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| E.O. [Poker] | |
| 1) Short for Early Out. 2) In a card room, being permitted to have one's last break from work at the end of the shift, thus allowing the employee (usually a dealer) to leave early. If breaks are 20 minutes, having early out permits the dealer to get off 20 minutes before the shift is over, that is, before the other dealers are done. Often called E.O. 3) Leaving a shift early because there is not enough business to support all the dealers. The shift boss may say, "Who wants early out?" A dealer who wants to go play (cards) may volunteer. | |
| Ear [Poker] | |
| To bend the corner of a card so it can be recognized from the back by a cheater. | |
| Early Bet [Poker] | |
| The first bet in a stud game, often set artificially low, that is, lower than the normal betting limits for the game, and often a forced bet, one made by, for example, in seven-card stud, the lowest face-up card showing. In a $2-$4 game, the lowest face-up card on the first round (at the point that two face-down cards and one face-up card have been dealt) might be required to make a 50-cent early bet. Sometimes called bring-in bet. | |
| Early Out [Poker] | |
| 1) In a card room, being permitted to have one's last break from work at the end of the shift, thus allowing the employee (usually a dealer) to leave early. If breaks are 20 minutes, having early out permits the dealer to get off 20 minutes before the shift is over, that is, before the other dealers are done. Often called E.O. 2) Leaving a shift early because there is not enough business to support all the dealers. The shift boss may say, "Who wants early out?" A dealer who wants to go play (cards) may volunteer. | |
| Early Position [Poker] | |
| A position on a round of betting in which you must act before most of the other players. | |
| Early Surrender [Blackjack] | |
| Player may give up or surrender after receiving first two cards but before dealer checks for an Ace in the hole. If surrendered, only 50% of bet is lost, instead of entire sum. Excellent method for controlling player losses and therefore not allowed in most casinos. | |
| Early-Out [Blackjack] | |
| Being allowed to leave work before the end of the shift. "I need an early-out to go to the dentist." | |
| Easy Money [Poker] | |
| Easy pickings in a poker game; money won from inexperienced players. | |
| Easy Way [Craps] | |
| The roll of a 4, 6, 8 or 10 where the dice are not pairs. | |
| Echo [Blackjack] | |
| A response from the floor person when the dealer makes an announcement. When the dealer hears an "echo" the floor person is aware of the transaction and has given his approval. It keeps the dealer from turning around to look for the floor person and exposing the dealer tray unnecessarily. | |
| Edge [Blackjack] | |
| A term used to describe the percentage of advantage either the casino or the player has on a certain game. For example, the casino has a 1.4% edge or advantage on a player making a pass line bet in a craps game. "The house edge is getting to hit after all the players have acted on their hand." | |
| Edge [Craps] | |
| The advantage that the casino has on any given wager. | |
| Edge [Video Poker] | |
| The advantage in a game based on mathematical expectation. The house edge means the house has the advantage. The player's edge means that the player has the advantage. | |
| Edge [Poker] | |
| An advantage over an opponent, either specific or subjective. | |
| Edge Bet [Poker] | |
| The bet made by the edge, often a forced bet. | |
| Edge Out [Poker] | |
| Barely beat another hand. | |
| Edge Ticket [Keno] | |
| A ticket with the 32 numbers marked that make up the outer edge of the ticket. | |
| Edge Work [Poker] | |
| Markings (or cosmetics) put on the borders of cards with paint, ink, or some other fluid, so that a thief can read the ranks (and sometimes suits) of the cards from the back or side. | |
| Effective Odds [Poker] | |
| The ratio of the total amount of money you expect to win if you make your hand to the total amount of bets you will have to call to continue from the present round of betting to the end of the hand. | |
| Eight, Skate, and Donate [Poker] | |
| Describing a (usually) no-limit game whose minimum bet is $8. | |
| Eight-to-go [Poker] | |
| Describing a (usually) no-limit game whose minimum bet is $8. | |
| Eight-to-Skate [Poker] | |
| Describing a (usually) no-limit game whose minimum bet is $8. | |
| Eight-Way Hand [Poker] | |
| 1) In the 53-card deck, the joker plus three to a straight with two "holes," so that any of eight cards makes it a straight. For example, 3-4-7-joker of mixed suits can be made into a straight by drawing any 5 or 6, of which there are eight altogether. 2) In the 52-card deck, Open-ended straight. | |
| Eight-Way Straight [Poker] | |
| 1) In the 53-card deck, the joker plus three to a straight with two "holes," so that any of eight cards makes it a straight. For example, 3-4-7-joker of mixed suits can be made into a straight by drawing any 5 or 6, of which there are eight altogether. 2) In the 52-card deck, Open-ended straight. | |
