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| D [Poker] | |
| Diamonds (the suit), in written text. Qd, for example, is the queen of diamonds. | |
| D'alembert [Blackjack] | |
| A betting progression. It is a system where the bettor raises the bet one unit after each loss and lowers the bet one unit after each win. A series of numbers equidistant from one another is established, such as 1, 2, 3, 4. The player starts out by betting 1 unit. If he wins, he continues to bet one unit. If he loses, he cancels out the 1 and moves to the 2 and adds one unit to the last number, now having a series of 2, 3, 4, 5. At any point in the series where the player wins his bet, he reduces his bet by one unit. If he wins enough bets to return to a one unit bet, he starts over. If he loses during the series, he cancels out the last number he played and adds another number to the series. This system has many variations. It has never been proven to win, and in fact, cannot win in any game with a negative expectation. | |
| D'alembert Betting System [Roulette] | |
| [1] A progressive system of betting where you increase your bet by one unit after a loss and decrease your bet by one unit after a win. [2] A progressive system of betting whereby two numbers are cancelled every time a previous bet is won, and one number, the total of two end numbers, is added whenever a previous bet is lost. | |
| Da or Da2 [Blackjack] | |
| Abbreviations for double down on any first two cards. | |
| Dame [Poker] | |
| Queen (the card). | |
| Dance Every Set [Poker] | |
| Play every hand, or appear or claim to. | |
| Dark [Poker] | |
| 1) Without looking at your cards. "I'll open dark." "He made a dark bet." 2) Check without looking; always followed by it. "I'll dark it" means "I have not looked at my cards and I shall check" and implies that the speaker is drawing to a powerhouse (in high draw poker) or to a must-call hand (in lowball; for example, an 8, but not a must-bet hand) so you better not try to bluff him, but in actuality usually means he doesn't want you to bet. | |
| Dark Bet [Poker] | |
| A blind bet. | |
| Darken [Poker] | |
| Bet without looking at your cards. "I'll open dark." "He made a dark bet." | |
| Darth Vader [Poker] | |
| In hold 'em, the two black fours (the "dark force") as one's first two cards. | |
| Das [Blackjack] | |
| An abbreviation for a rule that allows the player to double after splits. See double after split. | |
| Daub [Blackjack] | |
| A paste or fluid used to mark cards for the purpose of cheating. | |
| Daub [Poker] | |
| Markings put on cards with paint, ink, or some other fluid. Also called cosmetics. | |
| Dauber [Poker] | |
| A thief who uses daub. | |
| David [Poker] | |
| The king of spades. Probably comes from the Biblical King David | |
| Day [Poker] | |
| One of the three shifts in a 24-hour card room or casino, the shift between graveyard and swing. Day shift usually starts anywhere between 8 and 10 am and ends eight hours later. "When do you work?" "I'm on days." | |
| Day Shift [Blackjack] | |
| Casino workers on day shift generally start at 10 AM, but may start a couple of hours earlier or later than that. | |
| Day Shift [Poker] | |
| One of the three shifts in a 24-hour card room or casino, the shift between graveyard and swing. Day shift usually starts anywhere between 8 and 10 am and ends eight hours later. | |
| Days [Blackjack] | |
| A work shift usually starting between 8:00 a.m. and noon. | |
| Days [Poker] | |
| One of the three shifts in a 24-hour card room or casino, the shift between graveyard and swing. Day shift usually starts anywhere between 8 and 10 am and ends eight hours later. "When do you work?" "I'm on days." | |
| Dd [Blackjack] | |
| 1. An abbreviation commonly used by posters to describe a Double-Deck game. 2. The acronym for Double Down. | |
| De [Blackjack] | |
| The acronym for Double Exposure, a variety of blackjack in which both dealer cards are dealt face up and ties lose. | |
| Dead [Blackjack] | |
| No action or very slow activity. "The casino is dead on Graveyard (shift)." | |
| Dead [Poker] | |
| A dead card is a card that is no longer available to help you. In seven card stud, for example, a pair of kings in the hole is less strong if the two remaining kings are two other players' door cards, and therefore dead. | |
| Dead Blind [Poker] | |
| 1) A blind bet, the holder of which cannot raise unless the pot is already raised. 2) A blind that the winner of a pot does not get to keep; instead, he must put it back in the next pot. A winner blind is an example of a dead blind. | |
| Dead Button Rule [Poker] | |
| The rule that the button doesn't move if the small blind position leaves. | |
| Dead Card [Poker] | |
| A card no longer legally playable. | |
| Dead Draw [Poker] | |
| See Drawing Dead. | |
| Dead Game [Poker] | |
| A game full of mostly house players (that is, with few or even no live players). | |
| Dead Hand [Poker] | |
| A hand no longer legally playable, due to some irregularity. | |
| Dead in the Pot [Poker] | |
| Having no way of winning a particular pot. | |
| Dead Man's Hand [Poker] | |
| 1) Two pair, aces and eights. 2) The black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death. | |
