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Where the casino cashier is located.
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A booth or room where the casino cashier resides. Here, you can exchange chips for cash (or vice versa), cashout coins, place front money, etc. It is called a cage because it is usually enclosed by bars.
A booth or room where the casino cashier is.
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To put into the pot an amount of money equal to the most recent bet or raise. The term "see" (as in "I'll see that bet") is considered colloquial.
- Browse Related Terms: Call, No-Limit, Pot-Limit, Raise, Rake, Ring Game, Spread-limit, Structured, Table Stakes, Toke
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Also known as 'Roulette Announced Bets'. Used in French and European roulette tables and common in most UK casinos with single-zero wheel American roulette tables. These bets consist of a group of numbers and there are 5 types: Number neighbours (Voisin du nombre, 5 chips bet), Zero neighbours (Voisins du zero, 9 chips bet), A third section of the wheel (Tiers du cylindre, 6 chips bet), Full orphans (Orphelin plein, 8 chips bet), Orphans split (Orphelin cheval, 5 chips bet).
- Browse Related Terms: Call bets, Column Bet, French Wheel, Luminar or LuminAR, Orphans, Orphelins, Orphelins (Orphans), Outside Bets, Roulette table, Roulight / Roulite, Single, Single zero roulette, Tiers du cylindre, Voisins du Zero
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A weak-passive player who calls a lot, but doesn't raise or fold much. This is the kind of player you like to have in your game.
- Browse Related Terms: Action, button, Calling Station, Check Raise, House, Maniac, Muck, Tell, Time
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this is the dealer who runs or calls the game.
- Browse Related Terms: Baccarat en Banque, Callman, Dealer, House Edge, Ladderman, Mini, Palette, Shills, Starter, Super Pan Nine, VIP
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Any strategy meant to cover up card counting.
Anything a skilled gambler does to conceal their activities from the casino. Camouflage can include mixing in playing and betting behavior that mimics typical gamblers, or using disguises, appearing to be drunk, or any number of other possible ploys intended to throw the casino's scrutiny off.
- Browse Related Terms: Advantage, Advantage player, Black chip, Cage, Camouflage, Drop, Edge, House Edge, Junket, Money Plays, Rat holing
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A betting system using a series of numbers that cancels numbers after winning a bet and adds numbers after losing a bet. One specific type of Cancellation System is known as the LaBouchere System.
- Browse Related Terms: Adrenotrend System, Cancellation Betting System, d'Alembert Betting System, Fibonacci Betting System, Grand Martingale, Grind System, Hot and Cold System, LaBouchere Betting System, Martingale Betting System, Martingale System, Negative Progression, Positive Progression, Press, Reverse, Reverse Martingale Betting System, Roulette strategy, Roulette system
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To put in the last raise permitted on a betting round. This is typically the third or fourth raise. Dealers in California are fond of saying "Capitola" or "Cappuccino."
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Illegally adding more chips to a bet that has already won.
Illegally adding more chips to a bet that has already won. It is a form of Past Posting.
- Browse Related Terms: Black Action, Blacks, Cage, Capping a Bet, Check Rack, Color Up, Combination Bet, Corner Bet, Ficheur, Greens, Money Plays, Nickel, Non, Non Value Chip, Pinching, Quarters, Reds, Roulette chips, Roulette layout, Stack, Wheel Chips
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Recording (in memory) played cards (usually high cards) so as to establish a conditional probability advantage on the remaining cards against the dealer.
A strategy for getting the edge at blackjack by tracking the ratio of high cards to low cards that have already been played. A card counter raises his bet when the deck offers favorable odds to the player, and lowers his bet when the deck offers less-than-favorable odds to the player. There are multiple card counting systems with varying degrees of efficiency.
Keeping an eye on which cards have been played since the shuffle.
- 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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A person who is an expert at cards.
- Browse Related Terms: Card Sharp, Color Up, Color Up/Out, Red chip
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Player that prefers to help other players attack monsters rather than attack other players in player vs. player combat.
Player that prefers to help other players attack monsters rather than attack other players in PvP combat.
- Browse Related Terms: Aggro, Aggro Radius, Carebear, Creep Jacking, Critters, Incoming (INC), LOL, Pull, Pulling, PvP, RAID, Tank, Threat, Zerg
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French term for the Corner Bet.
- Browse Related Terms: A Cheval, Carre, Cheval, Sixainne, Square Bets, Toke, Transversale, Trio Bet
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is the French word for corner bet
French for Corner bet.
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The last card of a certain rank in the deck. Example: "The flop came J-8-3; I've got pocket jacks, he's got pocket 8's, and then the case eight falls on the river, and he beats my full house."
- Browse Related Terms: Bad Beat, CASE, Complete Hand, Crack, Cripple, Dog, HIT, Outrun, Underdog
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The edge that the house has over the player.
The edge, usually shown as a percentage, that the house has over the player. Also called House Edge or Vig.
- Browse Related Terms: Backtrack, Ball, Bottom Track, Boule (La Boule), Casino Advantage, Chameleon Strategy, Dolly, Even Up, Fair Game, Layout Strategies, P.C., Racetrack bets, Section Shooting, Wheel, Wheel Strategies
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The person responsible for seeing that high rollers are treated well in the casino.
The person responsible for seeing that high rollers are treated with the dignity and graciousness their wallets merit.
- Browse Related Terms: Casino Host, Casino Manager, Chasing Loses, Chasing Losses, Double Dynamite Roulette System, Guerrilla Gambling, High roller, Low Roller, Penny Ante, Scobe's Wager, Shill
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The person responsible for seeing that the games of a given casino are handled properly.
The person responsible for seeing that the games are handled properly.
- Browse Related Terms: Casino Host, Casino Manager, Chasing Loses, Chasing Losses, Double Dynamite Roulette System, Guerrilla Gambling, High roller, Low Roller, Penny Ante, Scobe's Wager, Shill
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