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| La Bouchere Betting System [Roulette] | |
| A type of Cancellation Betting System where numbers are cancelled out from a user-defined string of numbers after a win and added to the string after a loss. The string of numbers determines the next amount to bet. | |
| La Grande [Baccarat] | |
| The French term for a 9 dealt as a natural. | |
| La Hire [Poker] | |
| The jack of hearts. May have come from a knight of the court of King Charles VII of France. | |
| La Petite [Baccarat] | |
| The French term for a 8 dealt as a natural. | |
| Labouchere [Blackjack] | |
| A betting progression, also known as the cancellation system. A bettor chooses a series of two or more numbers which add up to the profit he intends to make. He then bets the total of the two outside numbers in the series and cancels those numbers if he wins. He continues betting the two outside un-cancelled numbers until he has completed the series. If he loses a bet, he adds the amount of his loss to his series as a single number. He must therefore cancel out two numbers for each number added. This system is a good way to lose good money fast. | |
| Lace [Baccarat] | |
| To randomly place cards into a stack of cards one at a time. | |
| Lady [Poker] | |
| A Queen. | |
| Lalapalooza [Poker] | |
| Lollapalooza (A freak hand, often five specific, but random, cards, allowed to win once a night; generally the punch line in an elaborate shaggy dog poker story.). | |
| Lalapalooze [Poker] | |
| Lollapalooza (A freak hand, often five specific, but random, cards, allowed to win once a night; generally the punch line in an elaborate shaggy dog poker story.) | |
| Lallapalooza [Poker] | |
| Lollapalooza (A freak hand, often five specific, but random, cards, allowed to win once a night; generally the punch line in an elaborate shaggy dog poker story.) | |
| Lamb [Poker] | |
| A sucker or mark; a poor player easily relieved of his money. | |
| Lamebrain Pete [Poker] | |
| A form of widow game, a variant of Cincinnati, found only in home games, in which each player is dealt five downcards, as in draw, followed by a betting round, and then five cards are turned face up one at a time, with each followed by another betting round, the difference from Cincinnati being that the lowest card in the widow and any others of the same rank are wild. Each player makes the best hand possible by using any combination from his five and the five in the middle | |
| Lamebrains [Poker] | |
| Cincinnati, that is, the game described under Lamebrain Pete, but with no wild cards, and often played high-low. | |
| Lammer [Poker] | |
| 1) A special chip given to the winner of a tournament for which the award is an entry or buy-in to a larger tournament. The chip can be used only to buy in to a tournament, but can be sold to another player for this purpose. For example, a super satellite at the World Series of Poker might award three lammers each worth $500. The winner might use those three lammers to buy in to a $1500 tournament, or collect two more and use them for a $2500 tournament. The term originally came from the chip-shaped markers used in other table games, such as craps, where they might indicate, for example, "on" or "off." The name probably came from these chips being made of laminated plastic. 2) The marker chip that a chip runner (or other floor person) leaves in the tray of a house dealer at a poker table when taking cash out of the dealer's tray, for which the runner will return with chips. | |
| Lammers [Baccarat] | |
| Lammers are used to mark up commissions. | |
| Lancelot [Poker] | |
| The jack of clubs. Comes from the famed knight of King Arthur's Round Table. | |
| Large [Poker] | |
| Pertaining to $1000. "I lost six large" means "I lost $6000." | |
| Large Bet [Poker] | |
| In a double-limit game, a bet at the larger bet size. For example, in 10-20, small bets are $10 and big bets are $20. | |
| Las Vegas [Blackjack] | |
| Small piece of Nevada desert - where gambling is legal - with mystic power to draw throngs of people and invite them into tossing coins into either holes made of metal or felt. | |
| Las Vegas Riffle [Poker] | |
| An appearance of shuffling the cards by a cheat, done by partial or complete concealment of the deck, but without actually changing their order (from a presumably set-up arrangement), by pulling one half of the pack through the other half, and then replacing the deck to its original position. Ironically, a concealed shuffle is not permitted anywhere in Nevada. Also called false shuffle or fast shuffle | |
| Las Vegas Shuffle [Poker] | |
| Las Vegas riffle (An appearance of shuffling the cards by a cheat, done by partial or complete concealment of the deck, but without actually changing their order (from a presumably set-up arrangement), by pulling one half of the pack through the other half, and then replacing the deck to its original position. Ironically, a concealed shuffle is not permitted anywhere in Nevada. Also called false shuffle or fast shuffle). | |
| Las Vegas Strip [Blackjack] | |
| The portion of Las Vegas Boulevard which extends roughly from Sunset Road to Sahara Boulevard. It includes many of the most well known casinos in Las Vegas, such as the Mirage, Caesar's Palace, the Flamingo Hilton, New York - New York, Circus Circus and the Bellagio, to name a few. | |
| Las Vegas Strip Rules [Blackjack] | |
| Rules referring to a game of Blackjack with a single deck, dealer standing on all 17's, double allowed on the two first cards dealt and no doubling after splitting permitted. | |
