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To surrender or give up after a player receives their first two cards but before the dealer checks for a blackjack. Player loses half of their bet.
Surrender allowed before the dealer checks for blackjack.
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.
- Browse Related Terms: Banker, Dealing seconds, Early surrender, Eye in the Sky, False shuffle, Late surrender, Past post, Pit Boss, Shill, shiner, Spooking, Toke
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A common term for any of the many different fishing worms, including night crawlers (two words), garden worms, leaf worms, dillys, and red wigglers.
- Browse Related Terms: black bass, bluebird skies, brownie, bucketmouth, catfish, downlake, downriver, downshore, and downstream, downcurrent, earthworm, electro-fishing, electro-fish, electro-shocking, forage, hawg, honey hole, lunker, professional overrun, take-out, weigh-in, yellow cat
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A complex ecological community or environment forming a functioning whole.
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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.
- Browse Related Terms: brushline, Cover, Edge, grayline, hard bottom, isolated structure, lake bed, lake-bed, riprap, soft bottom, Structure, Transition, weed line
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Expresses the percentage advantage the player or casino has in a given situation.
- Browse Related Terms: Advantage, Advantage player, Black chip, Cage, Camouflage, Drop, Edge, House Edge, Junket, Money Plays, Rat holing
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Having the advantage in a game.
Having the advantage in a game.
- Browse Related Terms: Crew, Dealer, Edge, House Edge, On the Square, Pit, Squares
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Where two habitat types join together resulting in increased diversity for vegetation and wildlife.
- Browse Related Terms: Backing, bag limit, Bait restrictions, bead-headed midges, Break, dry fly, Edge effect, float tube, fly, flies, Light Cahill, mayfly, night-fisherman, peacock ladies, Pro, San Juan worms, wet fly, wooly worm, or wooly bugger, zug bug
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An egg-shaped fishing weight with a hole through the center for the line to pass through.
- Browse Related Terms: bell sinker, bite, bullet sinker, culling, dip bait, doughball, egg sinker, filamentous algae, fillet, pegging, ROE, salmon eggs, slip-sinker, stink bait
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A term used to describe using electrical current to temporarily stun fish, typically during fish surveys.
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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. Instead the bet is locked up (imprisoned) for another spin. If the bet wins, it is returned fully. If the bet loses, the house collects it.
French phrase. A rule applied to even money bets only. When the outcome is zero, some casinos will allow the player to either take back half his bet or leave the bet (in prison) for another spin. In the second case, if the following spin the outcome is again zero, then the whole bet is lost.
- Browse Related Terms: Cold Table, Dumping, En prison, En prison rule, House Person, La partage, La partage rule, Money management, Ruin, Ruin or Element of Ruin, Scared Money, Surrender, Surrender rule, Sweat, Tapped Out
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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, or red/black), and then the ball drops on 0, the player has the option to lose half the bet or retain the money at stake en prison, meaning leaving it on the table for the next spin. When a player opts to leave it, the chance or the edge of the house is considerably lowered in the next spin.
- Browse Related Terms: Cold Table, Dumping, En prison, En prison rule, House Person, La partage, La partage rule, Money management, Ruin, Ruin or Element of Ruin, Scared Money, Surrender, Surrender rule, Sweat, Tapped Out
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An iron casting from the manufacturer that envelopes the crankshaft, connecting rods and pistons.
- Browse Related Terms: Air filter, Axle, Bell housing, Bleeder valve, Blown motor, Bore, Camshaft, Crankcase, Crankshaft, Cylinder head, Engine block, Flywheel, Gasket, Gears, Harmonic balancer, Hauler
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The warm layer of surface water.
- Browse Related Terms: cold front, cosmic clock, Epilimnion, front, otolith, post front, Stratification, Thermocline, turnover
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When the inner liner of a tire loses air pressure and that pressure becomes the same as that within the outer tire, creating a vibration. The inner shield should have a higher PSI than the outer tire.
- Browse Related Terms: Aerodynamics, Air Pressure, Dirty air, Downforce, Equalized, Neutral, Push, Round, Setup, Tight, Track bar, Wedge, Wedge, round of
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Your "rightful" share of a pot. If the pot contains $80, and you have a 50% chance of winning it, you have $40 equity in the pot. This term is somewhat fanciful since you will either win $80 or $0, but it gives you an idea of how much you can "expect" to win.
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Slang term used for a series of acute left- and right-hand turns on a road course, one turn immediately following another.
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Personal code of conduct based on respect for one's self, others, and your surroundings.
- Browse Related Terms: balance, biology, Biomass, Ethics, gill net, gill-net, ichthyology, Limiting factor, Mosquitofish, over-fishing, Overpopulated (overcrowded), Pond Check, Put and take fishery, tagging, Yield limit
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This style consist of a roulette wheel which has 37 compartments and numbers from 1 to 36 with the addition of a 0. European roulette provides a lower house edge, compared to the American roulette, so the odds of winning are greater.
- Browse Related Terms: A bet on the layout, American roulette, American Wheel, Double, Double zero or 00, European roulette, European wheel, Five, Five number bet, Hoca, Inside bet, Queen Theatre, Roulette wheel, Wheel Head
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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, 11, 30, 8, 23, 10, 5, 24, 16, 33, 1, 20, 14, 31, 9, 22, 18, 29, 7, 28, 12, 35, 3, 26. Originally, the single-zero wheel started in America and the double-zero wheel started in Europe. But, Europeans liked the single-zero wheel better, and Americans liked the double-zero wheel better so they switched. Today, the European wheel and single-zero wheel are synonymous. It is also known as the French Wheel.
Roulette wheel that has only a single zero, also known as the French Wheel.
A roulette wheel with 37 slots numbered 1 to 36 plus one zero, 0.
- Browse Related Terms: A bet on the layout, American roulette, American Wheel, Double, Double zero or 00, European roulette, European wheel, Five, Five number bet, Hoca, Inside bet, Queen Theatre, Roulette wheel, Wheel Head
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Highly fertile waters characterized by warm, nutrient-rich shallow basins.
- Browse Related Terms: acidity, Alkalinity, dissolved oxygen, eutrophic, lake zones, light intensity, off-color, pH, seine net, stained
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A wager that one of the even numbers will win the next spin.
A wager that one of the even numbers will win the next spin.
- Browse Related Terms: Black Bet, Even Bet, High Bet, Line Bet, Low Bet, No Action, Odd Bet, Parlay, Quarter Bet, Red Bet, Split Bet, Street Bet, Take Down, Visual Wheel Tracking, Wheel Clocking