rien ne va plus

/ɹɪˈã nə vɑː ˈpluː/

Borrowed from French rien ne va plus (literally “nothing goes any more”). In use since mid 19th century.

bor

(gambling) In roulette, an announcement made by the croupier while the wheel is spinning and no more bets can be placed.


pit boss

pit bosses (plural)
pit-boss (alternative)

Las Vegas: The pit boss sees all on the casino floor as a trained trouble spotter amid this high-roller’s paradise.

2007 July 22, Selena Roberts, “Stewards of Sport Need a Lesson From the Pit Bosses”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-06-10:

One woman at a baccarat table […] shouted and mumbled something about wanting her money back, or at least the opportunity to win it back. A pit boss standing behind the dealer joked: “I don’t have any money! I’m unemployed!” and a few moments later, a security guard escorted the woman off the floor.

2014 January 16, Victoria Bekiempis, “Atlantic City's Last 'Low-Roller' Casino Busts”, in Newsweek, retrieved 2015-06-10:

(gambling) A supervisor who oversees the dealers and activity at the gaming tables in a casino, and who typically has the authority to expel unruly gamblers from the premises.


missout

(gambling, slang) A die loaded in favor of the house and against the player.


unbackable

en-adj

unbackable (comparative more unbackable, superlative most unbackable)

more unbackable (comparative)
most unbackable (superlative)

an unbackable racehorse

(chiefly gambling) That cannot or should not be backed, or supported in a contest, especially because the odds are unreasonably low.


count cards

en-verb

count cards (third-person singular simple present counts cards, present participle counting cards, simple past and past participle counted cards)

counts cards (present singular third-person)
counting cards (participle present)
counted cards (participle past)
counted cards (past)

(gambling) To keep track of the cards that have been dealt and those that remain in the deck, in order to calculate the likelihood of certain hands in gambling games such as poker and blackjack.

算牌

keep track of cards that have been dealt


each way

According to the Crown's case, in pursuance of this scheme, a slip was handed in by Humphreys on Saturday, Feb. 6, 1965, for a five shilling each way Yankee bet coupled with a twenty shilling each way bet on one of the horses.

1966, Justice of the peace and local government review reports:

A win bet carries one unit stake, a place bet one unit and an each way bet two units — one for win and one for place.

1973, J. P. Jones, Gambling yesterday and today: a complete history, page 114:

This horse does not achieve the criteria you have laid down, whether it is a win or an each way bet.

2013, Lee Werrell, How To Develop Your Natural Charisma The Easy Way:

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, gambling) For either a win or a place in a competition.


each way

At first the shilling each way I put on horses was not my own but the concession allowed me by the street bookmaker for the other bankers' bets I brought him.

1946, Sean O'Faolain, Peadar O'Donnell, The Bell - Volume 12, page 132:

In time it is envisaged that in this State betting will be permitted by way of doubles, quinellas, win, and place, as well as up-the-lot betting, for a win, for a place, and each way.

1960, Great Britain Parliament, Western Australia Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, page 2465:

He would put his 50 pence each way on Crisp or whoever whilst Mum's 50 pence each way went on Red Rum.

2011, Mark Senior, Changing Speed 2, →ISBN, page 84:

I wanted to put sixpence on, each way.


TOD

en-noun

TOD (countable and uncountable, plural TODs)

TODs (plural)
ToD (alternative)
T.O.D. (alternative)
T.o.D. (alternative)
T. O. D. (alternative)
T. o. D. (alternative)

(gambling) Initialism of time-on-device.


little Dick Fisher

(gambling, dice games, slang) A score of four in the game of craps.


prize pool

The prize pool is $600. The 1st place gets $300, the 2nd place gets $200 and the 3rd place gets $100.

This is a satellite tournament. The prize pool consists of 18 entries to a tournament with a more expensive buy-in.

(games, gambling, sports) The total amount of money that is distributed among the winners in a tournament.


anti-martingale

(gambling) A reversed martingale betting strategy that increases the bet after a win and reduces it after a loss.


les jeux sont faits

/leɪ ˌʒɜː sɒ̃ ˈfeɪ/

Borrowed from French les jeux sont faits (literally “the games are made”). Earliest use found in James Joyce (1882–1941) in the 1920s.

bor

(gambling) In roulette, the call made by the croupier as the wheel is set in motion.


faites vos jeux

/ˌfeɪt vəʊ ˈʒɜː/

/ˌfɛt vəʊ ˈʒɜː/

/ˌfɛt voʊ ˈʒɜ/

Borrowed from French faites vos jeux (literally “make your bets”).

