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• Action – It is the monetary amount that is put into play or action during the entire gaming session of a gambling game.
• Active Player – In the game of poker, both online as well as offline, a player who is still playing the game is known as active player.
• Add-on – In a poker game, the facility of buying additional chips in a tournament is known as add-on.
• Aggregate Limit – During a single game, the total amount of payout liability of any casino is known as aggregate limit.
• Aggregate Winnings – It is the total or cumulative winnings.
• All-in or Going All-in – It is the act of betting or calling your chips in a poker (cardroom) is known as “all-in” or “going-all-in”.

TIPS: When can you go for all-in or going-all-in?

In a No-Limit game, if another poker player puts-in (or bets) more chips than yours then you have the option of betting all your chips in the game. You can do this in order to stake your aggregate stack against the equivalent amount of stack of your opponent.

• All or Nothing – This term is usually used in the game of Keno. It is associated with a ticket which pays you only when you pick up all the numbers that are drawn. But the ticket will pay you nothing if all the numbers picked up by you are not drawn.
• Anchor Man - In Blackjack, the player wagering on the last box on the table is said to be "anchoring" the game.
• Ante – This term is associated with the games of cards. Ante is the amount of bet that is required for beginning a hand.

In case of Casino Stud Poker, ante is the initial amount of compulsory bet that you need to put in the pot before you receive the cards.

• Any Craps – It is a one-roll dice bet which covers 2, 3, and 12.
• Any Seven – It is a one-roll dice bet which covers any 7.
• Arcade Casino – It is also known as “Automat Club”/ “Slot Hall” / “Videomat Casino”. It is a hall for gambling where casino operators are not required for operating different gambling games. These types of halls offer automatic games and generally remain open for 24 hours. Some of the features include:
  • Entry Fees - Free
  • Registration - not required
  • Dress Code – Casual
  • Bar/Snack Bar – In-house
• Arm – This term is used in the game of Craps. It is referred to such a player who is extremely skilled at throwing dice and are capable enough in altering the conventional odds of the game. Such a skilled player is known as “an arm”.

Point to Note: It has been witnessed that dealers of casino craps become very adamant regarding throwing the dice against the far-away wall of the table. They are so adamant about this for ensuring a completely random outcome.

• Audition – It is an examination that a dealer needs to pass before a casino hires him or her.

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• Baccarat – It is a table game, played with the help of cards. Generally, the total number of card decks used in the game is either six or eight. Baccarat does not require any skill and is also known as Punto Banco. Another game similar to the game of Baccarat is called Chemin De Fer, but it essentially differs from Baccarat in terms of skills.
• Banca Francesa– This is a name of a gambling game played with the help of dice. Literally, Banca Francesa means “French Bank”. It is played on a large table with the help of three dice. Types of bets that can be placed in this game are “Ace”, “Small” or “Big”.
• The bet of “Ace” can be placed when the three dices show one dot each, I.e. Total point of three.
• The bet of “Small” can be placed when the total point of all the three dices aggregate to five, six and seven.
• The bet of “Big” can be placed when the accumulated points of all three dices aggregate to a sum total of fourteen, fifteen or sixteen.

Dice will be rolled and re-rolled by the dealer until and unless the above mentioned results show up. 61 to 1 is payed by Aces whereas even money is payed by “Small” and “Big” bets.

• Banker – In case of card games, the dealer himself/herself acts as the banker. There are also some card games, every participant player acts as a dealer or banker, in turn.
• Bankroll – It is the total amount of money possessed either by the casino or the player in their hands for backing their wagering activities. There can be different levels of bankroll of a player:
• Highest Level – All money placed aside for supporting all sorts of gambling activities is referred as “highest level”.
• Players Traveling Bankroll – It is a part of the “highest level bankroll”. It refers to the total amount of money that is being carried on a particular trip for supporting gambling.
• Table Sitting – It is again a subset (or a smaller part) of “traveling bankroll”. This is important for predetermining the amount of risk that can be taken in every table sitting or session. This is also known as “session playing stakes”.

Different types of bankrolls are maintained by the players as a way of keeping a control over their casino betting cash activity. Bankroll are also colloquially known as “wad” or “roll”.

