers, and the ladderman, supervising the action from a chair above the table.
  • Laying the Odds - There are two fundamental forms of wagering, ‘taking the odds’ and ‘laying the odds’. In most forms of sports betting, some odds are so high in favour of the likely winner that winning wagers get paid an amount less than the amount wagered by some percentage, and this is what is meant by ‘laying the odds’. In most casino games the player is ‘taking the odds’ by wagering an amount that is less than they will receive if they win, that is; if you wager $1 you would win more than $1.
  • Layout - Cloth on a gaming table. Markings tell you where you can place your bets.
  • Load up - To play the maximum number of coins per spin that a slot machine or video game will allow.
  • Lobby - The lobby is a portal within your casino software that lets you choose which game you want to play and gives you access to all the latest news and promotions.
  • Long Run - The number of rounds of play, hands or spins, needed for the ratio of wins to losses to reach a point where they are changed very little by the cumulative effect of outcomes.
  • Loose - Referred to slot machines that have a generous payout.
  • Low Poker - Also called lowball, is poker in which the pot is awarded to the hand with the lowest poker value.
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Casino Gambling glossary I-J

  • Inside Bets - A roulette bet placed on any number, or small combination of numbers.
  • Insurance - In blackjack, a side bet that the dealer has a natural. Insurance is offered only when the dealers up card is an ace. The insurance bet wins double if the dealer has a natural, but loses if the dealer does not.
  • Jackpot - A big win on a slot machine.
  • Jacks or Better - In videopoker games the payout starts at a certain level ranking of hands. When playing Jacks or Better, if you get a pair of Jacks or a higher ranking, you win. You don’t win anything on a pair of tens or lower.
  • Joker - The 53rd card in a deck, sometimes used as a wild card.
  • Juice - (USA) Vig. or Vigorish. Commission taken by the house
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Casino Gambling glossary G-H

  • Gambler’s Anonymous (www.gamblersanonymous.org) - A support group that assists problem gamblers and addicted/compulsive gamblers.
  • Going All-In (Also known as “All-In”) - In cardroom poker, to call with (to bet) all your chips. If another player bets more chips than you have in a No Limit game, you can go All-in and stake your total stack against an equivalent amount of your opponent’s stack.
  • Grease - A bribe.
  • Gross Winnings - The total payout (including your stake).
  • Hand - Refers to the cards that you hold, or to everything that happens in a card game between shuffles of the deck.
  • Hard Count - Activity in which coin (hard) currency is counted. It is usually done in a special room under tight security. Counting the change from slot machines.
  • Hard Hand - In blackjack, any hand that does not contain an Ace valued at 11. (You can value an Ace 1 or 11 to suit you).
  • Hard Way Bet (or The Hardway Bet) - In the game of Craps making a hard way bet means going for the total of the two dice on doubles. Say you wanted to go for a hard six, the only way to do it is with two threes. It is called the hard way because it is not easy to hit. There are only four hard way combinations: hard 4 (2×2), hard 6 (3×3), hard 8 (4×4), and hard 10 (5×5). These are not anytime one-roll wagers. Hard ways win if the selected hard way is rolled before a seven appears or before an “easy way” combination of the hard way total is hit. So if you have a bet on a hard 4 and a 3 and 1 (easy 4) comes up before two twos (hard 4), you lose your hard way bet.
  • High Poker - Standard poker, as compared to low poker or lowball. In high poker, high hands win.
  • High Roller - A player that wagers big bets.
  • Hit - In blackjack, to take another card. The card received is also called a hit.
  • Holding Your Own - Neither winning nor losing, just breaking even.
  • Hole Card - In blackjack, the facedown card that the dealer gets. In stud and hold‘em poker, the facedown cards dealt to each player.
  • Hot - A player who is on a winning streak, or a slot machine that is paying out.
  • House - A casino or gambling center/centre. Also the operators of a gambling game.
  • House Edge - The casino in-built advantage, usually gained by paying less than the odds.
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Casino Gambling glossary E-F

  • eCOGRA - (e-Commerce Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance) eCOGRA provides player assurance and online casino regulation by ensuring that eCOGRA approved online casinos deliver an honest and professional service. eCOGRA’s Seal, displayed on the homepage of approved sites, shows that the casino and poker room operator is committed to player protection, fair gaming and responsible conduct.
