Heat

Intensive scrutiny of a player's action to determine if he has an edge either due to cheating or expertise. Casinos turn up the heat if you seem to be winning too frequently or in big amounts. As one thing is certain, they can't stand giving back money.

Intensive observation of a player's actions to decide if they have an edge. Casinos turn up the heat if you seem to be winning too often or in large amounts.

Pressure and intimidation used by a casino to discourage card counters.

A form of thermal energy resulting from combustion, chemical reaction, friction, or movement of electricity. As a thermodynamic condition, heat, at a constant pressure, is equal to internal or intrinsic energy plus pressure times volume.

A form of energy transferred between systems by virtue of their temperature differences.

Form of kinetic energy that flows from one body to another when there is a temperature difference between the two bodies. Heat always flows spontaneously from a hot sample of matter to a colder sample of matter. This is one way to state the second law of thermodynamics. See temperature.