Entering and playing at online casinos requires certain knowledge of all the various and different terms used by online casinos and online casino players. Below you will be able to find a list of the most common idioms and phrases used when playing at online casinos. Enjoy!
Ante: the first wager made prior to receiving cards in poker played at online casinos
Apron: working area on the table
Blocking: the squaring up of any multiple of packs of cards
Box: a betting space on the blackjack layout
Boxed card: card which has in error been placed in the shoe face up
Bridging: to centrally place chips on top of two units/stacks
Capping: placing payouts directly on top of wagers
Chemmy shuffle: the mixing of cards face down
Chips (wheel): tokens used for betting in place of money on American roulette tables
Chips (value): tokens used for betting in place of money with specific denominations markings
Chips (plaques): non-negotiable plaques/chips marked with specific denominations given in exchange for cash at the cash desk.
Clicker: a meter used to record cash input on each table at online casinos
Coup: the cards held by a player/ dealer in any one round of a game
Cutting (cards): using a cutting card (postillion) to manually separate a random number of cards.
Cutting (chips): to manually separate a specific number of chips from a stack
Discard: a card no longer required in an online casinos game
Dolly: a plastic cube used to mark the winning number
Double (down): at online casinos means doubling your bet
Drop box: a fixed container for cash intake on each table
Hand: the cards held and controlled by one player in Blackjack and poker.
Heeling: to displace a number of chips in steps
Hitting: sizing into similar value/colour chips at online casinos
Marker tree: a visual display of marker buttons/chips/value chips
Marker/button: a chip used to represent or mark a specific amount denomination
Odds: chances or balance of probability against a winning result at online casinos
Palette: a gambling implement (wooden spatula) used in the game of punto banco, chemin de fer and baccarat.
Par float: set amount of chips issued at commencement of play
Payout area: an area where payout or exchange transactions are made up and paid from
Pencilling (chips): the running off of chips from the bottom of a stack
Picking (chips): the picking up of chips from the top of a stack (not relevant to online casinos)
Pit: a cordoned off section of gaming tables at land and online casinos
Plunger: a T-shaped piece of equipment used to deposit cash in the table cash box
Postillion: a plastic card used for cutting a deck/s of cards (cutting card)
Riffle shuffle: the mixing of closed cards in an alternate/random manner at online casinos
Shoe: a piece of equipment used to enable the drawing of cards
Splitting: the separation of a pair of cards
Spreading: fanning of cards flat for display
Stack (full): a stack containing 20 chips
Stacking: collecting chips/notes in units of twenty
Stepping: as heeling
Tableaux: the fixed set of drawing rules used in punto banco whether played at land of online casinos
Tax: difference in odds paid by the player. This happens at land casinos but at online casinos no tax is generally deducted.