(gambling) In roulette, the call made by the croupier when gamblers can place their bets.


yoleven

Coined to avoid confusion with seven in the loud casino environment.

(US, gambling, chiefly craps) The number eleven.


side bet

The fight lasted ten minutes and along with the championship of New Jersey, Banks won a side bet of $50.

However, even if the harm of using side bets exceeds the benefit, the parties would still have an incentive to place side bets on the outcome of the trial once the jury starts deliberating.

1997, The Journal of Legal Studies - Volume 26, page 88:

A hand can come up where the right play for the tournament is the wrong play for your side bet.

2007, David Sklansky, Tournament Poker for Advanced Players, page 117:

Craps is also worth mentioning because of the possibility of making a curious side bet in which you can bet with the house; that is, against the player throwing the dice.

2011, Alex Bellos, Alex's Adventures in Numberland, page 314:

Developing a lucrative side bet for baccarat, blackjack, craps, or roulette may be an attractive pursuit for a casino game designer because the basic game is in place; the side bet can be marketed to casinos as an add-on to a game already on offer.

2021, Mark Bollman, Mathematics of The Big Four Casino Table Games:

(gambling) A bet on some aspect of a game or competition that is not the main bet of the game or the prize of the competition; proposition bet.


payline

This means that to win anything, you must line up a winning combination on that center payline and on that line only.

1994, Victor H. Royer, Casino Magazine's Play Smart and Win, →ISBN:

Much like bingo, the multiple payline machines give slots players various directions that can turn them into a winner. The single payline machine has one line across the machine, which shows where the reels must line up for a winning combination to be paid. The multiple payline machine, on the other hand, has three or five lines, depending upon the machine, which give players more winning positions on the reels.

2012, Avery Cardoza, Winning Casino Play, →ISBN, page 11:

The disadvantages in multi-payline machines are that the smaller payoffs are usually very small, much smaller than on one-payline machines, and also that the top jackpot is usually paid only if you line up the proper winning symbols in the correct sequence on the bottom, or third, payline. Or the fifth payline in case of the five-line machines, or the eighth payline in case of the eight-line machines, and so on — basically, if you don't play all the paylines you cannot win the jackpotl

2014, Victor H. Royer, Powerful Profits From Slots, →ISBN, page 42:

(gambling) A line of symbols on a slot machine (horizontal, vertical or diagonal) that can win a jackpot.


jueteng

Ultimately derived from Hokkien, via Philippine Spanish jueteng, where the use of ⟨j⟩ represents /h/ as it is spelled from Spanish orthography during the Spanish Colonial Era in the Philippines. See more at Tagalog huweteng.

hueteng (alternative)
huweteng (alternative)

(Philippines, gambling) An illegal numbers game lottery, using a tambiolo/tambola/tómbola container that is spun or a receptacle, sometimes shaped like a bottle or small-necked phial, that is shaken with the winning number from 1 to 37 on a ball or raffle ticket paper drawn after all bets are submitted

History of the Philippines (1565–1898)
Spanish orthography
jueteng


FOBT

fixed odds betting terminal
w:fixed odds betting terminal

(gambling) Initialism of fixed odds betting terminal.


dutching

(gambling) The use of the Dutch book betting technique.


callover

No longer was there any doubt at the next callover this rank outsider would be the odds-on favourite!

1955, Henry Hall, Here's to the Next Time: The Autobiography of Henry Hall, page 235:

We also had the callover there. In the Victoria Club in London, all the bookmakers would get together, swap information and set the odds, and it was known as the callover. It was quite an honour to have it.

(gambling) A bookmakers' meeting to discuss the odds.


tambiolo

tambiolos (plural)
tambola (alternative)

Borrowed from Philippine Spanish tambiolo, from tambo + -i- + Italian -olo. See also Spanish tómbola, which is also from Italian tombola. Compare Tagalog tambiyolo.

bor+

The lottery during the time of José Rizal used the traditional manually operated tambiolo where numbers were drawn for the winning combinations.