| Eighter from Decatur [Craps] | |
| Betting that the next roll will be the total sum of 8 (4&4). | |
| Eighty-Six [Blackjack] | |
| 1. To exclude a person from having any more alcoholic beverage. 2. Sometimes to completely expel a customer from the casino. Also "Barred". | |
| Eighty-Six [Video Poker] | |
| A term used to bar someone from playing in a casino. | |
| El Paso. [Poker] | |
| I pass. | |
| Elder Hand [Poker] | |
| Player immediately to the left of the dealer in games that use an automatic betting scheme. Sometimes the player in that position is the last to bet before the draw, which is equivalent to the situation involving an under-the-gun blind. | |
| Eldest Hand [Poker] | |
| Player immediately to the left of the dealer in games that use an automatic betting scheme. Sometimes the player in that position is the last to bet before the draw, which is equivalent to the situation involving an under-the-gun blind. | |
| Elevator [Poker] | |
| 1) A cheating move during shuffling of cards, in which the dealer offers the pack to be cut, but then restores the deck to its original sequence. 2) A form of widow game found only in home games, in which each player is dealt five down cards, as in draw, followed by a betting round, and then seven cards are arranged in two columns of three, with each turned face up one at a time, plus one card between the two columns (the elevator), turned up last, which can move up or down such that a player can use three across from either column, or either of the three diagonals formed when the elevator is in the middle. Each card exposed is followed by another betting round. Each player makes the best hand possible by using any combination from his five and up to three from the widow in the manner described. Some play that each player may use only two cards from his hand and must use three from the widow. 3) The movable widow card described in definition 2. | |
| Elevator the Cut [Poker] | |
| A cheating move during shuffling of cards, in which the dealer offers the pack to be cut, but then restores the deck to its original sequence. | |
| Elk River [Poker] | |
| A hand with three 10s. | |
| Elmer. [Poker] | |
| Sucker. (Rhyming slang, from "Elmer Tucker.") | |
| Em [Blackjack] | |
| An abbreviation for "E-Mail". | |
| En Plein [Roulette] | |
| French term for the Straight-up Bet. | |
| En Prison Rule [Roulette] | |
| When the outcome is zero, some casinos will allow the players to either take back half his bet or leave the bet (in prison) for another spin. In the second case, if the following spin the outcome is again zero, then the whole bet is lost. This rule applies to even money bets only. | |
| End [Poker] | |
| 1) A share given by a cheater to an accomplice. 2) Any share of a poker pot. "I made a seven on the last card and I got the low end of the pot." 3) The bet made during the final round of betting, as, for example, $2-$4 hold 'em with $8 on the end permits a last round at double the stakes | |
| End Bet [Poker] | |
| The final round of betting, usually coming at the point all the cards have been dealt in a stud game or the last community card has been turned up in a hold 'em-type game. Some forms of poker permit a special end bet, as, for example, at a larger limit than in preceding rounds, or with more raises permitted than on earlier rounds. | |
| End of the Race [Craps] | |
| Betting that the next roll will be the number of 7 (5&2). | |
| End Play [Blackjack] | |
| A style of playing Blackjack in which the player takes advantage of his knowledge of the last un-played cards at the end of the deck. Happens when the player, through an increase in number of hands at the right moment and/or card-eating, manages to force the dealer to run out of cards and deal the rest of the round (or start anew) from the re-shuffled discards, whose composition is favorable to the player. Extremely rare now, it was mostly practiced by self-educated advantage players in the pre-Thorp days, when single deck games were often dealt very deeply, if not completely. Nearly all casinos try to avoid the possibility of end play by cutting off some of the cards at the end of the deck or the shoe. | |
| End Strippers [Poker] | |
| Cards whose ends have been shaved by a thief so they can be located by feel during manipulation of the deck. These cards are somewhat shorter than ordinary cards, allowing the thief to find them easily. Compare with belly strippers, which are shaved on their sides (long edges). | |
| English Poker Dictionary [Poker] | |
| Any of several poker variations, such as London lowball, or stud poker with a final draw permitted. | |
| Enhanced Payoff [Keno] | |
| A greater payoff received by playing a combination of games on a single ticket. Pays more than would have been received if the games had been played on individual tickets. | |
| Entry Fee Tournament [Keno] | |
| Players pay a fee up front an compete with each other for cash or prizes. Players do not keep winnings from individual games in the tournament. | |
