| Acronym |
Description |
| C [Poker] |
The third position to the left of the dealer. |
| C [Poker] |
Clubs (the suit), in written text. Kc, for example, is the king of clubs (K ). |
| C-Game [Poker] |
Any low-stakes game, generally the third highest in a given establishment. |
| C-I-X [Poker] |
In lowball, a 6-high hand. When a player shows down a 6-high, he sometimes announces his holding by spelling out, "c-i-x." |
| C-Note [Poker] |
A $100 bill. |
| C.H.O.R.S.E [Poker] |
A game or tournament format in which six forms of poker are played in rotation, usually either half an hour of each or one round of each. The games are Chowaha, limit hold 'em, Omaha/8, razz, seven-card stud (high), and seven-card stud high-low. |
| C.H.O.R.S.E.L [Poker] |
A game or tournament format in which seven forms of poker are played in rotation, usually either half an hour of each or one round of each. The games are Chowaha, limit hold 'em, Omaha/8, razz, seven-card stud (high), seven-card stud high-low, and lowball |
| Caesar [Poker] |
The king of diamonds. |
| Cage Girl [Poker] |
A female cashier. |
| Cage Man [Poker] |
A cashier of the male persuasion. |
| Cage Person [Poker] |
Cashier, specifically, the person who dispenses chips to the floor personnel, cashes players in when they leave, cashes checks for players, sometimes sells chips to players, keeps track of players' banks, records the progress of stake players (if any), ke |
| Cage [Blackjack] |
Area of casino where cashier is based and chip buying and selling takes place. Usually surrounded by metal bars or other high security measures. In many ways, the cage resembles a bank. |
| Cage [Keno] |
An old type of wire cage that held keno balls. Most cages have been replaced by plastic hoppers. Also used to rever to the employees-only area where keno workers operate. |
| Cage [Poker] |
A room or an area, often behind a glass or behind bars, from which the cage person buys and sells chips. Also, window. |
| Cage [Roulette] |
A booth or room where the casino cashier resides. Here, you can exchange chips for cash (or vice versa), cash-out coins, place front money, etc. It is called a cage because it is usually enclosed by bars. |
| Caille Gum Vendor [Slots] |
Slot machine which was used in jurisdictions where slots were illegal, since it dispensed gum for every nickel played. |
| Calamity Jane [Poker] |
The queen of spades. Named for the markswoman of the Old West (Martha Jane Canary, who is buried in Deadwood, SD, in 1903, next to Wild Bill Hickok), whose name some say was associated with prophecies of doom. |
| California Blind [Poker] |
Bet-or-fold, double limit draw poker (high), open on anything, with three traveling blinds. |
| California Draw [Poker] |
1) High draw poker as most often played in limit games: pass-and-back-in before the draw, jacks or better to open, each player antes, and there are no blinds. 2) As played in no-limit games, bet-or-fold (before the draw) draw poker, open on anything, usua |
| California Game [Poker] |
Any of the games played in the California games section of a card room or casino. |
| California Games [Poker] |
A set of card room games, formerly called Asian games, some of which resemble poker, but are not strictly poker, in which players place bets before receiving the hands on which they wager. Others resemble blackjack. In these games, to get around the legal |
| California Lowball [Poker] |
Five card ace-to-five low draw poker with the joker, bet-or-fold before the draw, sevens rule after the draw. |
| California [Poker] |
A form of poker found only in home games, a widow game in which each player receives five cards face down, as does a central area of the table, followed by a round of betting, and then the dealer turns up each central card, one at a time, each followed by |
| Call Attendant [Slots] |
You have won and ask for a comp at that time. |
| Call Bet [Blackjack] |
A bet made without money or chips. Must be approved by a floor person or pit boss. Usually allowed only for customers with casino credit already approved, or with money on deposit in the casino cage. This procedure is highly irregular and may be illegal i |
| Call Cold [Poker] |
To call a bet and raise at once. |
| Call For Insurance [Blackjack] |
To announce that the dealer has an Ace showing and pause to allow the players make an insurance bet, then the dealer will check the hole card and if it is a 10-value card the hand is over and the bets and side bets are settled, if it is not, the side bets |
| Call Someone Down [Poker] |
Check each round, and call each bet made by an opponent (who presumably bets each round). |
| Call [Keno] |
The actual act of calling the keno numbers, usually over an intercom. Performed by an casino employee,,,To draw the numbers for each game. |
| Call [Poker] |
To call is to match the current bet. If there has been a bet of $10 and a raise of $10 then it costs $20 to call. Calling is the cheapest (and the most passive) way to remain in a hand. See also cold call, flat call, and it - To put in to the pot the mini |
| Called Hand [Poker] |
A hand that someone bet and someone else called, as opposed to a hand that was bet and no one called. The term often comes up when a bet is made, called, and lost, and the bettor who lost the hand now wants to throw the cards away unshown (perhaps from em |
| Caller [Keno] |
The casino employee who calls out the numbers during the keno game. |
| Caller [Poker] |
One who calls. Sometimes used collectively, as in "3 callers". |
| Calling Hand [Poker] |
A hand with which a player feels he must call a (often any) bet. "I knew you made it, but I had a calling hand." |
| Calling Station [Poker] |
A player who calls much too often is called a calling station. Such a player will pay you off when you make hands, and will often fail to press their advantage when they have relatively strong hands. On the other hand, calling stations will hit more backd |
| Callman [Baccarat] |
The dealer who runs or calls the game of baccarat. |
| Camouflage [Blackjack] |
