STU

  • Sawbuck – Ten dollars.
  • Sawdust Joint – Unpretentious casino.
  • Scared Money – Money that a gambler can’t afford to lose.
  • Score – A large win.
  • Scout – Person who studies a team during play or practice and reports findings.
  • Second Dealer – A dealer who can peek at the top card and deal the next card if the top card is not to his advantage.
  • Send It In – A player who takes advantage of a winning streak by increasing his/her bets substantially.
  • Session – A series of plays at a gambling game.
  • Set – In Pai Gow Poker, players set their seven cards into two separate hands of two and five cards each.
  • Seven Out – The rolling of a seven after the point has been established.
  • Seventh Street – In 7 card stud, the fifth and final round of betting is called seventh street because players have seven cards.
  • Shark – A clever player often posing as a fish early in the game.
  • Shiner – A small mirror or reflecting object which is used by a cheater to see unexposed cards.
  • Shoe – The box in which the dealer places the shuffled cards from two or more decks. Cards are then dealt from the shoe.
  • Shooter – The person rolling the dice.
  • Short Ender – The underdog in a bet.
  • Showdown – In poker, after the last betting round, the players who remain in the pot must show their hands in the showdown to determine the winner.
  • Shuffle – Before each hand the dealer mixes up the order of the cards.
  • Shutter – A window covering a number on a re-usable bingo card. The shutter can be pulled down to mark each number as it is called.
  • Silks – A jockey’s uniform.
  • Silver Mining – Searching for unguarded coins left in the slot machines area.
  • Single – A Straight bet on one selection.
  • Single Odds – An additional wager equal to one’s original bet.
  • Singleton – In poker, a card that is the only one of its rank.
  • Sixth Street – In 7 card stud, the fourth round of betting is called sixth street because players have six cards.
  • Skin – A dollar.
  • Skin Game – In poker, a game having two or more cheaters.
  • Skinning The Hand – A cheater’s way of getting rid of excess cards in Poker.
  • Skinny – A bet on any Seven.
  • Skipped – A person who left town owing money leaving no forwarding address.
  • Skoon – A dollar.
  • Slot Schedule – The details usually at the top of a slot machine detailing the type of machine, denomination, and payout details.
  • Smart Money – When a professional gambler places a bet.
  • Snake Eyes – In craps, when a player rolls a two.
  • Snapper – In Blackjack, it refers to an Ace and 10 count card.
  • Soft Count – The counting the takings inside a gambling machine.
  • Soft Count Room – The room where the soft count takes places.
  • Soft Hand – A hand in blackjack that contains an ace counted as eleven.
  • Soft Player – A player who bets less following a win and doubles up following a loss.
  • Spinner – Winning streak.
  • Spit – A very small amount of money.
  • Split Bet – A combination bet across two numbers on the inside of the roulette table.
  • Spooking – Standing behind the dealer in a Blackjack game in order to relay the dealer’s card values to a player.
  • Spot – Any number from 1 to 80 that a player selects on a keno ticket. It also refers to the number of numbers that are marked on a ticket.
  • Square Pair – A hard 8, meaning two 4s.
  • Squares – Perfect dice to within a tolerance of 1/5,000 of an inch.
  • Stack – The amount of money (stack of chips) a player has on the table.
  • Stake – The amount of money a player is willing to play with in a given session.
  • Stand – In Blackjack, to stand is to refrain from taking another card.
  • Standing Hand – A Blackjack hand with 17 or more.
  • Steal – In poker, to win the pot by bluffing.
  • Steamer – A player who will only bet big when losing.
  • Stickman – The dice dealer who calls the numbers rolled and controls the stick.
  • Stiff – In Blackjack, a hand that is not pat and that may bust if hit once. Stiffs include hard twelve through sixteen.
  • Still Up – What the dealer says to remind players that a wager is still in play.
  • Store – An establishment that caters to small play.
  • Straight – In poker, a hand consisting of five cards of consecutive ranks, but not of the same suit.
  • Straight Flush – In poker, a hand consisting of five cards of consecutive ranks of the same suit.
  • Straight Keno – The basic keno game, played by marking individual numbers on a keno ticket.
  • Straight Up Bet – A Straight bet on one selection.
  • Stripping – Card shuffling technique.
  • Stuck – Losing.
  • Stud Poker – A poker game with no draw.
  • Suit – Any one of the four types of cards: clubs, diamonds, hearts or spades.
  • Surrender – In Blackjack, to give up half one’s wager before the hand is complete, for the privilege of not playing out a hand, thus saving half the wager. In roulette, one effectively loses only half the wager on an even money bet when the ball lands on 0.
  • System – A method of betting.
  • Table Odds – The multiple a player may bet behind the original flat bet to get true odds of the dice.
  • Table Stakes – When the amount of money wagered is limited to the amount of money on the Poker table.
  • Tap Out – To bet and lose one’s last dollar.
  • Taking Odds – Adding a bet to an original Pass Line or Come Bet that pays on the true odds of the dice.
  • Third Base – In Blackjack, the spot nearest the dealer’s right hand, which will be played last before the dealer’s hand is played.
  • Third Street – In 7 card stud, the first round of betting is called third street because the players have three cards.
  • Three Of A Kind – Three cards of the same rank.
  • Ticket – A card.
  • Tidy the Bowl – When the stickperson keeps the extra dice in the bowl in a neat row.
  • Tight Slots – Tight slots have a lower payout over a period of time and thus have a higher advantage over the player.
  • Toke – A tip given to the dealer in the form of money or chips.
  • Token – the casino coins used to play slot machines.
  • Tom – A player who does not tip.
  • Took a Hike – A person who left town owing money leaving no forwarding address.
  • Took a Powder – A person who left town owing money leaving no forwarding address.
  • Touch Wand – A pointing device used on some video keno machines to select numbers.
  • Tout – A professional tipster who offers to sell his opinion on the outcome of a sporting event without benefit of knowledge.
  • Trey – A Three.
  • Trips – In poker, 3 of a kind.
  • True Odds – The ratio of the number of times one event will occur to the number of times another event will occur. The odds posted in a casino are usually not the true odds.
  • Trump – Cash.
  • Turning the Dice – When the stickperson flips the dice around with his stick in order to make sure a 7, 11, 2, 3, or 12 isn’t showing when they go to the shooter.
  • Two Pair – In Poker, a hand consisting of two sets of pairs and a singleton.
  • Underlay – A bad bet. An event that has more money bet on its happening than can be justified by the probability of it happening.
  • Upcard – The dealer’s exposed card that is face up for all the players to see before they play their hands in Blackjack.
  • Used To Be Somebody – A player who has run out of funds and credit.