| Term |
Description |
| Action | How much money a player wagers in total over a gambling session. |
| Active Player | A player who is still in play (Poker) |
| Add-on | Being able to purchase extra chips in a tournament (Poker) |
| Aggregate Limit | A casino’s total payout liability in any given game. |
| Aggregate Winnings | The sum total winnings over a given period. |
| All-in | To bet all of your chips (Poker). |
| All or Nothing | A winning ticket on which either all or none of the numbers appear (Keno) |
| Ante | The designated amount you must wager before beginning a hand in certain card games. |
| Arcade Casino | Also known as Automat Club, Videomat Casino and Slot Hall. These are gambling establishments that do not require casino employees. All the games are electronic coin slots with computerised gambling games. |
| Arm | A craps term used to describe particularly talented dice throwers who seem to defy the odds with their throws. |
| Baccarat | A casino card game played with 6-8 decks with three distinct variants: baccarat banque, baccarat chemin de fer, and punto banco. Punto Banco being the only one that does not rely at all on skill but rather luck of the draw. |
| Banca Francesa | A dice game played with three dice popular in Portuguese casinos. In the game a dealer throws the dice and players bet “Big” “Small” or “Aces”. Big and small refers to the sum total of the values on the three dice. Getting these right wins even money, where as getting aces is when all three dice display 1, aces pays out 61-1. |
| Banker | The dealer in a game of cards. |
| Bankroll | Also known as 'roll' or 'wad' the bankroll is the sum total amount of money that a player or a gambling house has behind them to back their wagering activities. |
| Beginners Luck | In gambling, it is the observable phenomenon of new players attaining convincing winning streaks. |
| Betting Limit | In a table games this is the maximum and minimum wagers permitted. Players are forbidden from betting lower and higher than these amounts. |
| Bingo | A game of luck with several variations, played by crossing off numbers from a pre-printed card as they are randomly selected and read out by a bingo caller. |
| Black Book | The black book is a legendary list of all the people who are forbidden to enter any casino in the state of Nevada. |
| Blacklist | Blacklisted casinos are online casinos that have earned bad reputations for various unfair practices. This may involve non payment of winnings, unclear terms and conditions, sharing customer details with third party advertisers, or worse still being responsible for breaches in security that result in identity theft. The various forums and online gambling watchdogs out there all have lists of blacklisted online casinos. Our own list is compiled by referring to existing data on disreputable sites, but also adding to this constantly as emails from out many visitors inform us as to who is and who isn’t playing by the rules out there. |
| Blind Bet | A wager made without a player having the opportunity to have a look at his cards (Poker). |
| Blinds | A forced bet (Hold'em Poker). |
| Bonus | An enticement offered by online casino’s, usually in the form of free gambling credits, as an enticement to make a deposit. |
| Bonus Account | This is the account into which most casinos place the bonus money they have given you to gamble with, thus separating it from the “real money” you have actually deposited yourself. This bonus account is subject to a wagering requirement that determines how many times the bonus must be gambled in order for the bonus money to be moved into the real money account. |
| Bonus Code | Online casinos often offer bonus codes that enable customers to get more value for their money if they enter the code. These codes are often to be found on the advertisements, email newsletters and sites such as Free-Casino-Bonuses.com that keep track of all the bonuses being offered and also offer exclusive bonuses. |
| Boule | A stripped down version of roulette usually played in French casinos where the roulette wheel features nine numbers and three different colours on which to bet. |
| Boxing | A single betting ticket in horse racing that features more than one parlay. |
| Break-Even Point | The point at which all your gambles will only ever pay off what you have wagered |
| Brick | A card that does not help your hand (Poker) |
| Brit Brag | A poker variation played with three cards Buck - A $100 wager. |
| Bug | A joker. |
| Bump | To raise a wager. |
| Burn Cards | To remove cards from the top of a deck so that they may not be dealt. |
| Buy-in | The act of converting money into gambling chips |
| Call | To match the current bet (Poker) |
| Camouflage | A skilled gambler’s actions or disguises employed purely in order to draw the casino’s attention away from them. |
| Capping | A serious form of cheating that involves secretly placing additional chips onto an existing bet. |