  • Edge - An advantage over an opponent.
  • Encryption - A software security measure taken by online casinos to ensure that online transactions are safe from hackers.
  • En Prison - (French word) The stake left on the table in roulette for another spin after backing an ‘Even-money’ bet and the outcome was zero or double zero. It is like a bonus, offered in some casinos.
  • Even Money Bet - A bet with odds of 1:1. A bet that pays you back the same amount that you wagered, plus your original wager.
  • Expected Win Rate - In slot machines, the percentage on the total amount of money wagered that you can expect to win back over time.
  • Eye in the Sky - Slang for video surveillance cameras used by casinos, usually placed on the ceiling above the gaming area.
  • Face Cards - The Jack, Queen, and King of any suit of cards.
  • Fifth Street - In seven-card stud, the third round of betting is called fifth street because players have five cards. In Texas Hold‘em poker, fifth street is the fifth card on board and the final round of betting.
  • Fill - In poker, to draw a card that makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full house, straight flush).
  • Fill up - In poker, to fill a full house.
  • Firing - Betting a lot. A player who is Firing is wagering large sums.
  • First Base - At the blackjack table, the position on the far left of the dealer is considered to be first base and is the first position dealt with.
  • Fish - A player who loses money. (It is said that “If you can’t spot the fish at the table, YOU are the fish.) See also “Shark”.
  • Flash - A type of no-download casino software where you can play instantly.
  • Flat Betting - A way of betting where the same amount is bet on each wager. For example, if a player always bets $10 on each hand or spin and never raised or lowered their bet, they would be said to be flat betting.
  • Flat Top - A slot machine whose jackpot is always a fixed amount, as opposed to a progressive.
  • Flea - An annoying person who wants something for nothing. One who expects to be comped for a small wager.
  • Flop - In poker games, such as hold’em and omaha, where five community cards are dealt. The first three of these cards are dealt all at once, face up, and are called the flop. Games with a flop can be called flop games.
  • Foul - In Pai-Gow Poker, a hand is fouled when the two-card low hand is set higher than the five-card high hand, or when the hands are set with the wrong number of cards. A fouled hand is a losing hand.
  • Fourth Street - In Seven-card Stud poker, the second round of betting is called fourth street because players have four cards. In Texas Hold‘em poker,
  • fourth street is the fourth card on board and the third round of betting.
  • Front Money - Cash or bank checks/cheques deposited with the casino to establish credit for a player who bets against that money.
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Casino Gambling glossary C-D

  • Call - In Poker, to call is to match the current bet.
  • Camouflage - Anything a skilled gambler does to conceal their activities from the casino. Camouflage can include mixing in playing and betting behavior that mimics typical gamblers, or using disguises, appearing to be drunk, or any number of other possible ploys intended to throw the casino’s scrutiny off.
  • Capping - Referred to capping of bets. Placing extra chips on top of initial bet after the deal has begun. It is a serious form of cheating by a player.
  • Card Counting - Used in blackjack game. Recording (in memory) played cards (usually high cards) so as to establish a conditional probability advantage on the remaining cards against the dealer.
  • Card Sharp - A person who is an expert at cards.
  • Caribbean Stud Poker - Also called ‘Casino Stud Poker’, A casino table game based on the standard 5-card stud poker game played on a Blackjack-type table. Some casinos also offer a progressive jackpot paid to high ranking hands. This table game is played with one deck of cards.
  • Carousel - A group of slot machines that are positioned in a ring, enabling a change person (to change bank-notes into coins) to stand in the center.
  • Carpet Joint - US slang for a luxury gambling casino.
  • Case money - Emergency money.
  • Cashcheck - A feature used by some online casinos software that allows you to review your financial transaction history.
  • Cashier’s Cage - The casino cash desk for cashing in the chips.
  • Casino Advantage - The edge that the House (casino) has over the players.
  • Casino Rate - A reduced hotel-room rate (price) that the casinos offer to good customers.
  • Catch - In keno, to catch a number means that a number you have marked on your keno ticket has been drawn.
  • Chase - Having lost money on a bet, ‘chasing’ is having another bet simply to try and get back the loss.
  • Check - In casino gambling, a check is another term for a chip. In poker, a player can ‘check’ in order to stay in the game but not bet.