• Bar the 12 – In Craps game, “Bar The 12” transforms “twelve” into a Push on the Don't Pass Line.
• Barred – If a person is not allowed or banned from entering the premises of a casino permanently then it is said that the person is barred from the casino.
• Base Dealer – A dealer of Craps game who is responsible for any one of the many bases is called Base Dealer.
• Basic Strategy – The right way of playing Blackjack in accordance with the statistics is called Basic Strategy.
• Beef – It is a dispute between a casino dealer and a player regarding the outcome of a bet.
• Beginner's Luck – It has generally been observed that when a new player starts gambling, he/she starts on a winning streak. This phenomenon is known as “Beginner's Luck”. Some people also call it as “Honeymoon Period”.
• Bet – It is the other name of wager.
• Betting Limits – This term is usually used in case of table game. It is either the maximum or the minimum amount of money that a player is permitted to wager, during a certain bet of a table game. If the betting limit is posted for a particular bet then you are not allowed to bet beyond or below that permitted level. A special facility is also available at some casinos. In such casinos, the players of a certain table can request to increase the maximum limit.
• Betting Right – It is a term that is used in the game of Craps and means 'betting with the shooter.'
• Bingo – Its is a prize game that is being played in halls. In this game, the players need to buy cards having numbers printed on them. These cards are placed in a 5x5 grid, corresponding to all the letters of “B-I-N-G-O”, the word. This game of Bingo has three versions, namely, American, British and Australian. Every type of game has its own form of outcome possibilities. In American Bingo there can be 75 outcomes and in case of Australian and British Bingo, there are 90 outcomes. Numbers can be randomly drawn by the players from the possible outcomes. Drawing of numbers will continue until and unless one of the player is able to complete a bingo line. The ultimate goal of a bingo player is to complete a sequence of 5 numbers horizontal, vertical and diagonal.
• Black Book – It is a book, listing the names of the unwanted people in the casinos of Nevada. If anyone's name is written in that book then he or she will be forbidden from entering any casino of Nevada.
• Blackjack – It is one of the most interesting games of cards where the players participating n the game play against the dealer and not against one another. Everyone tries to get as close as possible to the magic figure “21”. But you should not get over this magic figure. Moreover, Blackjack is the name of a hand where the first 2 cards sum-up to the total number of “twenty-one”.
• Blind Bet – This term is associated with the game of Poker. If a poker player places a bet without seeing any of his cards then such a bet is known as Blind Bet.
• Blinds – This term is associated with the game of Hold'em Poker. Blinds are nothing but forced bets.
• Bonus – Online casinos usually give money or monetary benefits for free to those customers who register themselves with the concerned website.
• Book – It is the term which means acceptance of wager.
• Boule (or La Boule) – It is a simplified version of the Roulette game and is originally called as “little game”. This game is very popular in the casinos of France. The basic features of the game are:
• A table and a wheel nine numbers and three different colors. You can bet on these numbers and colors.
• First of all, the wheel is spun and a small ball of rubber is bounced on the revolving wheel. The outcome of the game is determined through the settlement of the concerned ball in any one of the colored holes.
• The best part of the game is that it is absolutely simple and fast to play.
• Box – In the games of Craps, the area of the table controlled by Boxman is known as Box.
• Boxing – In the sports of horse racing, it is a single ticket which comprises of more than 1 parlay.
• Boxman – Staff members of a casino in charge of the table of Craps is called Boxman.
• Break – In the game of Blackjack, if you go over the magic figure “21” then it is termed as Break.
• Break Even Point – It is such a point at which the amount of payoff received and the total amount of bets done by you gets equaled (approximately), if you play forever.
• Brick – A “Brick” is referred to such a card which appears to be not helping the poker hand of a player.
• Brit Brag – This is a type of poker game which is played with the help of 3 cards having variations. This game consists of variations and a player playing the game ca have several options and combinations. The other names of this game are 3-Card Poker and 3-Card Casino Brag.
• Buck – A betting amount of US$ 100.
• Bump – It is the act of raising the bet.
• Burn Cards – It is the act of removing cards from the deck top, which are not required to be dealt. After cutting and shuffling, these discarded cards are placed on a discard tray.
• Bust – It has the same meaning as “Break”. That is, if you exceed the the magic figure of “twenty-one” in the game of Blackjack then it is known as “Bust”.
• Buy In – It is the way of purchasing chips by giving cash for entering a game. Buy-in is the total money amount used for purchasing chips at a table game.

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• D'Alembert System - A staking plan where one unit is added for a losing bet and one deducted for a winning bet.
• Deal - To distribute the cards to start a game.
• Deposit - Before you play an online casino game, you are required to make a payment either using a credit card or other payment options.
• Deuce - A two in dice. In a dice the side representing 2.
• Dice (Singular form Die) -  A cube, which has six sides and each side represents numbers from 1 to 6. It is used for playing.
• Dime Bet - A wager worth $1,000.
• Discard Tray -  It is a normal tray where the discarded cards (that you have already played) are kept during a card game.
• Dollar Bet - A wager worth $100.
• Dolly -  In American roulette, it is the wooden or plastic marker that looks like a doll that placed to point out the winning number.
• Double Or Nothing – It is the bet that pays off nothing more than the amount you have wagered. You may also call it an even money bet.
• Doubling Down – During the course of playing blackjack players come across a situation when the player's opening hand of two cards are turned face up besides doubling the original wager. Then in order to complete the hand, the player is dealt only one extra card by the dealer. At this time if the player makes a better hand than the dealer or may be the dealer busts, then the player is considered as the winner and he or she takes home twice the amount of his original bet. But if the opposite happens then the player looses twice the original bet.
• Doubling-up – It is based on the Negative progression, according to which a player should double the amount of his last lost bet and puts forward the current bet with an urge to recover the loss.
• Down Card – A card that is dealt face down is known as Down card.
• Down to the Felt – A person who lost everything and is now a broke.
• Draw – It is a Poker term that usually means receiving one or more cards to improve the hand value. 
• Drop – It is a term used to describe the situation of lost money.
• Drop Box – It is used like a repository where cash, chips, markers etc are kept on a gambling table.

