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Games terms

101. Casino Manager The person responsible for seeing that the games of a given casino are handled properly.
102. Caster A character that stays on the back row to heal or cast spells on the enemy, such as a Mage.
103. Center Pot The first pot created during a poker hand, as opposed to one or more "side" pots created if one or more players goes all-in. Also "main pot."
104. Chameleon Strategy Looking for players who have been winning and then mimicking their betting patterns in the hope that they will continue to be lucky, have found biased…
105. Charlie or Five Card Charlie A blackjack rule variation where if you get 5 cards without busting, you win that hand.
106. Chasing Loses when a player increases his bets so that he is able to get back what he has lost. This may not be a good way to play the game.
107. Chasing Losses Increasing your bets in order to recoup what you've lost. Not a good way to play.
108. Check A written order instructing a financial institution to pay immediately on demand a specified amount of money from the check writer's account to the person…
109. Check Rack The tray that hold the chips for a game. Also, known as a chip rack or chip tray.
110. Check Raise To check and then raise when a player behind you bets. Occasionally you will hear people say this is not fair or ethical poker. Piffle.
111. Checks Another name for chips. Typically, this name is used only by casino operators and employees, and using it may draw undue suspicion to yourself, especially…
112. Cheese To exploit an imbalance in the game.
113. Chemin de-fer - French for "Railroad." The European Baccarat variation where one player plays the bank, deals all the cards, and takes all the bets.
114. Cheval French for Split bet.
115. Chip/Check A casino term for tokens used instead of money.
116. Choppy Game A game where neither the player nor the house has been winning consistently. Or, a game where no discernible streaks nor patterns have been appearing.
117. Clocking There are two forms of Clocking -- Wheel Clocking and Player Clocking. See those terms defined separately in this document.
118. Co-banking an option that may be available in some casinos whereby a player and the house are 50%-50% partners as the bank; house rules vary
119. Cold Call To call more than one bet in a single action. For instance, suppose the first player to act after the big blind raises.
120. Cold deck Refers to a deck with a bad ratio of cards for the player.
121. Cold Table Any table where you and/or other players have been losing.
122. Colonne The French term for Column Bet.
123. Color Up To exchange lower denomination chips for higher denomination chips.
124. Color Up/Out To exchange smaller denomination chips for larger denomination chips.
125. Column Bet A bet on one of the columns of 12 numbers on the layout.
126. Combat Pets A NPC controlled by a player, aiding that player and his teammates in fights.
127. Combination Bet A bet with one chip or more chips on two or more numbers.
128. Come Hand A drawing hand (probably from the craps term).
129. Community Cards Cards that are presented face-up in the middle of the poker table and shared among players in games like Hold'em and Omaha.
130. Comp Free food, room, beverage, and travel offered by casinos to encourage big players to gamble more.
131. Complete Hand A hand that is defined by all five cards - a straight, flush, full house or straight flush.
132. connector A hold'em starting hand in which the two cards are one apart in rank. Examples: KQs, 76.
133. Cooldown The waiting time before a spell, item or ability can be used again.
134. Copies this is the term used for a tie. In the case of this the winnings go to the banker.
135. Corner Bet A bet that four numbers in a given segment of the layout will win. Also known as a Square Bet or a Quarter Bet.
136. Corpse Camping The act of guarding a corpse to make it harder for the victim to get their corpse back.
137. Counterfeit To make your hand less valuable because of board cards that duplicate it. Example: you have 87 and the flop comes 9-T-J, so you have a straight.
138. Coup A round of Baccarat.
139. CR Corpse Retrevial
140. Crack To beat a hand - typically a big hand. You hear this most often applied to pocket aces: "Third time tonight I've had pocket aces cracked."
141. Credit Line A credit line, or line of credit, is a revolving credit agreement that allows you to write checks or make cash withdrawals of amounts up to your credit…
142. Credit Manager The person in charge of determining casino credit for the player.
143. Creep Monster
144. Creep Jacking A term from Warcraft 3 where players attack other players while they are already engaged in combat with neutral monsters.
145. Crew Personnel who man a game.
146. Cripple As in "to cripple the deck." Meaning that you have most or all of the cards that somebody would want to have with the current board.
147. Critters Monsters that don't attack back, like a bunny or deer.
148. Crossroader A casino cheat.
149. Croupier The dealer.
150. CTF Warsong Gulch Battleground
151. Curse A Spell or effect that makes a target weaker.
152. Cut To divide a deck into two parts.
153. Cut Card A plastic card used to cut the deck after shuffling. The dealer reshuffles the deck after reaching the cut card when dealing hands.
