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Admission Packet
- A minimum number of cards that you must purchase as the
price of admission. Typically you must purchase an Admission Packet, which usually
contains three to six card for every regular game, and may also contain some special
games.

Action
- The amount of money wagered (put into action) by a player during an
entire playing session.

Active Player

Add-on

After Game

Aggregate Limit

Aggregate 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

- In poker, one who is still in play.

- In poker, the facility to buy additional chips in tournaments.
- The game played after the end of a regular session of play.
- Total payout liability of a casino during any one game.
- Cumulative or total winnings.

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'.

Automat Club
- Also known as Videomat Casino, Arcade Casino, Slot Hall, is a
gambling hall that offers automatic games that do not require a casino operator.
Examples: slot/video machines, electronic touch-bet roulette, electronic Derby horse
racing, etc. They are normally open 24 hours or from 10am daily, entry is free, no
registration required, the dress code is casual, and there is an in-house bar or snack
bar

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.

Ball Gate
- Part of the ball dispensing machine, the one-way flap at the top of
the 'ball runway' which the ball passes under to enter the main playfield area.

Ball Lifter
- The mechanism used to raise the ball from beneath the playfield to
the 'ball shooter' tip.

Ball Runway
- The channel where the ball is launched up by the ball shooter to
enter the main playfield area.

Ball Shooter
- The spring loaded plunger with a rubber tip used to launch the
ball into the playfield area.

Banca Francesa
- The game is played with three dice on a large table.There
are only three types of bets you can place: "Big" or "Small" or "Aces". Big is when the
total points of the three dice is 14, 15 or 16. Small is when the total points of the three
dice is 5, 6 or 7. Aces is when the total points of the three dice is 3 (one dot per dice)..

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..

Barred
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.

Beginners Luck
- In gambling, new players often are on a winning streak when
they start gambling. Also known as the "Honeymoon Period".

Bet

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.

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 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 Board
- A display board, usually electronic that lights up showing each
number as it is called.

Bingo Books/Booklets
- A number of different colored bingo sheets/cards
bound together to form a book/booklet to be played one for each game at a bingo
session. They are usually bound in the order in which they will be played.

Bingo Card
- A card containing 24 numbered spaces and one free space
(blank), with which you play BINGO. The numbers are assigned at random on each
card and are arranged in five columns of five numbers each by five rows (5 x 5 = 25 in
total including the blank square).

Bingo Marker
bingo game card.

Black Book
casino in an area.

- Same as Banned. Not allowed to enter the casino premises

- Wager.

- A crayon or ink dauber that is used to cover the numbers on a

- The list of undesirable people who are forbidden to enter any

Blackout
- (Also, Coverall) A pattern where you must cover the whole card to
win. Usually 50 to 60 of the 75 bingo numbers have to be called to cover all the
numbers on a card. But blackouts in as few as 43 numbers have been recorded.

Blind Bet

Blower
- A forced-air device that mixes the bingo balls and dispenses them to
the caller who announces the number and displays it on a bingo board.

Breakopen
- A multi-ply card, made completely from paper or paper products,
with perforated breakopen tab or tabs. The game play area of the card is covered to
conceal a number(s), letter(s) and/or symbol(s); some of which have been designated in
advance as prize winners.

Brit Brag
- A 3-card poker game, with variations. Has many combinations and
options open to the player.

Bonanza Bingo
- A progressive coverall Jackpot that is usually played as the
13th game of the session. Forty-five numbers are drawn before the session and players
mark them on separate cards and set aside. There is a small additional fee to play this
game. The countdown begins at 48 numbers or less and go up one number per week to
52 numbers or until won. The amount of the jackpot is determined by card sales for that
game.

Bonus
- Money that could be given to you for free for various reasons such as
when signing up to an online casino.

Boule (La Boule)

- Originally referred to as the "little game", Boule is basically a
simplified version of Roulette, popular in French casinos. The game features a table
and a wheel with only 9 numbers and 3 different colours on which you can bet.

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.

Brick
stud poker.

BritBrag
- A poker game with a three-card hand played against the casino, also
known as 3-card Casino Brag and 3-card Poker.

Bug

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.

- In poker, a bet posted without the player sees any of his/her cards.

- A card that appears not to help a player's poker hand. A 'blank' in 7-card

- A joker.

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.

Buy-in
- Buying bingo cards or an Admission Packet (see above). Converting
cash into bingo cards.

Call

Caller

Camouflage
the casino.

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

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.

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.

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.

Cashcheck
- A feature used by some online casinos software that allows you to
review your financial transaction history.

