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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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Video Poker Machine Talk Part9
what probability theory predicts. A long run player is one who plays a lot!
Loose Machine: A slot machine or video-poker machine that is paying off more than other machines of its type. A machine that is winning for a player.
Low Hand: In video poker, any non-paying hand.
Low Pair: In video poker, any pair that doesn't win money on the payout schedule.
Making a point: Having your Pass Line number repeat before the appearance of a seven.
Mark: An individual who has been or is going to be cheated. A sucker.
Marker: The check a player fills out before receiving casino credit at a table. A promissory note or I.O.U.
Martingale system of wagering: Doubling one's bet after a loss in an attempt to make back all your losses and a small win.
Mechanical Machine: The oldest form of gaming device. Ran by gears, pulleys, an levers. The handle was the direct cause of all that happened inside the machine.
Megapoker: Giant inter-casino linked-progressive video-poker machines that pay out huge jackpots for specific hands.
Microprocessor Machines: The modern, computerized "smart" machines, where a microprocessor computer chip controls and simulates play action.
Money at Risk: Money that has been wagered and can be lost.
Money Management: The methods a player uses to conserve his bankroll from ruin.
Monster roll: A craps roll that is long and where many numbers and points are rolled. The dream of every craps player. The "Arm" from Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos is known as the Queen of the Monsters for the epic rolls she regularly produces.
Multiple-Coin Machine (Multipliers): Slot and video poker machines that require more than one coin for maximum payouts.
Multiple-Deck game: Blackjack played with more than one deck which gives the house more of an advantage over the player.
Multiple Hands: To play more than one hand at blackjack. Some video-blackjack machines allow this.
Multiple-Pay Machines: Machines that pay out on more than one line depending on how many coins you put in.
Nail: To catch someone cheating. "We nailed him."
Natural: A perfect hand. In blackjack, an ace and a 10 card. In craps, a seven or 11 on the come-out roll.
Negative Count: A count at blackjack that favors the casino.
Negative Progression: Any system of wagering where you increase bets after a loss.
Nickel: A five dollar chip or coin.
Non-Seven Mode: A roll in which a rhythmic roller is positioning and rolling the dice in such a way that the seven doesn't appear. Unfortunately, unless a machine is faulty, tis is not a considereation in video craps.
N.S.G.N.G.R: The Captain's tongue-in-cheek rule that you should never get upset ifyou can't guess correctly for example, at video keno. Stands for No Second Guess No Guess Rule.
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