| Card Counting | A technique used in Blackjack to keep track of the cards that have been played so as to develop a statistical advantage over the dealer. |
| Card Sharp | A skilled card player. |
| Card Washing | A shuffling technique where a dealer spreads all the cards on the table, and proceeds to mix them up by moving them around it. |
| Caribbean Stud Poker | A table game also known as 'Casino Stud Poker', played on a Blackjack-type table with one deck that is similar the traditional 5 card stud poker game. |
| Carousel | An assortment of slot machines positioned in a ring at a casino. |
| Carpet Joint | A plush and glitzy gambling establishment. |
| Case money | Emergency money. |
| Cashable Bonus | The most frequently encountered bonus in online gambling is the cashable bonus, which is simply a bonus that may be converted to cash and withdrawn as soon as you have met the requirements imposed by the casino. |
| Cashcheck | A feature offered by some online casinos that enabled you to review all the transactions you have made since signing up. |
| Cashier’s Cage | Where you cash in your chips. |
| Casino Advantage | Also referred to as the “house edge”, it is the advantage that a casino has over its gamblers. |
| Casino Hold'em Poker | A variation on Texas Hold'em poker where players don’t bet against each other, they bet against the house. |
| Casino Rate | Discounted hotel rooms offered to good customers by many casinos. |
| Chase | To chase is to make more bets in order to cover the unsatisfactory outcome of another bet. |
| Chips | Round plastic discs bought and used to wager with at casinos. |
| Coat-tail | To place the same bet as someone who seems to be experiencing a winning streak. |
| Cold | When a gambler is going through a loosing streak. |
| Color Up | To exchange chips of a lower value with ones of a higher value |
| Combination Way Ticket | A ticket with several different combinations of ways to win (Keno). |
| Comps (Comp or Loyalty Points) | These are points online casinos award to players for gambling with them. Usually you receive a single comp point for each $10 you gamble. The exchange rate for turning these points into cash may vary from casino to casino but generally you earn $1 for each 100 points. These points are also an important way for you to keep track of how much money you have gambled, so you know exactly how much of your wagering requirement you have met. |
| Copy | When player and banker have the exact same two or five card hand, the banker wins (Pai-Gow Poker) |
| Cracking The Nut | When a gambling outing has not only managed to pay for all the expenses involved, such as travel, accommodation, food and drink, but has also yielded an acceptable profit. |
| Craps | A gambling game involving dice. |
| Credit | The currency in online casinos. |
| Credit Button | A button that allows players to same winnings in the form of credits (Slots) |
| Crossroader | An old gambling term still used today to refer to cheats in the Old West who would cheating at saloons situated on crossroads. Croupier - French word for Dealer, used in the games of baccarat and roulette. |
| Cut | An action performed after shuffling a deck of cards where a dealer cuts the deck into two halves. |
| D'Alembert System | A staking system in which one unit is added for wager lost and one deducted for a wager won. |
| Deal | The act of distributing cards to players in a card game. |
| Deposit | This is when you make a payment into a gambling account at an online casino, usually by credit card, web wallet or other online payment systems. |
| Deuce | The side showing two dots on a die. |
| Dice | Two or more cubes number 1-6 used for a variety of games. |
| Die | Singular for dice, a single cube used for gaming with six numbered sides. |
| Dime Bet | A wager of one thousand dollars. |
| Discard Tray | A tray on the dealers right where cards that have already been played in a given game are placed. |
| Dollar Bet | A wager of one thousand dollars |
| Dolly | The score marker in a game of roulette, placed by the croupier on the winning number so that all player can tell what number has come up while winnings are paid out. It is called 'dolly' because it has an outline similar to that of a doll. |
| Double Or Nothing | An even money bet where exactly the amount wagered is paid out. |
| Doubling Down | A bet where an opening two-card hand is turned face up and player's original bet is doubled. The player is then dealt one additional card only, to complete the hand. If the player wins her gets double the amount of their original wager. If he looses, he also looses double the amount (Blackjack). |
| Doubling Up | The basis of some widely used systems. Also known as the Martingale System this is the technique of doubling a subsequent bet after a loosing one, in the hope of winning back twice the amount of the lost wager. |
| Down Card | A card that is placed face down. |