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• eCOGRA – The full form of the term eCOGRA is “e-Commerce Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance”. It is called a seal of authentication. It is a company that is responsible for maintaining the authenticity and gambling standards. Casinos with this seal are considered as reliable.
• Edge – It means you have the advantage over your opponent or something similar that is against you.
• Encryption – This term is specially used while talking about software security. You can say that it is a type of safety measure practiced to prevent hackers from getting access to it, consequently ensuring safety.
• En Prison – It is a French word. In roulette after protecting an “even money” bet, the stake that is left on the table for another spin resulting in double zero or a single zero is known as “En Prison”.
• Even Money Bet – It is a type of bet, which pays you an amount equivalent to the amount wagered by you along with your actual wager.
• Expected Win Rate – It is the percentage of the total amount of money that is wagered by you in slot machine which you can expect to win back during the course of playing it.
• Eye in the Sky – It is a slang term used for the video cameras installed in the ceiling just above the gaming area for surveillance purpose.

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• Face Cards – They are generally the picture cards or cards with faces found in every suit of cards like King, Queen and Jack.
• Ficheur – It is applicable for roulette game played in America. Here the players are provided colored chips just to make sure that the bets do not get mixed up. On the other hand, the roulette dealers have a machine called Ficheur, which they use to categorize the chips based on their color from the mixed heap for instant availability.
• Fifth Street – This term is used differently in different games. The third round of betting in seven-card stud, where the players hold five cards each is called “Fifth Street”. Whereas in Texas Hold´em poker the fifth card on the board is called “Fifth Street”. 
• Fill – The action of drawing a card, which makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full house, straight flush).
• Fill up – The action of filling a full house in poker.
• Finales – Especially in roulette it is a type of bet placed on a group of number ending with the same digit. For example, final 6 means a bet on 6, 16, 26 and 36; final 8 means a bet on the number 8, 18 and 28.
• Finale Schnaps – It is a kind of command given to the croupier or dealer in a French roulette to bet on the numbers 33, 22, and 11. 
• Firing – This is a term used to indicate the large sum of money used by the players for wagering. If it is said that he or she is firing then that means he or she is betting large sums.
• First Base – It is a position at the blackjack table. It is the place that is left for the dealer, which is also the first place dealt with. 
• Fish – The player in the table who looses money. 
• Flash – It is a type of software that allows you to play on the browser instantly without having to download it.
• Flat Betting – It is a type of betting where the player neither decreases nor increases the amount for wagering. The amount is fixed.
Flat Top - A slot machine that never raises or lowers the jackpot amount is called a Flat Top. It is like a fixed budget.
• Flea – It is a term used for those people who ask / wants something for nothing.
• Flop – Five community cards are dealt in poker variations like hold'em and Omaha. Here the first 3 cards are dealt face up. This is called flop. 
• Foul – It is a term used in Pai-Gow Poker, where a five card high hand is considered lower than two card low hand. In general, a foul hand is the loosing hand.
• Fourth Street – The second round of betting in Seven-card poker is called “Fourth Street”. This is because in this round the players play with 4 cards. This term is also used in Texas Hold`em. In the 3rd round it is the 4th card on board.
• Front Money – It is the cash or check deposited to the house before the game or bet. This is done in order to set up credit, for being able to bet against that money.

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• Gambler's Anonymous – A group of people supporting themselves or others to recover from severe gambling addictions or gambling problems.
• Going All-In – It is one of the betting act where a player bets everything that he possesses in the current hand. It is also known as “All-in”.
• Grease – A slang term for bribe.
• Gross Winning – It is the total amount won by the gambling house and the customers have lost within a specific time.

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• Hand – The types of card held by each player in a card game.
• Hard Count – The term is commonly used for counting the changes from the slot machine under complete security in a special room. It is actually a process of counting coins or hard currency.
• Hard Hand – This is a term usually used in blackjack game when either the hand does not contain an Ace or has it, but it's counted as 1.
• Hard Way Bet – It is an action or method in craps to roll 4, 6, 8 or 10 in doubles like rolling 2 twos to make a 4; 2 threes to make a 6; 2 fours to make an 8; or 2 fives to make a 10.
• High Poker – It is a version of standard poker where the highest hand is considered as the winer, just opposed to “lowball” or “low ball”.
• High Roller – A gambler who wagers large bets or a player who spends lavishly on bets.
• Hit – It is an act of taking a card in a Blackjack game. It is never expressed verbally but conveyed through certain gestures.
• Holding Your Own – The act of accumulating an amount that can neither be considered as a winning amount nor a losing amount.
• Hole Card – All the face down cards received by either the dealer or the players during a gambling session, which is never disclosed to anyone until the showdown, is known as “Hole Card".
• Honeymoon Period – The term is used for newbies or beginners who goes through a continuous winning phase. Often refereed as “Winning Phase” or “Beginners Luck”.
• Hot – This is used to express the performance of a slot machine and a gambler or a player. A slot machine is called hot when it is offering payouts and a player or a gambler is called hot when they are winning at a stretch.
• House – The gambling station or the platform where the gambling is staged, including the gambling game operators. You can also call it a gambling center.
• House Edge - The percentage of the bet taken by the house to generate income for the house. Hence winning bets are paid off at a lesser count than true or actual odds.