An action which is intended to hide the fact that a player is counting cards. |
| Can't Beat the Board [Poker] |
1) In a stud game, have an entire seven-card hand that cannot beat the four exposed cards of another player. 2) In hold 'em, have a hand that cannot beat the board (The exposed cards); this implies that the player is playing the board. |
| Cancel [Keno] |
A Keno ticket has been cancelled before all games have played. Winnings are paid on games played and a refund is made on any games yet to play. |
| Cancellation Betting System [Roulette] |
A betting system using a series of numbers that cancels numbers after winning a bet and adds numbers after losing a bet. One specific type of Cancellation System is known as the LaBouchere System. |
| Canine [Poker] |
In hold 'em, K-9 as one's first two cards. Also, pedigree. |
| Cap [Poker] |
1) After dealing the first round, put a chip on top of the un-dealt cards for protection; usually followed by the deck. 2) Put in the maximum number of raises in a round of betting; usually followed by the bet, the bets, or the betting. Make the maximum r |
| Cap/Ing, Capping of Bets [Blackjack] |
To illegally add money / placing extra chips to a winning bet after you receive at least one card while the dealer is distracted (To cap a bet). Easy to detect with video surveillance. |
| Capable [Poker] |
Having the ability to cheat. "Is he capable?" means "Is he a thief or mechanic?" |
| Capitola. [Poker] |
Saying, often said by California dealers, that means "The betting is capped." |
| Capped Dice [Craps] |
Crooked dice. |
| Capped [Poker] |
Describing the situation in which the maximum number of raises in a round of betting have been made. |
| Capper [Poker] |
The chip used to cap the deck. |
| Capping a Bet [Roulette] |
Illegally adding more chips to a bet that has already won. It is a form of Past Posting. |
| Cappuccino. [Poker] |
Saying, often said by dealers, that means "The betting is capped." |
| Card Club [Poker] |
A card room. |
| Card Counter [Blackjack] |
A person who card counts by assigning numerical values to the cards ( see Card Counting ) |
| Card Counting [Blackjack] |
A method of keeping track of the cards by assigning a value to certain cards in the deck to determine if the remaining cards in a deck or shoe favor the player or the dealer. For example, the hi-lo counting system assigns a value of plus one to cards 2, 3 |
| Card Dauber [Poker] |
Someone who marks cards. |
| Card Down [Blackjack] |
An announcement to the floor person that a card has gone off the table. A dealer never reaches down to pick up a card, as that would expose their tray to stealing. |
| Card Down [Poker] |
The situation in which a card has been dealt off the table or otherwise dropped to the floor, and a floor person must be called to pick up the card, because, in many casinos and card rooms, the house dealer is not permitted to retrieve the card, nor is a |
| Card Eating [Blackjack] |
Using up cards quickly. A player may spread to more than one hand to accomplish this. For example, if the count is low, a player may spread to two or three hands at a minimum bet to hasten the shuffle. |
| Card Mechanic [Poker] |
A cheat who manipulates the deck. |
| Card Mob [Poker] |
Two or more cheaters working together in a card game. |
| Card Money [Poker] |
Money allocated by a gambler for playing at cards; bankroll. |
| Card Play [Poker] |
Playing at cards. Also, carding |
| Card Player [Poker] |
The premier magazine devoted to card playing. |
| Card Playing [Poker] |
Playing at cards. Also, carding, card play. |
| Card Rack [Poker] |
Someone who gets a lot of good hands; usually used facetiously or humorously. Sometimes called human card rack. |
| Card Room [Poker] |
1) An establishment, usually open to the public, in which cards, usually poker, are played. 2) The section of a casino in which poker is played. 3) A room in a club devoted to card playing. |
| Card Sense [Poker] |
In a poker game, an acute awareness of the totality of what is going on, not narrowing your focus to just what's happening in your own hand. Card sense implies the ability to act on your observations, and to think on your feet. You must have imagination i |
| Card Shark [Poker] |
An expert card player, usually a professional gambler. The term is not necessarily synonymous with cheater. |
| Card Smith [Poker] |
A card player, particular one who plays for a living. |
| Card Table [Poker] |
1) Poker table. 2) Any table designed specially for playing cards. Different styles of tables are used for bridge, blackjack, baccarat, and poker, which itself has several types, depending on the specific game. |
| Card Wrench [Poker] |
A device to pry apart cards so that the card you caught will fit the hand; used humorously. If, in high draw poker, a player draws to 4-5-6-7 and catches a 9, he might say, "I need a card wrench to fix this hand." |
| Card [Poker] |
1) One of 52 (or 53) flat, rectangular objects, made usually of paper or plastic, with a uniform design on one side (the backs) and a representation of value (rank and suit) on the other; each card is either the joker, or one of the four suits (spades, he |
| Card-Holder [Poker] |
A player who seems to get more good hands than random chance would dictate. |
| Card-Hustler [Poker] |
Card thief. |
| Card-Room License [Poker] |
A specific gambling license issued by any combination of municipality, county, state, or country, to a card room, usually specifying the types of games permitted, the stakes, hours of operation, and other restrictions. |
| Carder [Poker] |
One who plays cards, particularly a professional. |
| Carding [Poker] |
1) Playing at cards. 2) Noting exposed cards (particularly at seven-card stud), and using that information in the play of a hand. |
| Cards Break Even [Poker] |
The theory that states in the long run everyone gets the same cards implies that if the cards are running bad for awhile for a particular player, they will eventually fall back into a normal pattern. "I'll get even if the cards ever start breaking even." |
