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  • Daub – A paste or liquid used to mark cards.
  • Dry – A player who has run out of funds and credit.
  • Deal – To give out the cards during a hand.
  • Dealer – A casino employee who deals the various games.
  • Dean – A smart gambler who can calculate odds and percentages.
  • Deep Pockets – A person with a large bankroll.
  • Designated Dealer – In poker games like Texas hold em,the player to the left of the dealer bets first.In a poker room where each game has a resident dealer, a different player serves as the designated dealer for each hand.
  • Desperado – A gambler who bets on credit with absolutely no way to pay if he loses.
  • Deuce – A two.
  • Deuce Dealers – A dealer who can peek at the top card and deal the next card if the top card is not to his advantage. (also-second dealer,mechanic or number two man.)
  • Dice – Two or more identical numbered cubes.
  • Die – Singular term for dice.
  • Dime Bet – $1,000 bet.
  • Discard Rack – Area of the table where the used cards are placed.
  • Dog – The underdog in any betting proposition.
  • Dog It – To be afraid to increase your bet during an extended winning streak.
  • Don’t Come Bet – A bet placed on the Don’t Come Bar.
  • Don’t Pass Bet – A bet placed prior to the Come-Out Roll that a seven will be rolled before a point is repeated.
  • Don’t Pass Line – Area of the table where the Don’t Pass bets are placed. Also known as the Back Line.
  • Door Card – This is the first exposed card, or up card, in a player’s hand in stud games.
  • Double Bet – A wager twice the size of a person’s usual wager.
  • Double Down – To increase a wager after the first two cards are drawn, in exchange for receiving only one more card, by placing an amount equal to the original bet on the layout. Also known as Double Up.
  • Double Odds – An odds bet that is twice as large as the original Pass/Come bet.
  • Down Behind – What the dealer tells a Don’t bettor when his bet has lost.
  • Down With Odds – Usually stated and executed by a dealer when paying off a Place Bet and moving the same player’s Come bet onto a specific number, ensuring that the player is covered on the specific number.
  • Doubling Up – A wager twice the size of a person’s usual wager.
  • Dozen Bet – A bet on twelve numbers in roulette, i.e. 1-12, 13-24 or 25-36.
  • Draw – In draw poker, the second round of cards that are dealt.
  • Draw Button – Allows video poker player to draw up to five new cards.
  • Drop Box – On a gaming table, the box that serves as a repository for cash, markers, and chips.
  • Dry – A player who has run out of funds and credit.
  • Ducks – A pair of Twos.
  • Dutch Book – A pricemakers odds line totaling more than 100%.
  • Ear – A bent corner put on a playing card to identify or locate it.
  • Easy Way – To make a point number (4,6,8 or 10) any way but the hard way in Craps.
  • Edge – Definition 1: The casino’s advantage over the player in any game.
  • Definition 2: Any advantage.
  • Eighter from Decatur – The number eight in Craps.
  • End – A share.
  • Even Money – A bet that pays you back the same amount you wagered, plus your original wager.
  • Exacta: A wager picking the two horses finishing first and second in the correct order.
  • Expected Return – In video poker it’s the average amount paid back on a particular play for a particular bet.
  • Expected Win Rate – A percentage of the total amount of money wagered that you can expect to win or lose over time.
  • Eye in the Sky – Surveillance video or live monitoring of the game from above.
  • Eyeballs – In craps, when a player rolls a two.
  • Face Cards – A King, Queen or Jack in a deck of cards.
  • Fade – To cover a bet.
  • False Cut – A cut leaving the deck in its original position.
  • Family Pot – In poker, when everyone at the table decides to enter a pot.
  • Fast Company – Seasoned or smart gamblers.
  • Fat – A person with a large bankroll. “He’s fat”. also- loaded, deep pockets and on fat street
  • Fever – A gambling habit.
  • Field – Several horses in a race or contestants in a sports tournament grouped as one contestant for betting purposes.
  • Field Bet – A one-roll wager that the next number thrown will be a 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 or 12 in Craps.
  • Fifth Street – In seven card stud, the third round of betting is called fifth street because players have five cards. In hold em , fifth street is the fifth card on board and the final round of betting.
  • Fifty Yard Line – The middle of the table.
  • Fill – In poker, to draw a card that makes a 5 card hand.
  • Fill up – In poker, to fill a full house.
  • Fink – A stool pigeon or informer.
  • Firing – A player who is wagering large amounts of money.
  • First Base – The first seat nearest the shoe in Blackjack. This position is dealt with first.
  • Fish – An inexperienced player who does not know how to win.
  • Fishing – A player who stays in a poker game longer than advisable generally is fishing for the card or two that will make the hand a winner.
  • Five Number Bet – A bet only possible on the double zero roulette games which includes 00,0,1,2,3 and has the highest house edge of 7.89%.
  • Fix – To bribe.
  • Flat Betting – betting the same amount on each wager.
  • Flat Store – Any gaming operation that is dishonest.
  • Flat Top – A slot machine whose jackpot is always a fixed amount, as opposed to a progressive jackpot.
  • Flats – Crooked dice which have been shaved to favor certain numbers.
  • Float – The table bank.
  • Flop – In a game of hold em, the three cards dealt face up in the center of the table.
  • Flush – In poker, a hand consisting of five cards of one suit.
  • Fold – In poker, when a player declines a bet and drops out of the hand.
  • Foul – In Pai Gow Poker, a hand is fouled when the 2 card low hand is set higher than the 5 card high hand, or when the hands are set with the wrong number of cards. A fouled hand is a losing hand.
  • Four Of A Kind – Four cards of the same rank. Also known as quads.
  • Fourth Street – In 7 card stud, the second round of betting is called fourth street because players have four cards. In hold em, fourth street is the fourth card on board and the third round of betting.
  • Free Odds Bet – A bet made in addition to the Pass Line, Don’t Pass Line, come and Don’t Come wagers which is paid at true odds in Craps.
  • Front Line – A casino term for Pass Line in Craps.
  • Front Money – Cash or bank checks deposited with the casino to establish credit for a player who bets against that money.
  • Full House – In poker, a hand consisting of a three of a kind and a pair.
  • Full Pay – In video poker it’s usually the best payoff schedule offered for a particular game.
  • Fuzzy – Odds of 15 to 1 on a winning horse.