| Last Bet [Poker] | |
| 1) A betting scheme, used only in home games, in which the betting on one round begins with the player who initiated the betting on the previous round (if there was no raise), or with the player who put in the last raise that was called around. In stud games, the actual boards of the players have no relevance. If there was no betting on the previous round, then it goes back to the last bet of the round before. For example, in a stud game, after the first up card, John, under the gun, makes the forced high-card bet, showing an ace. Two players call, and Bill raises, showing a queen. One player calls behind, as do John and the other two players. On the next card, John has A-K and Bill has Q-J. Bill, having put in the last raise, bets first. All call. Bill is again first on the next round. 2) In a hand featuring bets with multiple raises, the last raise on a particular round. "The live one put in the last bet every round and caught runner-runner spades." This means that the player in question raised every round, perhaps putting in the third or fourth bet | |
| Last Position [Poker] | |
| 1) Last to act in a particular round. 2) The card farthest from the door (front position) when the cards are held squeezed together. "How come the free peek is always in last position?" | |
| Last Raise [Poker] | |
| 1) In a hand featuring bets with multiple raises, the last raise on a particular round. "The live one put in the last bet every round and caught runner-runner spades." This means that the player in question raised every round, perhaps putting in the third or fourth bet. 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. | |
| Last to Act [Poker] | |
| The player who acts last in a particular round. In a button game, this might be the dealer or, on the first round, the holder of the big blind. In a seven-card stud game, this is the player to the right of the high hand. | |
| Last-Card Ouie [Poker] | |
| A player who stays in a pot in a stud or hold 'em game, usually with inferior cards, to the bitter end, hoping to win by catching the winning card on the end. | |
| Late Blind [Poker] | |
| In addition to "regular" blinds, some games allow a player (particularly a new one) to post a blind bet in return for the right to enter the game immediately and act last on the first betting round. The amount of the blind is determined by house rules, usually somewhere between the last blind and double the last blind. | |
| Late Position [Poker] | |
| A position on a round of betting in which you act after most of the other players have acted. | |
| Late Surrender [Blackjack] | |
| A blackjack rule which allows the player to forfeit half of his bet after seeing the dealer's up card, unless the dealer has a blackjack, in which case the player loses his entire bet. | |
| Lay [Craps] | |
| A bet against a particular number by the wrong bettor, who gives the casino a 5% comission. | |
| Lay (the) Odds [Craps] | |
| After a point has been established, the don't pass bettor can place an additional odds bet that will win if the original don't pass bet wins. The lay odds bet is paid at less than even money. | |
| Lay Bet(S) [Craps] | |
| A bet that a 7 will be rolled before the number you are placing (4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10) comes up. The casino requires you to lay slightly more than the correct odds, giving the house an edge of 3.03% on 4/10, 2.5% on 5/9, and 1.82% on 6/8. This bet is the opposite of Buy Bets, and the 5% charge is on the amount you could win, not on the amount you bet. The 5% commission is usually taken up front, but some casinos take the commission after the bet wins. | |
| Lay Down [Poker] | |
| To reveal one's hand in a showdown. | |
| Lay Down your Hand [Poker] | |
| To fold. | |
| Lay Odds [Poker] | |
| To give favorable odds to an opponent. | |
| Lay Paint [Poker] | |
| To put markings on cards with paint, ink, or some other fluid. | |
| Lay the Odds [Poker] | |
| To wager more money on a proposition than you hope to win. | |
| Lay the Odds [Poker] | |
| To wager more money on a proposition or situation than you can win. This does not necessarily mean you have the worst of it; it just means you're putting up more than the other wagerer. For example, if the odds are 4-to-1 against a particular event, and you lay the odds of 3-to-1 against someone, you have the best of it. | |
| Lay Wager [Craps] | |
| Betting against a point number that has been thrown by paying a 5 percent commission. | |
| Layout [Craps] | |
| The imprinted surface of a craps table, which shows all the areas where bets can be placed. | |
| Layout [Roulette] | |
| The design imprinted on the felt table top with the various bets that can be made. | |
| Layout Strategies [Roulette] | |
| Betting systems and strategies that try to overcome the house edge simply by placing different types of bets, without trying to determine if the wheel or dealer is biased. | |
| Lazy Pineapple [Poker] | |
| Tahoe pineapple (A variant of pineapple in which players do not discard any of their three down cards. At the showdown, players can use none, one, or two of their down cards (but not three) to form their best five-card hand in combination with the five community cards. When played high-low split, a different set of cards can be used for each direction, but no more than two for either direction.). | |
| Lead [Poker] | |
| To bet first, even when one had the option to check. | |