| Cards Speak [Poker] |
1) Cards speak is simply the rule that the value of your hand is determined solely by your cards. You don't have to declare your hand properly in order to claim the part of the pot you deserve. The alternative to this is mainly declare games, usually play |
| Cards [Poker] |
1) The playing of a card game, often poker. "I'm going out to play some cards tonight." 2) A deck. "Give me the cards; it's my deal." 3) Any portion of a deck. "You're not supposed to pick up the cards for the next deal until the previous hand is complete |
| Cardshark [Poker] |
An expert card player, usually a professional gambler. The term is not necessarily synonymous with cheater. |
| Cardsharping [Poker] |
The Cheating at cards. |
| Caribbean Stud [Poker] |
A casino game, banked by the house, that resembles poker only in the ranking of the hands. The game is sort of a cross between poker and a slot machine. Players bet before receiving their cards that their hands will be better than the dealer's; they can i |
| Carousel [Slots] |
[1] A group of slot machines. [2] The area provided by the casino for a group of Bally $1 machines. |
| Carpet Joint [Blackjack] |
A colloquialism for an upscale casino, derived from the days when many casinos did not have carpet. If a casino had carpeted floors, it was considered to be an indication that it was a fancier place than the usual. |
| Carpet Joint [Poker] |
A well-appointed casino or card room, as opposed to a sawdust joint. Also called rug joint. |
| Carpet Store [Blackjack] |
A higher class casino than a "sawdust joint", because it has carpet on the floor. |
| Carr? [Roulette] |
French term for the Corner Bet. |
| Carry a Slug [Poker] |
Shuffle a slug into prearranged position. For example, in draw, a cheat might carry a slug full of spades in it so that it ends up in a position one beyond the cards required to deal the hand. When he or his partner draws, he can draw two or three cards a |
| Carry Over [Poker] |
Credit a stake or a cow with his chips from one shift to the next. A stake player is usually liable for the amount of his last press. For example, if he was staked $20, lost it, given a $10 press, and then carried over, only $10 would go on the sheet of t |
| Carry-Over [Poker] |
Chips or cash being carried over. |
| Case Bet [Blackjack] |
A bet with the player. |
| Case Bet [Poker] |
A gambler's last bet, when he has lost his bankroll or stake. |
| Case Card [Blackjack] |
The last card of a denomination left in the deck. Usually used as a poker term. |
| Case Card [Poker] |
The last card of a denomination or suit, when the rest have already been seen. |
| Case Chips [Poker] |
A player's last chips. |
| Case Money [Poker] |
The last of a gambler's bankroll or stake. |
| Case [Poker] |
1) Descriptive of the only remaining card of a rank or suit. "I caught the case ace" means there was only one left to draw (in a draw game) or hit (in a stud game) and the player got it. 2) All; said of money. "He bought in for his case money" means that |
| Cash in [Poker] |
To leave the game and convert one's chips to cash, either with the dealer or at the cage. |
| Cash Out Button [Video Poker] |
Each Video Poker machine has a Cash Out button that causes the coins to be dumped into the machine's hopper for each credit that you have accumulated. |
| Cash Out [Poker] |
To leave a game and cash in one's chips at the cage. |
| Cash Threshold [Keno] |
A pay out limit, beyond which, payment is completed by check. |
| Cashier [Blackjack] |
A person who works in the cage who handles monetary transactions with players. It is similar to what a bank teller would do in a bank. |
| Casing the Layout [Blackjack] |
Taking a brief look at the bets on the table prior to starting to deal the cards. Take particular note of the bets on first and third base because they are the most likely to be pinched or capped. If a player has been betting every hand and is still prese |
| Casino Advantage [Roulette] |
The edge, usually shown as a percentage, that the house has over the player. Also called House Edge or Vig. |
| Casino Cage [Poker] |
A room or an area, often behind a glass or behind bars, from which the cage person buys and sells chips. Also, window. |
| Casino Checks [Craps] |
The casino's term for chips issued by the house. |
| Casino Chowaha [Poker] |
A hold 'em variant invented in a private game by RGPer Mike Chow, and popularized at BARGE, in which each player gets two down cards, the dealer flops nine cards, arranged in three rows of three, then turns two cards vertically at the ends of the "corrido |
| Casino Host [Blackjack] |
A casino employee who is responsible for dealing with casino patrons and answering queries about casino comps and other amenities. For example, if a rated player (professional) were to call a casino to make hotel reservations, he would ask to speak to a c |
| Casino Host [Roulette] |
The person responsible for seeing that high rollers are treated with the dignity and graciousness their wallets merit. |
| Casino Manager [Blackjack] |
The person who manages all phases of the casino operations. |
| Casino Manager [Roulette] |
The person responsible for seeing that the games of a given casino are handled properly |
| Casino [Blackjack] |
A building in which legalized gambling is the main source of income to the management. There are many euphemisms for casino such as: "house," "store," "shop," etc. |
| Casino [Poker] |
1) A building or establishment devoted to gambling games of all kinds. 2) A large, usually opulent, card room. |
| Cat Flush [Poker] |
A nonstandard hand sometimes given value in a private or home game, a big tiger or little tiger, all in the same suit, ranking above a straight flush (since a tiger beats a straight). |
| Cat Hop [Poker] |
In draw poker, a draw of two (or more cards) to a straight or flush, or, sometimes, to a pair with (usually) an ace kicker. The term has two implications. One is just the attempt to make such a draw. "He draws to every cat hop that comes along" implies th |
| Cat [Poker] |
