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GLOSSARY OF GAMBLING
TERMS (arranged in alphabetical order) |
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| green | The most common color used for $25 chips. | |||||
| hand | Refers to the cards that you hold, or to everything that happens in a card game between shuffles of the deck. | |||||
| hard hand | In blackjack, any hand that does not contain an ace valued at eleven. | |||||
| high poker | Standard poker, as compared to low poker or lowball. In high poker, high hands win. | |||||
| high roller | A big bettor. | |||||
| hit | In blackjack, to take another card. The card received is also called a hit. | |||||
| hod ‘em | A class of poker games | |||||
| holding your own | Breaking even | |||||
| hole card | In blackjack, the facedown card that the dealer gets. In stud and hold ‘em poker, the facedown cards dealt to each player. | |||||
| hot | A player who is on a winning streak, or a slot machine that is paying out. | |||||
| house edge | The percentage of each bet that you make that the house takes in. Winning bets are paid off at less than the true odds to generate income for the house. | |||||
| inside bets | A roulette bet placed on any number, or small combination of numbers. | |||||
| inside straight | In poker, four cards of a straight where the straight can only be completed one way. | |||||
| insurance | In blackjack, a side bet that the dealer has a natural. Insurance is offered only when the dealers up card is an ace. The insurance bet wins double if the dealer has a natural, but loses if the dealer does not. | |||||
| jackpot | A big win on a slot machine. | |||||
| joker | The 53rd card in a deck, sometimes used as a wild card. | |||||
| keno board | A large electronic board that displays the winning keno numbers. | |||||
| keno lounge | The main area within a casino where keno is played. | |||||
| keno runner | A casino employee who shuttles your keno bet from wherever you are to the keno writer, and also delivers payment for winning tickets. | |||||
| kicker | In a draw poker game, an odd high card held that doesn’t contribute to a straight or a flush, usually an ace or a king. | |||||
| limit | In poker, any game that has a fixed limit on how much you can bet or raise in each round. | |||||
| load up | To play the maximum number of coins per spin that a slot machine or video game will allow. | |||||
| loose | Slot machines are loose when they are paying off and giving the house only a small advantage over the player. | |||||
| low poker | Also called lowball, is poker in which the pot is awarded to the hand with the lowest poker value. | |||||
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