2010 November 30, Perseus Echeminada, “Rizal a lottery winner in 1892”, in The Philippine Star, retrieved 2020-06-25:

A few days ago, the Manila police raided one such bingo game in the Blumentritt area. The police grabbed pieces of evidence, such as the tambiolo from which the winning numbers are taken, and cards, in the process of which there was a scuffle and the uniform of a policeman and the T-shirt of a Sangguniang Kabataan chair were torn.

2013 February 19, Neal H. Cruz, “Is bingo an illegal numbers game or not?”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer, retrieved 2020-06-25:

(Philippines, gambling) A fish bowl or barrel-shaped container where balls used in a raffle or a lottery are placed. In the case of a raffle, tickets may also be used. Can be made out of wire, glass, clear plastic, etc. Often has a handle, which, when rotated, mixes up the balls or tickets.


pro-gamer

pro-gamers (plural)
progamer (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pro-gamer.wav

(gambling) A professional gambler; a competitive player of games of chance to win prizes.


mechanical game

en-noun

mechanical game (plural mechanical games)

Anyone who bucks a purely mechanical game with a fixed deduction from each play must, over a period of time, wind up a loser.

1990, Robert Rowe, How to Win At Horseracing, page 2:

And because poker is more of an art than a mechanical game, you can easily slip into bad habits and start making mistakes.

2011, Kevin Blackwood, Casino Gambling For Dummies, page 300:

(gambling) Any game based on chance rather than skill.


eighter from Decatur

(US, slang, gambling) An eight in the game of craps.


pea shake

(US, Indiana, gambling) An illicit numbers game or lottery, with the numbers marked on small balls or "peas".


ring in one's nose

So, the dealers are thinking, “What a mamaluke! The guy's got a ring in his nose!” But then he comes back and plays some more. And all the guys like him, because he's funny and he's one of the boys and he tips big.

2010, Steven R. Schirripa, Charles Fleming, The Goomba's Book of Love:

He admitted in a dugout interview in 1969 that there was a time when he “had a ring in his nose” and once lost $8,000 two days in a row at the track.

2017, Paul Dickson, Leo Durocher: Baseball's Prodigal Son:

(gambling, slang) A compulsion to gamble regardless of one's losses.


fairbank

en-verb

fairbank (third-person singular simple present fairbanks, present participle fairbanking, simple past and past participle fairbanked)

fairbanks (present singular third-person)
fairbanking (participle present)
fairbanked (participle past)
fairbanked (past)

I keep on fairbanking the chump until he is between a poop and a sweat. The score is half a C and he's broke.

1935, Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan, The American Mercury, volume 35, page 227:

I didn't check the dart board for the winner's precise total and will assume he hadn't been “fairbanked.” The guy didn't look like a professional, so I attributed his success to the lean and lady luck.

2009, Richard Margittay, Carnival Games: the Perfect Crimes, page 279:

(gambling, slang, transitive) For the bank or dealer to assist (the player) by cheating in his/her favour, to encourage further play and facilitate a later swindle.


percentage dice

(gambling) Dice that have been tampered with for the purpose of cheating.


misspot

Tops and Bottoms (also Tops, Busters, Ts, Mis-spots): These are the dice used by the professional cheats.

1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to Gambling, page 283:

(gambling) A die marked with the wrong number of spots.


comeout

(gambling) The initial roll of the dice in craps.


point-shave

point-shave (third-person singular simple present point-shaves, present participle point-shaving, simple past and past participle point-shaved)

point-shaves (present singular third-person)
point-shaving (participle present)
point-shaved (participle past)
point-shaved (past)
point shave (alternative)

You can recall the scandals that have occurred in the various colleges, of attempts to point-shave and fix games.

1972, Public Hearing Before Gambling Study Commission, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

He had been sentenced to ten years in prison for conspiring to point-shave in six BC games during the 1978–79 season.

1987, Richard Edward Lapchick, Robert Malekoff, On the Mark: Putting the Student Back in Student-athlete, page 56:

Similarly, at Northwestern University, basketball players Kenneth Dion Lee and Dewey Williams were paid $4,000 to point-shave and fix the outcome of games against Penn State University, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Michigan in 1995.