Any one of big tiger, little tiger, big cat, little cat. |
| Catbird Seat [Poker] |
The position immediately to the right of the dealer. This is a restricted usage of the more general term, which means advantageous situation or position. |
| Catch (Heat / Card) [Blackjack] |
1. To catch "heat" is to get reprimanded by a superior for an infraction of casino policy. 2. To catch a card is to get a hit card that is either good or bad. "I split Aces and caught toe deuces." |
| Catch Inside [Poker] |
1) In lowball or razz, make the particular hand you're drawing to. If you have 7-4-3-2, and catch a 6, 5, or ace, you catch inside. 2) In any high game, make an inside straight. |
| Catch Outside [Poker] |
1) In lowball, catch a card above the particular hand you're drawing to. If you have 7-4-3-2, and catch an 8 or higher, you catch outside. 2) In any high game, miss a straight. |
| Catch Perfect [Poker] |
Make precisely the hand you're drawing to. In lowball, if you're drawing to 8-4-3-2, and catch a 7, 6, 5, or ace you make your hand; if you catch precisely the ace, you catch perfect. In high draw, if you start with 4-5-6-7, all in diamonds, and catch any |
| Catch Rough [Poker] |
In lowball, draw a card that makes the hand rough (A hand of a particular type that will not beat many other hands of that type.) For example, if you draw to 7-3-2-A and catch a 6, you catch rough. |
| Catch Smooth [Poker] |
In lowball, draw a card that makes the hand smooth (best possible low hand). For example, if you draw to 7-3-2-A and catch a 4 or 5, you catch smooth. |
| Catch [Keno] |
To catch a number means that a number you have marked on your keno ticket has been drawn. |
| Catch [Poker] |
1) Receive a card. 2) Receive a card that makes a hand (that is, in draw poker, draw a card that fills the hand or makes specifically what one was trying to make, or, in a stud game, be dealt the card one needs). "As soon as he started to bet, I knew he c |
| Catch-All [Keno] |
A keno game that requires you to catch all of the numbers you have marked on your ticket. |
| Catch-Zero [Keno] |
A keno game that requires you to catch none of the numbers you have marked on your ticket. |
| Cats and Dogs [Poker] |
Draw poker in which certain nonstandard hands (the big and little cat or tiger and big and little dog) have value. |
| Caught in the Middle [Poker] |
Being whipsawed. To whipsaw is to raise before, and after, a caller who gets caught in the middle. "I had a joker-wheel to draw to. They both had pat sixes, and kept raising, and I was caught in the middle." |
| Caught Speeding [Poker] |
Slang for caught bluffing. |
| Cbjn [Blackjack] |
An abbreviation for Stanford Wong's Current BlackJack News, a periodical which is available through several different media which describes blackjack playing conditions throughout the United States and in some Canadian casinos. |
| Cc [Blackjack] |
1. The acronym for Card Counting. 2. The acronym for Circus Circus, a casino. |
| Cecil (C-Note) [Blackjack] |
A $100 bill |
| Cellar Dealer [Poker] |
A cheat who deals cards from the bottom of the deck. Also sometimes called b-dealer, subway dealer, or cellar dealer. |
| Cellar [Poker] |
Bottom of the deck; usually preceded by from the. Usually refers to the move of a bottom dealer. "I saw him coming from the basement" means I saw him deal a card from the bottom of the deck. |
| Center Dealer [Poker] |
The House dealer. |
| Center Field [Craps] |
Betting that the next roll will be the total sum of 9 (5&4) |
| Center Pot [Poker] |
The first pot created during a poker hand. This is as opposed to one or more "side" pots that are created if one or more players goes all-in. Also "main pot." |
| Century Note [Poker] |
A $100 bill. |
| Century [Poker] |
A $100 bill. |
| Chameleon Strategy [Roulette] |
Looking for players who have been winning and then mimicking their betting patterns in the hope that they will continue to be lucky, have found biased wheels, or are visual wheel trackers. |
| Chance [Poker] |
The likelihood of a particular event, usually expressed in the form of some kind of fraction (as chances of one third, or, more often a decimal, as chances of 0.33, or percentage, as chances of 33%) or in the form of one number out of or in another (as ch |
| Chances [Poker] |
The likelihood of a particular event, usually expressed in the form of some kind of fraction (as chances of one third, or, more often a decimal, as chances of 0.33, or percentage, as chances of 33%) or in the form of one number out of or in another (as ch |
| Change Boy / Girl / Person [Slots] |
The casino employee who makes change for the players and sometimes pays off small jackpots. |
| Change Color [Craps] |
Changing casino chips into smaller or larger denomination. |
| Change Color [Poker] |
Replacing chips of one color with those of another. Usually implies getting rid of many smaller denomination chips for fewer of a higher denomination. |
| Change Gears [Poker] |
Alter the pace of one's playing, usually as a deceptive move against the other players, as, for example, change from fast, aggressive play to a more conservative style. |
| Change List [Poker] |
A list, usually maintained by a floor man or the house dealer, of those who want to change seats within a particular game or move to another game of the same size. |
| Change of Color [Poker] |
Replacing chips of one color with those of another. Usually implies getting rid of many smaller denomination chips for fewer of a higher denomination. |
| Change-in [Poker] |
The minimum amount required to get into a game. "The buy-in for limit games is 10 times the lower limit; for example, in a $2-$4 game, the buy-in is $20." |
| Charlemagne [Poker] |
The king of hearts. |
| Charles Fey [Slots] |
Inventor of the original slot machine "Liberty Bell" of San Francisco. |
| Charles [Poker] |
The king of hearts. May come from Charlemagne, or King Charles VII of France. |
| Charlie [Poker] |
The third position to the left of the dealer. Sometimes called just C. |
| Chase [Poker] |