| Dead Money [Poker] | |
| Money contributed to the pot by players who have folded. | |
| Dead Spread [Poker] | |
| A Dead game. | |
| Dead Table [Blackjack] | |
| A table with no players. "You can't go home until there is one more dead table." | |
| Dead Table [Roulette] | |
| A table that is manned and ready for action but has no players. | |
| Dead Wreck. [Poker] | |
| Red deck. This is a spoonerism that you hear card room clowns use when they ask the house for a new deck. | |
| Deadwood [Blackjack] | |
| Used cards from previous hands | |
| Deadwood [Poker] | |
| The discards; used cards out of play. "Push the deadwood. It's my turn to deal." Sometimes called timber. | |
| Deal [Blackjack] | |
| The distribution of the cards to the players during the play of the game. | |
| Deal [Poker] | |
| To deal is to give out the cards during a hand. The person who does this is called the dealer. At most public card rooms, a dealer is hired for this purpose (and for generally running the game). At most private games, players take turns dealing. | |
| Deal a Slug [Poker] | |
| Deal from a deck with a slug in it, in the manner described under slug, or with the slug at the bottom, and the dealer deals from the bottom as required to place those cards into his, a confederate's, or a victim's hand. | |
| Deal Around [Blackjack] | |
| To deliberately not give cards to a player even though he has a bet in place. "If he swears at you again deal around him." | |
| Deal Bottoms [Poker] | |
| Perform a cheating maneuver in which a card manipulator deals cards from the bottom of the deck. | |
| Deal in [Poker] | |
| Specifically include a particular player while dealing. "Deal me in. I'm just getting up for a cup of coffee. I'll be back before the cards are out." (He's usually not back in time.) | |
| Deal Off [Poker] | |
| Take the deal and then leave the table. In some games, a player must go through the entire set of blinds in each round in which he has a hand. If he deals off, he can come back in any position, or, in some clubs, in any position only in the round in which he dealt off. | |
| Deal Out [Poker] | |
| 1) Skip a player while dealing. "Deal me out; I have to go to the bathroom." 2) Play the last hand or the last round of a session, usually used only in private games | |
| Deal Seconds [Poker] | |
| Perform a cheating maneuver in which a card manipulator deals cards not from the top of the deck, but from directly beneath the top card. | |
| Deal Yourself [Poker] | |
| Deal-yourself game, in which each player in turn physically distributes the cards. "We have no dealers; it's deal yourself." | |
| Deal-Yourself Game [Poker] | |
| A game in which each player in turn physically distributes the cards. | |
| Dealer [Baccarat] | |
| An employee of the casino who staffs and services the game of Baccarat Dictionary. | |
| Dealer [Blackjack] | |
| An employee of the casino who handles the gambling apparatus, cards, dice, tiles, roulette wheel, etc., makes the payoffs, and enforces the house rules at his table. | |
| Dealer [Craps] | |
| Each of the two Dealers at a Craps table is responsible for all the bets made on his half of the table. Whenever you want to make a free odds, place, or lay bet in a casino, you should give the money to the dealer at your end of the table and he will make the bet for you. | |
| Dealer [Poker] | |
| In a game without a house person to run the game and deal the cards, the dealer is the person who physically distributes the cards. | |
| Dealer [Roulette] | |
| The casino employee who staffs the games offered. | |
| Dealer Advantage [Poker] | |
| In a draw poker game, before the draw, the dealer gets information about how everyone bets before it is his turn to act, at the draw, about how many cards they take, and, again, after the draw, about how they bet. In hold 'em-type games in which the betting each round proceeds from the dealer's left and around, the dealer finds out how each player acts on his hand before himself having to act. This positional edge is called dealer advantage. | |
| Dealer Blind [Poker] | |
| 1) In a three-blind traveling blind game game, the blind put up by the player in the dealer position. 2) The player who is in the dealer blind position. | |
| Dealer Button [Poker] | |
| In all flop games, a small disk used to signify the player in the last position if a house dealer is used; a buck. | |
| Dealer Control [Poker] | |
| A facetious term used by a dealer who wins a large pot to imply that he won by "controlling" the cards (jokingly implying that he is cheating). | |
| Dealer Edge [Poker] | |
| In a draw poker game, before the draw, the dealer gets information about how everyone bets before it is his turn to act, at the draw, about how many cards they take, and, again, after the draw, about how they bet. In hold 'em-type games in which the betting each round proceeds from the dealer's left and around, the dealer finds out how each player acts on his hand before himself having to act. This positional edge is called dealer edge. | |
| Dealer School [Blackjack] | |
| A tuition-charging training facility which teaches students the theory, standard methods, and rudimentary practice of dealing one or more of the games offered by a typical casino. | |
