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A period of time spent gambling.
- Browse Related Terms: Expectation, Expected Win Rate, Fluctuation, Risk of ruin, Session, Standard deviation, variance, Win rate
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A casino employee who pretends to be a player. Shills often play at empty tables in order to attract action.
- Browse Related Terms: Banker, Dealing seconds, Early surrender, Eye in the Sky, False shuffle, Late surrender, Past post, Pit Boss, Shill, shiner, Spooking, Toke
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A reflecting device used to try and glimpse the dealer's hole card.
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Device, usually a wooden box, used for holding and dispensing the cards to be dealt.
A plastic or wooden device that holds multiple decks of cards to be dealt.
- Browse Related Terms: Burn card, Burn Cards, Discard Tray, Discards, Face Down Game, Face Up Game, Shoe, Stand or Stay
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A blackjack game dealt from a shoe. Multiple deck games are almost always shoe games, while single deck games are often dealt by hand.
- Browse Related Terms: Card Counting, Cold deck, cut, Cut card, Deck penetration, Double deck, Hot deck, Las Vegas strip rules, Multiple deck, Plug, Preferential Shuffling, Shoe game, Shuffle, Shuffle Master, Shuffle tracking
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At the start of each game when the dealer mixes up the order of the cards is said to shuffle the cards.
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A company which manufactures automatic shuffling machines which constantly shuffle the blackjack decks. Shuffle Master machines generally prevent card counting, since the deck is shuffled after every hand.
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An advantage play technique in blackjack where a player keeps track of where the high cards are in the deck, then cuts into the deck so that the concentration of high cards is played by the dealer.
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Premature shuffling by the dealer to discourage card counting.
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An additional count of a particular set of cards, kept in addition to the point count. Aces are often tracked in a side count.
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To double down on a soft hand.
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Hand containing an ace counted as 11.
A hand in which an ace can be counted as an 11 or as a 1 without the hand being considered a bust.
Any blackjack hand that contains an ace valued at eleven.
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Split the initial two-card hand into two and play them separately - allowed only when the two first cards are of equal value.
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The act of standing behind the dealer to peak at the hole card and then secretly convey the information to a partner player sitting at the table. An illegal form of cheating.
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To decline additional cards and keep your existing total.
off - (Also Tie or Push.) Both player and dealer have the same hand total - player keeps bet.
To refrain from taking any more cards.
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Not requiring any more cards, to refrain from taking another card.
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The amount of deviation from the statistical expectation.
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In blackjack, meaning a hand which hard-totals to 17 or more, which is very likely to bust if one more card is called and therefore the player is expected to stand.
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A blackjack term where a player has become frustrated with how badly the events of a session of play have turned out. 'Steaming' in blackjack has practically the same meaning as 'going on tilt' in poker. In either case the player has lost emotional control and is betting more aggressively and often recklessly in an attempt to turn things around.
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Hand with little chance of winning. A hand that is not pat and that may bust if hit once. Stiffs include hard twelve through sixteen.
Hard hands that total between 12 and 16. Stiff hand are likely to bust when drawn to.
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