| Down to the Felt | To be down to nothing |
| Draw | The act of taking a card in a card game such as Poker. |
| Drop | Lost gambling money. |
| Drop Box | Where the cash, markets and chips are located on a gambling table. |
| eCOGRA | e-Commerce Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance. eCOGRA is a regulatory body that strives to make the online gambling community play by the rules. eCOGRA approved online casinos feature the eCOGRA seal on their home page as a sign that the online casino is fair provides player with protection against misconduct. |
| Edge | Any kind of advantage |
| En Prison | A bonus offered in some casinos where the stake of an even money wager is left on the table for another spin if the result is 0 of double 0. |
| Even Money Bet | A bet that pays you back the same amount you wagered in addition to the original amount wagered. |
| Expected Win Rate | The percentage of the total amount you wager that you are likely to see returned if you continue betting (Slots). |
| Eye in the Sky | The closed circuit television cameras placed above gaming tables in casinos to monitor the games. |
| Face Cards | All the Jack, King and Queen cards in a deck |
| Ficheur | The machine croupiers use to separate chips into different colours in American roulette. |
| Fifth Street | The third round of betting in seven-card stud, due to the fact that players have five cards. Also the fifth card and final round of betting in Texas Hold‘em (Poker). |
| Fill | To draw a card that completes a straight, flush, full house or straight flush (Poker). |
| Fill up | To fill up a full house (Poker). |
| Finale Schnaps | A bet placed on numbers 11, 22, and 33 (French Roulette). |
| Finales | A group bet placed on all numbers ending in a certain digit. |
| Firing | A players wagering large sums of money. |
| First Base | The seat on the far left of the dealer that receives the first card dealt (Blackjack). |
| Fish | The player at the table losing the most money. |
| Flash | A type of online casino that does not require you to download software in order to play. |
| Flat Betting | Flat betting is when you do not vary the amount you wager each time, but rather bet a set amount of money each round. |
| Flat Top | A machine with a standard, unchangeable jackpot (Slots) |
| Flea | A player who expects to be comped for wagering insignificant amounts. |
| Flop | A way of dealing in “flop games” such as hold'em and omaha, where the first of three cards are dealt where five community cards are dealt together and face up, and are called the flop. These cards are referred to as the flop. |
| Foul | A losing hand, when the two-card low is set higher than the five-card high, or when they are set with the wrong number of cards (Pai-Gow Poker). |
| Fourth Street | The second round of betting in seven-card stud due to the fact that players have four cards. Or the fourth card on board and the third round of betting in Texas hold-em (Poker). |
| Front Money | Cash or cheques deposited with a casino by a player. |
| Grease | To bribe. |
| Gross Winnings | The complete payout from a gambling venture, including the stake. |
| Hand | The cards held by a player during a given round or in the game all that occurs between the shuffling and dealing of cards. |
| Hard Count | A hard count is when a casino counts up all of its coin revenue, largely from slot machines. |
| Hard Hand | A hand without an Ace (Blackjack) |
| Hard Way Bet | A Hard Way Bet is a type of bet in craps where a player reaches a certain total (4, 6, 8, 10) the hard way, by rolling double pairs (2+2, 3+3, 4+4, 5+5). |
| High Poker | The standard variety of poker where high hands win. |
| High Roller | A gambler who makes big wagers. |
| Hit | To be dealt another card, the card itself is also often referred to as a hit (Blackjack). |
| Holding Your Own | Another way of saying breaking even. |
| Hole Card | The card lying face down that the dealer gets in Blackjack or the cards lying face down that players receive in stud and hold‘em (Poker) |
| Honeymoon Period | The noticeable phenomenon also commonly referred to as “beginners luck”, where new players experience uncanny winning streaks. |
| Hot | A player experiencing a winning streak or a slot machine that seems to be paying out a lot are both considered hot. |
| House | The gambling establishment a player is gambling in. |
| House Edge | This is the statistical advantage that a gambling establishment maintains over the players by paying out less than the odds. |
| Inside Bets | Any bet in roulette that is placed on the inside of the layout, i.e. on any of the central numbers or collections of them. |
| Irregular Playing Patterns | Irregular playing patters or “bonus abuse” are the tell tale bets a player makes in an online casino where they are not as much interested in gambling, as they are in meeting their wagering requirement in order to be able to withdraw the casino’s free bonus. |
| Jackpot | A big win (Slots) |
