Games terms starting with P

58 terms

1. P.C. The house edge expressed as a percentage.
2. Paddle Tool used to push the money into the drop box.
3. Paint A face card. (Jacks, queens, and kings.)
4. PAIR Patent Application Information Retrieval -- see Patent EBC for more provides secure access for customers who want to view current patent application…
5. Palette A tool used to move cards on the table. Usually made of wood.
6. Parlay To double one's bet after a win.
7. Passe French term for High Bet.
8. Past post A method of cheating where a player posts additional money to his wager after seeing the results of the hand.
9. Past Posting Placing a winning wager after a decision has been reached. Usually done by capping a bet.
10. PAT In blackjack, an unbusted hand worth at least 17 points. In draw poker, a hand that does not need any more hands.
11. Pat hand A total of 17 or more. Don't hit pat hands. The area in the casino which is surrounded by the table games.
12. patch A downloadable update that fixes bugs, improves stability and introduces new features to a program.
13. Patience System A grind method of playing whereby the player waits for a certain number of decisions before placing a bet.
14. Pay Off To call a bet when the bettor is representing a hand that you can't beat, but the pot is sufficiently large to justify a call anyway.
15. Payout (Pay Out) The winning amount paid by the casino to the player.
16. Payout or Pay Out the winnings the casino pays to a player
17. PC Personal computer.
18. Penny Ante A game played for small stakes.
19. Perfect Pairs Is a blackjack side bet played on a standard blackjack table and does not require the main game rules to be changed.
20. PET A NPC controlled by a player such as a Wolf, Infernal, and so on.
21. Petite When the card total is 8. See Natural
22. Pinching Illegally removing chips from a bet after an unfavorable decision.
23. Ping Ping is a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an IP network.
24. Pit An area consisting of a number of gaming tables.
25. Pit Boss A casino employee in the pit who oversees the table games and the dealers.
26. PK Player Kill or Player Killer.
27. Play the Board To show down a hand in hold'em when your cards don't make a hand any better than is shown on the board.
28. Player Clocking - Watching to see which players have been winning and with what methods in order to use the Chameleon Strategy and mimic their betting patterns.
29. Player Clocking when one is watching which player has been winning using Chameleon Strategy, and then tries to mimic their patterns.
30. Player Hand this is the hand that opposes the bank hand, which receives cards and acts by itself.
31. Playing conditions The rules variations in effect at a casino. Playing conditions include whether or not a player can double down after a split, how many decks are in use…
32. Plug A shuffling technique that is sometimes employed in card games like blackjack where the game is often dealt from a multi-deck shoe.
33. Plus/minus Another name for the Hi lo counting system.
34. Pocket A small indentation in the shoreline, sometimes referred to as a pocket cove.
35. Pocket Pair A hold'em starting hand with two cards of the same rank, making a pair. Example: "I had big pocket pairs seven times in the first hour.
36. Point Count The total value of the count, positive or negative, at any given time.
37. POP Contraction of "Repopulation", often used as a shortened term for the re-spawn of monsters.
38. Positive Progression Any system of wagering where you increase bets after a win.
39. Post After; later.
40. Pot Odds The amount of money in the pot compared to the amount you must put in the pot to continue playing. For example, suppose there is \$60 in the pot.
41. Pot-Limit A version of poker in which a player may bet up to the amount of money in the pot whenever it is his turn to act.
42. Power of the Pen The ability to issue hotel comps to players on the part of some casino executives.
43. Preferential Shuffling Shuffling when the remaining cards are deemed favorable to the players.
44. Premiere French term for first and refers to the first group of 12 numbers in the Dozen Bet.
45. Premium Players A casino term meaning big bettors or players with big credit lines.
46. Press To increase the amount wagered, usually by doubling it, after a win.
47. Price The pot odds you are getting for a draw or call. Example: "The pot was laying me a high enough price, so I stayed in with my gutshot straight draw."
48. Proc Activate. Example: A weapon with a special effect will "proc" every so often.
49. Protect (1) To keep your hand or a chip on your cards. This prevents them from being fouled by a discarded hand, or accidentally mucked by the dealer.
50. PST Please Send Tell. Indicates that the person speaking wants to receive communication via a /t(ell) or /w(hisper) command.
51. Pull Selectively start combat with a Mob, usually with a ranged attack, and then leading this Mob back to a safer area in order to separate them from other…
52. Puller Person who pulls monsters for the party.
53. Pulling One of the players in a party heads out and leads one or more of the monsters back to the party so that the party can attack the monsters.
54. Punto this is the player.
55. Push Refers to the player and the dealer having the same total. Usually the player's bet is returned when there is a push.
56. Push/Tie When the player and the dealer have hands with the same point total. No money changes hands.
57. PvE Player vs. Environment. Combat between players and computer controlled opponents.
58. PvP Player vs. Player. This means for one player to attack another player.