Blackjack terms starting with S

22 terms

  1. Session The period during which Congress assembles and carries on its regular business.
  2. Shill A casino employee who pretends to be a player. Shills often play at empty tables in order to attract action.
  3. Shiner A member of the shiner family often used for bait. The most common in Arizona is the gold shiner.
  4. Shoe this is the wooden box that is used for holding and dispensing playing cards to be dealt.
  5. Shoe game A blackjack game dealt from a shoe. Multiple deck games are almost always shoe games, while single deck games are often dealt by hand.
  6. Shuffle At the start of each game when the dealer mixes up the order of the cards is said to shuffle the cards.
  7. Shuffle Master A company which manufactures automatic shuffling machines which constantly shuffle the blackjack decks.
  8. Shuffle tracking 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…
  9. Shuffle Up Premature shuffling of playing cards by the dealer.
  10. Side count An additional count of a particular set of cards, kept in addition to the point count. Aces are often tracked in a side count.
  11. Soft double To double down on a soft hand.
  12. Soft Hand A hand in which an ace can be counted as an 11 or as a 1 without the hand being considered a bust.
  13. Split Hand Split the initial two-card hand into two and play them separately - allowed only when the two first cards are of equal value.
  14. Spooking 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.
  15. Stand To decline additional cards and keep your existing total.
  16. Stand or Stay Not requiring any more cards, to refrain from taking another card.
  17. Standard deviation Standard deviation is a statistical measurement of how far a variable quantity, such as the price of a stock, moves above or below its average value.
  18. Standing Hand 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…
  19. Steaming A blackjack term where a player has become frustrated with how badly the events of a session of play have turned out.
  20. Stiff Hand Hard hands that total between 12 and 16. Stiff hand are likely to bust when drawn to.
  21. Stop loss limit An amount of money that a gambler is willing to lose in a situation. Once the stop loss limit is reached, the gambler stops playing that session.
  22. Surrender Deciding not to play the hand you've been dealt. You get to keep half your bet if you surrender. Not all casinos offer surrender as an option.