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• Inside Bets – It is a bet placed on the roulette table layout, on anyone of the individual number including 0 and 00, or may be any other combination or set of numbers.
• Insurance – The dealer calls for an insurance when his or her up-card is an ace. When you bet that the dealer has a Blackjack, then you place an insurance wager. For insurance wager, you will have to place an amount that is equal to one half of your original bet on the insurance line. In case the dealer really has a Blackjack, you win the insurance wager but loose your actual bet. But if the dealer does not have a Blackjack, then you lose the insurance wager and the game goes on as usual.
• Irregular Playing Patterns – Some online casinos announce bonuses and players qualify for these bonus prizes only after playing some rounds, hands, tables etc or after wagering some amount. Traditionally, the bonus prizes are offered, keeping in mind the regular gamblers or players. But some players who are not regular, try to meet the target by applying the irregular betting patterns (by risking least amount possible), so that they can claim the bonus. In a sentence, it is nothing but playing on an irregular basis to minimize the amount of wagering money to qualify for a bonus.
• IVT - The full form is “Interactive Video Terminal”. It is a high-end gaming station.

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• Jackpot – The large winnings from a slot machine game.
• Jacks or Better – When you play video poker games, generally the payouts begin after reaching a certain level, depending on the ranking of the hands. So, while playing Jacks or Better, if anyone gets a pair of jack or something higher, then he or she is considered as the winner. A pair of tens or lower, loses the hand.
• Joker - This is the last card or the 53rd card of a deck. In some games it has no value whereas in other games it is valued as a wild card.
• Juice – The term is used for the commission that is taken by the house.
• Junket – At times, some Casinos request or invite VIP players to play in some other casino(s), located far away. Some or complete expense of the players' travel and accommodation, billed during the players stay, is borne by the hosting casino. This complimentary casino trip or tour is called Junket.

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• Kalooki – It is a famous game in Jamaica. You can say that it is a version of Contract Rummy, which is generally played with wild cards.
• Kicker – A side card used to disguise the hand or to improve the hand. It is usually an Ace.

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• Ladderman – It is the person seated at a chair who is situated above the baccarat table and supervises the game processing. He or she is actually an employee of the casino who is appointed to watch over the baccarat game actions.
• Laying the Odds – At times, few odds are very high in favor of the winners. Thus, in order to balance the situation, the winning bets are paid back some percentage less than the amount wagered.
• Layout – It is a marking on a cloth placed on a gambling table, which directs you or shows you the place where you can position your bets.
• Load up – Playing as many number of coins in a video game or slot machine, will permit in each spin.
• Lobby – It is segment in a casino software from where you can make your game selection and also get access to the latest updates through news and promotions.
• Long Run – The ratio for number of wins to loses required to reach a point by playing series of hands or spins.
• Loose - Slot machines that are in a good payout mood.
• Low Poker – A variant of poker game where the lowest hand wins the pot.
• LuminAR or Luminar – It is the flashy roulette table, designed by John Huxley (a casino equipment supplier) with bright LEDs, especially around the winning sections, to create an eye catching effect.

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• Marker – It is a check written by a gambler at the gambling table to settle the credit with the casino.
• Martingale – It is a betting strategy or system. Basically about doubling the last lost bet.
• Match Play – A competition strategy applied during card game tournaments where the game is considered finished when one of the two players collect the requisite number of points after playing a series of games.
• Maximum Bet – As the term suggests, it is the largest bet you can put forward. In case of slot machines too, you will find a button that will allow you to bet the largest coin size along with the maximum number of coins considering the number of paylines.
• Mechanic - It is a slang term used for a dealer who is known for cheating.
• Megalats Jackpot - It is a progressive jackpot system, which was first introduced at Latvia in 1998. This specific system is operated from the Bumerangs gaming clubs. Anybody who has dropped at least one coin in the machine connected to the system qualifies for the opportunity of winning Megalats Jackpot.
• Mini-Baccarat – The small scale version of Baccarat, which is played with few players and dealers, while maintaining the same rules and regulations.
• Minilats Jackpots – Small scale version of Megalats Jackpot.
• Money Put In Action – It is not the actual amount of money that you planned to use for betting. Suppose you have US$100 fixed bankroll but you play for US$900. In that case, “money put in action” is $900. So, the actual and total amount of money that you invest in playing is called “money put in action”.
• Multi-Player Casino – Online casinos provide a feature, which allows you to play against the rest of the players.
• MVG – The full form is “Most Valued Guest” , a title that is used for VIP membership club members.
• Mystery Jackpot – Similar to Megalat Jackpot.

