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- 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 would receive.
- Buck - A $100 wager.
- Bug - A joker.
- Bump - To raise.
- Burn Cards - Remove cards from the top of the deck, not to be dealt, and place them in the discard tray after a shuffle and cut.
- Buy in, Buy-in - Converting cash into chips. The amount of cash used to purchase casino chips before entering a table game: blackjack, poker, craps, roulette, etc.
- Call - In Poker, to call is to match the current bet.
- Camouflage - Anything a skilled gambler does to conceal their activities from the casino. Camouflage can include mixing in playing and betting behavior that mimics typical gamblers, or using disguises, appearing to be drunk, or any number of other possible ploys intended to throw the casino's scrutiny off.
- Capping - Referred to capping of bets. Placing extra chips on top of initial bet after the deal has begun. It is a serious form of cheating by a player.
- Card Counting - Used in blackjack game. Recording (in memory) played cards (usually high cards) so as to establish a conditional probability advantage on the remaining cards against the dealer.
- Card Sharp - A person who is an expert at cards.
- Carousel - A group of slot machines that are positioned in a ring, enabling a change person (to change bank-notes into coins) to stand in the center.
- Carpet Joint - US slang for a luxury gambling casino.
- Case money - Emergency money.
- Cashier’s Cage - The casino cash desk for cashing in the chips.
- Casino Advantage - The edge that the House (casino) has over the players.
- Casino Rate - A reduced hotel-room rate (price) that the casinos offer to good customers.
- Catch - In keno, to catch a number means that a number you have marked on your keno ticket has been drawn.
- Chase - Having lost money on a bet, 'chasing' is having another bet simply to try and get back the loss.
- Check - In casino gambling, a check is another term for a chip. In poker, a player can 'check' in order to stay in the game but not bet.
- Chemin De Fer - (French) A table game using 6 or 8 decks of cards, similar to Baccarat but requires skill.
- Chip, Chips - Round plastic discs. Casinos require that you use chips for betting. They are purchased at the gaming tables and exchanged at the cashier's booth or cage.
- Chip Tray - The tray in front of a dealer that holds that table’s inventory of chips.
- Chips - Round tokens that are used on casino gaming tables in lieu of cash.
- Coat-tail - Bet the same numbers as someone who is winning at the moment.
- Cold - A player on a losing streak, or a slot machine that is not paying out.
- Color Up - When a player 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 given by the casino to entice players to gamble. Typical comps include free hotel room, meals and beverages.
- 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.
- Cracking The Nut - Making enough money on a gambling venture to cover all expenses plus a reasonable net profit.
- Craps - Casino dice table-game.
- Credit Button - In slot machines or video machines, the button that allows players to bank coins in the form of credits.
- Crossroader - An old term used to denote a cheat originated in the Old West practice of cheating at saloons located at crossroads. The term is still used today for casino cheats.
- Croupier - French word for Dealer, used in the games of baccarat and roulette.
- Cut - In card games following a shuffle before the start of a new round of play, when the dealer or player divides a deck into two parts and inverts them, using a cut card (see below).
- Cut Card - A faceless card of different color, usually red or black, that is used to cut a deck of cards.
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