| Jacks or Better | In Jacks or Better you win only if you get a pair of Jacks or a higher (Video Poker). |
| Juice | This is the houses commission. |
| Junket | Casino Junkets are organised by casinos to draw high rolling gambling customers to their establishments. They normally involve expenses paid in return for a certain amount of money guaranteed by the player to be spent for wagers in the casino. |
| Kalooki | A card game much like Rummy, played with wild cards and a number of rule variations. |
| Kicker | A high card such as an ace or king that doesn’t help the player get a straight or a flush. |
| Ladderman | A casino employee seated above the table in a game of baccarat, charged with overseeing the action. |
| Layout | The gaming table cloth and its markings |
| Live Chat | You may find that many online casinos offer a service by the name of Live chat, or Live help. This is basically a real time online messenger service between customer and customer service team. For all quick queries this is probably the way to go. If you find the results of this method to be unsatisfactory, your next port of call is calling up the customer service team in order to speak to a live person |
| Load up | To wager the most coins a slot machine or game will allow you |
| Lobby | This is a term used in online casino gambling, basically the lobby is the page on a gambling site from where you can easily move from game to game and access other areas of the site. |
| Long Run | The number of gambling turns needed to be taken before the ratio of wins to losses is hardly affected at all by the outcomes of subsequent bets. |
| Loose | Machines that pay out generous sums (Slots) |
| Low Poker | A variation in which the winner is the player whose hand has the lowest value rather than the highest. |
| Luminar | A type of modern LED lit roulette table designed and built by John Huxley. |
| Marker | An IOU that made be made out by a player at a gambling table when they have arranged credit with the house. |
| Martingale | A system of wagering that involves betting twice the sum lost. |
| 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 wager a player is permitted to make. |
| Mechanic | A cheating dealer |
| Mini-Baccarat | A stripped down version of baccarat that is played with fewer players. |
| Money Put In Action | Money put in action is not the amount you bring to the table, but rather the cumulative amount you have gambled. Each wager and how much a player has wagered is added up to determine the players money put in action. |
| Multi-Player Casino | A feature increasingly offered by online casino that allows players to compete against each other. |
| MVG | An esteemed title given to certain high spending casino guests. |
| Natural | Two cards totalling eight or nine (Baccarat). Two cards worth twenty one points (BlackJack) |
| Negative Expectation | The disadvantage of any turn of events repeated over and over in the long run. Lost winnings after a long run of play or after repeatedly employing the same gambling strategy. |
| Net Winnings | Total winnings made on a wager. |
| Non-negotiable Chips | These are promotional casino chips, much like online bonus credits, the difference being that non negotiable chips can’t ever be exchanged for cash. |
| Non-value Chip | A chip whose value is determined solely by the amount of the buy-in and also the number of chips bought (Roulette). |
| Number Pool | The selection of numbers available to a player in a lucky numbers game. |
| Odds | Odds are the probabilities determined by a casino or other gambling establishment, for and agaibst a certain set of events. The odds are what determines a players pay out should he win. |
| On tilt | When a player goes on tilt they have usually received a particularly bad hand and their reaction to it is to play a particular, wild, undisciplined and unpredictable hand. |
| Open | The player who gets to place his wager first (Poker). |
| Outside Bets | Bets placed on the outside of the layout on a roulette table. |
| Overlay | A strong wager where the player has an advantage or edge, over the casino. |
| Paint | Same as a face card, any card featuring a Jack, King, or Queen. |
| Palette | The long wooden paddle used to move cards around on a baccarat table. |
| Paroli | A French request made to a croupier at a roulette table to let a winning wager ride for another round, it is also a gambling system that progressively increased the amount wagered. |
| Pass | To not bed, or fold in a game of cards. |
| Pat | A hand worth at least seventeen points (Blackjack). A hand that does not require any more hands (Poker). |
| Payline | The line or lines on that the reels must line up against to determine a win (Slots). |
| Payoff | The return on a wager. |
| Payoff Odds | The odds posted by casinos to determine just how much any given wager will pay off if it wins. |
| Payout | The amount paid out to a winning player. |