| Leader [Poker] | |
| 1) The player to bet first, as described under lead. 2) In a tournament, the player who, at any particular point, has the most chips. | |
| Leak [Poker] | |
| 1) Flaw (in one's play). "I can't win; there must be a leak in my play." 2) The tendency of an otherwise winning player to lose his money at other forms of betting, such as the craps table or sports betting. 3) Flash part of a hand. To leak your hand is to unknowingly expose one or more cards. | |
| Leak a Hand [Poker] | |
| To leak your hand is to unknowingly expose one or more cards. | |
| Leak Air [Poker] | |
| Put air into (Hold your cards in such a way that others can see them. Also, leak air.). | |
| Leather Ass [Poker] | |
| Patience, that is, what you need while you wait for the good cards to come. | |
| Leave it [Poker] | |
| Same as winner blind (A blind game in which the winner of the last pot leaves chips representing a blind in the current pot; these chips are the same as any blind, that is, they are counted as part of the bet of the player who has that blind. In draw games, the winner of the previous pot bets last in the pre-draw betting round.); often preceded by winner, as winner leave it. That is, the winner of a pot blinds the next pot. "We're playing leave it" might be said to a player just sitting down at a table, to inform that player that the rest of them are playing higher than the nominal size of the game | |
| Ledge [Poker] | |
| Brief (A tiny "ledge" shuffled into a deck by a cheater so that his accomplice can cut it at the prearranged location; a card offset by a barely perceptible fraction of an inch but able to be found by touch when cut.). To cut on (or to) the ledge is to hit the brief. | |
| Leg Up [Poker] | |
| In a kill game, describing the situation in which a player has won the previous pot, and is thus liable to have to kill the following pot if he wins the current pot. | |
| Legal Bet [Poker] | |
| With respect to an initial bet in a limit game, an amount that constitutes a full bet, having various interpretations, depending on the club. See discussion under legal raise. | |
| Legal Raise [Poker] | |
| An amount that constitutes a raise of a full bet, having various interpretations, depending on the club. In a limit game, in some card-rooms, a legal raise must equal the limit (for example, a $10 bet must be raised $10; $9 does not constitute a legal raise); in others, half a bet constitutes a legal raise. The rules are even muddier in no-limit games. | |
| Legitimate Hand [Poker] | |
| A strong hand that is not a bluff. | |
| Lemon Juice [Poker] | |
| Anything picked up in a pot without trying, usually the blinds, often as the result of a walk, or, sometimes, more specifically, by none of the blinds calling when someone opens. | |
| Let it Ride [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 make three bets before receiving their cards, after which each player is dealt three cards, and the house dealer places two cards face down to be used as community cards. After looking at their three cards, players can opt to take back one bet, or let it ride. The dealer turns up one of the community cards, and players can take back the second bet or again let it ride. At this point, the dealer turns up the remaining community card, and pays all winning hands according to a fixed payout schedule, starting with a pair of 10s. Players play against the payout schedule rather than against the dealer or any other player. The game is played on a seven-seat table, similar to a blackjack table. | |
| Level [Blackjack] | |
| 1. A reference to the number of values assigned to cards in a card counting system. A level one system, such as Hi-Lo, assigns one value, plus or minus one, to the cards. A level two system would assign two values, such as plus and minus one and two. 2. In multi-deck games: number of deck played. | |
| Liberty Bell [Slots] | |
| The name of the original machine invented by Charles Fey of San Francisco. | |
| Lid [Poker] | |
| The top card of the deck. | |
| Lie [Poker] | |
| A bluff (To make a bet or raise with a poor hand, in hope that the remaining active player(s) will fold. ). | |
| Light [Poker] | |
| 1) Short of the complete bet. "He's light by $20." Also called shy. 2) Not having anted. "Who's light?" means "Who forgot to ante?" 3) Sit down. "Light and fight." | |
| Light Work [Poker] | |
| Markings put on a deck with very fine lines. | |
| Lights [Poker] | |
| In a home game, a situation that comes up when a player is light (Short of the complete bet. "He's light by $20." Also called shy.). In some home games, not played for table stakes, when a player does not have enough chips to continue betting in a pot, that player withdraws chips from the pot equal to the amount of the betting beyond his chips, (usually) stacking them neatly in front of him. These are called lights. (To so withdraw chips is called go light.) At the end of the hand, if the player does not win the pot, he buys enough chips to cover his lights. He then matches his lights, that is, puts the lights into the pot plus an equivalent amount of chips from the ones he has just bought. For example, in a stud game, Jill starts with $16. After the sixth card, she has $2 left. The high hand bets $4. She puts her last $2 in the pot, and pulls $2 from the pot, and stacks it in front of her. At this point, she might say, "I'm light," or, "I'm going light." On the last round, someone bets $4 and someone calls. She pulls another $4 from the pot, adding it to her pile of lights. On the showdown, she finds that her three 7s are beat by a small straight. She buys another $50 worth of chips from the banker, adds $6 to her lights, and puts the $12 in the pot. At this point, the winner takes the whole pot. In a split (two-way) pot, if both the winner of the high half and the winner of the low half have lights, they exchange lights. This is equivalent to each first matching lights, and then splitting the pot, and saves time. | |