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• Natural - It depends on the type of game and differs from game to game. In case of Blackjack, a two card hand, counting 21 is considered “natural”. Whereas in case of Baccarat, a two card hand counting 8 or nine is considered “natural”.
• Negative expectation – The amount you assume to loose, on an average, after playing for a certain time.
• Net Winnings – The sum total of your payout excluding your stakes.
• Non-negotiable chips - The casino chips that cannot be encashed, like bonus offered for playing, but can only be used for gambling purpose.
• Non-value Chip – Determination of dollar value of a gaming chip by the amount of cash invested to purchase it (buy-in) and the number of chips taken for it.
• Number Pool – The displayed range of numbers that you can pick or select to play the game or use it for betting.
• Nut – The term is used to describe the amount a gambler plans to win in a day. It is also used to describe the overall expenditure for operating the casino business.

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• Odd – It is the act of representing the basic probabilities of a player winning the game. It is somewhat like predicting the potential outcome, not based on any fictitious assumptions but, in fact, depending on a specific calculation or strategy.
• On tilt – Playing poorly or irrationally because of some external influence (like emotional doldrums, bad hand, consecutive loosing etc.).
• Open – The first one to bet in the first round of a poker game.
• Outside Bets – The bets located outside the roulette layout like one of the even money or 2 to 1 bets, generally involving 12 or 18 numbers of betting with one chip.
• Overlay – Player getting a better edge over the house through good betting.

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• Paint – A face card or a picture card like the King, Queen and Jack.
• Palette – It is a long flat wooden baton like tool, used in the Baccarat table for moving the cards around.
• Paroli – It is a famous betting strategy. It is also a kind of order generally given to a croupier in French roulette game.
• Pass – Pass is a statement made by a player, when he or she denies to bet.
• Pat – It is a term used to describe a hand that does not require any card. This term is also used in Blackjack to describe a hand that is equivalent to 17 or more, but not over 21, and does not require a hit.
• Payline – In a slot machine, there can be maximum 20 paylines. It is generally the lines seen in the slot machine window, where the symbols from each reel must line up.
• Payoff – The payback amount a player is awarded, depending on his or her wager.
• Payoff Odds – It decides how much a gambler or a player will be paid back for each of his or her bet or chip, placed in a gamble.
• Payoff Schedule – Similar to “Payout Table”.
• Payout – This is the amount of money paid to a player by the house as the winning amount.
• Payout Percentage – A percent of each dollar that a player is supposed to receive, while playing video games or slot machine games. The machines are programmed to return the specified percentage to the player.
• Payout Table – A table format poster pasted somewhere in front of the video poker or slot machine, which will notify you about how much a winning hand can earn for playing certain number of coins.
• Pigeon – A gambler who did not go through the traditional education system and hence is naive and unsophisticated in nature.
• Pit – It is an area exclusively for players or gamblers only, where a series of table games are arranged. But the center area is restricted for dealers or other casino professionals.
• Pit Boss – A casino professional appointed to watch over the gaming area. Generally, he is the supervisor, who is in charge of looking after more than one table.
• Pit Manager – The pit manager administers the house policy and supervises all the table games. He is the one who sorts out crucial problems in the house and looks after customer satisfaction.
• Playing The Rush – When a player plays more aggressively after winning large amount of money, from one hand or many hands consecutively for a while, then you can say that the player is “playing the rush”.
• Plug – It is a technique of shuffling cards (unplayed and discarded) in well known card games, where the cards are often dealt from a multi deck shoe. In other words, it is an action of placing unplayed cards in the stack of discarded ones before shuffling.
• Pocket Cards – When playing poker some players receive cards face down. The face down cards here are termed “pocket cards”.
• Point - The established number in the come-out roll. Numbers that can possibly become a point are 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10.
• Poker – It is a card game, with generally five cards in each hand, and the game starts by placing an ante (token). The ranking depends on the type of hand.
• Pot – It is the accumulated money (collected from bets, antes, raises, etc.) in a poker game, placed right at the middle of the table. This pot is awarded to the winner.
• Press a Bet – It is the act of adding the winnings to the present bet, just to “let it ride”.
• Pressing – A player is said to have pressed the bet when he or she lets his or her winnings to ride, by betting them in addition to the original bet.
• Probability – It is a type of mathematical calculation that predicts the future happenings or occurrence of certain events, generally expressed as 0 and 1.
• Progression Betting – This is a betting strategy applied to several games and changed accordingly, depending on an already formulated formula.
• Progressive – It is a kind of jackpot from a slot machine where the potential jackpot increases with each coin played.
• Pull tab or Pulltab – It is just like a lottery game, where the tickets are sold at 25 cents, 50cents or more.
• Punch Board – It is another game, similar to lottery. It is generally a wooden board with many holes in it but the holes are covered or hidden with a foil paper. That is because there are some paper slips, hidden behind the foil paper.
• Punto Banco – The Baccarat game in Europe is called Punto Banco. “Punto” refers to players and “Bunco” refers to Bank.
• Push – This is a term used to describe the tie between a dealer and a player.