C
- In Poker, to call is to match the current bet.
- The person who calls out the bingo numbers as they are drawn.
- Anything a skilled gambler does to conceal their activities from

- A person who is an expert at cards.

Cash-In-Prize
- A form of bingo where the prize is a cash payout. This is taken
from the money paid in.

Cashiers Cage

Casino - The word "casino" initially meant a public music and dance hall. By the second
half of the 19th century casinos developed into a place with gambling halls.

Casino Advantage

Casino Night (Also, Vegas Night)

- An event held for a specific period of time
(generally beginning in the afternoon and ending by midnight) during which a qualified
organization is entitled to hold casino-style gaming events. Games conducted include:
Pulltabs, bingo, roulette, blackjack, poker, craps, gin rummy, five card stud poker, and
merchandise wheels.

Casino Rate
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.

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

Coat-tail

Cold

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.

- The casino cash desk for cashing in the chips.

- The edge that the House (casino) has over the players.

- A reduced hotel-room rate (price) that the casinos offer to good

- The tray in front of a dealer that holds that tables inventory of chips.
- Bet the same numbers as someone who is winning at the moment.
- A player on a losing streak, or a slot machine that is not paying out.

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
unit.

- In online casinos, wagers are expressed in credits. 1 credit equals to 1

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.

D'Alembert System
- A staking plan where one unit is added for a losing bet
and one deducted for a winning bet.

Dauber
- Bingo dauber is ink-filled bottle/pen with a foam tip on it used to mark
called numbers. When you touch the bingo card with the foam tip it marks the square.

Deal

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

Dice

Die

Discard Tray
- A tray on the dealers right side that holds all the cards that have
been played or discarded in card games like Baccarat, Blackjack and Poker.

Dolly
- Unlike the French roulette where the croupier simply points with the stick
on the winning number on the table, in the American roulette the croupier uses a marker
made of wood or plastic and places it on the table in the square of the winning number.
The score marker is called 'dolly' because it has the outline that looks like a doll. Its

- To give out the cards during a card game.

- A two in dice.
- Two identical numbered cubes. (see Die below)
- Singular for dice, a cube with numbers on each side, 1 to 6.

functionality is primarily to help the players know the winning number until all winnings
are paid.

Double Or Nothing
wagered.

Doubling Down
- A betting option in blackjack where the player's opening twocard 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

Down to the Felt

Draw
- Relates to the poker games. 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.

Drop

Drop Box
- On a gaming table, the box that serves as a repository for cash,
markers, and chips.

Early Bird Game

- A bingo game that starts earlier than another regularly
scheduled game. But sometimes the Early Bird game is merely the first game of the
session. The first game of a session is more commonly known as a Warm Up.

Edge

Encryption
- A software security measure taken by online casinos to ensure
that online transactions are safe from hackers.

- An even-money bet. A bet that pays off exactly the amount

- A face down card.

- Totally out of money, broke.

- Money lost.

- An advantage over an opponent.

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
- Is the individual bingo sheet containing 24 numbers plus the free space
in the middle.

Face Cards

Ficheur
- In the American Roulette each player gets chips with different colours
so that they do not mix. The croupiers have at their disposal a sophisticated
mechanism, also known as Ficheur, which is able to mechanically separate coloured
chips making them always readily available to use.

Fifth Street
- In seven-card stud, the third round of betting is called fifth street
because players have five cards.

Fill
- In poker, to draw a card that makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full
house, straight flush).

Fill up

Finales
- A type of group bets on numbers ending with the same digit.
Examples: Final 7 means bet on the numbers 7, 17 and 27 (three chips). Final 2 means
bet on the numbers 2, 12, 22 and 32 (four chips).

Finale Schnaps
- In French roulette, an order given to the croupier to place a
bet on numbers 11, 22 and 33.

Firing

- The Jack, Queen, and King of any suit of cards.

- In poker, to fill a full house.

- Betting 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

Flash

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.

Flimsy, Flimsies
- Bingo cards printed on thin sheets of paper. There are
usually three cards printed on a single sheet but flimsies are also printed in one, two,
four, six or 9-card formats. Typically a flimsy sheet costs one or two dollars and a win on
a flimsy on a special game usually pays quite a bit more than a win on a regular game.
Also called 'Throwaways' in some areas.

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.

Four Corners
- A pattern where you must cover the corner numbers of the card.
If you get those four numbers, you win.

Fourth Street
- In Seven-card Stud poker, the second round of betting is called
fourth street because players have four cards.

