Casino Terms

Action: The amount of money that is bet

Active Player: One who is still in the game

Add on: In Poker it means buying additional chips in a tournament play.

All In: When you are betting all of your chips on one hand.

Ante: Card game term it means a required bet must be placed.

Baccarat: A card game using 6 to 8 decks of cards, Game requires no skill at all.

Bankroll: How much cash you have to play with.

Beef: A dispute that involves a player and the bookmaker or a casino dealer.

Bet: Wager

Blinds: Forced bet in Texas Hold Em

Bump : A raise

Camouflage: This is anything that an experienced gambler does to hide their activities from the casino. This can include mixing in playing and betting behavior. Some players will even act drunk to throw off the casino’ watchful eye.

Card Counting: term used in Blackjack, it means counting the cards in your head to establish temporary probability advantage from the remaining cards the dealer has yet to deal.
Carousel: A group of slot machines that are clustered together, forming a circle.

Chips: These are used by casinos to bet with. You go to the change booth and change in your cash for chips.

Cut: Term used in card games that comes after the dealer shuffles the cards, he will split the deck in two and place the bottom half on the top of the deck.

Doubling Down: A betting option in blackjack where the players opening two card hand is turned face up and the player’s original wager but doubled. The player is then given only one additional card only to complete the hand.

Doubling Up: This basis of so0me widely used system. After a loss the players doubles in size of his previous bet and is hoping to win back the money he lost.

Draw: This is a card game term; it means to take another card.

Flop: term used in Poker Games such as Texas Hold Em. This is played where the 5 community cards are dealt. The first of three cards are dealt all at one time. The face up cards are called the flop cards.

Hole Card: term used in Blackjack or Texas Hold Em. These are the cards that the dealer gives you face down.

Laying the Odds - There are two fundamental forms of wagering, ‘taking the odds’ and ‘laying the odds’. In most forms of sports betting, some odds are so high in favor of the likely winner that winning wagers get paid an amount less than the amount wagered by some percentage, and this is what is meant by ‘laying the odds’. In most casino games the player is ‘taking the odds’ by wagering an amount that is less than they will receive if they win, that is; if you wager $1 you would win more than $1.

By knowing these terms it will help you in every game that you play. You can find a complete dictionary of terms online.