| Like Mom and Dad [Craps] | |
| Betting that the next roll will be the total sum of 8 (4&4). | |
| Limit [Keno] | |
| Total payout liability of a casino during any one game. Same as aggregate limit. | |
| Limit [Poker] | |
| 1) The size of the betting increments in a limit game. This will seem obvious to most, but the limit in a $2-limit game is $2. Also called betting limit. 2) Limit poker. "I prefer limit to no-limit." 3) "The limit" is an expression used by draw poker players at the time of the draw referring to how many cards the players wish. In high, the expression "Give me the limit" means "Give me three cards"; in lowball, "Give me one card." So called, because "the book" supposedly says that good draw poker players take no more than three cards and good lowball players take no more than one. | |
| Limit Game [Poker] | |
| Limit poker, or, more specifically, an instance of a game played with limit stakes. | |
| Limit Poker Dictionary [Poker] | |
| A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum. | |
| Limit Stakes [Poker] | |
| Limit poker (A poker game wherein the amount to be bet is fixed, or at most variable within a prescribed minimum and maximum.). | |
| Limp [Poker] | |
| To flat call an opening forced bet is to limp into a hand. | |
| Limp Along [Poker] | |
| To enter the round by calling a bet rather than raising. | |
| Limp in [Poker] | |
| To enter the round by calling a bet rather than raising. | |
| Limper [Poker] | |
| A player who enters the pot for the minimum bet. | |
| Limper [Poker] | |
| One who has opened for the limit in a structured limit game, as opposed to coming in for a raise, or just called such a bet. "There were three limpers when it got to me, so naturally I raised with my suited ace-king | |
| Line [Poker] | |
| A circle (or an oval on some tables) inside of which is considered to be the domain of the pot, with respect to determining whether or not a player must be forced to complete a bet. The line is either real, in which case it is actually drawn on the table (usually in white or black paint or ink) or imaginary; even if imaginary, it exists, and its existence is sometimes strictly enforced in games. The line defines the perimeter of the pot | |
| Line Away [Craps] | |
| Betting that the next roll will be the number of 7 (5&2). | |
| Line Bet [Craps] | |
| A bet on the "pass line" or the "don't pass line" is called a "line" bet. These bets are placed at the beginning of the game, before the "come out" roll. The shooter is required to make a line bet in order to shoot the dice. | |
| Line Bet [Roulette] | |
| A wager that one of six numbers (two rows of three numbers separated by a line on the layout) will win. | |
| Line Work [Poker] | |
| Spots, lines, curlicues, put on a deck by a cheater so that the cards can be read from the back. | |
| Liner [Poker] | |
| A face card. (Because you can see a line when the card is face down and the lower right corner is lifted) | |
| Lineup [Poker] | |
| The players in a particular game. Also called crew. | |
| List [Poker] | |
| The exposed cards in Hold'em and stud. Also Board Cards. 2. A list of players' names or initials, those who want seating in or changes to particular games. In many clubs, there really is a blackboard or other large writing surface at the front or side of the room with lists of names. Also Board. | |
| Little Blind [Poker] | |
| 1) In a three-blind traveling blind game, the blind put up by the dealer. 2) In an under-the-gun blind game with two blinds, the blind to the left of the dealer. | |
| Little Bobtail [Poker] | |
| A nonstandard hand sometimes given value in a private or home game, five cards containing a three-card straight flush. Often ranks between two pair and three of a kind | |
| Little Casino [Poker] | |
| The 2 of spades, from the game of casino. The other card that got its name from the same game is big casino. | |
| Little Cat [Poker] | |
| A nonstandard hand sometimes given value in a private or home game, five cards 3 to 9 with no pair (in some circles, 3 to 8 with no pair), ranks above a big dog, and below a big tiger. Also called little tiger. | |
| Little Dog [Poker] | |
| A nonstandard hand sometimes given value in a private or home game, five cards 2 to 7 with no pair, ranks below a big dog and above a straight. | |
| Little Joe [Craps] | |
| A pair of twos or Hard 4. | |
| Little Joe from Kokomo [Craps] | |
| Betting that the next roll will be the number of 4 (2&2). | |
| Little Minnie [Poker] | |
| Little wheel (Another name (rarely used) for a wheel in ace-to-five (Wheel: A-2-3-4-5. Usually discussed in the context of lowball where it is the best possible hand.).) | |
| Little Oldsmobile [Poker] | |
| In hold 'em, 8-8 as one's first two cards. | |
| Little Pete [Poker] | |
| In hold 'em, 2-3 as one's first two cards. | |
| Little Phoebe [Craps] | |
| Betting that the next roll will be the number of 5 (3&2). | |
| Little Slick [Poker] | |
| In Hold'em, hole cards of A-2, suited or not. | |
| Little Squeeze [Poker] | |
