Video Poker Machine Talk Part12
Running Count: In blackjack, the raw count that has not been divided (or multipled) by the number of decks remaining.
Rush: A quick winning streak.
Scam: Any scheme to defraud a casino or player.
Scared Money: Money a player can't afford to lose. Also known as perspiration pennies.
Secondary Decision Programming: A type of programming that allows the computer to stop a hand that is about to be dealt in favor of a different hand. This is done to prevent big winning hands from appearing their theoretical number of times. One of the methods used for cheating or "fixing" a video-poker machine to have it perform as a slot machine. Also called variable programming.
Serial Dealing: In video poker the cards will be dealt as they come off the top of the deck. When you discard a card, the replacement card has not already been selected but will be the next card off the top of the deck. This is the opposite of parallel dealing.
Session: A given period of play at a casino. Usually terminated at a predetermined time, or at a certain level of wins or losses.
Seven Out: For a shooter at craps to roll a seven before repeating his point number.
Shift Boss: The individual in charge of the casino during a given work shift.
Shoot: To roll the dice.
Shooter: The person who rolls the dice. In video craps, it's the machine's programing that rolls the "dice."
The Short End: The side of a bet that has to pay off less than it will win.
Short Odds: Less than the true odds payoff of a bet.
Short Run: The limited amount of time during any given session when probability theory will seemingly be skewed by streaks or fluctuations.
Shuffle up: Technique used to thwart card counters. Dealer will shuffle after every deal or when a player enters a game and bets big money. Can't be employed at video blackjack.
Single-Deck Blackjack: The best game in the casino if the rules are standard. Most video-blackjack games are single-deck games.
Single Odds: The ability of a player to place an amount equal to his Pass Line or Come bet in odds that will be paid off at the true odds for the number. Usually not avilable at video craps.
Sleeper: A winning bet at craps that the player has forgotten about. Quite often the player will leave a table and the bet will remain until it is lost or some player or dealer takes it. Sleeper bets can be found on machines when players fail to cash out their credits at the end of play
Slot Arcade: A casino devoted exclusively to slot machines and video-poker machines.
Slot Floor: Areas devoted to slot machines in a casino.
Slot Mix: Slot machines and video-poker machines of different denominations and of different percentages in the slot area.
Slug: A group of cards that have been prearranged in a given order. Also, a piece of rounded metal inserted into a slot machine that mimics a coin.
Snake Eyes: The two at craps.
Snapper: An archaic term for a blackjack. A red snapper is a blackjack composed of two red cards.
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Video Poker Machine Talk Part11
Plus-Minus System: Another name for the Hi-Lo system or High-Low system of card counting. Cards are given a +1 or a-1 value.
Playing Cycle: The sequence of events that occurs from the moment a player puts in the coins to the moment a decision is rendered.
Point: The number (four, five, six, eight, nine or 10) which the shooter must repeat before a seven is rolled in order to win on the Pass Line at craps.
Pokermania: Vide-poker version of Quartermania. An inter-casino, progressive-linked jackpot that ontinues to grow until a player hits it.
Positive Count: A count at blackjack that favors the player.
Power of the Pen (or Pencil): The ability to issue hotel comps to players on the part of some casino executives.
Premium players: A casino term meaning big bettors or players with big credit lines.
Press: To increase the amount wagered, usually by doubling it, after a win.
Price: The total sum wagered on a keno ticket. Also, the house percentage on a given bet.
Producer: Casino term for a player who losses often and for large sums. This individual is a producer of profits for the casino.
Progressive Jackpots: The grand prize offered on certain kinds of slot and video poker machines that keeps growing as more and more money is played. Grows until it is hit by a player.
Proposition Bet: Bets in the center of the craps layout. These are all Crazy Crapper bets and should be avoided. Also, any bet that is a longshot and carries a heavy house edge.
Push: Casinoese for tie.
Pushing the House or Pushing the Casino: The term coined by the Captain to describe a player in the act of getting a better game from a casino than advertised. For example, the best buy bets have radically pushed the casinos. Not possible at most video games.
Quarter Player: A player who plays exclusively on quarter machines.
Random Number Generator: Sometimes referred to by its initials, RNG. The computer program hat generates a series of random numbers. In microprocessor machines, each sequence of random numbers will correspond to a specific card in video poker.
Rating: Evaluating a player's play for the purpose of comps.
RFB: Complimentary room, food and beverage.
Rhythmic Roller: A shooter who by chance or design gets into a non-seven mode. Usually a shooter who rolls the dice the same way time after time. This won't be encountered in video craps since the shooter-in-the-machine is a program and not a person.
Rich Deck: In blackjack, a deck that has many 10 value cards remaining to be played.
Right Bettor: A player who bets with the dice and against the seven.
Royal Flush: An ace, king, queen, jack and 10 of the same suit.
Ruin or Element of Ruin: Losing your barrkroll. The probability of losing every penny of your bankroll.
Rule Card: The card that shows the rules for a given game.
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