  • Chemin De Fer - (French) A table game using 6 or 8 decks of cards, similar to Baccarat but requires skill. See Chemin de fer on this site.
  • Chip, Chips - Round plastic discs. Casinos require that you use chips for betting. They are purchased at the gaming tables and exchanged at the cashier’s booth or cage.
  • Chip Tray - The tray in front of a dealer that holds that table’s inventory of chips.
  • Chips - Round tokens that are used on casino gaming tables in lieu of cash.
  • Coat-tail - Bet the same numbers as someone who is winning at the moment.
  • Cold - A player on a losing streak, or a slot machine that is not paying out.
  • Color Up - When a player exchanges smaller denomination chips for larger denomination chips.
  • Combination Way Ticket - In keno, a ticket in which groups of numbers are bet several different ways, allowing the player to spread money over more
  • combinations.
  • Comps - Complimentary gifts given by the casino to entice players to gamble. Typical comps include free hotel room, meals and beverages.
  • Copy - In Pai-Gow Poker, when a player and the banker have the same two-card hand, or the same five-card hand. The banker wins all copies.
  • Cracking The Nut - Making enough money on a gambling venture to cover all expenses plus a reasonable net profit.
  • Craps - Casino dice table-game.
  • Credit - In online casinos, wagers are expressed in credits. 1 credit equals to 1 unit.
  • Credit Button - In slot machines or video machines, the button that allows players to bank coins in the form of credits.
  • Crossroader - An old term used to denote a cheat originated in the Old West practice of cheating at saloons located at crossroads. The term is still used today for casino cheats.
  • Croupier - French word for Dealer, used in the games of baccarat and roulette.
  • Cut - In card games following a shuffle before the start of a new round of play, when the dealer or player divides a deck into two parts and inverts them, using a cut card (see below).
  • Cut Card - A faceless card of different color, usually red or black, that is used to cut a deck of cards.
  • D’Alembert System - A staking plan where one unit is added for a losing bet and one deducted for a winning bet.
  • Deal - To give out the cards during a card game.
  • Deposit - A payment you make usually to online casinos using a credit card, a web wallet or one of the online payment systems, in order to play casino games for real.
  • Deuce - A two in dice.
  • Dice - Two identical numbered cubes. (see Die below)
  • Die - Singular for dice, a cube with numbers on each side, 1 to 6.
  • Dime Bet - A $1,000 wager.
  • Discard Tray - A tray on the dealer’s right side that holds all the cards that have been played or discarded in card games like Baccarat, Blackjack and Poker.
  • Dollar Bet - A $100 wager.
  • Double Or Nothing - An even-money bet. A bet that pays off exactly the amount wagered.
  • Doubling Down - A betting option in blackjack where the player’s opening two-card hand is turned face up and player’s original wager is doubled. The player is then dealt one additional card only, to complete the hand. In the event that the player beats the dealer’s hand or the dealer busts, then the player wins twice the amount of their original wager. If the player loses, then the player loses twice the amount of their original wager.
  • Doubling-up - The basis of some widely used systems. After a loss the player doubles the size of his previous bet hoping to win back the money lost and
  • make a profit. Also known as the Martingale System.
  • Down Card - A face down card.
  • Down to the Felt - Totally out of money, broke.
  • Draw - Relates to the poker games. Basically it means to draw a card (e.g. if you need a card to make a straight, you are on a ’straight draw’ or are ‘drawing to a straight’. In ‘draw poker’ game, it means the second round of cards that are dealt. The word draw has slightly different meanings in different contexts, although generally it has something to do with receiving more cards, with the hope of improving your hand. Draw games are games where at some point during the hand you are allowed to discard some or all of your cards, to be replaced from the deck. Drawing two is thus exchanging two of your cards. ‘The draw’ is the point during the game at which players may do this. By default, when someone asks you if you want to play some draw, they usually mean five card draw. In other poker games, drawing simply means staying in the game with the hope of improving your hand when more cards come. When you stay in a hand with the hope of improving, you are said to be ‘on a draw’.
  • Drop - Money lost.
  • Drop Box - On a gaming table, the box that serves as a repository for cash, markers, and chips.
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Casino Gambling glossary A-B

  • Action - The amount of money wagered (put into action) by a player during an entire playing session.
  • Active Player - In poker, one who is still in play.
  • Add-on - In poker, the facility to buy additional chips in tournaments.