| A form of five-card stud, found only in home games, a high-low game in which, after each player has been dealt one down card and four up cards, each player has the option of replacing one of those cards. (The act of replacing a card is sometimes called the twist, so this game's alternative name is also its description: five-card high-low stud with a twist.) An up card is replaced with an up card, and a down card with a down card, followed by one more round of betting. Also called little squeeze. | |
| Little Tiger [Poker] | |
| Little cat (A nonstandard hand sometimes given value in a private or home game, five cards 3 to 9 with no pair (in some circles, 3 to 8 with no pair), ranks above a big dog, and below a big tiger.) | |
| Little Virginia [Poker] | |
| A form of six-card stud, found only in home games, low hole card wild | |
| Little Wheel [Poker] | |
| Another name (rarely used) for a wheel in ace-to-five (A-2-3-4-5. Usually discussed in the context of lowball where it is the best possible hand.). Sometimes called little Minnie. | |
| Live [Poker] | |
| 1) Not playing house chips. "All the players in the game are live." 2) Full of action. "This is a pretty live game." 3) Full of gamble (with the implication of foolishly so). "He's playing too live." 4) Pertaining to a hand that has not yet been folded. 5) Pertaining to cards that are part of an active player's hand, or part of those being dealt to him as his draw. 6) Pertaining to cards that are available to be drawn, that is cards that have not yet been dealt, or at least not seen. In stud, this might be cards a player needs to make a hand that have not been exposed; in draw, this might be cards a player needs and he knows his opponent or opponents do not have in their hands. 7) Pertaining to a legitimate (as opposed to foul) hand. | |
| Live Blind [Poker] | |
| 1) In double-limit draw (usually lowball) games, or almost any hold 'em or Omaha game, a blind that can be raised even when the opening bet is not a raise. For example, in a 2-4 draw game, the player to the dealer's left puts $2 in the pot before receiving his cards, while in a 2-4 hold 'em or Omaha game, the player to the left of the dealer puts in $1 and the player to his left puts in $2. The first player to open in a draw game usually opens for $4, and in the hold 'em and Omaha games sometimes does, that is, by raising, but not always. In a live blind game, if the pot is opened for $2 and no one raises, when the action returns to the $2 blind, he has the option of raising. 2) A blind a player gets to keep when he wins a pot, because the next pot will be blinded by someone other than the winner of the present pot. Examples of live blinds are those in a traveling blind game, or those in a game in which each player must blind the pot at least once within a specified period of time. | |
| Live Blind [Poker] | |
| Betting Rule. The last and largest blind bet may or may not be live. If live, the blind bettor has the option of "raising" his own blind in the event the bet is called around to him. This is normal, and is sometimes referred to as "blinds are live". | |
| Live Card [Poker] | |
| In stud, a card probably not held by other players. | |
| Live Card [Poker] | |
| In stud games, a card that has not yet been seen in an opponent's hand and is presumed likely to be still in play. | |
| Live Chips [Poker] | |
| Chips belonging to an active player, that is, not being played for the establishment (which includes those belonging to a dealer while he is working, to a shill, a stake, or even proposition player), as opposed to house chips. | |
| Live Game [Poker] | |
| 1) One with no house players, as opposed to a dead game. 2) A ring game, as opposed to a tournament game, because the game is played with chips having actual cash value, instead of tournament chips. | |
| Live Hand [Poker] | |
| A hand that is still eligible to win the pot. | |
| Live Keno [Keno] | |
| Regular keno played on tickets, not video keno. | |
| Live One [Poker] | |
| An inexperienced, bad or loose player who apparently has plenty of money to lose; a rich sucker. | |
| Ll [Blackjack] | |
| The acronym for Lady Luck, a casino. | |
| Load [Poker] | |
| A decent session's winnings. "He's back for another load." | |
| Loaded For Bear [Poker] | |
| Having a great hand, usually one that has been passed; often said of a sandbagger. | |
| Loan Shark [Poker] | |
| One who lends money, particularly to gamblers, at rates of interest far in excess of those charged by any bank or even any credit card, with 30% per week and more not being uncommon. Such a person often enforces repayment with threats of physical punishment--and sometimes follows through on the threat, as warning to other malingerers, when payment is late. Also called shylock. | |
| Loan-Sharking [Poker] | |
| Lending of money, particularly to gamblers, at excessive rates of interest. | |
| Loball [Poker] | |
| A variant - and now, according to the official list published by Card Player, improper - spelling for lowball. Also, just as improperly, lo-ball and lo ball. | |
| Lobby [Poker] | |
| Sit out several hands, usually away from the table, or leave the table frequently. | |
| Lobbying Chips [Poker] | |
| Winnings. "He's got lobbying chips" means, simply, "He's winning." So called because generally winners lobby, not losers. The losers have to concentrate on playing to get even; the winners can afford to relax and sit out a few hands. Also called talking chips. | |
| Lobster [Poker] | |
