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Online Gambling Glossary
- Dice: 2 perfect cubes
- Dime Bet: A one thousand dollar gamble.
- Double Or Nothing: A gamble with a payout of 2:1.
- Down Card: A card that is face down
- Down to the Felt: lost all money
- Drop Box: The place where bills and chips go on a gaming table, the box that serves as a repository for cash, markers, and chips.
- Edge: a reason to favor one side over another in the event of gambling
- Exposure: the amount a bettor or casino is willing to gamble.
- Extension: the quantity of cash or credit a sports betting institutions is willing to risk.
- Face Cards: The Jack, Queen, and King of any suit.
- Get Down: to gamble
- Going Down: loosing or having a loosing streak.
- High Roller: a bettor who takes large action.
- Holding Your Own: cashing out the same amount as you put to risk.
- Hot: someone who has won many times in a short time frame.
- House: a casino, sportsbook, racebook, online casino or any form of gambling establishment or person who represents one of these establishments.
- Juice: the percent of money that the casino keeps
- Junket: a trip subsidized by a casino to attract players.
- Kicker: An odd high card which cannot be part of a straight or a flush
- Ladderman: Person or people who oversee a baccarat gambling table.
- Laying the Odds: a bet where the payout is under 2:1.
- Layout: The tapestry covered area of a table.
- Loose: A slot machine that has giving many prizes recently.
- Marker: a slip worth credit at a casino
- Mechanic: a proficient card player.
- Multi-Shuffler: a machine that shuffles various decks of cards.
- Net Winnings: The amount that is paid to you, minus what you had put in originally.
- One-Armed Bandit: Commonly used word; meaning slot machine.
- Pair: two cards of the same rank in one hand.
- Payoff: The money a gambler gets from his action.
- Pit: a part of a casino where tables are arranged around a center that is off limits to dealers and other personnel
- Puppy: an underdog.
- Pot: Is the amount in the center of a poker gambling hand, it goes to the winner of the hand.
- Progressive: A slot machine where the jackpot increases with every credit added to it. Many online casinos share their progressive slot jackpot in order to accumulate huge jackpots.
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