| Dealer's Choice [Poker] | |
| A game in which each dealer, in turn, chooses the type of poker to be played. | |
| Dealer-Advantage Game [Poker] | |
| Any poker game with dealer advantage, such as draw poker or a replacement high-low stud game in which players replace unwanted cards sequentially starting to the left of the dealer. | |
| Dealing [Poker] | |
| Distributing cards to each player in a card game. | |
| Dealing Seconds [Blackjack] | |
| A method of cheating in which the dealer peeks at the card on the top of the deck and deals the second from the top if the first is beneficial to the player. The use of the shoe virtually eliminates the possibility of dealing seconds. | |
| Dean [Poker] | |
| A gambler who has the ability to calculate the odds, particularly in card games. Also, professor. | |
| Decision [Poker] | |
| The resolution, usually by a house employee, of a dispute in a poker room. | |
| Decision / Play Decision [Blackjack] | |
| 1. The option you are given on your particular turn. Play decisions include hitting, doubling down, standing, splitting, insuring and surrendering 2. A ruling by a floor person or supervisor when an error in procedure has occurred at a gaming table | |
| Deck [Blackjack] | |
| 52 playing cards, the same as is used in poker. Commonly, blackjack players refer to a deck when discussing a single deck game. If a game uses more than one deck, but is still handheld by the dealer, such as a two deck game, the cards are often referred to as a pack. | |
| Deck [Poker] | |
| 1) The 52 cards (53 if the joker is used) from which poker is played, consisting of four suits (clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades), each with 13 ranks (A or ace, 2 or deuce, 3 or trey, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, T or 10, J or jack, Q or queen, K or king). 2) The undealt portion of the cards, sometimes also called the deck, stock, or talon.3) Throw away your cards. "If you bet over $10, I'm going to deck this hand." | |
| Deck Stacking [Blackjack] | |
| A method of cheating in which cards favorable to the player are clumped at the end of the deck or shoe thus removing them from play. | |
| Declaration [Poker] | |
| 1) Verbal showdown. If prior to showing your cards you say, "I have a full house," that statement is a declaration. 2) In a high-low split game, using chips or voice to indicate whether you're going for high, low, or both. Such a declaration is usually done after all the betting is over, and is either consecutive or sequential. This is not common in public card rooms, where high-low split games are usually played in what is called cards speak. | |
| Declaration [Poker] | |
| In high-low poker, declaring by the use of coins or chips whether one is aiming to win the high or the low end of the pot, or both. | |
| Declare [Poker] | |
| In high/low games, declaring one's hand as high or low or both ways (usually done with chips in hand). Usually played in home games. | |
| Declare Games [Poker] | |
| Games in which a player must declare the value of his hand in order to claim the pot. | |
| Deep [Poker] | |
| 1) With respect to a lowball hand, the rank of the top card of the hand one is trying to make when that card is lower than another draw one could make. For example, Jim stands pat, after having bet all his chips before the draw. 2) Pertaining to how many chips one has. In a no-limit game, while contemplating a bet into or a bet from another, a player might ask, "How deep are you?," meaning, "How much money do you have on the table?" Such a question might be asked because the player of whom it is asked might have chips of mixed denominations, jumbled stacks, or bundles of uncounted bills. | |
| Def [Blackjack] | |
| An abbreviation for defenestrate, which means to be thrown out of a window. If you are accidentally kicked out of chat, you have been defenestrated. | |
| Defensive Bet [Poker] | |
| A small bet (usually made in no-limit poker) to protect one's hand, generally so as not to have to call a much larger bet, or to limit a potential loss. | |
| Delivery [Blackjack] | |
| Method of getting cards to the players. "In the single deck game we pitch the cards to the players." | |
| Denomination [Video Poker] | |
| The denomination of each card is its number from two through ten, or is Jack, Queen, King or Ace. | |
| Denomination [Poker] | |
| The rank of a card. | |
| Dent [Poker] | |
| Perform a cheating maneuver consisting of marking the back of a card with a fingernail or by bending a corner. Also, round. | |
| Dept. of the Interior [Craps] | |
| When you want to make an inside bet. | |
| Depth-Charging [Blackjack] | |
| A method of play described by Arnold Snyder in his book "Black belt in Blackjack", in which a player would either make flat bets or bet the table minimum on the first round of play after a shuffle and then raise his bets regardless of the count as play continues until the next shuffle. It is dependent upon the player seeing as many cards as possible, counting them using a counting system and making strategy variations based upon the count. In order to be successful, this method of play requires a count with a high playing efficiency and a deeply dealt single deck game. | |