2003, Nevada Law Journal - Volume 4, page 323:

(sports, gambling) To deliberately perform badly in a game as part of point shaving.


reverse forecast

en-noun

reverse forecast (plural reverse forecasts)

(gambling) A combination of two forecast bets to select the first and second place winners of a race in any order.


en plein

(gambling) Being a simple bet on a single specific outcome, especially a number in roulette.


pricemaker

(gambling) A person who determines the odds to be offered to bettors.


arber

(finance, gambling, informal) One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur.


check cop

Aside from that the professional gambler may use the "check cop" to diminish the pile of checks which the Opponent may have, or may use his own marked cards if he can manage to get them into the game

1924, Science and Invention in Pictures, volume 12, page 146:

(gambling, slang) An adhesive used by cheats to steal chips or coins from a stack using the palm of the hand.


buck the tiger

en-verb

buck the tiger (third-person singular simple present bucks the tiger, present participle bucking the tiger, simple past and past participle bucked the tiger)

bucks the tiger (present singular third-person)
bucking the tiger (participle present)
bucked the tiger (participle past)
bucked the tiger (past)

(informal, gambling) To gamble on a game of faro.


buy the rack

buy the rack (third-person singular simple present buys the rack, present participle buying the rack, simple past and past participle bought the rack)

buys the rack (present singular third-person)
buying the rack (participle present)
bought the rack (participle past)
bought the rack (past)

In reference to the racks on which gambling tickets were once offered for sale.

If there are ten horses in each race, there are 100 possible selections, and the total cost of “buying the rack” would be $200.

1949, Ernest Evred Blanche, You Can't Win: Facts and Fallacies about Gambling, page 66:

(gambling) To place bets on all possible combinations for the daily double.


go for the gloves

go for the gloves (third-person singular simple present goes for the gloves, present participle going for the gloves, simple past went for the gloves, past participle gone for the gloves)

goes for the gloves (present singular third-person)
going for the gloves (participle present)
went for the gloves (past)
gone for the gloves (participle past)

Perhaps from the old custom of ladies betting their gloves, expecting to be paid if they won but not to pay if they lost.

(gambling) To bet against a racehorse on the chance of its losing, without having the wherewithal to pay if it wins.


banking game

(card games, gambling) A gambling game in which one or more punters play against a banker, who controls the game.


six-ace flat

(gambling) A loaded die fashioned so that the numbers 1 and 6 come up more frequently than others.


antepost

From ante- + post, the second component in the sense of the traditional "betting post", a stake set up at a racecourse to signal the beginning of fixed betting.

(gambling) Being a kind of bet, in horse-racing and greyhound racing, placed before the racecourse's betting market has opened, on the expectation that the price of the animal is presently more favourable than it will be when the market opens.


quinela

(gambling) Alternative form of quiniela.


bust-out man

Now it is reasonable to assume that some of those winners were professional dice-hustlers and "bust-out" men, the latter term meaning one proficient in switching misspotted dice in and out of a game.

1956, Clyde Brion Davis, Something for Nothing, page 88:

They started out dealing craps in my uncle's joint and I've used both of them as bust-out men in my joint and I know he got beat.

1969, Bruce Jackson, A Thief's Primer, page 165:

Many rug and carpet joints in Nevada and elsewhere have, at one time or another, been cheated out of vast sums of money by bust-out men. In 1967, a top casino on the Las Vegas Strip was taken for $350,000 in several plays by dice cheats.

1978, John Scarne, Scarne's Guide to Casino Gambling, page 173:

(gambling, slang) A cheat who surreptitiously exchanges normal dice with crooked ones such as "busters".


grind joint

Keep away from out-of-the-way casinos. Keep away from grind joints. The Flamingo Capri, for example, is a sleeping giant. It will earn a mint of money. It's on the Strip but it isn't for you. It's a grind joint.