| Payout Percentage | The percentage of money a slot or video gambling machine is programmed to pay out against what it has taken in. |
| Payout Table | Information on Video poker machines informing players how much will be paid out for each deposit. |
| Pigeon | A naive, fickle and predictable gambler. |
| Pit | The area where table games are arranged in a casino, the central area of a pit is normally only open to casino personnel. |
| Pit Boss | The supervisor of a particular gaming area in a casino. |
| Pit Manager | The pit manager is in charge of every single casino game on his shift. He is responsible for keeping customers happy by handling complaints and comps, but also for enforcing casino rules and making sure the casino is not being taken advantage of. |
| Playing the Rush | When a poker players decisions become increasingly reckless due to a good succession of wins. |
| Plug | When shuffled cards are brought back into play in games like Blackjack that require the use of multiple decks, most of the cards are kept out of play by putting a cut-card into the deck. Play will stop when the cut card is reached and the deck reshuffled at this point. When play is stopped the remaining undealt cards are put into the middle of the stack of cards that have already been used and currently find themselves in the discard tray. This action is called plugging the deck. |
| Pocket Cards | The cards a player is dealt face down (Poker) |
| Poker | An assortment of variations of card games that share the same or similar betting and ranking of hands. Poker games are often played in card rooms, these games are separated into stud games, draw games, and flop games. In home games the rules are much looser with in excess of a hundred variations. Popular poker games include: Texas Hold'em, Seven Card Stud and Omaha. |
| Pot | The amount of wagered money that accumulates in the middle of the table throughout each subsequent round in a poker game. |
| Press a Bet (or Pressing) | Adding the winnings of a bet to the original bet and wagering again, or “letting it ride”. |
| Probability | A mathematical expression of the likelihood of any given even taking place. |
| Progression Betting | A system of betting where the wagered amount is significantly raised or lowered throughout play according to a certain prescribed pattern. |
| Progressive | A machine whose jackpot steadily increases with each play (Slots). |
| Progressive Betting | Progressive betting is the opposite of flat betting in that it is when a player progressively raises or lowers the amount being wagered in order to maximise the benefits of a winning streak or to gauge and eventually cut completely the loses of a loosing streak |
| Pull Tab | A lottery game featuring perforated ticked with windows opening to certain symbols, winners take an array of prizes or cash. |
| Punch Board | Lottery game in which players punch out a slot on a board for a chance to win either cash or prizes. |
| Punto Banco | European variant of Baccarat. |
| Push | A hand where neither the player nor the casino wins. |
| Qualifier | The minimum ranking of a hand to be eligible for the pot (Poker) |
| Quartet | A wager that typifies the Hong Kong Jockey Club where bets are placed on the first four places in a given event, selected in correct order. |
| Queen Theatre | Electronic or touchbet roulette, so called because of the seating arrangement of players that is organised in two rows because of the way the seating is laid out. Quads - In poker, four of a kind. |
| Racinos | Casinos found in racetrack facilities. |
| Rack | A plastic holder for the movement of large numbers of coins, tokens and casino chips. |
| Rake | The percentage a casino takes from each round of poker from the pot as it’s commission (usually between 10-15%). |
| Rank | The value of a set of cards (Poker) |
| Rapid Roulette | A stripped down American version of roulette where everything except the numbers have been eliminated, in the interests of speeding up the game. |
| Rated | When a player’s skill level is judged to be significantly above average, this information is logged. |
| Reload Bonus | Reload bonuses are offered to customers for depositing money again, after having spent their initial deposit and bonus. They are always lower than the sign up bonus but are a casino’s way of saying thing you for being a loyal customer. If you use their preferred deposit methods you may also increase this bonus. |
| RFB | Complimentary room, food and beverages. |
| Riffling | Also referred to a zipping, is when a deck is split and the riffled or zipped together byflicking each into the other with thumb and forefinger. |
| River | Staying in until the final round of betting is commonly referred to as “going to the river” (Seven card stud). Also, the final card dealt (stud and hold‘em). |
| RNG | RNG stands for Random Number Generator, a computer defined algorithm for generating random numbers such as the result of a roulette spin, a keno game, card shuffle, bingo, or lottery. |