| Derniere [Roulette] | |
| A French term for last and refers to the last group of 12 numbers in the Dozen Bet. | |
| Designated Shuffler [Blackjack] | |
| The designated shuffler will shuffle the cards on a small area attached to the back of the blackjack table while the dealer deals from the one in use on the table. A method of speeding up the game of Blackjack by using two sets of cards at a table (one in play and one on the side). | |
| Desirability Index [Blackjack] | |
| A term coined by Don Schlesinger in his book Blackjack Attack. It is a number derived by dividing the win rate by the standard deviation for the particular game being examined and multiplying the result by 100. The lowest desirability index number given in Schlesinger's book is -0.52 and the highest is 16.04. The higher the number, the better the game. In general terms, a player would look for a desirability index of 6.6 or higher to find game which would be considered to be playable to most counters. | |
| Deuce [Blackjack] | |
| An expression used for a card numbered two (2) | |
| Deuce [Keno] | |
| Two keno spots grouped together. | |
| Deuce [Poker] | |
| Twos are sometimes called deuces. So 22277 can be called deuces full of sevens. | |
| Deuce Dealer [Poker] | |
| A mechanic (card manipulator) whose specialty is dealing the second card from the top. The reason for such a move is to hold back the top card, which he knows because he has peeked it, until he can deal it to himself, to a confederate, or to someone he is trying to cheat. Sometimes second dealer. Also called deuce dealer, number two man. | |
| Deuce Player [Poker] | |
| Someone who usually plays $2-limit. | |
| Deuce to Seven [Poker] | |
| In a game played for low, deuce to seven usually means that the best low hand is simply the worst poker hand. If you haven't figured it out already, that hand is 75432, with no flush. Deuce to seven lowball is also called Kansas City, or Kansas City lowball. | |
| Deuce-to-Seven Lowball [Poker] | |
| In a game played for low, deuce to seven usually means that the best low hand is simply the worst poker hand. If you haven't figured it out already, that hand is 75432, with no flush. Deuce to seven lowball is also called Kansas City, or Kansas City lowball. | |
| Deuces Full [Poker] | |
| A full house consisting of three deuces and another pair. | |
| Deuces Wild [Video Poker] | |
| A Video Poker Game where deuces are wild cards. | |
| Deuces Wild [Poker] | |
| A form of high poker in which the 2s are wild (that is, a 2 can represent any other card for the purpose of forming a better hand: a deuce can pair any other card, fill the "hole" in a straight, make the fifth of four cards to a flush, and so on); usually played as draw poker. | |
| Device [Blackjack] | |
| Computers" or any other calculating or note taking instrument that can be used by players. Casinos are using "devices" (i.e. computers) freely so far, in Nevada and elsewhere, to identify counting play, track customers, recognize faces etc. You cannot use a device to play Blackjack in Nevada by law. Also in most other places, in the US and abroad. The definition of "device" has not been determined exactly through legal precedent. | |
| Device [Poker] | |
| Cheating device. | |
| Devil's Bedposts [Poker] | |
| The four of clubs. | |
| Devil's Playthings [Poker] | |
| Cards. | |
| Dewey [Poker] | |
| 1) A request for two cards. When it is her turn to draw cards, and a player says, "Dewey," she means, "Kindly give me two cards." 2) Deuce (the card). | |
| Dewey Duck [Poker] | |
| Deuce (the card). (In a wonderful pun built on this term, pan players sometimes call a deuce a Gooey Duck.) | |
| Di [Blackjack] | |
| 1. The acronym for "Desirability Index". 2. The acronym for Desert Inn, a Las Vegas casino. | |
| Diamond [Poker] | |
| Any card in the diamonds suit. | |
| Diamond-Back Cards [Poker] | |
| A standard paper deck for card room use, made by the American Playing Card Company; so called because of a drawing of a large bee on the ace of spades. Since the cards often have a diamond pattern on the back, they are usually called bee-back cards. | |
| Diamonds [Poker] | |
| 1) One of the four suits in a deck of cards, shaped like a rhombus (four-sided figure that resembles a diamond ). Originally, diamonds may have represented the merchant class. In the traditional deck, diamonds are red. In the four-color deck, they are blue. 2) A diamond flush, that is, five cards of the same suit, all diamonds. "I've got a straight; whadda you got?" "Diamonds." | |
| Dice [Craps] | |
| The cubes, which are marked from 1 to 6, whose combinations, when thrown, determine the wins and losses at a craps table. | |
| Dice Pass [Craps] | |
| The dice are said to "pass" when the shooter rolls a 7 or 11 on the come-out roll. The dice "don't pass" when the shooter rolls a 2, 3, or 12 on the come-out. If the come-out roll is a 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10, this roll sets the "point", and the shooter continues to roll until the point is rolled again or a 7 is rolled (see "seven out"). If the shooter rolls the point before rolling a seven, the dice pass. If the shooter sevens out, the dice don't pass and the shooter loses control of the dice. NOTE: in this context, "pass" does NOT mean that the dice to given to the next player. Control of the dice is transferred only when the shooter "sevens out" or when the shooter has completed a game and no longer wishes to roll the dice. | |