Free Space
- The center square of the card, which does not have a number
assigned to it. It's like a Joker or a Wild square. You get it free every game and it counts
towards your winning pattern.

Front Money
- Cash or bank checks/cheques deposited with the casino to
establish credit for a player who bets against that money.

- A player who loses money.

- A type of no-download casino software where you can play instantly.
- A way of betting where the same amount is bet on each wager.

Game Board, Gameboard

- An electronic display that is attached to the bingo
board to show the pattern needed to win that particular game. It looks like a bingo card
and shows what variation of bingo you are playing on that particular game on the
program. For example: four corners, chevron, regular, blackout, etc.

Game Room

George

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

Gross Winnings

Hand
- Refers to the cards that you hold, or to everything that happens in a card
game between shuffles of the deck.

Hard Card
- A bingo card printed on heavy cardboard material usually with
shutters to cover each number as it is called out.

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. It is called the hard way
because it is not easy to hit.

High Poker
- Standard poker, as compared to low poker or lowball. In high
poker, high hands win.

High Roller

- Some online games divide the players into game rooms.

- A player who tips the dealers often and generously. A good tipper.

- A bribe.
- The total payout (including your stake).

- A player that wagers big bets.

Hit

Holding Your Own

Hole Card
- In blackjack, the facedown card that the dealer gets. In stud and
holdem poker, the facedown cards dealt to each player.

Honeymoon Period
- In gambling, new players often go through a 'honeymoon
period' where they win all the time when they start gambling. Also known as "Beginners
Luck", and sometimes referred to as "Winning Phase".

Hot

House
game.

House Edge
the odds.

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

Inlaid Card
- A pre-printed card, usually in 4x4 format laid into a table, and black
discs are used to cover the numbers as they are called out.

Inside Bets
numbers.

Instant Bingo
- A breakopen ticket which contains the letters B I N G O, bingo
card faces, bingo numbers, and no other symbols. Winning tickets may incorporate
letters spelling the word B-I-N-G-O, or contain a complete pre-designated bingo pattern,
i.e., vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line.

Irregular Playing Patterns

- This generally refers to what is known as "bonus
abuse". Online casinos that offer bonuses may require the player to play a certain
number of spins/hands, or wager a certain amount of cash to qualify for the bonus.
Irregular betting patterns are signs of players who aren't playing regularly (i.e. to win

- In blackjack, to take another card. The card received is also called a hit.
- Neither winning nor losing, just breaking even.

- A player who is on a winning streak, or a slot machine that is paying out.

- A casino or gambling center/centre. Also the operators of a gambling

- The casino in-built advantage, usually gained by paying less than

- A roulette bet placed on any number, or small combination of

money) but are trying to meet those requirements with minimal risk of losing money in
order to claim the bonuses.

Jackpot
- A big prize usually awarded for achieving a difficult pattern, such as a
blackout, within a specified number of balls.

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 .

Junket
- Casino Junkets or Casino Complimentary Travel are trips offered to
gambling customers, called VIP players, for travel to and play at a particular casino.
Depending on the player, the hosting casino will pay some or all of the VIP player's
travel and accommodation costs in exchange for undertaking to play at the casino
during the players stay.

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'.

Late Night Bingo (Also, Moonlight Bingo)

night, usually about 10:00 pm.

Layout
bets.

- Session of bingo that starts late at

- Cloth on a gaming table. Markings tell you where you can place your

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

Low Poker
- Also called lowball, is poker in which the pot is awarded to the
hand with the lowest poker value.

Lucky Jar (or Cookie Jar)

- A container with cash. You win the contents of the
lucky jar if you bingo on the lucky number. The lucky number is usually the first number
called at the beginning of a session. Money is added to the jar every time the lucky
number is called or if the caller makes a mistake in announcing the game.

Luminar or LuminAR
- Illuminated roulette table made by John Huxley,
suppliers of casino equipment. The LuminAR roulette table is eye-catching by
illuminating the winning sections through the layout using high intensity LEDs.

- Referred to slot machines that have a generous payout.

Main Stage Bingo

- The main event of a session of bingo, and the one said to
draw the most customers.

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

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.

- Betting system based on doubling-up after each loss..

Mechanic

Mini-Baccarat
- The scaled-down version of baccarat, played with fewer
players, dealers, and formality but following the same rules as baccarat.

Minimum Buy-in

Money Put In Action

table to play with.

- This is not the actual amount of money you bring to the

Multi-Player Casino
against other players.

- A feature offered by online casinos that lets you play

Most Valued Guest

membership club.

Moonlight Bingo
pm.