1) To make the blind good. That is, if you have the blind, the pot is opened, and you elect to put in the extra chip to try a longshot, you might say, "I'll chase." 2) When losing, bet recklessly, often desperately, in the hope of getting of even. "How's |
| Chasing Losses [Roulette] |
Increasing your bets in order to recoup what you've lost. Not a good way to play. |
| Cheat [Poker] |
1) Use of any of a number of crooked devices, card manipulation, deceptive tactics, and so on, to gain an unfair advantage over opponents or otherwise win dishonestly. 2) One who employs cheating techniques; A thief. |
| Cheater [Poker] |
One who employs cheating techniques; A thief. |
| Cheaters [Poker] |
Marked decks. |
| Cheating Device [Poker] |
A mechanical device for cheating, such as a holdout machine. Also called tool. |
| Cheating [Blackjack] |
Illegal gain of advantage, technically defined as "altering selection criteria of a casino game." Includes card marking, capping bets, loaded dice, various sleight of hand techniques and so forth. Does NOT include card counting or capitalizing on house er |
| Check (Money) Down [Blackjack] |
An expression used by a dealer to inform the floor person that a chip has fallen on the floor, a situation, which requires his immediate attention. |
| Check and Raise [Poker] |
Permitting players to pass and still retain their cards. "This is a check-and-raise game before the draw." |
| Check Blind [Poker] |
1) Without looking at the cards you have been dealt. 2) The card or cards you have drawn, make no bet; usually accompanied by a verbal announcement of this fact. Also check dark. |
| Check Cashing Card [Poker] |
A sheet on which the cashier keeps track of a player's transactions against a blank, signed check. |
| Check Cop [Poker] |
1) A thief whose specialty is stealing chips from pots or other players, usually by palming them. 2) A sticky substance a thief rubs on his palm to permit chips to stick to the palm without having to close his fingers around the chips. Also, glue. |
| Check Copper [Poker] |
A thief whose specialty is stealing chips from pots or other players, usually by palming them. |
| Check Dark [Poker] |
The card or cards you have drawn, make no bet; usually accompanied by a verbal announcement of this fact. |
| Check in the Dark [Poker] |
1) To check before looking at the card or cards just dealt. 2) Intention of folding on the turn and the river, but no one ever bet. |
| Check Rack [Poker] |
A box, or tray, that has indentations to neatly hold chips in (often five) stacks. |
| Check Rack [Roulette] |
The tray that hold the chips for a game. Also, known as a chip rack or chip tray. |
| Check Raise [Poker] |
To check initially, then raise a bet made later on in the same betting round. Frequently a sign of strength, but may be a bluff. |
| Check [Poker] |
1) Make no bet, but still hold your cards. You can check, and then call a later bet, fold when the action gets back to you, or raise. Technically, to check is to make a bet of nothing. 2) A card room chip; often plural. When a player cries out "Checks!", |
| Check-Rack [Poker] |
Request a player to leave. Comes from what a player usually does before cashing in: fill a chip rack with his chips, and head for the cage. "When the floor man saw Danny come from the cellar, he chip-racked him" means "When the floor man saw Danny deal a |
| Checker [Poker] |
A card room chip; often plural. When a player cries out "Checks!", he is signaling to a floorperson his intention to buy more chips. The term check is generally limited to card rooms and casinos, while chip is more heard in home games, though common in bo |
| Checks Play [Blackjack] |
A term often used by dealers to notify the pit boss that a player has made a significantly large bet. The amount of a bet that will trigger such a response varies wildly from casino to casino. It could be a bet as small as five red chips ($25) in some cas |
| Checks [Blackjack] |
Round, flat objects used by casinos to represent money. Several reasons casino's insist on using chips are: 1. they are faster and easier to handle than cash, 2. they help the management keep track of the drop, and 3. customers may lose more money because |
| Checks [Craps] |
A casino term for tokens used instead for money. |
| Checks [Poker] |
Chips. Poker chips are small round discs used instead of money at the poker table. The ones used at casinos are typically made of clay, while home poker games often substitute cheaper plastic chips. Using chips instead of cash has a number of advantages, |
| Checks [Roulette] |
Another name for chips. Typically, this name is used only by casino operators and employees, and using it may draw undue suspicion to yourself, especially if you are winning. |
| Cheese [Poker] |
A very substandard starting hand. |
| Cheese [Poker] |
Throw that cheese in the muck" is sometimes said by someone who has made a bet, usually large, to the person contemplating calling that bet, implying that the caller cannot win with his (supposedly) inferior hand. |
| Chemin De Fer [Baccarat] |
The European version of baccarat, where players bet among themselves. |
| Chemmy [Baccarat] |
The English slang term for chemin de fer. |
| Cheval [Roulette] |
French for Split bet. |
| Chicago Bankroll [Poker] |
A bankroll consisting of a large number of singles rolled over with one 20, which one might chuck in one direction when about to be mugged, while simultaneously running in the other direction. |
| Chicago [Poker] |
1) A form of poker found only in home games, usually played with seven cards, and ending up as a mixture of draw and stud. 2) high spade in the hole. |
| Chinese Poker Dictionary [Poker] |
13-card-stud. |
| Chingaderos [Poker] |
The nuts; usually preceded by the. |
| Chip Along [Poker] |
Call, but never raise, all bets; in a no-limit, pot-limit, or spread-limit game, make the smallest bet allowed. |
| Chip Copper [Poker] |
A thief whose specialty is stealing chips from pots or other players, usually by palming them. |
| Chip Declaration [Poker] |