| Die in the Wood, Roll no Good [Craps] | |
| One of the dice landed in the players chip rack. | |
| Dig [Poker] | |
| Produce additional money for betting from one's pocket or elsewhere than on the table in a game not played table stakes. This is rarely permitted in card rooms, but sometimes is in private games. | |
| Dime [Poker] | |
| 1) $10, or a $10 bill. 2) $100, or a $100 bill. 3) $1000, particularly in sports betting. | |
| Dime Store [Poker] | |
| 1) In hold 'em, 10-5 as one's two starting cards. 2) In any high poker game, two pair, 10s and 5s. Also called five and dime. 3) In any high poker game, a full house involving 10s and 5s. 4) In lowball, a 10-5. For all meanings, also called nickels and dimes, Woolworth, or Barbara Hutton. | |
| Dime Stores [Poker] | |
| In any high poker game, two pair, 10s and 5s. Also called five and dime. | |
| Direction [Poker] | |
| In a high-low split game, which half of the pot, high or low, a player is contesting. | |
| Discard [Poker] | |
| 1) Throw one or more cards from your hand. 2) In a draw game, a card that was thrown away by a player, to be replaced by another card. | |
| Discard Buttons [Video Poker] | |
| Under the display on the video poker machine are five buttons, one for each card. You press these buttons to indicate which cards you want to hold and which you want to discard. Press a button repeatedly to switch between Hold and Discard | |
| Discard Holder / Discard Rack / Discard Pile / Discard Tray [Blackjack] | |
| A plastic holder to the right of the dealer attached firmly to the table. It is used to store the discards until they are ready to be re-shuffled. Red plastic is commonly used so that any marks on the cards will be amplified enough to be noticed by the floor man. | |
| Discard Pile [Poker] | |
| The place on a poker table where the discards go. | |
| Discards [Blackjack] | |
| The cards which have already been played since the last shuffle. They are placed by the dealer in a discard tray on the left side of the table from the player's perspective. | |
| Discards [Poker] | |
| 1) The thrown-away cards, sometimes together with the un-dealt cards that remain in the deck. Sometimes called muck. 2) The area on the poker table where discards lie, prior to being gathered together for the next deal. | |
| Disk [Craps] | |
| A round object white on one side and black on the other. When on the white side and in a place number box signifies that a come-out roll has occurred and that a point has been established. | |
| Doa (Double Only Any Two Cards) [Blackjack] | |
| Casino rules that allow for doubling on any two playing cards. | |
| Doctor Pepper [Poker] | |
| A wild-card game with 10s, 4s, and 2s wild. (Those numbers are part of the Dr Pepper logo.) | |
| Doctored Cards [Poker] | |
| Marked cards. | |
| Dog [Video Poker] | |
| A person or hand who is not mathematically favored to win a pot. For instance, if you flop four cards to your flush, you are not quite a 2:1 underdog to make your flush by the river (that is, you will make your flush about one in three times). | |
| Dog [Poker] | |
| 1) Throw away, usually followed by it or the hand. "This eight won't win; I better dog it." 2) A person or hand who is not mathematically favored to win a pot. Ant: Favorite.3) Either of the nonstandard five-card hands sometimes given value in a private or home game, a big dog or little dog. | |
| Dollar [Poker] | |
| $100 or a $100 bill. | |
| Dolly Parton [Poker] | |
| In hold 'em, 9-5 as one's first two cards. From the movie, 9 to 5, in which she starred. | |
| Dominate [Poker] | |
| A starting hand that will almost always beat another starting hand is said to dominate that hand. For example, in hold'em, AK dominates K2. Most of the time K2 makes a playable hand, AK will make a better hand. However, a 2 might still spoil the party | |
| Dominated [Poker] | |
| The situation in hold 'em of one hand being significantly ahead of the other, usually because of having the same card in common plus a higher card. For example, king-queen off suit is dominated by ace-king off suit | |
| Dominated Hand [Poker] | |
| A hand that will almost always lose to a better hand that people usually play. For instance, K3 is "dominated" by KQ. With the exception of strange flops (e.g. 3-3-x, K-3-x), it will always lose to KQ | |
| Don't Come [Craps] | |
| The reverse of Come. You're betting that 7 will come up before the shooters point. | |
| Don't Come Bet [Craps] | |
| A wager against the dice placed after the come-out roll. | |
| Don't Come Box [Craps] | |
| The area on the layout where a don't come bet is made. | |
| Don't Pass [Craps] | |
| A bet made on the come-out roll that the dice will not pass. | |
| Don't Pass Bet [Craps] | |
| A bet that the dice will not pass. This bet can be placed only immediately before a "come out" roll. One result (either the 2 or the 12, depending on the casino) will result in a push. House edge on these bets is 1.40%. A Don't Pass bet can be taken down, but not increased, after the come-out roll. | |
