Sawbuck - Ten dollars.
Scared Money - Money that you cannot afford to lose.
Session - A period of play or a table sitting at any gambling game.
Shark - A good/crafty player often posing as a fish early in the game. See also "Fish".
Sharker - (Also known as Sharper, or Cardsharp) A cheater.
Shill - A person who actively plays in the game for the house, club, or casino. Usually seen at a Baccarat table to fill empty seats, until more real players join in.
Shiner - A tiny mirror or any reflecting device used by a cheater to see unexposed cards. A reflecting device used to try and glimpse the dealer's hole card.
Shoe - Device, usually a wooden box, used for holding and dispensing playing cards to be dealt. Shoe games are typically composed of six or eight decks of cards.
Short Run - A short series of wagers or game events.
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 Tracking - A high level blackjack playing strategy used by card counters.
Shuffle Up - Premature shuffling of playing cards by the dealer.
Shutter - A window covering a number on a reusable bingo card. The shutter can be pulled down to mark each number as it is called.
Single - A Straight bet on one selection, also known as a straight-up bet.
Singleton - In poker, a card that is the only one of its rank.
Skin - (Also Known as Skoon) A dollar.
Skin Game - In poker, a game having two or more collusion cheaters.
Skinning the Hand - In poker, a cheater's technique to get rid of extra cards.
Snake Eyes - When you roll a two in craps, it is called 'Snake Eyes' - eyes because they look like eyes, snake because they are bad news (for the shooter).
Soft Count - The count of the contents in a drop box, bill validator or video game receipt collection.
Soft Hand - In blackjack, any hand that contains an ace counted as eleven is called a soft hand.
Spinner - A winning streak.
Spooking - Used in blackjack game. The act of standing behind the dealer to peak at the hole card and then secretly convey the information to a partner player sitting at the table. An illegal form of cheating.
Scared Money - Money that you cannot afford to lose.
Session - A period of play or a table sitting at any gambling game.
Shark - A good/crafty player often posing as a fish early in the game. See also "Fish".
Sharker - (Also known as Sharper, or Cardsharp) A cheater.
Shill - A person who actively plays in the game for the house, club, or casino. Usually seen at a Baccarat table to fill empty seats, until more real players join in.
Shiner - A tiny mirror or any reflecting device used by a cheater to see unexposed cards. A reflecting device used to try and glimpse the dealer's hole card.
Shoe - Device, usually a wooden box, used for holding and dispensing playing cards to be dealt. Shoe games are typically composed of six or eight decks of cards.
Short Run - A short series of wagers or game events.
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 Tracking - A high level blackjack playing strategy used by card counters.
Shuffle Up - Premature shuffling of playing cards by the dealer.
Shutter - A window covering a number on a reusable bingo card. The shutter can be pulled down to mark each number as it is called.
Single - A Straight bet on one selection, also known as a straight-up bet.
Singleton - In poker, a card that is the only one of its rank.
Skin - (Also Known as Skoon) A dollar.
Skin Game - In poker, a game having two or more collusion cheaters.
Skinning the Hand - In poker, a cheater's technique to get rid of extra cards.
Snake Eyes - When you roll a two in craps, it is called 'Snake Eyes' - eyes because they look like eyes, snake because they are bad news (for the shooter).
Soft Count - The count of the contents in a drop box, bill validator or video game receipt collection.
Soft Hand - In blackjack, any hand that contains an ace counted as eleven is called a soft hand.
Spinner - A winning streak.
Spooking - Used in blackjack game. The act of standing behind the dealer to peak at the hole card and then secretly convey the information to a partner player sitting at the table. An illegal form of cheating.
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.
Stack - A stack of chips, usually 20 chips in a column commonly used in Roulette.
Standing Hand - In blackjack, meaning a hand which hard-totals to 17 or more, which is very likely to bust if one more card is called and therefore the player is expected to stand.
Steaming - A blackjack term where a player has become frustrated with how badly the events of a session of play have turned out.
Stiff - (A Stiff Hand) In blackjack, a hand that is not pat and that may bust if hit once. Stiffs include hard twelve through sixteen.
Straight Keno - The basic keno game, played by marking individual numbers on a keno ticket.
Streak Betting - (Also known as 'Progressive Betting') A system of raising or lowering the size of one's wager based on what happened on the previous round or rounds.
Stripping - Is a shuffling technique which reverses the sequential order of the cards in the deck.
Stud Poker - One of the two basic forms of poker game (the other is draw poker) and played with open or exposed cards (up cards) and with one or more concealed cards known as hole cards (down cards).
Suit - Any one of the four types of cards: clubs, diamonds, hearts or spades.
Surrender - In blackjack, to give up half your bet for the privilege of not playing out a hand. In roulette, you effectively lose only half on an even-money bet when the ball lands on 0.
System - A method of betting, usually mathematically based, used by a punter or bettor to try to get an advantage. A prominent factor in most systems, is the criteria used to determine when the player's wagers should be raised or lowered. See Systems on this site.
Table Hold - The amount of money won by the casino table game from the players during an eight-hour work shift.
Table Stakes - In poker, stakes in which the betting and raising is limited to the amount of money a player has on the table in front of him.
Taking the Odds - There are two fundamental forms of wagering, 'taking the odds' and 'laying the odds'. In most casino games the player is 'taking the odds' by wagering an amount that is less than they will receive if they win, that is; if you wager $1 you would win more than $1. In most forms of sports betting, some odds are so high in favour of the likely winner that winning wagers get paid an amount less than the amount wagered by some percentage, and this is what is meant by 'laying the odds'.
Tapping Out - Losing one's entire gambling bankroll and thus having to stop playing.
Stack - A stack of chips, usually 20 chips in a column commonly used in Roulette.
Standing Hand - In blackjack, meaning a hand which hard-totals to 17 or more, which is very likely to bust if one more card is called and therefore the player is expected to stand.
Steaming - A blackjack term where a player has become frustrated with how badly the events of a session of play have turned out.
Stiff - (A Stiff Hand) In blackjack, a hand that is not pat and that may bust if hit once. Stiffs include hard twelve through sixteen.
Straight Keno - The basic keno game, played by marking individual numbers on a keno ticket.
Streak Betting - (Also known as 'Progressive Betting') A system of raising or lowering the size of one's wager based on what happened on the previous round or rounds.
Stripping - Is a shuffling technique which reverses the sequential order of the cards in the deck.
Stud Poker - One of the two basic forms of poker game (the other is draw poker) and played with open or exposed cards (up cards) and with one or more concealed cards known as hole cards (down cards).
Suit - Any one of the four types of cards: clubs, diamonds, hearts or spades.
Surrender - In blackjack, to give up half your bet for the privilege of not playing out a hand. In roulette, you effectively lose only half on an even-money bet when the ball lands on 0.
System - A method of betting, usually mathematically based, used by a punter or bettor to try to get an advantage. A prominent factor in most systems, is the criteria used to determine when the player's wagers should be raised or lowered. See Systems on this site.
Table Hold - The amount of money won by the casino table game from the players during an eight-hour work shift.
Table Stakes - In poker, stakes in which the betting and raising is limited to the amount of money a player has on the table in front of him.
Taking the Odds - There are two fundamental forms of wagering, 'taking the odds' and 'laying the odds'. In most casino games the player is 'taking the odds' by wagering an amount that is less than they will receive if they win, that is; if you wager $1 you would win more than $1. In most forms of sports betting, some odds are so high in favour of the likely winner that winning wagers get paid an amount less than the amount wagered by some percentage, and this is what is meant by 'laying the odds'.
Tapping Out - Losing one's entire gambling bankroll and thus having to stop playing.