Money Ball
- A number drawn before the game that will double a player's
winnings if bingo is hit on that number.

Multiple Winners
- Two or more players bingo at the same time. When this
happens, the cash prize is divided among them.

Mushroom
- A group of bingo displays which takes its name from its shape - it
has a narrow tubular base, and a wider head with the machinery used to play the game
and collect money from players. Customers sit around the mushroom to play, and there
are usually 6 to 8 positions at each.

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

- Slang meaning a dealer who cheats.

- The least amount you must spend to be eligible for prizes.

- A title for loyal casino customers. A form of VIP

- Session of bingo that starts late at night, usually about 10:00

- Total payout less your stake.

Non-negotiable Chips
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).

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.

- Promotional casino chips that cannot be exchanged for

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
- A player is said to be On when one or more cards they are playing lacks
only one number for a bingo.

On The Way
- The game played on the way to the blackout game. It is played
prior to the blackout on the same card. First the preliminary game(s) are played and
then more numbers are called until there is a blackout.

On tilt
- Going 'on tilt' is a bad reaction to an unlucky hand resulting in
uncontrolled wild play.

Open

Outside Bets
- Roulette bets located on the outside part of the layout. They
involve betting 12 or 18 numbers with one chip.

Overlay

- In poker, the player who bets first.

- A good bet where the player has an edge over the casino.

Paint

Palette
- The tool (usually a long flat wooden baton) used in the Baccarat game
to move cards on the table.

Paroli
- In French roulette, 'Paroli' is an order given to the croupier meaning to
press the bet with the win, or to "let it ride". Paroli is also the name of a betting system
which increases the bet as you win.

Pass

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

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.

Payout

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

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.

- A Jack, Queen or King. Picture card. Face card.

- In card games, to not bet, to fold.

- The return or payback the player receives for his or her wager.

- The amount of money paid out to you as a win.

- An uneducated, naive, or unsophisticated gambler.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Progression Betting
- A system of betting applied to many games where betsize 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.

- Adding the winnings over the current bet, to 'let it ride'.

Progressive Jackpot
- A Jackpot that gets bigger until it is won. It builds daily,
weekly, or monthly if it is not won in a specific number of calls. If there is no winner in X
number of calls, consolation prize(s) of lesser amounts are paid.

Pull Tab, Pulltab

- A game similar to the lottery game. 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
for Bank

Push
- A tie hand between a dealer and a player. A round of play where neither
the player nor the casino wins.

- European name for Baccarat; Punto is for Player and Banco is

Queen Theatre
- A term used in electronic roulette (touchbet roulette) because
of the way the seating is laid out. Altogether 24 players can play the Queen Theatre
electronic roulette at the same time. The central part of the roulette with its wheel is
designed for 8 players around it, whilst 16 players play from the "theatre", a second line
around the first circle of 8 players.

Quads

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.

Quickie
win Bingo.

- In poker, four of a kind.

- Numbers are called as quickly as possible & the card must be full to

Rack
- A plastic container in which you can transport and count largedenominational coins, slot machine tokens, and casino plastic chips.

Rainbow Pack
- A paper pack that allows players to play for three or four
different prize denominations at once.

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

Rapid Roulette
- American style roulette table layout without the outside bets:
red/black, low/high, odd/even, dozens and columns. You can only bet on numbers and
neighbours. The purpose for this variation is to speed up the game.

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.

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 holdem. In seven-card
stud, staying in until the fifth and final round of betting is called going to the river.

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.

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.

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.

Serial Number
- The minimum five-character number printed by a manufacturer
on each set of charity game tickets/cards. Each ticket in a set contains the same serial
number.

- In poker, the worth of a set of cards.

Series
- Indicates the number of unique faces that a single set will contain. For
example: a 9000 Series has 9000 unique faces.

Sawdust Joint (US)

Scared Money

Session

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
"Fish".

Sharker, Sharper, or Cardsharp

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

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
counters.

Shuffle Up

Shuffling (Card Shuffling)

- Is a generic term which encompasses all card
mixing techniques used to prepare a deck or a shoe for continued play. Shutter - A

- A term for a non-luxury gambling club.

- Money that you cannot afford to lose.

- A period of play or a table sitting at any gambling game.

- A good/crafty player often posing as a fish early in the game. See also

- A cheater.

- A short series of wagers or game events.

- A high level blackjack playing strategy used by card

- Premature shuffling of playing cards by the dealer.

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

Singleton

Sixth Street
- In seven-card stud, the fourth round of betting is called sixth
street because players have six cards.

Skin Game

Skinning the Hand

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.