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• Queen Theater – This term is used in case of electronic roulette because of the theater-like seating arrangements. 24 players can play the Queen Theater electronic roulette, all at the same time and at the same venue.
• Quads – This is a Poker term used to express “four of a kind”.
• Qualifier – The minimum requirement that a player or hand must fulfill to be eligible for getting a part of the pot.
• Quartet – It is the correct finishing order of four participants of a race.

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• Racinos - They are race tracks which have casinos.
• Rack - A plastic case where you can transfer and calculate casino plastic chips, slot machine tokens and large-denominational coins.
• Rake - For every hand of poker, the casino charges an amount known as rake. Generally it is a flat fee or a percentage which is taken from the pot. The percentage is estimated after every round of betting.
• Rank - It is the value of a set of cards in poker.
• Rapid Roulette - Known as American style roulette table. This layout has no outside bets such as odd/even, red/black, low/high, dozens and columns. Here, bet can be placed on neighbours and numbers. The usual purpose of such a variation is to accelerate the game.
• Rated - The casino rates the skill level of a player from an above average to a professional. The rating might be stored on a PC and later pertained to the pit.
• RFB - Enter a competition with food, room and beverages.
• Riffling (Card Riffling) - It is a shuffling process which is common. The deck is first divided in half, the the card corner are pulled up with the help of the thumb and the two halves are interleaved. Next they are riffled together, the practice riffling is also known as 'zipping' the cards.
• Right Bettor - A person or player who wagers on the pass line in the game of Craps is known as Right Bettor.
• River - A term used in poker referring the final card in a the game of stud or hold‘em. If a player stays on till the fifth or final round in seven card stud then it is addressed as river.
• RNG (Random Number Generator) - The result of a keno game, a cards shuffle or a roulette game provided by computer generated randomness.
• Roulight / Roulite - Advanced version of Roulette. Specialists at Wiesbaden Casino, Wiesbaden, Germany, has designed and developed this table game. It is very fast and dynamic. Players having a special liking towards playing neighbours and sectors will surely find it interesting. There are no outside bets, thus you can only place bets on neighbours and sections of the wheel, two connected numbers (split) and full numbers (straight up).
• Round of Play - In a short wagering event there can be several wagers or a single wager in one round. For instance, in poker the game starts as the dealing of the cards initiates and ends when the winner acquires the pot. Similarly, in casino craps the round starts on the 'come out' roll and ends with the declaration of passline wagers. Several rolls of dice might cost a game. Again, the player can even have several wagers on varied numbers, along with having other betting options. The period between 'come out roll' and 'decision roll' shows several wagers, these wager are a part of that particular round of play. Every spin in the game of Roulette is known as the round of play, regardless of the bets placed.
• Royal Flush (Also, Royal Straight Flush or Royal) – It is also known as the best poker hand. Also referred to as ace-high straight flush.
• RVP - The acronym to Recreational Vehicle Parking.