1984, Lyle Stuart, Casino Gambling for the Winner, page 168:

(gambling, slang) A low-end casino where games are played for small stakes.


skin the lamb

skin the lamb (third-person singular simple present skins the lamb, present participle skinning the lamb, simple past and past participle skinned the lamb)

skins the lamb (present singular third-person)
skinning the lamb (participle present)
skinned the lamb (participle past)
skinned the lamb (past)

(slang, archaic, gambling) Of a bookmaker: to win all of his bets, in the case where nobody backed the winner.


case the deck

case the deck (third-person singular simple present cases the deck, present participle casing the deck, simple past and past participle cased the deck)

cases the deck (present singular third-person)
casing the deck (participle present)
cased the deck (participle past)
cased the deck (past)

(card games, gambling) To memorize which cards have been played thus far.


dice mechanic

(gambling) A cheat who manipulates the dice.


comeback money

Lots of people notice at the track that the tote board will change at the last moment; odds will drop on a horse from 20 to 1 to 8 to 1, something like that, which means that all comeback money has just come in.

1950, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings, volume 5, page 81:

The "comeback money" may represent large bets which illegal bookmakers are unable to "lay off" among themselves, bets which no one in the bookmaking organization desires to hold.

1951, United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, United States Congressional Serial Set (volumes 1-4, page 162)

(gambling) Money that is used by an agent of a bookie to place a large bet on a horse who has large odds, thereby causing the odds on that horse to decline, reducing the bookie's potential losses in the event that the horse wins.


hand mucker

No one likes to be cheated by a hand mucker. The card players had drunk a lot of beer. They had all won their share of hands. So why the hell not? He slipped an ace of hearts up his sleeve and waited for a hand that could use it.

(gambling, slang) A cheat who covertly adds or removes cards during a card game.


flat passer

(gambling, slang) A crooked die that is shaved down on certain sides to produce the desired rolls more frequently.


power of the pencil

In the casino business, they call it the power of the pencil. As casino host I had the ability to sign away a guest's restaurant tabs, wipe out all room or suite charges, give away almost any casino and hotel bills.

2008, Barry Sinkow, The Count $ in Monte Carlo: An Insider's Look at Casino Life, page 182:

Mafia pit bosses had the 'power of the pencil' to hand out free rooms, food and beverages at their discretion, […]

(gambling) The authority to charge a punter's gambling or other bills to the casino.


Little Joe

Little Joe and big Dick from Boston have been hitting fine. I got enough for baby's new shoes and a Caddy too.

2003, Scott Cool, Dick Schmelzkopf, Gambler's Book of Poetry, page 12:

(gambling, dice games) The point of four in the game of craps.


Little Joe from Kokomo

(gambling, dice games) Synonym of Little Joe (“the point of four in the game of craps”).


flat joint

(gambling, slang) Synonym of flat store (“crooked gambling establishment”).


sharbing

(gambling, informal) The use of a betting shop's coupons and a betting exchange to create an arbitrage position.


big Dick from Boston

Mother grimaced when he spat on the dice and exclaimed about Big Dick from Boston and eight the hard way.

(gambling, dice games) A roll of ten in the game of craps.


proposition player

en-noun

proposition player (plural proposition players)


morning line

(gambling) A bookmaker's list of competitors and probable odds, published before the opening of the betting.


seven come eleven

(gambling) A superstitious incantation hoping for a favorable initial (comeout) roll of seven or eleven in the game of craps.


let something ride

en-verb

let something ride (third-person singular simple present lets something ride, present participle letting something ride, simple past and past participle let something ride)

lets something ride (present singular third-person)
letting something ride (participle present)
let something ride (participle past)
let something ride (past)

(transitive, gambling) To opt to have winnings staked as another wager, typically on the same outcome, rather than paid out.


sucker bet

(gambling) A wager having a very poor expected return relative to the odds of winning.


play or pay

(gambling, archaic) Either continue with a gambling arrangement or forfeit the money.


put the pot on

put the pot on (third-person singular simple present puts the pot on, present participle putting the pot on, simple past and past participle put the pot on)

puts the pot on (present singular third-person)
putting the pot on (participle present)
put the pot on (participle past)
put the pot on (past)

The Baronet neither owned Artemis nor any other horse, nor did he now bet on horse-races; though he had solaced himself for those acts of self-denial by 'putting the pot on' at cards and all other 'events' concerning which wagers were possible.