| Donate [Poker] | |
| Put chips into a pot that one doesn't expect to get back. "Oh, you raised it again? Okay, I'll donate." | |
| Donation [Poker] | |
| Put chips into a pot that one doesn't expect to get back. "Oh, you raised it again? Okay, I'll donate." | |
| Don’T Pass Line [Craps] | |
| The area on the layout where Don’t Pass bets are placed. | |
| Door [Poker] | |
| 1) Door card. 2) The door position in a hand. "I can see what he's got in the door." Also window. | |
| Door Card [Poker] | |
| A player's first up card in stud games. | |
| Doped Cards [Poker] | |
| Cards marked on the back with some sort of liquid, such as ink, bleach, and sometimes even water. | |
| Double after Split (Das) [Blackjack] | |
| Casino rules that allow doubling down after the players has split any pair. | |
| Double Ante [Poker] | |
| In double-limit draw, pertaining to the hand following an unopened pot, in which each player adds an additional ante to the pot, and so the pot contains two antes from each. | |
| Double Belly Buster [Poker] | |
| 1) A five-card combination with two "holes," such that any of eight cards can make it into a straight. For example, 5-7-8-9-J; any 6 or 10 makes this into a straight. Such a combination is possible in stud or hold 'em-type games. Also called double gut shot. 2) A three-card combination with two "holes," such that two perfect inside straight cards are required, such as 3-5-7, which needs a 4 and a 6 to make a straight. | |
| Double Deck [Blackjack] | |
| A form of 21 where two decks are shuffled together and dealt out of the hand. The forms of 21 are: single deck, double deck, and four, six, or eight deck shoe. | |
| Double Down / Doubling Down [Blackjack] | |
| To double the size of one's initial bet before taking one more card. Once a player doubles down, the player may receive only one more card. Usually, but not always, a player may only double down after receiving the first two cards. Occasionally, a casino may allow players to double down after receiving three or more cards. Normally, the player places a bet equal to the size of the original bet next to the original bet in the betting square to let the dealer know he wishes to double down. He does this by placing an amount which may be less than, or equal to (but may not exceed) the original stake, behind his initial bet. In some casinos the player may double down after splitting and in some casinos the player may only double on 10 or 11. The blackjack chart tells you when this is a good idea. For example, if you have a hard 10 and the dealer's up card is a bust card, let's say a 5, you would want to double down. You have a good chance of drawing an 8, 9, or 10, which is a hard hand for the dealer to beat. And there's an equally good chance that the dealer will go bust. A player may "Double Down" on any two cards except "Blackjack". If the dealer gets a "Blackjack", only the original bet will lose. If the player is playing in a game where the cards are held by the players, he places his cards face up in front of the betting square and the dealer places a third card either face-down under the player's bet or face up on the player's existing cards, usually at an angle opposite to the cards already in play. | |
| Double Dynamite Roulette System [Roulette] | |
| A combination of Big Number play and sector slicing for short-range play. | |
| Double Exposure 21 [Blackjack] | |
| A blackjack game in which both dealer cards are shown to the player (before) he plays his hand. Other house rules are usually changed, such as players losing pushes, and blackjacks are paid even money to restore the advantage the house loses by exposing the dealer's hole card. | |
| Double Gutshot [Poker] | |
| Variation of Double Belly Buster. A draw to a broken sequence of cards, in which either of two cards will make the straight. | |
| Double Hand [Poker] | |
| Pai gow poker. | |
| Double Inside Straight Flush [Video Poker] | |
| Three cards in the same suit in a broken sequence with two gaps, or in a closed-ended sequence with or without gaps. Exactly two of the remaining cards in the deck will complete a Straight Flush. Example: 4h-A-6h-K-8h. | |
| Double Jackpot [Poker] | |
| A period of time in a card room that has progressive jackpots for getting certain hands beat (for example, aces full in a hold 'em game) during which the posted payouts are doubled. Usually double jackpot times are at times that otherwise have lower attendance than others, with such promotions being to increase patronage. | |
| Double Limit [Poker] | |
| Limit draw or lowball as played in Southern California, with bets at one limit before the draw, and bets at twice that limit after the draw. For example, in the $2-$4 game, all bets before the draw are $2, and multiples of $2 when players raise; all bets after the draw are $4, and multiples of $4 when players raise. Sometimes called Gardena-style. | |
| Double Machines [Slots] | |
| Pays double or triple with winning combinations of certain symbols lined up, e.g. Double Diamond, Triple Diamond, RWB 7's. | |
| Double Nuts [Poker] | |
