Gambling terms, explained straight

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Casino & Table Games

The games dealt on a casino floor, and the vocabulary attached to each one. Blackjack, roulette, craps and baccarat all describe the same three ideas — a bet, a payout and a house edge — in almost entirely different words.

Terms are grouped by game here, because the same word frequently means different things at different tables. A shoe is central to blackjack and meaningless at a roulette wheel; odds at a craps table is the name of a specific bet rather than a price. Where a term genuinely crosses games, the page says which meaning applies where.

All terms in this category

113 terms sit in this category, grouped by the game they belong to. All of them are written.

Blackjack odds (39)

On the casino floor (22)

Craps odds (16)

Baccarat odds (15)

Roulette odds (8)

Other table games (8)

other (5)

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