Chip tray: The tray in front of a dealer that holds that tables inventory of chips.

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.

Comps: Complimentary gifts used by casinos to entice players to gamble. Typical comps include free room, food and beverage.

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.

Credit button: In slot machines or video machines, the button that allows players to bank coins in the form of credits.

Croupier: The French word for dealer, used in the games of baccarat and roulette.

Cut: When the dealer divides a deck into two parts and inverts them after they have been well shuffled.

Cut card: A card of different colour that is used to cut a deck of cards.

Deal: To give out the cards during a hand

Designated dealer: In poker games like Texas hold'em, the player to the left of the dealer bets first. In a poker room where each game has a resident dealer, a different player serves as the designated dealer for each hand.

Deuce: A two.

Dice: Two identical numbered cubes.

Die: Singular for dice, a cube with numbers 1-6 on each side.

Dime bet: a $1000 wager.

Discard tray: A tray on the dealers right side that holds all the cards that have been played or discarded.

Dollar bet: a $100 wager.

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.

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

Even money: A bet that pays you back the same amount that you wagered, plus your original wager. shown as a ratio of 1:1.

Expected win rate: A percentage of the total amount of money wagered that you can expect to win or lose over time.

Face cards: The jack, queen, and king of any suit of cards.

Family pot: In poker, when everyone at the table decides to enter a pot

Fifth street: In seven-card stud, the third round of betting is called fifth street because players have five cards. In hold'em , fifth street is the fifth card on board and the final round of betting.

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.

Fishing: A player who stays in a poker game longer than advisable generally is fishing for the card or two that will make the hand a winner.

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.

Flush: In poker, a hand consisting of five cards of one suit.

Front money: Cash or bank checks deposited with the casino to establish credit for a player who bets against that money.

Fold: In poker, when a player declines a bet and drops out of the hand.

Foul: In pai gow poker, a hand is fouled when the two-card low hand is set higher than the five-card high hand, or when the hands are set with the wrong number of cards. A fouled hand is a losing hand.

Four of a kind: Four cards of the same rank, also known as quads.

Fourth street: In seven-card stud, the second round of betting is called fourth street because players have four cards. In hold'em, fourth street is the fourth card on board and the third round of betting.

Full house: In poker, a hand consisting of a three of a kind and a pair.

Green: The most common color used for $25 chips.

Hand: Refers to the cards that you hold, or to everything that happens in a card game between shuffles of the deck.

Hard hand: In blackjack, any hand that does not contain an ace valued at eleven.

High poker: Standard poker, as compared to low poker or lowball. In high poker, high hands win.

High roller: A big bettor.

Hit: In blackjack, to take another card. The card received is also called a hit.

Hold'em: A class of poker games.

Holding your own: Breaking even.

Hole card: In blackjack, the facedown card that the dealer gets. In stud and hold'em poker, the facedown cards dealt to each player.

Hot: A player who is on a winning streak, or a slot machine that is paying out.