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• Sawdust Joint (US) - A name given to a non-luxury gambling club
• Sawbuck - Equivalent to ten dollars.
• Scared Money - Money which is too valuable to lose.
• Schnaps - See "Finale Schnaps"
• Session - The time spent in a game or a table.
• Set - In a game of Pai-Gow poker the seven cards are placed on separate hands with five and two cards on each hand.
• Seven-out - At a Craps game, when a 7 is rolled at the time of setting Point then it is known as 7-out.
• Seventh Street - Referred to as the fifth and final round in betting, in seven card stud game. In this game players have seven cards.
• Shark - Early in the game you might find a good/crafty player. He is seen acting as a fish.
• Sharker, Cardsharp or Sharper - Referred to as a cheater.
• Sharp - A sharp bettor.
• Shill - Someone who is actively involved with games, either for the club, casino or house. Generally found at a Baccarat table, filling up empty seats.
• Shiner - A cheater often uses a tiny mirror to find out unexposed cards. Shiner can also refer to any other reflecting device. Such a device might help to glance at the whole card of the dealer.
• Shoe - A wooden box referred to as a device to hold and dispense playing cards. There are six or eight card decks in shoe games.
• Shooter - A person in the game of Craps, who rolls the dice is known as Shooter.
• Short Run - Referred to as a short series of game events and wagers.
• Showdown - After the completion of the last betting round in poker, the players remaining in the pot must raise their hands. This indicates a showdown which also decides the winner.
• Shuffle Tracking - It is the blackjack game strategy, generally adopted in high level, and is used by card counters.
• Shuffle Up - It is when the dealer does the premature shuffling of cards.
• Shuffling (Card Shuffling) - When preparing a deck or a shoe card, mixing techniques are used to continue with the game. Shuffling is a generic term used to pre-present such card mixing. Almost all types of casinos shuffling processes include a clubbing of shuffling techniques. Such techniques bear different names such as 'washing', 'stripping' or 'riffling', 'cutting', 'boxing', 'plugging', and other methods. The shuffling processes include several riffles of 'picks', 'clumps' or 'grabs'. This is done to attain a certain level of randomization. Multiple deck of cards are used in shoe games such as 4, 6, or 8 decks, they have the most complex riffling pattern among all.
• Shutter - A reusable bingo card has a window which covers a number. In order to mark a number, the player has to pull down the shutter.
• Silver Mining - At times in unattended slot machines, coins are found. It is the practice of looking for such coins. It is another name of slot walking.
• Single - Another name for a straight-up bet, it is a straight bet placed in a lone selection.
• Singleton - When the card is one of its rank in poker then it is known as Singleton.
• Sixth Street - It is referred to as the fourth round in a betting in seven card stud. The sixth street term comes by because six cards are used in the round.
• Skin - Another name for dollar
• Skin Game - A poker game containing collusion cheaters, two or more in number.
• Skinning the Hand - A technique used by the cheater in order to do away with extra cards in poker.
• Skoon - Another name for dollar.
• Slot Club Member - Slot fanatics are the inventor of slot clubs. Being a member of one, you will get a card (similar to a credit card). You can use the credit card to play slots (it can be used in several casinos) and earn some free points and cash. At every casino the rules and the points required to get a regular club status differs.
• Slot Hall - See "Videomat Casino" below
• Slot Walking - Another name for Silver Mining. At times coins are found in unattended slot machines, it is the pattern of searching those coins.
• Smart Cashiers - It is another name of automated cashier machines. These tools help the players to encash their winnings as well as credits.
• Snake Eyes - In craps, if you roll a two then it is referred to as 'snake eyes'. The term if broken – 'snake' signifies shooter and thus it means bad news and 'eyes' signifies looking.
• Soft Count - (Related to gaming machines) The term relates to counting the contents included on the bill validator, drop box and the video game receipt collection.
• Soft Count Room - The soft count is done in a room, known as the soft count room.
• Soft Hand - An ace when counted as eleven is known as a soft hand, in blackjack.
• Spinner - Another name for winning streak.
• Spooking - It is a form of cheating which is illegal and takes place in a blackjack game. If you stand behind the dealer and happen to sneak at the hole card then inform your partner about playing at the table about it, it is called spooking.
• Spot - In keno you need to select a number from 1 to 80. Spot refers to the number selected. These numbers are then marked on the ticket when playing the game.
• Stack - In the game of roulette, in every column 20 chips are used. Stack is the collection of these chips.
• Standing Hand - If you make a total of 17 or more in blackjack, there are chances for you to get busted in case one more card is called. Thus, the player is then anticipated to stand.
• Steaming - At times when the events in a game turn out to bear unexpected results then it frustrates the player. This term is used in blackjack. In poker 'going on tilt' is similar to 'steaming', used in blackjack. In both the cases the player grows aggressive and plays carelessly, making mistakes in order to turn things around.
• Stiff (A Stiff Hand) - In the game of blackjack, it so happens that a hand seems to bust in case it is hit once. This is called a stiff hand.
• Straight Keno - When individual numbers are marked on a keno ticket in a basic game of keno then it is called as “Straight Keno”.
• Stud Poker - In a poker game there are two basic forms and Stud Poker is one of them. The game is played with the help of exposed or open cards, and there are concealed cards as well, which is called as hole cards.
• Suit - There are four types of cards and “Suit” refers to any one of them. The cards are clubs, diamonds, hearts or spades.
• Sulky - It is made from a single seat and is the advanced and modern driving rig or harness racing vehicle. It has two wheels and is more than a U shaped shaft.
• Streak Betting – It is nothing but another name for 'progressive betting'. While in a game, due to the happenings in the preceding rounds, wager is either lowered or raised. The two types of streak betting systems include both positive and negative. In a positive streak betting, after winning a round the wager is raised on the very next round. Similarly, in case of a negative streak betting, the process is just opposite where the wager is raised on every loss. The variations are numerous and is distinguished while the progression is raised.
• Stripping (Card Stripping) – This is a kind of shufling technique. Here the sequential order of the card is reversed in the deck. For example, a dealer takes every single card and places on the table till the 52nd card. The sequential order is now reversed, when the 52nd card is placed on the top. Such kind of shuffling is known as fine strip, however dealers, in order to save time, shuffle by pulling out small clumps of cards and shuffling them.
• Super Stud Poker – It is a five card poker game with the name Casino Stud Poker and Caribbean Stud Poker. Here it has a Progressive Jackpot. The term Super, generally used in UK casinos, denotes the game that contains a Progressive Jackpot. With other involved casinos, the tables are connected and this allows any player making Royal Flush win the Jackpot. Other awards include "full house" and "four of a kind".
• Surrender – In blackjack if you are not willing to play out a hand, renounce half your bet. Similarly, in case of roulette if you wish to quit and the ball lands on 0, you lose only half the amount when playing on an even bet.
• System – It is a method involved in betting, through which a bettor or a punter tries to get advantage. This entire method is based on mathematics. In almost every system some measures are taken to decide whether to lower or raise the wager of the player. This is a prominent factor in the system.

