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| C [Poker] | |
| Clubs (the suit), in written text. Kc, for example, is the king of clubs (K ). | |
| C [Poker] | |
| The third position to the left of the dealer. | |
| 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 [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 Most cages have been replaced by plastic hoppers.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. | |
| 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), keeps track of time collections, etc. | |
| 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 [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 another round of betting. At the showdown, each player uses the best five cards among his five and those of the widow. The game is often played high-low split. Also called Utah, Lamebrains, or California. Southern Cross is a variant of Cincinnati. | |
| 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, usually played winner blind or with one or more traveling blinds (see traveling blind), and sometimes also with antes from each player. For both definitions, often called just draw or high. | |
| 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 restriction against banking games, the only interest the house has is to take a portion of every bet; one player acts as banker, playing one hand against each player in turn. These games include pai gow (played with tiles, and not a card game at all), pai gow poker, super nine (also called super pan nine), California blackjack (also called X blackjack, where X is the name of the club), California Aces (a variant of blackjack in which the object is to get closest to 22, with two aces being the best hand; similarly often called X aces), 13-card (not played with a banker). | |
| 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. | |
| 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 minimum amount of money necessary to continue playing. See also: SEE. (CALL is used mostly in the present tense with the bet as the object, see with future tense and the original bettor as the object). | |
| 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 in some states. | |
| 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 are collected and the play of the hand continues. | |
| Call Someone Down [Poker] | |
| Check each round, and call each bet made by an opponent (who presumably bets each round). | |
| 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 embarrassment at being caught bluffing). | |
| 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 backdoor and other unlikely draws than other players, making it occasionally frustrating to play against them, especially in large numbers. | |
| 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 raise permitted in the current round. "I'll cap it" means that someone has put in the, say, third raise. | |
| 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 [Poker] | |
| Describing the situation in which the maximum number of raises in a round of betting have been made. | |
| Capped Dice [Craps] | |
| Crooked dice. | |
| 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 [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, hearts, diamonds, clubs) and 13 ranks (A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, T, J, Q, K). A complete set of cards is called a deck. Paper cards are sometimes called pasteboards. Collectively, cards are sometimes called the Devil's playthings. 2) A player's bank. 3) Check cashing card. | |
| 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, 4, 5 and 6 and minus one to tens, jacks, queens, kings and aces. | |
| 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 player. If a card falls on the floor, the dealer may announce, "Card down," and a floor person comes over to pick it up. Whether the card or cards that fell to the floor are still live or dead is subject to individual card room interpretation. | |
| 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 in playing your own hand, almost x-ray vision in being able to reconstruct opponents' hands. It is card sense that causes a player to play the same cards differently in different situations. A player without card sense usually plays the same cards the same in all situations. | |
| 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-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 [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 completely over." | |
| 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 played in home games for low stakes 2) A name for high-low split with no declaration. | |
| 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 increase the bet after seeing their hands. Certain combinations, usually three of a kind or better, pay premiums, and a royal flush wins a progressive jackpot. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 and make a spade flush. | |
| 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 the next shift. In such case, a stake could lose for the house and still make money for himself. If the stake were given $20, and then a $10 press, and went broke while still in the same shift, he would have no carry-over and could not make money on that shift. That is why some stakes try to get staked near the end of a shift, and then, if they are short near the end of the shift, contrive to lose the last chips so they can get pressed just before the next shift starts. That way they can start the next shift with just $10 on the sheet, and, if they lose that, get still another press. | |
| Carry-Over [Poker] | |
| Chips or cash being carried over. | |
| Carré [Roulette] | |
| French term for the Corner Bet. | |
| 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 all he had in his pocket went to buy chips; if he loses these, he can't buy anymore.3) The last card of a denomination or suit, when the rest have already been seen.4) Look over; usually said of a card room, referring to checking out the action. "He only comes in to case the joint, and never lights." | |
| 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. | |
| Cash in [Poker] | |
| To leave the game and convert one's chips to cash, either with the dealer or at the cage. | |
| Cash Out [Poker] | |
| To leave a game and cash in one's chips 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 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 present at the table but doesn't have a bet in his circle, it is a dealer courtesy to bring his attention back to the table and confirm whether he desires to bet or not. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 "corridors" between the preceding rows, and rivers one card in the middle and to the right of the two, the whole arrangement forming a large arrow-like structure. Players form their best five-card hand using their two plus any three cards from the four possible five-card board combinations: top row of three plus top card of two plus river card, bottom row of three plus bottom card of two plus river card, middle row of three plus either one of the two turn cards plus river card. | |
| 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 casino host in order to get a casino rate or a room comp. | |
| 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 | |
| Cat [Poker] | |
| Any one of big tiger, little tiger, big cat, little cat. | |
| 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 the player draws two cards every time he starts with three cards to a straight or flush. The other is actually making it. "Wouldn't you know I'd get beat by a cat hop when I finally made a straight?" | |
| 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 [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 caught." | |
| 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 diamond, you make a flush; if you catch any 3 or 8, you make a straight. If you catch either the 3 or 8 or diamonds, you make a straight flush, and you can say you have caught perfect. The term is also heard in hold 'em, in a situation in which only one or two cards remain that will turn a losing hand into a winner. | |
| 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-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 [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. | |
| Cellar Dealer [Poker] | |
| A cheat who deals cards from the bottom of the deck. Also sometimes called b-dealer, subway dealer, or cellar dealer. | |
| 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 [Poker] | |
| A $100 bill. | |
| Century Note [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 chances of 1 out of 3, or 1 in 3). | |
| 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 chances of 1 out of 3, or 1 in 3). | |
| 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 [Poker] | |
| The king of hearts. May come from Charlemagne, or King Charles VII of France. | |
| Charles Fey [Slots] | |
| Inventor of the original slot machine "Liberty Bell" of San Francisco. | |
| 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 he doing?" "Stuck, and chasing." 3) Try to catch a better hand with a worse holding, usually in a stud game. | |
| 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 [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 errors. | |
| Cheating Device [Poker] | |
| A mechanical device for cheating, such as a holdout machine. Also called tool. | |
| 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!", 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 both. | |
| 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-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 card from the bottom of the deck, he asked Danny to cash in (and leave the premises)." | |
| 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 both. | |
| 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 they don't "think" of the chips as cash and therefore are looser with chips than with cash. | |
| 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, mostly just that they're easier to count and manipulate. Color designations for chips are arbitrary, but many casinos use white for $1 chips, red for $5 chips, green for $25 chips, and black for $100 chips. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 casinos or a bet with several black chips in other casinos. | |
| 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 [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. | |
| 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. | |
| Chinese Poker Dictionary [Poker] | |
| 13-card-stud. | |
| Chingaderos [Poker] | |
| The nuts; usually preceded by the. | |
| 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, mostly just that they're easier to count and manipulate. Color designations for chips are arbitrary, but many casinos use white for $1 chips, red for $5 chips, green for $25 chips, and black for $100 chips. 2) To Bet. | |
| 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 chips (as none for low, one for high, two for both ways). | |
| 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 chips, which are then colored up. | |
| 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-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 card from the bottom of the deck, he asked Danny to cash in (and | |