In a high-low split game, using chips to indicate whether you're going for high, low, or both. This is done in two ways, either the color of the chips indicates the players' intentions (as red for high, white for low, blue for both ways), or the number of |
| Chip Girl [Poker] |
A female wearing an apron with pockets full of chips, whose job it is to sell chips to the players, and sometimes to perform other duties, such as collect time, sell drinks, etc. The term chip boy does not exist. |
| Chip in [Poker] |
Ante, or call a small bet. The term has passed into general usage meaning contribute to a collection, usually of cash. |
| Chip Person [Poker] |
A person wearing an apron with pockets full of chips, whose job it is to sell chips to the players, and sometimes to perform other duties, such as collect time, sell drinks, etc. |
| Chip Race [Poker] |
As the limits increase in tournaments, lower denomination chips are taken out of circulation. Rather than rounding odd chips up or down for each player, the players are dealt a card for each odd chip. The player with the highest card is given all the odd |
| Chip Rack [Poker] |
A box, or tray, that has indentations to neatly hold chips in (often five) stacks. |
| Chip Runner [Blackjack] |
A person who carries chips from the cage to the table. |
| Chip Runner [Poker] |
A person wearing an apron with pockets full of chips, whose job it is to sell chips to the players, and sometimes to perform other duties, such as collect time, sell drinks, etc. |
| Chip the Pot [Poker] |
Take a portion of the pot to cover expenses. |
| Chip Tray [Poker] |
A box, or tray, that has indentations to neatly hold chips in (often five) stacks. |
| Chip Up [Poker] |
To exchange one's chips for ones of higher value. |
| Chip [Poker] |
1) Poker chips are small round discs used instead of money at the poker table. The ones used at casinos are typically made of clay, while home poker games often substitute cheaper plastic chips. Using chips instead of cash has a number of advantages, most |
| Chip-Rack [Poker] |
Request a player to leave. Comes from what a player usually does before cashing in: fill a chip rack with his chips, and head for the cage. "When the floorman saw Danny come from the cellar, he chip-racked him" means "When the floorman saw Danny deal a ca |
| Chippers [Poker] |
Chips. Poker chips are small round discs used instead of money at the poker table. The ones used at casinos are typically made of clay, while home poker games often substitute cheaper plastic chips. Using chips instead of cash has a number of advantages, |
| Chippies [Poker] |
Chips. Poker chips are small round discs used instead of money at the poker table. The ones used at casinos are typically made of clay, while home poker games often substitute cheaper plastic chips. Using chips instead of cash has a number of advantages, |
| Chips Declare [Poker] |
In a high-low split game, using chips to indicate whether you're going for high, low, or both. This is done in two ways, either the color of the chips indicates the players' intentions (as red for high, white for low, blue for both ways), or the number of |
| Chips [Blackjack] |
These are tokens that the Casino uses, in place of cash, to represent a certain monetary value for making bets. You buy chips at the table. You cash chips in at the Cashier's Cage. Chips may bought in various denominations, $2, $5, etc. Players exchange c |
| Chips [Craps] |
A casino term for tokens used instead for money. |
| Choice Pots [Poker] |
An announcement, in a home game, by the dealer that the next hand will be dealer's choice. |
| Chop a Game [Poker] |
Play for a short time in a game, win a lot of chips, and cash out. |
| Chop it Up. [Poker] |
An announcement by a player or dealer that the result of the current showdown is a split pot. |
| Chop the Blinds [Poker] |
In a traveling blind game, when everyone has folded except the two blinds, make an arrangement between those two players not to play out the hand, but instead take back their posted blinds. |
| Chop [Poker] |
To return the blinds to the players who posted them and move on to the next hand, if nobody calls the blind. |
| Chop-Chop [Poker] |
1) Split a pot in a high-low game. 2) Make an agreement among two (sometimes, rarely, more) to split a pot without having a showdown. 3) Put a chip up for the dealer (as a toke), and instruct the dealer to take half. For example, a player wins a pot, thro |
| Chopper [Poker] |
One who chops. (To return the blinds to the players who posted them and move on to the next hand, if nobody calls the blind.) |
| Chopping [Poker] |
Playing briefly in each of several games, usually successfully in each. |
| Choppy Game [Roulette] |
1. A game where neither the player nor the house has been winning consistently. 2. A game where no discernible streaks nor patterns have been appearing. |
| Choppy [Craps] |
No players are making more than one or two points before sevening out. Many or few numbers may be thrown. |
| Chowaha [Poker] |
A hold 'em variant invented in a private game by RGPer Mike Chow, and popularized at BARGE, in which each player gets two downcards, the dealer flops nine cards, arranged in three rows of three, then turns two cards vertically at the ends of the "corridor |
| Chump [Poker] |
Inexperienced poker player, sucker. |
| Chunking [Blackjack] |
When the dealer wins the bets of several or all of the players and collects the bets by just stacking them together in one hand, rather than collecting each bet separately, before returning the chips to the tray. |
| Chute Number 1 [Poker] |
First position to the left of the dealer, usually describing someone opening the betting from that position. "Here comes an opener from chute number 1." |
| Chute [Poker] |
The slot on a poker table above the drop box where the dealer places bills that have been exchanged for chips. |
| Cigarette Pot [Poker] |
An arrangement between two or more players to pay for their cigarettes in the same manner as a drink pot. |
| Cinch Hand [Poker] |
To lock. Often just cinch. |