| A sucker or mark, particularly when that person is a victim of cheaters; a poor player easily relieved of his money. | |
| Local [Poker] | |
| Someone who lives in Las Vegas (and "lives" in the poker games), as contrasted to a tourist. | |
| Local Option Hands [Poker] | |
| Nonstandard hands sometimes given value in a private or home game, such as big cat, little cat, kilter, skip straight, and so on. | |
| Lock [Poker] | |
| A hand that cannot lose; a cinch hand. | |
| Lock it Up [Poker] | |
| Reserve, with respect to a seat at a table. For example, Ken is playing 3-6 hold 'em when his name gets called for the 5-10. "Lock it up for me," he tells the floor man. | |
| Lock Player [Poker] | |
| A locksmith (One who plays only the nuts). | |
| Lock Up [Poker] | |
| Reserve or save (a seat). "Lock up a seat in the 6-12 for me." | |
| Locked on [Poker] | |
| Unable to throw a hand away. "Too much money in the pot; you got me locked on." Also, tied on. | |
| Locked Up [Poker] | |
| 1) Pertaining to chips residing in the stack of a very tight player, and thus difficult for any other player to win. "You're not going to win any of those chips back; he's got them locked up." 2) Reserved, with respect to a seat at a table. For example, a new player (new to the game) starts to sit down at what appears to be the only empty seat at the table. Emilie says, "You can't have that seat; I've got it locked up. I just have to play off the blind and I'll move." | |
| Locksmith [Poker] | |
| One who plays only the nuts (usually used in a derisive sense). | |
| Lol [Blackjack] | |
| The acronym for Laughing Out Loud. | |
| Lollapalooza [Poker] | |
| 1) A freak hand, often five specific, but random, cards, allowed to win once a night; generally the punch line in an elaborate shaggy dog poker story. Sometimes lalapalooza, lalapalooze, lallapalooza, or looloo. 2) The nuts. | |
| London Lowball [Poker] | |
| A form of lowball stud poker, played in England, in which the ace is low, but straights and flushes count against the player as in deuce-to-seven lowball, so the best hand is 6-4-3-2-ace. | |
| Long and Strong [Craps] | |
| When the stickman asks you to throw hard enough to hit the backboard. | |
| Long Call [Poker] | |
| Calling with mediocre cards, usually in an attempt to catch someone bluffing. "He thought the guy was bluffing and so he made a long call with a pair of deuces." | |
| Long End of the Bet [Roulette] | |
| The side of the bet that must pay off more than it collects. | |
| Long Odds [Poker] | |
| The odds for an event that has a relatively small chance of occurring. | |
| Long Run [Video Poker] | |
| The point where the machine's total appearance of number values is what probability theory predicts. For a player the long run is to play often enough that probability would even the outcomes | |
| Long Run [Roulette] | |
| The extended amount of time during any given session (or through multiple sessions) when number frequency starts to asymptotically approach that which is predicted by probability theory. Also called Long-Term. | |
| Long Studs [Poker] | |
| Stud poker involving more than five cards; a term used primarily in England | |
| Longshot [Poker] | |
| 1) A hand that has only a poor chance of winning; one that has to defy the odds to win. 2) A bet that has only a poor chance of winning. | |
| Look [Poker] | |
| Call, especially the final bet or raise before the showdown; often followed by at. If someone bets at you and you say, "I'll look," that means, "I'll call you." "I'll look at you" means the same. In most card rooms, saying "I'll look" is not equivalent to saying "I call." The latter is usually binding, that is, if you say "I call" when it is your turn to act, you must put chips in the pot, even if the other player shows his cards before you have a chance to physically get them in. (It's usually a good idea, however, unless you know the other player very well, to wait until the chips are actually in the pot before showing your cards, even in establishments in which verbal declarations are binding. Saves arguments later.) "I'll look" is generally a phrase said accompanying the actual act of placing the calling chips in the pot, and is generally not binding (although it could be interpreted that way: another reason to be careful of what you say in turn). In this sense, see [the or your bet] is also frequently used. | |
| Look at One [Poker] | |
| In lowball, a proposition sometimes offered when one player draws one card and the other two. The player drawing the two cards will look at one of his cards (only) and bet if the other player will raise blind, or sometimes even if the other player doesn't offer to do anything at all beyond look at his own cards. | |
| Look at Two [Poker] | |
| 1) In lowball, look at two cards (usually the first two dealt), with the implication of then killing (over blinding) the pot, "I'll look at two" often means "I'll look at my first two cards and if I like them I'll kill the pot." 2) Describing a lowball game in which players are allowed to over blind after seeing their first two cards. "We're playing look at two." "This game is look at two." | |
| Look Someone Up [Poker] | |
| Call a bet, usually with a hand that can beat only a bluff. | |
| Looking Down Someone's Throat [Poker] | |
| Being in a situation in which you know you have a hand your opponent cannot possibly beat. This implies that the other player has good cards showing on the board (in seven-card stud), at which you are presumably looking, and still you know you will win | |
| Looking Out the Window [Poker] | |