(slang, archaic, gambling) To bet an excessive amount of money.


bet round

bet round (third-person singular simple present bets round, present participle betting round, simple past and past participle bet round)

bets round (present singular third-person)
betting round (participle present)
bet round (participle past)
bet round (past)

(gambling) To lay bets of equal value against nearly all the horses in a race, so as to stand no great risk of losing.


place money

(gambling) Money wagered on a horse, etc. to come second or third in a race, rather than winning it.

Not only did I collect on the double; I had the win and the place money as well.

2005, Kenneth Brown, ...and I Survived: A Barnardo Boy's Memoir, page 55:


electric dice

This is a game in which the electric dice are particularly useful to the sharp.

2019, John Nevil Maskelyne, Sharps and Flats:

(gambling, slang) A cheater's dice that contain metal slugs and are influenced by a magnet.


top-hatting

(gambling) A form of cheating at roulette in a casino by waiting for the ball to land on the winning number and then covertly placing chips on that number.


if money

en-noun

if money (countable and uncountable, plural if moneys)

(gambling) A type of money collected from earnings on one race which is then automatically applied to a subsequent race in the case when an if-bet is placed.


side money

side money (countable and uncountable, plural side moneys)

(gambling) The chips or money placed in a side pot in a poker game.


if-bet

(gambling) A type of bet placed with a bookmaker wherein the bettor has money on a horse in a subsequent race under the condition that his horse in an earlier race also wins.


time-on-device

Complementing efforts to extend time-on-device by anticipating players’ conscious desires, another set of design strategies operate at an unconscious level, much like the affective appeals of architecture and ambience.

2012, Natasha Dow Schüll, Addiction by Design, →ISBN, page 59:

(gambling) The time spent playing on a gaming machine, seen as a metric.


Nina from Pasadena

Shaking the dice in his hand, he chanted: “Nina from Pasadena, pull your tits. Be there seven.” With a bit of wrist-flourish he chucked the dice. They cartwheeled a few times, skidded, and then petered out with two ones up.

1971, Joseph N. Sorrentino, Up from Never, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, →ISBN, page 96:

The most reliable stickman on the floor, Jimmy McGuire, was running the table. Data could hear his silky tenor before he could see the player due to the dense ring of spectators around the pit. “On your bets, place your bets. […] And that is nine. Nina from Pasadena. Point is nine. How about the six and eight there, sir? It's never too late. Two numbers are better than one.”

2014, Jeffrey Lang, The Light Fantastic (Star Trek: The Next Generation), New York, NY: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 68:

(gambling, dice games) A roll of nine in the game of craps.


rehandicap

en-verb

rehandicap (third-person singular simple present rehandicaps, present participle rehandicapping, simple past and past participle rehandicapped)

rehandicaps (present singular third-person)
rehandicapping (participle present)
rehandicapped (participle past)
rehandicapped (past)

(transitive, gambling) To recalculate the betting odds for (a race, etc.).


unbackable favourite

en-noun

unbackable favourite (plural unbackable favourites)

At $1.01 (or 1/100 in traditional odds), he was the unbackable favourite to win the race.

(gambling) A contestant or competitor whose odds are so short that it is not considered worthwhile betting on.


galloping domino

galloping domino (plural galloping dominos or galloping dominoes)

galloping dominos (plural)
galloping dominoes (plural)

In reference to the spots on both dominos and dice, and the fact that dice are tossed through the air.


racehorse keno

(gambling) An older form of keno in which each number was accompanied by the name of a racehorse.


moneyline

College basketball games don't lack for gambling propositions—the moneyline, a straightforward wager on which team will win; the over-under gamble on the total number of points scored by both teams—but the most popular wager is the spread.

2015 April 10, John Paul Rollert, “Vegas Odds”, in Harper's Magazine, New York, N.Y.: Harper's Magazine Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-20:

(gambling) A method of sports betting which is purely based off of which team wins the game.


sports betting

All the casinos also offer video poker, keno, 21 machines, blackjack, poker, bingo, roulette, and sportsbetting.

1993, Eleanor Harris, Quick Escapes in Southern California: 21 Weekend Trips From Los Angeles and San Diego, Old Saybrook, Conn.: The Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 206:

The impact of sportsbetting and the potential risks to sports associations, players, and gambling providers have been exacerbated by the commercialization and global televising of sports, and the impact of digital technology.