| Eor [Blackjack] | |
| The acronym for Effects Of Removal. | |
| Equity [Poker] | |
| The value of a particular hand or combination of cards. | |
| Es [Blackjack] | |
| The acronym for Early Surrender. | |
| Eubie [Poker] | |
| In hold 'em, 8-6 as one's first two cards. Supposedly comes from the saying, "If you play these, you be broke." | |
| European no-Hole-Card Rule [Blackjack] | |
| A rule used in blackjack where the dealer does not take a hole card. The dealer hand gets a second card only after all player hands are finished. If the dealer gets a blackjack, a player who has doubled down or has split loses not only his original bet but all additional bets. The name of this rule is derived from the fact that many games in Europe and abroad are played with this rule in effect. It is not the norm in most American and Canadian casinos. | |
| European Wheel [Roulette] | |
| Roulette wheel that has only a single zero (0) and a number sequence of (clockwise starting with 0): 0, 32, 15, 19, 4, 21, 2, 25, 17, 34, 6, 27, 13, 36, 11, 30, 8, 23, 10, 5, 24, 16, 33, 1, 20, 14, 31, 9, 22, 18, 29, 7, 28, 12, 35, 3, 26. Originally, the single-zero wheel started in America and the double-zero wheel started in Europe. But, Europeans liked the single-zero wheel better, and Americans liked the double-zero wheel better so they switched. Today, the European wheel and single-zero wheel are synonymous. It is also known as the French Wheel. | |
| Ev [Blackjack] | |
| The acronym for Expected Value. | |
| Ev [Poker] | |
| Expected value. Positive EV is sometimes written EV+, and negative EV, EV-. | |
| Evealine [Craps] | |
| Eleven, after the point is made. | |
| Even [Poker] | |
| Neither winning nor losing; often preceded by get. "If I ever get even, I'm never going to play again." (The rejoinder to this always is, "You were even when you sat down.") | |
| Even (Number) Bet [Roulette] | |
| A wager that one of the even numbers will win the next spin. When placing your chips on the space marked even you collect when the winning number is even. | |
| Even Money [Blackjack] | |
| 1. A bet which returns the same amount in winnings as was wagered by the player if the bet is won. 3. A phrase which is used by players and the casino when a player decides to take insurance on his blackjack when a dealer has an Ace showing. If the player takes this option, he is paid even money on his blackjack regardless of whether the dealer has a blackjack or not. | |
| Even Money [Roulette] | |
| A bet that pays off at one to one. In roulette Red, Black, Odd, Even, Low, and High bets all pay even money. | |
| Even Up [Roulette] | |
| A bet that has no mathematical edge for either side. In roulette, this can only come from wheel biases and croupier biases, as all layout bets have an unyielding house advantage. | |
| Even-Money [Craps] | |
| A payoff of 1-1. | |
| Even-Money [Poker] | |
| A bet that pays off exactly the amount wagered. E.g., "Double or nothing" is an even-money bet . | |
| Even-Odd Bet [Roulette] | |
| Pays 1-1 if the winning number is Even or Odd. This is an 18 number wager on the outside. | |
| Exacta [Keno] | |
| A ticket played for two games, with a special payoff rate. | |
| Excuse Me Ma'am / Sir, Craps Is a Game of Skill not Strength [Craps] | |
| A player that is throwing the dice to hard. | |
| Excuse Me Ma'am / Sir, we Need to Feed the Cchickens not Kill them [Craps] | |
| A player that is throwing the dice too hard. | |
| Excuse Me Ma'am / Sir, you Did not Loose the Dice Only your Money and your Friends [Craps] | |
| Player throws craps on come out. | |
| Expectation [Blackjack] | |
| A reference to what a player or the house can statistically expect to win or lose on a given bet or game. For example, the house expectation on a pass line bet at craps is 1.4%. This simply means that the house can expect to win 1.4% of all the money bet on the pass line over the long run. Since the only outcomes are win one unit or lose one unit, a 1.4% expectation means winning 50.7% of the time and losing 49.3% of the time. If the same bet were described for the player, it may be stated by saying the player on average gets 98.6% of his money back on the pass line bet (getting 100% back would be breaking even) or it could be stated that the player has a 1.4% negative expectation on that bet. | |
| Expectation [Video Poker] | |
| [1] A term referring to the amount of you expect to gain on average if you make a certain play. For instance, suppose you put $10 into a $50 pot to draw at a hand that you will make 25% of the time, and it will win every time you make it. Three out of four times, you do not make your draw, and lose $10 each time for a total of $30. The fourth time, you will make your draw, winning $50. Your total gain over those four average hands is $50-$30 = $20, an average of $5 per hand. Thus calling the $10 has a positive expectation of $5. [2] The amount you expect to make at the poker table in a specific time period. Perhaps in 100 hours play, you have won $527. Then your expectation is $5.27/hr. Of course, you won't make that exact amount each hour (and some hours you will lose), but it's one measure of your anticipated earnings. | |
