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A Baccarat variation with two player positions and the casino books the bets.
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Counting cards from behind the table as a spectator. Counting cards in blackjack when you're not playing in the game.
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Catching both the turn and river card to make a drawing hand. For instance, suppose you have A♠-7 ♠The flop comes A♦-6 ♣-4♠. You bet and are called. The turn is the T♠, which everybody checks, and then the river is the J ♠. You've made a "backdoor" nut flush. See also "runner."
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The outer, stationary rim of the roulette wheel where the ball is spun.
The outer, stationary rim of the roulette wheel where the ball is spun. Also called the ball-track.
the outer rim of the wheel in roulette where the ball spins. It is also known as ball-track.
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To have a hand that is a large underdog beat a heavily favored hand. It is generally used to imply that the winner of the pot had no business being in the pot at all, and it was the wildest of luck that he managed to catch the one card in the deck that would win the pot. We won't give any examples; you will hear plenty of them during your poker career.
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A card counting system that has an equal number of cards valued at + and -. The sum of a count of all cards in a deck in a balanced count is always 0.
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Track - The outer, stationary rim of the roulette wheel where the ball is spun. Also called backtrack.
Track - The outer, stationary rim of the roulette wheel where the ball is spun. Also called the backtrack.
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Banker.
Said when a player decides to bet his entire money. Also means bank.
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is the hand that is dealt to last which acts last.
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In a card game, dealer or the players who books the action of the other bettors at the table.
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this is the person that a player bets against in a game.
the player's opponent in a round of Pai Gow poker
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Betting on the dealer or the player (not betting a tie).
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A player's total gambling money.
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The total amount of money you have the intention of gambling with.
The amount of funds available for wagering. Sometimes refers to the total amount of money available to gamble with, but can also refer to the amount available in a given playing session. To ban a player from playing at a casino. This term is almost always used to refer to blackjack card counters.
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The total amount of money a gambler sets aside to gamble with.
The total amount of money a gambler has to gamble with.
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consists of a complete set of rules that cover all possible decisions a player may encounter, but without taking into account any other player's cards or any previously dealt cards.
In blackjack, the set of plays that you should make to maximize your advantage.
The optimum playing strategy for blackjack when not counting.
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An instanced battlefield where players from different factions can fight with each other fairly.
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The amount of the maximum and minimum bets a player is making during a blackjack playing session. A 1-5 bet spread means that the player is betting a minimum of 1 unit per hand and a maximum of 5 units per hand.
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How well a card counting system can take advantage of the theoretical advantage offered by that system.
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Establishes the minimum and maximum amounts that can be wagered on one bet.
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A Big Number that continues through long-term analysis and produced by Biased Wheels.
this refers to numbers that continue to come out in the game, caused by biased wheels.
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