| In any high-low game, having both the best possible low and high. In a community card game, this means the best possible based on the cards showing. For example, in Omaha, with 3-4-5-K-Q of mixed suits (no three cards of the same suit) on the board, the nut low would be A-2 and the nut high 6-7, so a player having A-2-6-7 would have nut-nut. With A-2-3-3-K on the board, a player holding nut-nut would have 3-3-4-5, four treys for high and a wheel for low. The term is also sometimes more loosely used for hands that are nut low, near-nut (but obviously unbeaten) high. | |
| Double Odds [Craps] | |
| An odd bet that is about twice as large as the original pass/come bet. Some casinos offer higher odds, such as 5x or even 10x odds. | |
| Double Odds Bet [Craps] | |
| A free odds bet made at double the original Pass Line, Don’t Pass Line, Come or Don’t Come wager after the come out roll. | |
| Double Off [Poker] | |
| Perform a form of cheating wherein two good hands are dealt, the better going to the dealer or his accomplice. In this case, the sucker has been doubled off. | |
| Double Qualifier [Poker] | |
| A high-low split game with a qualifier for both low and high, such as seven-card stud high-low, with, for example, the requirement that low is awarded only to an 8-low hand or better and that high is awarded only to a two-pair hand or better. If neither qualifier exists, rules vary as to what happens to the pot. | |
| Double Saw on Boxcars [Craps] | |
| Betting that the next roll will be the total sum of 12 (6&6). | |
| Double Shuffle [Poker] | |
| A cheating move, a method of appearing to shuffle the cards without actually disturbing their order. | |
| Double Through [Poker] | |
| Going all-in against an opponent in order to double your stack if you win the hand. | |
| Double Up [Blackjack] | |
| To double down with less than 2X the original bet. Generally, when doubling is allowed, the player does not have to actually double his bet, but may increase it by any amount up to (but not more than) the original bet. | |
| Double Up [Poker] | |
| 1) Go all in and win the pot. "I was down to my last $100 when I doubled up." "He had a better six than I did and I doubled him up." 2) Go half and half with a player on his buy-in to a game; usually preceded by go; sometimes followed by up. When the player quits, he splits with the person with whom he went cow. Sometimes the house goes cow with a player to enable him to get into a larger game than he could otherwise afford, generally with the no altruistic purpose of filling what would otherwise be a shaky game. At some point when the player (the house hopes) gets far enough ahead of the game, the house may split him out, that is, remove half of his chips and put him on his own. | |
| Double Zero [Roulette] | |
| Number on the wheel. Green in color. Can be wagered the same way as numbers 1-36. | |
| Double-Ace Flush [Poker] | |
| In draw poker, a flush topped by an ace and a joker. In some clubs, such a flush used to rank higher than any other flush, but that is not very common. For example, ace-joker-10-8-7 of clubs is equivalent in most card rooms to A-K-10-8-7 and does not beat A-K-Q-9-7 of hearts; in some clubs, though, it used to. Even though this is not a ranking hand in most clubs, you still hear the term applied to a flush with an ace and a joker in it. | |
| Double-Barreled Shotgun [Poker] | |
| A form of poker, a cross between draw and stud. Each player starts with three cards; there is a round of betting; each player receives another card; another round of betting; each player receives a fifth card; another round of betting; then each player draws cards as in draw poker; then each player exposes one card; another round of betting; further cards are exposed, each followed by a round of betting, until each player has but one card face down. The game is played high-low split, and, prior to the showdown, there is a chip declaration. This game has eight rounds of betting, or nine if there is a bet after the declare, and is generally played only in home games. It is sometimes called Texas Tech or Wild Annie. | |
| Double-Dealing [Poker] | |
| A cheating move in which a dealer gives more cards (usually two at a time rather than one) to his confederate or himself than to the other players. The presumption is the player with more than the requisite number of cards will form his best five-card hand, and then get rid of the one or more excess cards (clean up). The phrase has passed into general usage meaning cheating someone or the public in general | |
| Double-Discard [Poker] | |
| A cheating move in which a player in a draw game who has more cards than he needs (presumably because he asked for more cards than he discarded) gets rid of the extra card. For example, a cheater throws two cards away, but asks for three. He must, before the showdown, get rid of that extra card. That move is the double-discard. | |
| Double-Draw London Lowball [Poker] | |
| A form of London lowball draw with two draws, instead of the usual one in ordinary lowball, and thus having three betting rounds, usually played pot limit | |
| Double-End Straight [Poker] | |
| Four cards to a straight which can be completed by drawing a card at either end. | |
| Double-Ended Straight [Poker] | |
| Four cards to a straight which can be completed by drawing a card at either end. | |
