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A person who specializes in creating the sheet metal body of a stock car. Most teams employ two or more.
the person or people who design and build the shell or sheet metal of the race car. Each race car is custom made for a specific type of track or even race.
- Browse Related Terms: Bodywork, chassis, Fabricator, Firewall, Frame, Roll cage, Roof flaps, Safety shield, Template
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this is the cards that are commonly referred to as the Jack, Queen and King which together with the 10 have a zero valuation.
Jack, Queen or King of any suit.
The Jack, Queen, and King of any suit of cards.
- Browse Related Terms: Face Cards, Lace, Railroad, Rule Card, Shuffle Up
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The King, Queen or Jack of each suite.
The jack, queen, and king. They're each worth 10 points.
Jacks, Queens and Kings.
- Browse Related Terms: A-J Bonus, Ace adjustment, Ace poor, Ace rich, Face Cards, Paint
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Your first card is placed face up while the second one is placed face down.
- Browse Related Terms: Burn card, Burn Cards, Discard Tray, Discards, Face Down Game, Face Up Game, Shoe, Stand or Stay
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Both your cards are placed face up.
- Browse Related Terms: Burn card, Burn Cards, Discard Tray, Discards, Face Down Game, Face Up Game, Shoe, Stand or Stay
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A term designating the "Big Three" auto manufacturers: General Motors (GM), Ford and DaimlerChrysler. The "factory days" refer to the periods in the 1950's and 60's when the manufacturers actively and openly provided sponsorship money and technical support.
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this means to cover all or part of the bank bet, also called cover or cover the bank.
- Browse Related Terms: Banco!, Banker/Player Bet, Bankroll, Chemin, fade, High roller, Loss bet/Fade, Punto, Shooter, Standoff, tie, Tie Bet, Vigorish
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A game where neither the house nor the player has the edge. Roulette is not a Fair Game.
A game where neither the house nor the player has the edge. Roulette is not a Fair Game.
- 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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A mixing or turning over of the water takes place in the fall and results in reoxygenation of the water.
- Browse Related Terms: Aquatic, Brackish, brush pile, bumping, clarity, coldwater fishery, deadfall, Fall overturn, Fishing closures, sonar, stickups
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Fly-casting line in the air (not touching the water) to increase length of line and perfect accuracy to the target.
- Browse Related Terms: back cast (n.) or back-cast, bank-fishing, bank-fish, blind cast, dapping, false-casting, false-cast, fan cast, flipping, flutterbait, fly-casting, fly-cast, overcast, presentation, rollcast, Sight-cast, sight-casting, sight-fish, sight-fishing, skipping, spook
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A dealer cheating method which doesn't really randomize the deck of cards.
- 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 pot in which all (or almost all) of the players call before the flop.
- Browse Related Terms: All-In, Center Pot, Family Pot, Foul, Heads Up, Overcall, Pay Off, Sell, Short Stack, Side Pot, Slow Play, Smooth Call, Split Pot
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An electrically or mechanically driven device that is used to pull air through the radiator or oil cooler. Heat is transferred from the hot oil or water in the radiator to the moving air.
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Making a series of casts only a few degrees apart to cover a half circle (more or less). Often used to locate actively feeding fish.
- Browse Related Terms: back cast (n.) or back-cast, bank-fishing, bank-fish, blind cast, dapping, false-casting, false-cast, fan cast, flipping, flutterbait, fly-casting, fly-cast, overcast, presentation, rollcast, Sight-cast, sight-casting, sight-fish, sight-fishing, skipping, spook
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To repeatedly kill the same monsters or in the same area usually with the purpose of obtaining money or specific items.
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As in "play fast." To play a hand aggressively, betting and raising as much as possible. Example: "When you flop a set but there's a flush draw possible, you have to play it fast."
- Browse Related Terms: Come Hand, Draw, Draw Dead, equity, Expectation, FAST, Favorite, Fold, Free Card, Implied Odds, Pot Odds, Price, Rock, Tilt, Value, variance
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Certain times of day when fish are most active. These are often associated with the position of the sun and moon and are referred to as solunar tables.
- Browse Related Terms: Action, angling, dabbing, die-off, dip net, feeding times, holding station, inactive fish, moon times, put-and-take
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a betting system where there is a progressive combination of numbers
A progressive betting system where each bet is a combination of the two previous numbers. (i.e., 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc.).
- 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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In the American Roulette each player gets chips with different colours so that they do not mix. The croupiers have at their disposal a sophisticated mechanism, also known as Ficheur, which is able to mechanically separate coloured chips making them always readily available to use.
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