| Cinch Player [Poker] |
One who plays only the nuts (usually used in a derisive sense). |
| Cinch [Poker] |
The lock. |
| Cincinnati [Poker] |
A form of poker found only in home games, a widow game in which each player receives five cards face down, as does a central area of the table, followed by a round of betting, and then the dealer turns up each central card, one at a time, each followed by |
| Circle [Blackjack] |
The place on the layout where the player must place his or bet for it to be valid. Also, "betting circle" or "square." |
| Circle [Poker] |
Pot boundary. A mythical demarcation within which bets are "legal" and outside of which they are not. In some clubs, an actual circle is drawn on the table. In some clubs, a bet, or a motion to make a bet, is not considered binding unless the chips physic |
| Class [Poker] |
Rank of hands. |
| Clean Dealer [Poker] |
Smooth and efficient dealer, usually said of a professional dealer. |
| Clean Money [Blackjack] |
Checks which the dealer hands out of the tray to pay a bet. "Dirty" money is checks from a losing players bet used to pay the bet of a winning player. |
| Clean Move [Poker] |
A hard-to-detect cheating manipulation, whether by slSeven-of-hand or with a cheating device; cleverly concealed misdeal. |
| Clean Out [Poker] |
Win all the money from one or more opponents, or from a game. |
| Clean Up [Poker] |
Get rid of the evidence after making a cheating maneuver. A thief may deal himself six cards, and play the best five. When he conceals the extra card among the discards, he is cleaning up. Also called skin the hand. |
| Clean [Poker] |
1) Honest. "He runs a clean joint." 2) To run out of chips. 3) Win all the money from one or more opponents, or from a game. Also, clean out. |
| Clerk [Blackjack] |
Slang term used for a dealer. (Like a clerk in a store.) Usually a competent and efficient dealer. Opposite of a '"Lumpy dealer." |
| Clerk [Poker] |
Smooth and efficient dealer, usually said of a professional dealer. |
| Clip Joint [Poker] |
An illegal card room or casino whose denizens include thieves, usually with the consent of the house. |
| Clip [Poker] |
A cheating device to hold a card up a sleeve or under a table. |
| Clock-in (Out) [Blackjack] |
To start or end your shift by reporting to the time clock to record your hours of work. "I forgot to clock out last night and I got a pink slip." |
| Clocking [Roulette] |
There are two forms of Clocking: Wheel Clocking ([1] To keep track of the results of roulette spins to ascertain patterns and possibility of wheel bias. [2] The other is to visually or electronically clock the speed of the wheel in an effort to predict wh |
| Close to the Chest [Poker] |
Tight. "He plays them close to the vest." Comes from the way players held their cards to avoid their being seen by others. |
| Close to the Vest [Poker] |
Tight. "He plays them close to the vest." Comes from the way players held their cards to avoid their being seen by others. |
| Close [Keno] |
The time when no keno tickets will be written by the casino. Normally just before the draw until just after the draw. |
| Close [Poker] |
Conservative(ly). |
| Closed Card [Poker] |
Downcard. |
| Closed Game [Poker] |
A game in which no other participants than those currently seated are permitted. In poker, the term usually applies only to private games. In casinos, the term is used for a game, usually blackjack, in which one player is making very large bets, does not |
| Closed Hand [Poker] |
A hand consisting of all cards face down. Usually the term refers to a draw poker hand, rarely to no peeky. |
| Closed Poker Dictionary [Poker] |
Games in which all of the cards are dealt face down. |
| Club Poker Dictionary [Poker] |
Poker played in a public card room (as opposed to a private game), usually with posted rules and sometimes limited to certain games, such as lowball and draw, according to licensing restrictions. |
| Club Stakes [Poker] |
Posted rules regarding wagering, usually found in licensed card rooms. |
| Club [Poker] |
1) Any card in the clubs suit.2) Public card room. |
| Clubs [Poker] |
1) One of the four suits in a deck of cards, whose symbol is shaped like a shamrock. Originally, clubs may have represented the warrior class, the club being an early weapon. In the traditional deck, clubs are black. In the four-color deck, they are green |
| Clump [Blackjack] |
1. Cards of the same value, massed together in the shoe 2. cards in a sequence that favors heavily the house or the player. |
| Clumper / Clumping [Blackjack] |
Cards sticking together, which is what clumpers think cards do. Card Clumpers look at what cards have come out of the current shoe and, based on this information, predict (read guess) the denomination of the next card(s) to be dealt from the current shoe. |
| Cm [Blackjack] |
The acronym for Chinese Mafia, an expression used by Atlantic City locals to describe slot fleas. |
| Coat Card [Poker] |
An old term for face card. Comes from coated, from the garments worn by the figures. The term was in use until the late seventeenth century, at which point the pronunciation was probably corrupted into court card. |
| Coaxer [Poker] |
A small raise of an opponent's raise, the object of which is to coax a re-raise from the original raiser, so that the maker of the coaxer can now make his move in the form of a very large raise. |
| Cocktail Waitress [Blackjack] |
Casino employees who distribute free mind-altering beverages to blackjack players. |
| Coffee Housing [Poker] |
An attempt to mislead opponents about one's hand by means of devious speech or behavior. |
| Coffee Pot [Poker] |
An arrangement between two or more players to pay for their coffee in the same manner as a drink pot. |
| Coffeehouse [Poker] |
To talk about a hand one is involved in, usually with the intent of misleading or manipulating other players, is coffeehousing. It's usually considered just barely on one side of ethical, although which side depend who you ask. |
| Coinless Machine [Video Poker] |