| Double-Flop Hold 'em [Poker] | |
| A new Nevada poker game, hold 'em in which two sets of three cards are turned over after the first round of betting, and then two more to each flop, one at a time. Players can form two different hands in combination with their two hole cards plus enough cards from each flop to form a five-card hand. (Cards cannot be combined from the two flops.) This usually produces two winners per hand, although sometimes the same hand wins both halves of the pot. | |
| Double-Hand Poker Dictionary [Poker] | |
| Pai gow poker. | |
| Double-Pop [Poker] | |
| Raising a raise. "I bet, Jim raised it, and Mary double-popped it." | |
| Double-Suited [Poker] | |
| In Omaha, having just two suits among your four down cards. | |
| Double-Up System of Betting [Roulette] | |
| A betting system whereby bets are doubled after a loss in hopes of recouping the previous loss. One specific type of Double-Up System is known as the Martingale System. | |
| Double-Zero Wheel [Roulette] | |
| A roulette wheel that has a total of 38 numbers (0 and 00 and numbers 1-36). The number sequence is (clockwise starting with 0): 0, 28, 9, 26, 30, 11, 7, 20, 32, 17, 5, 22, 34, 15, 3, 24, 36, 13, 1, 00, 27, 10, 25, 29, 12, 8, 19, 31, 18, 6, 21, 33, 16, 4, 23, 35, 14, 2. Originally, the double-zero wheel started in Europe and the single-zero wheel started in America. But, Europeans liked the single-zero wheel better, and Americans liked the double-zero wheel better so they switched. Today, the American wheel and double-zero wheel are synonymous. | |
| Doubler [Slots] | |
| A machine with a symbol that, if on the line in conjunction with other paying symbols, doubles the payout of those symbols; can have two doubler symbols on the line which produces four times the payout; typical are the various forms of Double Jackpots; Black Golds; Ten Grands; Double Diamonds. | |
| Doubleyou. [Poker] | |
| A request for two cards. At the time of the draw in a draw game, a player, when asked how many cards he wants, might respond, "Doubleyou," which means, "Kindly give me two cards." | |
| Doubling For Less [Blackjack] | |
| Placing an additional bet that is less than one's original wager and receiving only one additional card. Dealers must inform the floor man and receive confirmation | |
| Douzaine [Roulette] | |
| French term for the Dozen Bet. | |
| Down [Poker] | |
| 1) Seated (in a game). "Is Jim down?" "Yeah, he's in the eight." (That means, "Is Jim playing somewhere?" "Yes, he's in the $8-limit game.") 2) Losing "How much are you down?" 3) Not exposed; generally applied in reference to a hole card in any stud or hold 'em game. 4) The period of time during which a particular dealer deals at a particular table. "How long is your down?" "Twenty minutes." | |
| Down / Down Table [Blackjack] | |
| A table with no player, which is to be closed. "After 2:00 a.m., we close any table that goes down." | |
| Down and Dirty. [Poker] | |
| What seven-stud players think is a cute description for the final card, so called because it is dealt down and because it is hidden, and thus can change a particular hand's winning potentialities. | |
| Down Card [Baccarat] | |
| A face down card. | |
| Down Card [Poker] | |
| In stud, hole card, that is, an unexposed part of a player's hand. By extension, in draw, a request for one card ("Dealer, give me a down card"), and please be careful that card is not exposed. | |
| Down Cards [Poker] | |
| Hole cards. | |
| Down For [Poker] | |
| Having one's name on a list for a particular game. "Are you down for the big one?" means "Is your name on the list of those players who have signaled their intentions of playing in the largest game in the house?" | |
| Down Slot [Slots] | |
| Slot's average payoff is low. | |
| Down the River [Poker] | |
| Seven-card stud. | |
| Down the Road [Poker] | |
| At another club (which could be a considerable distance away and not necessarily even on the same street). This term is used, rather than naming the establishment, because it's considered bad form to talk about a club other than the one in which you're playing. Also, down there. | |
| Down the Street [Poker] | |
| At another club (which could be a considerable distance away and not necessarily even on the same street). This term is used, rather than naming the establishment, because it's considered bad form to talk about a club other than the one in which you're playing. Also, down there. | |
| Down There [Poker] | |
| At another club (which could be a considerable distance away and not necessarily even on the same street). This term is used, rather than naming the establishment, because it's considered bad form to talk about a club other than the one in which you're playing. | |
| Down to the Felt [Poker] | |
| A player who has lost most of his chips. | |
| Down to the Green [Poker] | |
| To run out of chips while betting or calling. In table stakes games, a player may not go into his pocket for more money during a hand. If he runs out, a side pot is created in which he has no interest. However, he can still win the pot for which he had the chips. Example: "Poor Bob - he made quads against the big full house, but he was all-in on the second bet." | |