| Describing a player who is not paying attention to the game or the action, often used in a situation in which you would very much appreciate if the player would take a great interest in the current hand. "Wouldn't ya know it? I get dealt a pat wheel and everybody's looking out the window | |
| Looloo [Poker] | |
| Lollapalooza (A freak hand, often five specific, but random, cards, allowed to win once a night; generally the punch line in an elaborate shaggy dog poker story.) | |
| Loose [Poker] | |
| Playing liberally; not tight. In high draw, usually implies drawing to all the little pairs, all the four-straights and four-flushes, and many of the two-card draws to other than trips, and often calling many bets and raises to do so. In lowball, implies taking all the one-card draws to rough hands (that is hands that frequently lose even when they are made perfectly), and most of the two-card draws. In hold 'em, playing almost any two-card starting combination, and playing through to the river on almost anything that has a prayer of winning. In seven-card stud, the same with almost any three-card starting combination, and staying in until the situation is hopeless. You often hear the rhyming phrase loose as a goose or loosey-goosey | |
| Loose Game [Poker] | |
| A game with a lot of players in most pots. | |
| Loose Juice [Poker] | |
| Booze, Alcohol. | |
| Loose Player [Poker] | |
| One who plays loose (Playing liberally; not tight.). | |
| Loose Slots [Slots] | |
| Loose slots will have better payoffs to a "certified" high of 100%, on average over a period time. A machine will have a symbol, let's say 2-3 cherries, which pays a couple of coins. These cherries will replace a symbol that doesn't pay, and presto you have a loose machine. In other words, the more paying symbols a machine has, the greater the probability of payouts - thus a loose slot. | |
| Loosey [Poker] | |
| A loose player (Playing liberally; not tight.). | |
| Loosey-Goosey [Poker] | |
| 1) A loose player (Playing liberally; not tight.). 2) Playing in a loose fashion. | |
| Loser [Poker] | |
| 1) A losing player. 2) A player losing. (There is a distinction. Definition 2 may be just a temporary situation, while 1 implies permanency.) "I'm loser today." (The implication here is that, yes, today I'm losing, but that will change.) 3) A losing session. "I booked a loser my last three plays." 4) A hand that cannot (or probably cannot) win in a particular situation. "I can't call; I know this straight is a loser | |
| Lounge [Keno] | |
| The area where keno players can sit to mark their tickets and watch the game. Normally rows of connected seats with a small desk top with a cup holder. Always stocked with blanks, crayons, instructions, etc. | |
| Low [Poker] | |
| 1) Describing lowball. "They're playing low." 2) In a high-low split game, holding the hand that wins the low half of the pot; descriptive of the low hand; sometimes preceded by go or going. 3) In a stud game, having the lowest card or combination of cards showing on the board; of importance because sometimes on the first round, the holder of the low card must initiate the betting. 4) Holding the worst hand at the showdown in a high game. 5) Holding the best hand at the showdown in a low game. In a number of games, the worst hand wins all or some of the pot. Draw lowball and razz are just two examples of games played for low. Omaha and seven card stud have popular high-low split variants, in which the low hand gets half the pot. There are two common ways to evaluate low hands. In deuce to seven games, the best low hand is just the worst high hand. The best possible low is 75432, provided there is no flush. In ace to five games, straights and flushes don't count, and aces are lower than 2's. So the best possible low is A2345, a wheel. | |
| Low Belly Strippers [Poker] | |
| A deck marked by shaving the sides of some cards (making the middles narrower than the ends) so that a thief can tell by feel the values of certain cards, usually certain high or low cards, such as the aces. | |
| Low Bet [Roulette] | |
| A wager that one of the low numbers (1-18) will win the next spin. | |
| Low Chicago [Poker] | |
| This game plays the same as Seven Card Stud with the exception that the lowest spade in the hole gets half the pot. This adds some interesting variation to the game, because if you are dealt the deuce of spades in your first two down cards then you have guaranteed half the pot. Even if you start betting and raising like a maniac, chances are people won't fold because they will hope to get the other half of the pot. You might want to hold on until fourth street before you start betting heavily so that it isn't totally obvious that you have the ace. | |
| Low Hole Card Wild [Poker] | |
| A form of seven-card stud, found only in home games, in which the lowest card each player has in the hole (that is, face down) and all others of the same rank in that player's hand are wild | |
| Low Level [Slots] | |
| Slot machines you can sit at to play. | |
| Low Mambo [Poker] | |
| Mambo stud (A combination between stud and a widow game, in which players use three cards in their hands plus one community card, played high-low. Each player is dealt one down card and one up card, followed by a round of betting, one more up card, one more round of betting, and then a community card, with a final round of betting. Players use any combination of three of their four cards for high hand and any three for low. hand rankings differ from "ordinary poker." The highest ranking low hand, A -2 -3, is called a Low Mambo, and the highest ranking high hand, Q - K - A suited, is called a High Mambo. The remaining high hands rank this way: straight flush, three of a kind, straight, flush, one pair, highest card rank. There is a qualifier for low: to win the low half, a hand must be 6-high or better. One worse than a Low Mambo is A-2-4, and so on. If there is no low, the entire pot goes to the high hand.). | |