| Rouletto | Roulette in Ireland |
| Roulight / Roulite | A modern fast-paced variation of the game of roulette developed in Germany where outside bets are disallowed and only betting on one or two numbers is as well as neighbours and sections of the wheel are possible |
| Round of Play | An individual wager or the cumulative wagers placed during a designated period of play.In poker this is the events that take place between the dealing and the winning of the pot. . In roulette each and every spin is considered to be a round of play. |
| Royal Flush | Also referred to as a Royal or a Royal Straight, this is the best possible hand; featuring Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Ten, all belonging to the same suit (Poker). |
| Sawbuck | Ten dollars. |
| Sawdust Joint | A not very luxurious casino. |
| Scared Money | Money that a player cannot afford to loose. |
| Session | A period of play at any gambling game. |
| Set | Two separate hands of two and five cards each (Pai-Gow). |
| Seventh Street | The fifth and final round of betting where players hold seven cards (Seven card stud). |
| Shark | A player who is far more experienced than they have initially let on at the start of a game. |
| Sharp | A clever gambler. |
| Shill | A player who is actually performing for the house, usually seen filling up empty seats at a card table before other players join in. |
| Shiner | A tiny mirror used by cheaters to try and see the dealers cards. |
| Shoe | A wooden box used by the dealer to store six to eight decks of playing cards. |
| Short Run | A short run of wagers |
| Showdown | The last showing of cards, after the final round, to determine who gets the pot (Poker) |
| Shuffle Tracking | A card counting strategy used in Blackjack |
| Shuffle Up | Premature shuffling by the dealer. |
| Shuffling | To mix up any number of decks of cards in order to get as close to a random deal when the cards are distributed to each player. |
| Shutter | A window that covers the numbers of reusable bingo cards. |
| Silver Mining | Looking in slot machines for winnings that have been left behind, also known as slot walking. |
| Single | A single straight forward bet on one item |
| Singleton | A card not matched in rank by any other (Poker) |
| Sixth Street | The fourth round of betting where players are holding six cards (Seven card stud). |
| Skin | A dollar, one buck. |
| Skin Game | A game in which two or more players are working together to cheat the rest (Poker). |
| Skinning the Hand | A cheater who gets rid of extra cards (Poker). |
| Skoon | A dollar, one back. |
| Slot Club Member | A bonus scheme invented for slot fans where members are given a card that they can earn free points on. |
| Slot Hall | Also known as Automat Club and Videomat Casino. These are gambling establishments that do not require casino employees. All the games are electronic coin slots with computerised gambling games. |
| Slot Walking | Looking in slot machines for winnings that have been left behind, also known as Silver Mining |
| Smart Cashiers | Automated tellers that allow players to withdraw their winning by inserting their smart card. |
| Snake Eyes | A two rolled in craps is referred to as snake eyes, it is also considered a very bad roll. |
| Soft Count | The total amount of money in a given drop box or video machine. |
| Soft Count Room | A room in the back of a casino where the soft count is performed. |
| Soft Hand | An ace that is counted as an eleven (Blackjack). |
| Spinner | A streak of good fortune. |
| Spooking | A form of cheating where someone stands behind the dealer and signals what he sees to a player (Blackjack). |
| Spot | The number, or total numbers selected (Keno) |
| Stack | A pile of chips used to gamble with at a roulette table. |
| Standing Hand | When a hand is worth 17 or more, it is very likely to bust should another card be drawn, these are referred to as standing hands (Blackjack). |
| Steaming | This is the BIackjack equivalent of “going on tilt”, it is when a game is not going a players way, who then looses control of his game and starts betting irrationally. |
| Sticky Bonus | A sticky bonus is a bonus offered by a casino that may only be used to wager with, but not to withdraw. In other words you may use a sticky bonus to bet with, you may withdraw the winning that you have managed to secure by risking that sticky bonus, but you may not withdraw the actual bonus itself. Usually you find two varieties of this bonus. In the first instance you loose the sticky bonus as soon as you withdraw any of your winnings. In the second case you may keep the bonus and withdraw as many of you winnings as you like. |
| Stiff | A hand that will most probably bust if it is hit once (Blackjack) |
| Straight Keno | The rudimentary game of Keno involving marking numbers of a Keno ticket. |
