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- Action - the the amount of cash someone bets in total during a gambling session
- Active Player - related to poker, refers to somebody who is still playing the game
- Add-on - again relates to poker; the option to buy more chips while the game is in play
- Aggregate Limit - the maximum amount of payout a casino will make during a game of any kind
- Aggregate Winnings - the amount someone wins in total, or stacked up to a significant point
- All or Nothing - relates to Keno, a card which has numbers only resulting in a payout if all the chosen numbers are drawn or if none of the picked numbers come up
- Ante - used in card games, means the minimum bet needed to take part in a hand. When used in stud poker, means the bet a player has to put down before they get their cards
- Arm - often used in craps, refers to somebody who is apparently so good at throwing the dice that they can alter the normal odds of the game
- Baccarat - a table card game which involves six or eight decks. Can also be referred to as Punto Banco
- Banker - in card games, the dealer
- Bankroll - word used to describe the total amount of cash that the player or casino has to back up bets. May also be referred to as the 'Wad' or 'Roll'. In terms of players, may be used to describe the total amount of cash taken on a gambling trip, divided up into daily bankrolls
- Barred or Banned - somebody who is permanently prohibited from entering a casino
- Bet - a wager
- Betting Limit - in table games the smallest and largest amount of money that someone is allowed to place in one wager. Betting less than the minimum or more than the maximum is not allowed for that game
- Bingo - a prize game involving cards given to players with numbers in grids. Depending on the variation, this may correspond to the five letters of the word bingo. The numbers are then drawn at random until a player completes a line of five numbers in a diagonal, horizontal, although tickle sequence to scoop the prize, then shouting 'Bingo!' or 'House!'
- Black Book - a list of people who are prohibited from entering a casino
- Blind Bet - used in poker, refers to a wager someone places before they see any of their cards
- Blinds - a bet someone must place down while playing Hold-Em poker
- Boxing - sometimes used in horse racing a refers to want ticket involving more than one parlay, which is a wager plus its winnings then bet again
- Break-Even Point - the the amount at which if you played forever, the wages you have made would be roughly equal to the winnings you would collect
- Buck - a wager of $100
- Bug - refers to a joker in a pack of cards
- Bump - to raise a bet, i.e. to 'bump' someone's wager in poker, staking a bet of a higher value
- Burn Cards - to remove cards from the top of a deck and discard them after they have been shuffled, often used in table card games
- Buy-in - the amount of cash someone has to put down to buy chips before being granted entry to a table game, such as poker, roulette, blackjack
- Call - used in poker, to match or 'call' a bet made by someone else
- Camouflage - techniques seasoned gamblers use to hide their the behaviour from the casino and so avoid detection. May include using disguises, changing betting habits and other ploys to avoid being spotted
- Capping - the placing of chips on top of an existing bet after a deal has started - essentially increasing what someone has wagered after the game has begun. A form of cheating
- Card Counting - technique used by seasoned blackjack players to memorise which cards have already been played and so predict their chances with later hands
- Card Sharp - a particularly skilled card player
- Carousel - used to describe slot machines aligned in a circle so that a money changer can stand in the middle
- Carpet Joint - slang term used to describe a high-end casino
- Case money - gambling cash set aside, in a case, as emergency money
- Cashier's cage - secured cash desk where a player's chips are exchanged for cash when they have finished playing
- Casino Advantage - the house edge or margin of profit that the casino has on a game over the players
- Casino rate - a discounted hotel room rate that a casino might offer to a good customer
- Catch - used in Keno to refer to 'catching' a number, meaning one you have chosen has been drawn
- Chase - To 'chase' in gambling is to try to chase down a loss you have made by betting again
- Check - in casino-speak this can refer to gambling chips, and in poker it is used by a player to declare they wish to stay in the game without betting more
- Chemin De Fer - This refers to a table game involving six or eight card decks, related to baccarat, with an element of skill
- Chip, Chips - circular disks used by players to bet in casinos - they can be bought and exchanged back into cash at a cashier booth
- Chip Tray - a tray full of gambling chips which sits in front of a dealer, who uses them to top up the table's chips
- Coat-tail - To 'coat-tail' is to mimic the bets of another player who is on a winning streak
- Cold - a player who is on a losing streak may be referred to as 'cold'
- Colouring Up - phrase used described how a player can exchange small value chips for larger ones
- Combination Way Ticket - a ticket found in Keno which involves betting groups of numbers in a number of permutations, allowing someone to have wagers on a bigger spread of numbers
- Comps - free gifts and perks offered to players by casinos in an effort to encourage them to gamble
- Copy - used in Pai gow poker, refers to when both the banker and the player have the same two-card hand or five-card hand, in which case the banker wins
- Cracking the Nut - when a player wins enough cash while gambling to cover what they have spent on the trip and also provide a respectable profit
- Craps - casino table game involving dice
- Credit Button - a button on slot and video machines which allows players to turn winnings into credits which can be used to top play with
- Crossroader - used to describe a gambling cheat. Originates from the times when people cheated at games played in saloons located at crossroads
- Croupier - French term meaning dealer. They are typically found in baccarat and blackjack only
- Cut - After cards have been shuffled for a game ahead of being dealt, a player or the dealer asks someone to split or 'cut' the deck into two sections and inverts them
- Cut Card - a piece of card, often red, black or yellow and used to cut cards