| Low Poker Dictionary [Poker] | |
| 1) Lowball (A form of five-card draw poker in which the lowest hand wins. The two most popular forms of the game are ace-to-five and deuce-to-seven.). 2) Razz (Seven-card stud lowball.). | |
| Low Roller [Blackjack] | |
| A small better. | |
| Low Roller [Poker] | |
| One who plays for small stakes. Opposite to high roller. | |
| Low Roller [Roulette] | |
| A person who bets small stakes. | |
| Low Spade [Poker] | |
| 1) A side bet in which two or more players (usually in a draw or lowball game) agree that whoever has the lowest card in the spade suit on the next hand (or, if no one has a spade that hand, on the following hand or hands) wins something, usually a prearranged bet, or a free drink bought by the loser or losers. 2) To play for the low spade. "I'll low spade you for the drinks" means that if, for example, I get the seven of spades on the next hand and you get no spades or a spade higher than the seven, you're supposed to buy me a drink, if you agree to the proposition. Sometimes called just spade. | |
| Low Stakes [Poker] | |
| Low-stakes game. | |
| Low-Stakes [Poker] | |
| Pertaining to a game played for smaller amounts than the other games in a particular establishment. | |
| Low-Stakes Game [Poker] | |
| A game played for small stakes. | |
| Lowball (or Draw Lowball) [Poker] | |
| 1) A form of five-card draw poker in which the lowest hand wins. The two most popular forms of the game are ace-to-five and deuce-to-seven. 2) A wheel; usually preceded by a. "I've got a lowball." | |
| Lowball Draw [Poker] | |
| Lowball (A form of five-card draw poker in which the lowest hand wins. The two most popular forms of the game are ace-to-five and deuce-to-seven.). | |
| Lowball God [Poker] | |
| A mythical deity to whom lowball players supposedly pray for good hands, and who presumably protects those in his good graces; used humorously. Also, god of lowball | |
| Lowball Stud [Poker] | |
| Razz (Seven-card stud lowball.). | |
| Ls [Blackjack] | |
| The acronym for Late Surrender. | |
| Lt [Blackjack] | |
| The acronym for Lake Tahoe. | |
| Luck [Blackjack] | |
| Imaginary substance believed by many players to aid in winning. Should not be relied upon in place of skill. | |
| Luck [Poker] | |
| An factor that people think is partly or the only reason for winning, and that winners know is the main determinant for winning only in the short run. | |
| Luck Out [Poker] | |
| Outdraw a good hand. | |
| Lucky [Poker] | |
| Possessing luck. "I'd rather be lucky than good any day | |
| Lucky Draw [Poker] | |
| Catching one or more cards that complete a hand against the odds. | |
| Lucky Hit [Poker] | |
| Lucky draw (Catching one or more cards that complete a hand against the odds.). | |
| Lumber [Poker] | |
| Kibitzer (A non-playing spectator; a railbird.). | |
| Lumberman's Hand [Poker] | |
| In hold 'em, 2-4 as one's first two cards. Comes from two-by-four, a kind of board. | |
| Luminous Readers [Poker] | |
| Readers (Marked cards, particularly those marked with special luminous ink that can be seen only by someone wearing special glasses or contact lenses sensitive to a particular portion of the spectrum). | |
| Lv [Blackjack] | |
| The acronym for Las Vegas, the city. | |
| Lva [Blackjack] | |
| The acronym for Las Vegas Advisor, Anthony Curtis's newsletter. | |
| Lying [Poker] | |
| Bluffing. "I think you're lying; I'm gonna call you." | |
| Lying in the Bushes [Poker] | |
| The place where sneaky poker players lie in wait, usually accompanied by powerhouse hands they have sandbagged, or otherwise slow-played, to trap unwary aggressive players; often part of the phrase waiting in the weeds or lying in the weeds. For example, in a high draw game, you raised before the draw with three aces. Among the several callers, the first man took three cards and passed after the draw. Everyone else passed. You did not improve your hand, but three aces is worth a bet after the draw, so you bet. The three-card draw now raises. The others fold. You call. He shows his full house. He was waiting in the weeds. Also, bushes, as part of the terms in the bushes, and woods, as part of the terms in the woods and waiting in the woods. | |
| Lying in the Weeds [Poker] | |
| The place where sneaky poker players lie in wait, usually accompanied by powerhouse hands they have sandbagged, or otherwise slow-played, to trap unwary aggressive players; often part of the phrase waiting in the weeds or lying in the weeds. For example, in a high draw game, you raised before the draw with three aces. Among the several callers, the first man took three cards and passed after the draw. Everyone else passed. You did not improve your hand, but three aces is worth a bet after the draw, so you bet. The three-card draw now raises. The others fold. You call. He shows his full house. He was waiting in the weeds. Also, bushes, as part of the terms in the bushes and lying in the bushes, and woods, as part of the terms in the woods and waiting in the woods. | |
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