Slot Walking
- Also called Silver Mining. The practice of looking for coins left in
unattended slot machines.

Smart Cashiers
- Automated cashier machines that allow players to cash out
their winnings/credits from their Smart cards.

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

Soft Hand
- In blackjack, any hand that contains an ace counted as eleven is
called a soft hand.

Spinner

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.

- A Straight bet on one selection, also known as a straight-up bet.

- In poker, a card that is the only one of its rank.

- In poker, a game having two or more collusion cheaters.

- In poker, a cheater's technique to get rid of extra cards.

- A room where the soft count is carried out.

- A winning streak.

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
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
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.. 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

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.

- A stack of chips, usually 20 chips in a column commonly used in

- The basic keno game, played by marking individual numbers

- 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".

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.

Table Board Bingo

- Table Board Bingo is a lottery scheme where players
purchase the Table Board card and win prizes by being the first to complete specified
arrangements or patterns of numbers on the Table Board Bingo device from numbers
selected at random. A Table Board Bingo event can be held in conjunction with a
Regular Bingo event and where the Table Board Bingo prizes are in addition to the
maximum Regular Bingo prize board.

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 what they will receive if they win.

Tapping Out
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 dealers right hand, which will be
played last before the dealers hand is played.

- Losing one's entire gambling bankroll and thus having to stop

Third Street
- In seven-card stud, the first round of betting is called third street
because the players have three cards.

Three of a Kind

Ticket

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
chips.

- Toke is short for 'token'. A tip given to the dealer in the form of money or

Token

- The casino own coins used to play slot machines instead of real coins.

Touch Wand
numbers.

- A pointing device used on some video keno machines to select

Tournament
period of time.

- Basically, a competition game between a group of players over a

Thirty and Forty

- Also called Rouge et Noir or Red and Black, is a game of
French origin found in French and other European casinos played with cards and a
special table. The game has many similarities to Baccarat. There are five possible
outcomes: Rouge or Noir, known as the "Grand Tableau", and Couleur or Inverse,
known as the "Petit Tableau", and a Refait (a tie). The house derives its edge (1.1%) in
the event of a tie, when the house takes one half of all the stakes. There is also an
insurance bet option against the 'tie' outcome.

Trips

Tronc
- A designated box for collecting the tips for the dealers given by players
when they win.

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.

Videomat Casino
- Is a casino that offers automatic games only, that do not
require a dealer or a croupier, such as slot machines and electronic touch-bet roulette.

- In poker, three cards of the same rank.

- A card.

- Three cards of the same rank.

They are normally open 24 hours or from 10am daily, and there is usually an in-house
bar or snack bar.

Vigorish

Viking Poker
- A poker name commonly used in some European casinos, is the
equivalent of Caribbean Stud Poker.

- The casino edge, fee or commission taken by the house.

Wager

Washing
- To show that they are not taking any chips with them, croupiers
always rub their hands over, known as 'washing', before leaving the table. See also
'Card Washing'

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

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

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

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.

Wrap Up

- Any Bet.

- Profit.

- A Royal Flush that makes use of a wild card.

- A request you make to receive money from your account.

- The name of the last game of a session.

Bingo numbers and their common translations:

1 Translation: Kelly's Eye or On it's Own

5 Translation: Man Alive
7 Translation: Lucky for Some
8 Translation: The Garden Gate or One Fat Lady
9 Translation: Doctor's Orders or Revolution Number
10 Translation: PM's Den
11 Translation: Legs, Chicken Legs or Legs Eleven
13 Translation: Lucky for Some or Unlucky for Some
16 Translation: Sweet Sixteen
21 Translation: Key of the Door
22 Translation: Two Little Ducks
23 Translation: Thee and Me
24 Translation: Two Dozen
30 Translation: Dirty Gertie or Dirty Bertie
37 Translation: More Than Eleven
44 Translation: Droopy Drawers or also All the Fours
45 Translation: Halfway There
50 Translation: Bulls Eye or Blind 50
51 Translation: Tweak of the Thumb
55 Translation: Snakes Alive or All the Fives
57 Translation: Heinz Varieties or Heinz 57
59 Translation: Brighton Line (particular to the U.K.)
64 Translation: Red Raw
66 Translation: Clickety-Click
69 Translation: Naughty
71 Translation: Bang on the Drum
76 Translation: Trombones or (in the U.K) --Was she worth it?
79 Translation: One More Time
81 Translation: Stop and Run
86 Translation: Between the Sticks
88 Translation: Two Fat Ladies
90 Translation: Top of the Shop