Irregularity: A departure from the standard procedures at a given game.
]ackpot: A grand payout, either on a machine or at a table game.
Jackpot Jumpers: Name for the thieves who attempt to steal your jackpot either by claiming it was theirs or by befriending you and making off with your money when you least suspect it.
Johnson Act: A federal law that forbids the shipment of gambling devices except to states that can operate them legally. Act took effect on January 3,1951.
Joker: A wild card that can usually be used as a substitute for any card in the deck. Usually resembles a court jester.
Juice: The five percent commission that the house charges on buy bets in craps. Not available on video craps. Also known as vig or vigorish.
Junket: A trip arranged, organized and subsidized by a casino to bring gamblers to play at the games.
Junket master: The person in charge of a junket.
Kelly Criterion: A betting system utilizing the knowledge of a player's advantage at any given point in the game. The player bets the proportion of his bankroll that represents his advantage.
Kibitzer: An individual who is not playing at a given game but is giving unwanted advice.
Kicker: In poker, an extra card, usually a high card, that is kept with a pair. Not a good strategy in video poker.
Law of Repeating Numbers: The Captain's tongue-in-cheek term for his observation that numbers tend to repeat during short-term fluctuations.
Lay Bet: A wrong bet on a number at craps that is paid off at true odds after the casino extracts a five percent commission.
Laying Odds: For the wrong bettor to make an odds bet on the Don't Pass or the Don't Come. Not available in video craps.
Layout: The design imprinted with the various bets at a given game.
Level One System: Any card counting system that uses +1 or -1 as the value of the cards that are counted.
Levels: Honest gaming equipment and personnel. As in: "This game is on the level."
Liberty Bell: The original slot machine created by Charles Fey.
Light-Up Slot Machines: First created by the Jennings Company. Machines that have electronically lit panels.
Limited Bankroll System: The name of the craps system for individuals who can't afford the Captain's best buys, or who do not wish to play the Supersystem or 5-Count Pass and Come. Also known as the Low Roller System. A version of this system can be played at video craps.
Line Bet: A bet in craps on the pass line.
Little Joe: In craps, a roll of four. Also called Little Joe from Kokomo.
Long end of a bet: The side of a bet that must pay off more than it collects.
Long Run: The concept that a player could play so often that probability would tend to even out. That is, you would start to see the total appearance of numbers approximating

Head to Head: To play against the dealer with no other player in the game. Sometimes referred to as face to face, or heads up. Many video blackjack games are "head-to-head" contests vs. the dealer-in-the-machine.
Heat: Surveillance by the casino of a suspected card counter. Or pressure put on a card counter to leave before being banned. Also, known as steam. Not a problem for video-blackjack players.
iiigh Card: A jack, queen, king or ace.
High-Low: Abet at craps that the next roll will be a two or a 12. Also, different spelling for the counting system Hi-Lo in blackjack.
High Roller: A player who plays for large stakes.
High Roller System: A method of betting for large stakes developed by the Captain that reduces the house edge and allows excellent comps without the normal risk. Would include the best buys. Cannot be done at video craps.
High Pair: A pair of jacks, queens, kings or aces.
Hit: To receive another card on your hand in blackjack.
Hold: The actual amount that the casinos take from their games. To save certain cards.
Hold Button: In video poker, the button that allows you to keep certain cards.
Hole Card: The second card dealt to the dealer in blackjack, that is face down. Any face down card.
Hop: A bet in craps that the next roll of the dice will be a certain combination. A Crazy Crapper bet. Usually not available at video craps.
Hopper: Electronically powered payout system that counts out the coins to be paid accurately and fast. Some people also use the term hopper to refer to the tray that catches the coins.
Horn Bet: A one roll bet in craps that combines the two, three 11 and 12.
Horn High: A horn bet at craps where one of the totals has one more unit riding on it than all the others.
Horrendous Rolls: Rolls where the shooter sevens out within a few rolls after establishing his point number.
Hot: A player who has been winning.
Hot and Cold System: A wager on the side that won previously. Another name for the streak method of betting.
Hot Dice: Dice that have been passing and making numbers.
Hot Machine: A machine where the players have been winning.
Hot Shooter: A shooter having a good roll at the craps table.
House Edge: The mathematical edge that the casino has on a given bet or machine.
House Odds: The payoff that reflects the casino's tax on your winning bet.
Hustler: A gambling cheat.
Inside Numbers: In craps, the numbers five, six, eight, nine.
Inside straight: A straight that can only be completed by one card on the inside. Example: 4-5- * -7-8.
Insurance: A side wager at blackjack for up to half the original wager that the dealer has a blackjack when he has an ace showing.

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