2003, Gerda Reith, editor, Gambling: Who Wins? Who Loses?, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 57:

Regulators had admonished sports betting companies, including those with which I had bet, for having let customers wager with credit cards — something illegal in Iowa but permitted in most other states with mobile betting.

2022 December 24, Rebecca R. Ruiz, “Betting Apps Can Make Anyone a Sports Fan. Even Me.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-13:

(gambling) The act of betting on the outcomes of sport matches.


longs and shorts

(gambling, slang, obsolete) Playing cards designed for cheating.


pull-through

THE PULL-THROUGH is used for a crooked shuffle to keep the cards stacked.

1942, Yank, volume 1, numbers 1-45, page 8:

The most popular and most deceptive of the false shuffles is the Pull Through [sic], a dazzling and completely crooked shuffle which doesn't alter the position of a single card.

1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to Gambling, page 547:

(gambling) The trick of apparently cutting the cards while leaving the deck in the same sequence as before.


Murrumbidgee

(games, gambling, uncommon) A type of gambling game played with dice.


checks play

(gambling) In blackjack, an announcement made by the dealer when a player bets more than (some fixed) amount, or when a player suddenly changes their bet size.


k'rect card

(archaic, slang, gambling) A card sold to bettors at a racetrack, describing the field and purporting to list the winners.


post the coal

en-verb

post the coal (third-person singular simple present posts the coal, present participle posting the coal, simple past and past participle posted the coal)

posts the coal (present singular third-person)
posting the coal (participle present)
posted the coal (participle past)
posted the coal (past)

Upon Jagellon they who post the coal / Back one who stands, by race, head of the Pole.

1877, Punch/The London Charivari, volume LXXII, page 244:

(obsolete, gambling, slang) To lay money on a contest.


sports-bet

sports-bet (third-person singular simple present sports-bets, present participle sports-betting, simple past and past participle sports-bet or sports-betted)

sports-bets (present singular third-person)
sports-betting (participle present)
sports-bet (participle past)
sports-bet (past)
sports-betted (participle past)
sports-betted (past)

(gambling, transitive, intransitive, uncommon) To bet on the outcomes of sport matches.


fixed odds

(gambling) A form of betting in which the amount of money that can be won does not change after one has placed a bet.


betting terminal

en-noun

betting terminal (plural betting terminals)

(gambling) A self-service machine where a user can quickly place a bet on sports or other events without outside assistance.


minus pool

(horse racing, gambling) A pool of money made up (usually by the racing association) to pay the legally required minimum on each winning bet, when there is not enough left in the pari-mutuel pool.


enin to rouf

(gambling, costermongers) An odds of 9:4.


net and rouf

(gambling, costermongers) An odds of 14:1.


neves to rouf

(gambling, costermongers) An odds of 7:4.


penny-in-the-slot machine

penny-in-the-slot machine (plural penny-in-the-slot machines)

(gambling) A slot machine that uses pennies as its denomination, or credit value, for each play.


big Dick

Big Dick is a tough point to make, and if you want to, you can bet some more money at two-to-one odds that you'll make it.

1952, Collier's: Incorporating Features of the American Magazine, page 45:

big Dick from Boston
big Dick from Boston#English

(gambling, dice games) Synonym of big Dick from Boston.


Slippery Sam

(card games, gambling) A gambling game for at least three players that involves beating the dealer's card with a higher card.


pick 'em

pick 'ems (plural)
pick'em (alternative)
pick (alternative)
PK (alternative)

How do I not take New York? It's a pick 'em here, and even if Dallas becomes a slight favorite, they're a terrible home chalk team.

2016 September 10, Colin Cowherd, The Herd with Colin Cowherd (television production), via Fox Sports 1:

(gambling, sports) An evenly matched game, bout, or event where there is no favorite or underdog.


gaming table

(games, gambling) A table or other piece of furniture at which cards, dice or other forms of gambling are played.


advantage play

(gambling) Player use of discouraged or bannable but not illegal techniques such as card counting to gain an advantage, usually over the house, at games of chance.


advantage player

advantage player (plural advantage players)

advantage players (plural)
AP (alternative)

(gambling) One who engages in advantage play.


reelset

reelsets (plural)
reel set (alternative)

(gambling) On a slot machine, a collection of spinning reels that determine payout. Typically this is only a single set of either three or five reels.