A multi-hand and/ or multi-game machine that only accepts currency. All payouts are hand paid. No coins are accepted or paid. |
| Coins Size [Slots] |
This is the amount of each bet, on most machines you can play more than one coin. Common coin sizes range from one cent to five dollars. Playing a one dollar coin size machine at three coins per spin would cost you three dollars each spin. |
| Cojones [Poker] |
The nuts, usually preceded by loss. (Pronounced co-HO-nayss.) |
| Cold Bluff [Poker] |
A large bluff made on a weak hand. |
| Cold Call [Poker] |
To call a raise without having already put the initial bet into the pot. |
| Cold Deck [Poker] |
A deck, presumably with preset hands in it (usually with several good hands, the best of which will go to the dealer or his confederate), surreptitiously substituted by a cheat for the deck he is supposed to be dealing. So called because, after cards are |
| Cold Dice [Craps] |
Dice that aren't passing. |
| Cold Game [Poker] |
Dishonest card game. |
| Cold Table [Craps] |
When shooters are not making their Points. |
| Cold Table [Roulette] |
Any table where you and/or other players have been losing. |
| Cold Twenty (Turkey) [Blackjack] |
Two 10-value cards as a starting hand. "I would never split cold twenty against a nine showing." |
| Cold [Blackjack] |
Term used to describe a losing cycle of hands. |
| Cold [Poker] |
1) Serial, or in a row. "I caught three cold aces" means the player, in a draw game, drew three cards and (likely) ended up with aces full. 2) Not doing well. 3) Having no action. "No hands coming out: the game's cold." |
| Cold-Deck [Poker] |
To deal a cold deck; usually to someone. "Those bastards cold-decked me." |
| Cold-Decker [Poker] |
Thief, generally one who prepares or introduces into a game a cold deck. |
| Collection Drop [Poker] |
Drop. |
| Collection [Poker] |
Time. |
| Collusion [Poker] |
A form of cheating in which two or more players signal their holdings or otherwise form a cheating partnership to the detriment of the other players. Best-hand is a form of collusion. |
| Colonne [Roulette] |
The French term for Column Bet. |
| Color Change [Poker] |
Replacing chips of one color with those of another. Usually implies getting rid of many smaller denomination chips for fewer of a higher denomination. |
| Color For Color [Blackjack] |
The proper pay-out procedure for a dealer to pay a stack of multi-colored chips. It is faster, has less chance of a mistake, and is easier to verify by the floor person or eye-in-the-sky. |
| Color Up [Blackjack] |
To exchange many smaller denomination chips for a few large denomination chips. This is done as a player is preparing to leave and he may have too many chips to handle easily. "May I color up those reds for green before you leave, sir." Then, inform the f |
| Color Up [Poker] |
To exchange one's chips for ones of higher value, usually in order to reduce the number of chips one has on the table. In tournaments, players are forced to color up periodically as the tourney money becomes divided among fewer and fewer players and the s |
| Color Up [Roulette] |
To exchange smaller denomination chips for larger denomination chips at a table. |
| Color [Blackjack] |
Each denomination of chip has a distinctive color. The standard colors are: $1 -> blue or white; $5 -> red; $25 -> green; $100 -> black. |
| Colors [Poker] |
In a draw game, a side bet arrangement between two players. If one is dealt before the draw five cards of the same color (that is, all red, or all black), the other pays him a certain amount. Usually played in conjunction with points, and is more common i |
| Columbia River [Poker] |
In hold' em, K-7 as one's first two cards. |
| Column Bet [Roulette] |
A bet on one of the three columns of 12 numbers on the layout. When placing your chips on one of three blank spaces at the bottom of the green you collect if any of those twelve vertical numbers win. Pays 2:1 |
| Comb [Baccarat] |
Another term for Lace: To randomly place cards into a stack of cards one at a time. |
| Combination (Way) Ticket [Keno] |
A ticket in which groups of numbers are bet several different ways, allowing the player to spread money over several combinations. |
| Combination Bet [Roulette] |
Using one or more chips in the same position to wager on more than one number at a time. |
| Comdex [Blackjack] |
A huge computer convention that uses up all the hotel rooms in Las Vegas, sending room rates sky-high. Avoid Las Vegas during Comdex. |
| Come Back at [Poker] |
Re-raise; always followed by the name of the player. "He bet $10, I raise him $40, and he came back at me." |
| Come Back on [Poker] |
Break one hand, and make a better hand; with reference to the hand made. "I broke the 8 and came back on a slick 7." "I started with a pat straight, and four to a straight flush. When Mary stood pat ahead of me, I knew she had the straight beat, so I drew |
| Come Bet [Craps] |
A wager placed after the come-out roll that the dice will pass. |
| Come Bet [Poker] |
A bet made on the come. |
| Come Box [Craps] |
The area on the craps layout where Come bets are placed. |
| Come Down [Poker] |
1) Happen. "This is how it came down." 2) Show down. "I had a full house, and he came down with four of a kind." |
| Come Hand [Poker] |
A hand which must improve in order to have a realistic shot is a come hand. |
| Come in Cold [Poker] |
Call a bet and one or more raises without yet having any money in the pot. |
| Come in For a Raise [Poker] |
Open for more than the minimum. In a limit game, this means open for two bets. |
| Come in Light [Poker] |
Get into a pot with a poor hand. |
| Come in on the Blind [Poker] |
Sit down at the precise moment it is your turn to put in the big blind. Some clubs do not let a new player (new to the particular game) be dealt in until it is his turn to put in the blind, supposedly to prevent his getting any "free" hands. Also, if a se |
| Come in [Poker] |
Call, usually referring to any betting round but the last. |
| Come Off [Poker] |
Break |
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