  • Aggregate Limit - Total payout liability of a casino during any one game.
  • Aggregate Winnings - Cumulative or total winnings.
  • All-in (Also known as “Going All-In”) - In cardroom poker, to call with (to bet) all your chips. If another player bets more chips than you have in a
  • No Limit game, you can go All-in and stake your total stack against an equivalent amount of your opponent’s stack.
  • All or Nothing - In Keno, a ticket that only pays if either all picked numbers are drawn or none of the picked numbers are drawn.
  • Ante - In card games, a bet required to begin a hand. The initial compulsory bet before you receive your cards in Casino Stud Poker.
  • Arm - A term used in the game of craps to denote a player who is so skilled at throwing the dice that they are able to alter the conventional odds of the game. Such a player is said to be ‘an arm’. Whether or not such individuals actually exist or are simply the product of game legend is debatable.
  • However, it is worth noting that the casino craps dealers are very adamant about the dice being thrown against the far wall of the table to ensure a completely random outcome.
  • Baccarat - Also called Punto Banco and Chemin De Fer (similar to Baccarat but requires skill). A table game using 6 or 8 decks of cards which does not require skill. See Baccarat on this site.
  • Banker - In card games, the dealer. In some card games, each player becomes a banker/dealer in turn.
  • Bankroll - Also known as ‘roll’ or ‘wad’ (colloquial). It pertains to the total money that either the player or the casino has on hand to back their wagering activities. A player’s bankroll can be classified as existing on several different levels. At the highest level it pertains to all money specifically set aside to support all gambling activities. A subset of this bankroll is the players traveling bankroll, or the amount of money carried along to support gambling on a particular trip. The traveling bankroll can be further divided into a specific lesser amounts for each day of the trip, or into even smaller amounts called table sitting or session playing stakes which predetermine how much will be risked during any given session or table sitting. These different types of bankrolls often figure into the overall money management strategy the player uses to keep control over their gambling cash activity.
  • Barred - Same as Banned. Not allowed to enter the casino premises permanently.
  • Beef - A dispute or claim involving a player and his bookmaker or a casino dealer. A dispute over the outcome of a bet. A problematic situation involving a bet.
    Example of usage: In many casinos, putting paper currency on the pass line (craps game) indicates to the dealer that the cash is betting, and when the dice roll turning a losing outcome, you have got little recourse and are at the mercy of the person manning the box convincing him that you wanted to exchange the money into chips. If the dealer takes the bank note you dropped in front of you on the layout as a lost bet, but NOT on any of the other possible wagers, then you have a legitimate beef. The casino film recording can be reviewed but that does not immunize you for your failure to tell the dealer you want chips in exchange for your currency.
  • Bet - Wager.
  • Betting Limits - In a table game, the minimum and maximum amounts of money that a player can wager on one bet. You cannot wager less than the minimum or more than the maximum amount posted. Some casinos, in special cases, may extend the maximum limit at a table on request by the player.
  • Bingo - Bingo is a prize game played in halls. Basically, players buy cards with numbers on them in a 5 x 5 grid corresponding to the five letters in the word B-I-N-G-O. Numbers such as B-2 or 0-68 are then drawn at random (out of a possible 75 in American Bingo, and 90 in British and Australian Bingo) until one player completes a ‘Bingo’ line with five numbers in a vertical, horizontal or diagonal row on one of their cards and wins the prize. Bingo rules and payouts and play variations vary from place to place.
  • Black Book - The list of undesirable people who are forbidden to enter any casino in Nevada.
  • Blind Bet - In poker, a bet posted without the player sees any of his/her cards.
  • Blinds - A forced bet in Hold’em Poker.
  • Bonus - Money that could be given to you for free for various reasons such as when signing up to an online casino.
  • Boxing - In horse racing, a single ticket comprised of more than one parlay.
  • Break-Even Point - The break-even point is the point at which if you played forever, the bets you made would approximately equal the payoffs you would receive.
  • Buck - A $100 wager.
  • Bug - A joker.
  • Bump - To raise.
  • Burn Cards - Remove cards from the top of the deck, not to be dealt, and place them in the discard tray after a shuffle and cut.
  • Buy in, Buy-in - Converting cash into chips. The amount of cash used to purchase casino chips before entering a table game: blackjack, poker, craps, roulette, etc.
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