| Streak Betting | A betting system that is divided into negative and positive, simply put a player either increases his wager after a win or increases it after a loss. Of course there are an enormous amount of variations of this strategy and they all involve how much to raise and when, and how long to carry on playing. |
| Stripping | The process of shuffling in which a dealer quickly reverses the order of a deck of cards, making the last first and so on. |
| Stud Poker | One of the basic forms of poker that features both face up and face down cards. |
| Suit | Clubs, diamonds, hearts or spades are the four suits in a game of cards. |
| Super Stud Poker | A five-card poker game also called Casino Stud Poker and Caribbean Stud Poker. Thegame features a progressive jackpot where all tables of the Super Stud are connected, and a player who makes a Royal Flush takes the Jackpot. |
| Surrender | To give up half of your bet to be able to avoid a round (Blackjack). To loose half of an even money bet when the ball lands on 0 (Roulette) |
| System | A betting method aimed at giving a player a statistical advantage by varying the amounts wagered, when they are wagered and for how long. |
| Table Hold | The money that a casino table has won in total from all of its players over an eight hour 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. |
| Tapping Out | Stopping gambling one your bankroll has been lost. |
| Tell Play | This is the observation of body language, verbal behaviour, and all actions that betray what a dealer or other players may be holding. |
| Third Base | The last position on a Blackjack table that gets to play last before the dealer reveals his hand. |
| Third Street | The first round of betting where players are holding three cards (Seven card stud). |
| Three-Card Monte | A card game involving three cards that is quite similar to the card game Bragg. |
| Three of a Kind | Three cards of the same rank (Poker) |
| Ticket | A lottery game card. |
| Time Cut | This is the money charged each player over a certain period of time for using a poker room. |
| Toke | A tip given to a dealer in either chips or money, toke literally means token. |
| Token | Casino coins used in slot machines instead of cash. |
| Touch Wand | Video game pointer. |
| Tournament | This is a competition that takes place between an assortment of card players over a given period of time, with the winner being the one who goes the distance, not busting out. |
| Trente et Quarante | A game similar to Baccarat that is commonly played at French but also other European Casinos. The name, that translates directly to thirty and forty, is so because to win you must find yourself with values between thirty and forty. |
| Trips | Three cards of the same rank. |
| Tronc | This is the box in which dealers tips are placed until the end of the shift. |
| True Odds | These are the actual probabilistic odds that something will or will not occur. The Casino odds differ from these in that they also take into account the casino’s edge, or advantage over the players. |
| Underlay | An unfavourable wager. |
| Unit | The smallest amount used to wager with in a casino. |
| Up Card | The card that faces upwards in a blackjack dealer’s first hand. The card facing down on the other hand is referred to as the hole card. |
| Videomat Casino | Also known as Automat Club and Slot Hall. These are gambling establishments that do not require casino employees. All the games are electronic coin slots with computerised gambling games. |
| Vigorish | The casino’s edge but also the commission taken by the casino. |
| Viking Poker | European equivalent of Caribbean stud poker. |
| VLT | Video Lottery Terminal |
| Wager | Bet. |
| Washing | The act of washing their hands that dealers make upon leaving a gaming table, to show that they are not holding any chips as they leave. |
| Web Wallet | A secure online way for depositing and withdrawing money for use in online casinos. |
| Whales | Gamblers who make enormous wagers. |
| White meat | Gains, Profits. |
| Wild Card | A card such as a joker that may be used in some card games to substitute any other card needed for the completion of a hand. |
| Wild Royal Flush | A royal flush that has been made by using a wild card. |
| Wired cards | A pair, trips or four of a kind that defy statistics to be dealt consecutively (Poker) |
| Withdrawal | The act of converting your gambling credits to money and withdrawing them from an online casino. |
| WR or Wagering Requirement | The wagering requirement is an online Casino’s strategy to getting back the free money they have offered you in order to get you to sign up with them. Simply put, it is the number of times that you must gamble the bonus you have been given for you to be able to withdraw that money. This can be between 15-50 times the credits you have in your account so beware. Check our more detailed guide to wagering and playthrough requirements to understand exactly how a wagering requirement works. |