154. d'Alembert Betting System A system of betting where you increase your bet by one unit after a loss and decrease your bet by one unit after a win.
155. DD Direct Damage. This is a spell that does all of its damage in one hit rather than spreading its damage over time.
156. De Buff - A negative spell cast on a unit that makes it less powerful. An example of a "de-buff" is Slow.
157. Dead Table A table that is manned and ready for action but has no players.
158. Deal To give out the cards during a hand.
159. Dealer Dealers, or principals, buy and sell securities for their own accounts, adding liquidity to the marketplace and seeking to profit from the spread between…
160. Dealing seconds A dealer cheating method. The dealer deals the 2nd card from the top if the top card would help the player.
161. Deck penetration The percentage of cards played out of a deck or a shoe before reshuffling.
162. Derniere A French term for last and refers to the last group of 12 numbers in the Dozen Bet.
163. Discard Tray A tray on the dealer’s right side that holds all the cards that have been played or discarded.
164. Discards The cards that have already been played and thrown away.
165. DM Dire Maul or Deadmines (if in Westfall)
166. DMG Damage
167. Dog Shortened form of "underdog."
168. Dolly Unlike the French roulette where the croupier simply points with the stick on the winning number on the table, in the American roulette the croupier uses…
169. Dominated Hand A hand that will almost always lose to a better hand that people usually play. For instance, K3 is "dominated" by KQ.
170. DOT Damage over time
171. Double Up System of Betting - A betting system whereby bets are doubled after a loss in hopes of recouping the previous loss.
172. Double deck Blackjack played out of two decks which are shuffled together. (As opposed to single deck, four deck, six deck, eight deck, etc.)
173. Double Down To double the initial bet and take one and exactly one more card. Usually doubling down is only allowed after the first two cards are dealt.
174. Double Down (Doubling Down) Double your initial bet following the initial two-card deal, but you can hit one card only.
175. Double Dynamite Roulette System A combination of Big Number play and sector slicing for short-range play.
176. Double exposure A blackjack variant where both of the dealer's cards are played face up. Usually players lose all pushes and blackjack pays even money in this variant.
177. Double zero or 00 is only present in American Roulette
178. Douzaine French term for the Dozen Bet.
179. Down Card this is a face down card.
180. Downtown Vegas The older area of Vegas. The casinos in Downtown Vegas generally offer better rules for the player, and the phrase is used to refer to blackjack games…
181. Dozen Bet A bet on one of the sequences of 12 numbers on the layout.
182. DPS Damage per second
183. DR Diminishing Returns. Used to describe something that reduces slowly over time on consecutive repetitions of the same action.
184. Dragon Hand this is hand that is dealt to an empty seat at the table.
185. Draw Same as to hit. Taking additional cards in an attempt to get closer to a total of 21.
186. Draw Dead Trying to make a hand that, even if made, will not win the pot. If you're drawing to make a flush, and your opponent already has a full house, you are…
187. Drop The total wagered in a casino.
188. Drop Box A box where money is dropped after the player cashes into a game and receives his chips. The box is usually located under the table.
189. Drop Loot An item that is obtained via monster drops (as opposed to being player-made).
190. Dumping A casino table that is losing money to the players.
191. Early Surrender Giving up on the first two cards before the dealer checks his hole card for an ace. The player only loses 50% of his wager in this situation.
192. Edge The borders created by a change in the structure or vegetation in a lake. Examples are edges of tree lines, weed lines, and the edges of a drop-off.
193. En Plein French term for the Straight-up Bet.
194. En Prison French term for the favorable option offered at some single-zero roulette tables. The player doesn't lose his even-money bets if the zero shows.
195. En prison rule This is also known as the surrender rule. Mostly applicable in European roulette; in an en prison rule, when the player makes an outside bet (even money…
196. Equity Another word for "stock." It represents an ownership interest by shareholders in a corporation.
197. European roulette This style consist of a roulette wheel which has 37 compartments and numbers from 1 to 36 with the addition of a 0.
198. European Wheel Roulette wheel that has only a single zero (0) and a number sequence of (clockwise starting with 0): 0, 32, 15, 19, 4, 21, 2, 25, 17, 34, 6, 27, 13, 36…
199. Even Bet A wager that one of the even numbers will win the next spin.
200. Even Money A bet that pays off at the same amount it would lose. e.g., betting $5 to potentially win $5 is an even money bet.