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• TAB – It the abbreviation for Totalisator Agency Board. Such a body is organized to modulate the bets that are made by players absent at the race track.
• Table Hold – At the time of an eight-hour work shift the casino table game wins a sum from the players. This term refers to the sum won.
• Table Stakes – At the time of placing a bet at a poker table, the stakes are restricted in accordance with the money a player has.
• Taking the Odds – Two basic types of wagering include 'laying the odds' and 'taking the odds'. If you are 'taking the odds' then you are wagering an amount which is less than the sum you will receive, when you win.
• Tapping Out – You stop playing when you lose a full gambling payroll.
• Tell Play – The term refers to the situation when you observe the body language of the deal to decide the hole card. In the game of poker, 'tells' relates to the readable aspects and quirks of the verbal behaviour, actions and body language of the player. This lets out information about the cards.
• Third Base – The spot that lies close to the right hand of the dealer in blackjack, and the one that is played at the end, prior to the time of playing the dealer's card.
• Third Street – The term refers to the first round of betting in seven card stud. Since the players hold three cards in the first round, the term is coined likewise.
• Three-Card Monte – A game same as Bragg played with three card.
• Three of a Kind – The three cards of the very rank.
• Ticket - A card.
• Time Cut (Also, Axe or Collection) – Every player needs to pay the casino or the owner of the poker room. The charge is generally asked hourly or else every three minutes.
• Toke – Abbreviated form of 'token'. The dealer is often given chips or money as tips. Tokes are different from tokens. They are particularly the tips that are given to dealer by players. If a player offers a dealer heavy tokens then it is called as 'George' or 'Real George'.
• Token – In place of real coins players use coins, given by the casino, to play at slot machines.
• Touch Wand – At some video machines of Keno, there is a pointing device that helps players in selecting numbers.
• Trips – It refers to the three cards of a particular rank.
• Tronc – When the players win, they offer tips to the dealers on a box. Tronc is that designated box.
• True Odds – It is the real odds when something happens. Taking into consideration the casino edge, it is the actual odds. Generally, at every casino the odds that appear are not the true odds.

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• Underlay – It is a term for an unfavorable or a bad bet.
• Unit (Betting Units) - The money used in betting is measured and “unit” is the term given the smallest amount. It does not specify the other currency amount or the dollar. In order to simplify the calculation, the amount used as a bet is either referred to as a chip or an unit.
• Up Card (Upcard) – The dealer's initial hand in blackjack has a face up card. In any casino the game starts with the dealer showing his hands with a face up card and another face down card. The face up card is also referred to as an up card.

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• Videomat Casino – you get automatic games only at a videomat casino. There is no dealer required. Popular examples include slot machines and electronic touch-bet roulette. They are available round the clock.
• Vig., Vigorish – The house takes a commission, fee or a casino edge.
• Viking Poker – In several European casinos Viking Poker is a popular name, similar to Caribbean Stud Poker.
• VIP – A high roller or a big bettor, a significant person at a casino.
• VLT – The abbreviation for Video Lottery Terminal.

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• Wager - Any Bet.
• Washing – Croupiers rub their hands always to ensure that none of the chips are being taken away by the players before they leave the table. Another name for the term 'washing' is 'card washing'.
• Web Wallet – Players need to manage their online transactions such as depositing and withdrawing money from accounts while playing at a casino. Web wallet is a convenient and secure software tool for money management.
• Whale – Players making large wagers are known as whale. If you are a high roller then you are likely to bet $100, however whales give thousands as wagers.
• White meat – Another term for Profit.
• Wild Card – To complete your hand in card games, you can use a joker or any other card. These are known as 'wild card'.
• Wild Royal Flush – It utilizes the wild card, also known as Royal Flush.
• Wired cards (also, Back-to-Back) – Trips, a pair or four of a kind, is dealt with sequentially, in the game of poker. It is also dealt back to back. This happens generally in stud.
• Withdrawal – If you wish to get money from your account, it is a request you make.
• Wong, Wonging, Wonger - (termed after Stanford Wong) It is a strategy of joining a game of blackjack when the game is in a player's advantageous position. A player may count the cards which are being dealt at a table. Now, when the game has swung in his/her favor then the player joins the game. The term further explains the favorable playing conditions.

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