| Expectation [Poker] | |
| The long-run advantage of a given situation, specifically without reference to any particular outcome. I.e., what you figure to win or lose on average after a large number of repetitions of the same situation. | |
| Expected Return [Video Poker] | |
| The average amount of money paid back on a particular play for a particular bet. The Expected Return (ER) is the Expected Value of a play multiplied by the amount bet. Most commercially available video poker analysis programs, when analyzing a hand, give the ER of each possible play. The program may call those numbers Expected Values, but any qualified statistician will confirm that as a misnomer. | |
| Expected Value [Blackjack] | |
| A reference similar to the term expectation. Often, when using the term expected value, players also include the additional value that may result from comps earned during play. | |
| Expected Value [Video Poker] | |
| The statistically projected average per-unit-bet payback of a particular play. Another way of looking at the EV is the average of all possible outcomes for a particular play or game. Most commercially available video poker analysis programs give the Expected Return (ER) of each possible play when a hand is analyzed. Assuming a five coin bet, dividing the ER by five will give the EV. A better technique, however, is to change the bet to one coin and adjust all one-coin payoffs to per-coin values so that the program will give EV directly. For more details, see my article "What is Expected Value?" | |
| Expected Value [Keno] | |
| The rate at which an outcome is expected to occur. | |
| Expected Value [Poker] | |
| Expectation (The long-run advantage of a given situation.) expressed as a dollar amount. For example, if your chance of winning a $100 pot is 50%, your expected value in that pot is $50. Also, equity. Sometimes shortened to EV. | |
| Expected Win [Blackjack] | |
| Another term similar to expectation or expected value. Generally, this term is used to describe what a player or the house may expect to win over a certain period of play. For example, if a card counter is playing with a 1.5% advantage over the house and has an average bet of $100, it may be said that his expected win per 100 hands would be $150. | |
| Exposed Card [Poker] | |
| 1) Any card dealt face up, as any of the up cards in a stud game. 2) A card that inadvertently appears face up during the deal in a draw game, or that gets accidentally turned face up. Card rooms have various rules for dealing with such accidental exposures, such as ruling the card dead (that is, not legally playable), dead at some times but not others, and so on. For example, in draw poker (high), an exposed card during the initial deal is often not declared dead, but is dead at any time during the draw. In lowball, during the initial deal, sometimes any exposed card 6 or higher is declared dead, but any card A through 5 can be kept by the player to whom it is dealt; during the draw, usually any exposed card is deemed dead. In stud and flop games, down cards inadvertently exposed by the dealer are usually ruled dead. | |
| Exposed Pair [Poker] | |
| In stud games, any open or visible pair, as opposed to a hidden pair; two cards of the same rank in the face-up position in one player's hand. | |
| Extra Board [Blackjack] | |
| A list of dealers hired and processed by the casino, who have not been assigned a permanent work shift. They are allowed to work as needed until a regular position becomes available. "I was on the extra board for a month before a shift opened up on graveyard." | |
| Extra Outs [Poker] | |
| Cards that improve a hand in more ways than the self-evident outs. Both terms (outs and extra outs) are usually used with reference to a hand that needs to improve to win the pot (because it is currently beat by some other hand). | |
| Eye [Blackjack] | |
| 1. A colloquial term for the cameras used to watch the gaming areas in any casino. 2. Reference to the casino employee(s) viewing the video screens or employee(s) watching play directly from an unseen vantage point. Also: "Eye in the sky." | |
| Eye in the Sky [Blackjack] | |
| A video camera, usually mounted in a bubble on the ceiling, used by surveillance personnel to observe dealers and customers to catch them if they are stealing or cheating. In some casinos almost every hand of Blackjack is recorded on video to detect cheaters as well as counters. | |
| Eye in the Sky [Roulette] | |
| The cameras, usually in bubbles, located throughout the casino that videotape the action. | |
| Eyes [Poker] | |
| In hold 'em, a pair of aces, particularly when they constitute a player's down cards. Also called eyes of Texas. | |
| Eyes of Texas [Poker] | |
| In hold 'em, a pair of aces, particularly when they constitute a player's down cards. | |
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