As you play at various Online Casinos and Poker Rooms, you're bound to come across a number of 'phrases' and 'lingo' that you may not understand immediately. It’s taken quite a while to compile and we've only selected Casino terms and phrases that we think you'll find useful, but hopefully the list below will prove a useful reference when playing Online Casino Games. Saying that, if there's anything missing just let us know and we'll be more than happy to include it for other confused gamblers.

Action - The amount of money wagered.
Active player - One who is still in with a chance of winning.
Banker - The dealer/player who books the action of the other bettors at the table.
Bankroll - A player’s total available gambling money.
Betting limits - In a table game, the minimum and maximum amounts of money that you can wager on one bet. You cannot wager less than the minimum or more than the maximum amount posted.
Blind bet - A bet that players are required to make because of their betting positions.
Break-even point - The break-even point is the point at which if you played forever, the bets you made would approximately equal the payoffs you'd receive.
Burn card - In card games, the card temporarily removed from play. After a shuffle and cut, one card is placed on the bottom of the deck or in the discard tray, which is called burning the card.
Button - In poker, a small plastic disc used as a marker that is moved from player to player after each hand to designate the dealer position.
Call - In poker, when a player matches the current bet on the table. In keno and bingo, to draw the numbers for each game.
Capping - Placing extra chips on top of your wager after the game commences. Not a highly regarded practice. On practice that will earn you a warning.
Caller - In poker, someone who has called a bet.
Card counting - Keeping track of all cards that have been played since the shuffle.
Card sharp - A person who is an expert at cards.
Casino advantage - The edge that the house has over the players
Catch - In keno, to catch a number means that a number you have marked on your keno ticket has been drawn
Check - Another term for a chip. In poker, a player can check in order to stay in the game.
Cold - A player on a losing streak, or a slot machine that isn't paying out.
Colour up - When a player leaving a game exchanges smaller denomination chips for larger denomination chips.
Combination way ticket - In keno, a ticket in which groups of numbers are bet several different ways, allowing the player to spread money over more combinations.
Copy - In pai gow poker, when a player and the banker have the same two-card hand, or the same five-card hand. The banker wins all copies.
Cut - When the dealer divides a deck into two parts and inverts them.
Cut card - A card of different colour that is used to cut a deck of cards.
Designated dealer - In poker it's the player to the left of the dealer that bets first. In a poker room where each game has a resident dealer, a different player serves as the designated dealer for each hand.
Dime bet - a $1000 wager
Dividend - Payout or return on any give wager or bet.
Dollar bet - a $100 wager
Double Up - Increase a bet on a hand after the first two cards are drawn.
Double down - In blackjack, it is the players option to double their original bet in exchange for receiving only one more card. To do this the player turns over their first two cards and places an equal bet alongside the original bet.
Down Card - A card not showing its face value.
Draw - In draw poker, the second round of cards that are dealt.
Draw button - In video poker this button allows the player to draw up to five new cards.
Drop box - On a gaming table, the box that serves as a repository for cash, markers, and chips.
Edge - An advantage over an opponent
Expected win rate - A percentage of the total amount of money wagered that you can expect to win or lose over time.
Family pot - In poker, when everyone at the table decides to enter a pot
First base - At the blackjack table, the position on the far left of the dealer is considered to be first base and is the first position dealt with.
Flat top - A slot machine whose jackpot is always a fixed amount, as opposed to a progressive.
Flop - In a game of hold'em, the three cards dealt face-up in the centre of the table.
Hard hand - In blackjack, any hand that does not contain an ace valued at eleven.
Hardways Bets - In Craps Hard Six (two 3's) and Hard Eight (two 4's), pay 9 to 1, and Hard Four (two 2's) and Hard Ten (two 5's), pay 7 to 1. You win if the Hardway you are betting rolls before a 7 or a non-pair combination of the number bet.
High roller - A big bettor.
Hot - A player who is on a winning streak, or a slot machine that is paying out.
Horn Bet - A one roll bet that combines the 2, 3, 11, and 12.
House Advantage - The casino percentage advantage in each particular casino game. Commonly gained by paying less than the odds.
House edge - The percentage of each bet that you make that the house takes in. Winning bets are paid off at less than the true odds to generate income for the house.
Inside bets - A roulette bet placed on any number, or small combination of numbers.
Insurance - In blackjack, a side bet that the dealer has a natural. Insurance is offered only when the dealers up card is an ace. The insurance bet wins double if the dealer has a natural, but loses if the dealer does not.
Juice - Bookmakers commission, also know as vigorish.
Kicker - In a draw poker game, an odd high card held that doesn't contribute to a straight or a flush, usually an ace or a king.
Klipper - A person who mills around casinos looking for free hand outs.
Load up - To play the maximum number of coins per spin that a slot machine allows.
Low poker - Also called lowball, is poker in which the pot is awarded to the hand with the lowest poker value.
Number pool - The range of numbers from which you select the ones you want to play. A typical lottery pool ranges from 1 to 60, and the keno pool is 1 to 80.
One Roll Bets - Wagers that will win or lose depending on the next roll of the dice.
Outside bets - Roulette bets located on the outside part of the layout. They involve betting 12 to 18 numbers at one time.
Overlay - A good bet where you have an edge over the casino.
Pat - In draw poker, a hand that does not need any more hands. In blackjack, an unbusted hand worth at least 17 points.
Pay cycle - A theoretical expression that reflects the number of plays required for the machine to cycle through all possible winning and nonwinning combinations.
Payline - The line on a slot machine window on which the symbols from each reel must line up. Slot machines can have as many as eight paylines, although most have only one.
Payout percentage - Also referred to as the payback percentage, the percent of each dollar played in a video or slot machine that the machine is programmed to return to the player. Payback percentage is 100 percent minus the house edge.
Pot - In a poker game, the amount of money that accumulates in the middle of the table as each player antes, bets, and raises. The pot goes to the winner of the hand.
Point - Dice term for the number rolled on the come-out roll if a 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10. The point has to be repeated before a seven rolls for the Pass Line bets to win.
Press a Bet - Adding the winnings over the current bet to 'let it ride'.
Probability - A branch of mathematics that measures the likelihood that an event will occur. Probabilities are expressed as numbers between 0 and 1. The probability of an impossible event is 0, while an event that is certain to occur has a probability of 1.
Progressive - A slot machine whose potential jackpot increases with each coin that is played. When the progressive jackpot finally hits, the amount resets to the starting number.
Proposition Bet - Dice bets on number combinations.
Push - A tie hand between a dealer and a player; no money changes hands. A push at blackjack occurs when both the player and the dealer have a unbusted hands with the same total points.
Quarters - $25 dollar bet.
Rake - The money that the casino charges for each hand of poker. It is usually a percentage (5-10%) or flat fee that is taken from the pot after each round of betting.
River - In poker, the final card dealt in a hand of stud or hold'em. In seven-card stud, staying in until the fifth and final round of betting is called going to the river.
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.
Soft hand - In blackjack, any hand that contains an ace as eleven is called a soft hand.
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.
Steal - In poker, to win the pot by bluffing.
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.
Toke - The worth of a set of cards.
Underlay - In poker, an ace-high straight flush; the best possible hand.
Vigorish - In pai gow poker, players set their seven cards into two separate hands of two and five cards each.
Wild card - Before each hand the dealer mixes up the order of the cards.