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Glossary For Blackjack:

 

• Anchor - Last taken seat to the dealer's right.
• Banker - In a card game, dealer or the players who books the action of the other bettors at the table.
• Bankroll - The total amount of money you have the intention of gambling with.
• Basic Strategy - In blackjack, the set of plays that you should make to maximize your advantage.
• Blackjack - Total of 21 on your initial two-card hand.
• Burn Cards - Remove cards from the top of the deck and place them in the discard tray after a shuffle and cut.
• Break - Exceeding the hand total of 21.
• Bust - same as Break, exceeding the hand total of 21.
• Card Counting - Recording (in memory) played cards (usually high cards) so as to establish a conditional probability advantage on the remaining cards against the dealer.
• Cut - To split the deck of cards before they are dealt.
• Cut Card - Colored faceless plastic card used to cut the cards after the shuffle.
• Deal - To give out the cards during a hand.
• Discard Tray - A tray on the dealer’s right side that holds all the cards that have been played or discarded.
• Draw - (Also Hit.) Call a card or adding a new card to your current hand.
• Double Down - Double your initial bet following the initial two-card deal, but you can hit one card only. In blackjack, it is the player’s 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.
• Early Surrender - Surrender allowed before the dealer checks for blackjack.
• Even Money - Cashing in your bet immediately at a 1:1 payout ratio when you are dealt a natural blackjack and the dealer's showing card is an Ace.
• Face Cards - Jacks, Queens and Kings.
• Face Down Game - Your first card is placed face up while the second one is placed face down.
• Face Up Game - Both your cards are placed face up.
• First Base - First taken seat to dealer's left - where the first card is dealt.
• Hard Hand - (Also Hard Total.) A hand without an Ace, or with an Ace valued at 1 is said to be Hard in that it can only be given one value, unlike a 'Soft' hand.
• Heads Up or Heads On - A head to head play with the dealer - no other players are involved.
• Hit - (Also Draw) Call a card or adding a new card to your current hand. The card received is also called a hit.
• Hole Card - In blackjack, the facedown card that the dealer gets. In stud and hold ‘em poker, the facedown cards dealt to each player.
• Insurance - Side bet up to half the initial bet against the dealer having a natural 21. 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.
• Late Surrender - Surrender allowed only if the dealer does not have blackjack.
• Natural - In blackjack, a natural is a two-card hand of 21 points. In Blackjack a natural is a two-card total of eight, or nine.
• Pat - In blackjack, an unbusted hand worth at least 17 points. In draw poker, a hand that does not need any more hands.
• Preferential Shuffling - Shuffling when the remaining cards are deemed favorable to the players.
• Push - (Also Tie or Stand-off.) Both player and dealer have the same hand total - player keeps bet.
• Shiner - A reflecting device used to try and glimpse the dealer's hole card.
• Shoe - Device, usually a wooden box, used for holding and dispensing the cards to be dealt.
• Shuffle - At the start of each game when the dealer mixes up the order of the cards is said to shuffle the cards.
• Shuffle Up - Premature shuffling by the dealer to discourage card counting.
• Soft Hand - Hand containing an ace counted as 11.
• Split Hand - Split the initial two-card hand into two and play them separately - allowed only when the two first cards are of equal value.
• Spooking - The act of standing behind the dealer to peak at the hole card and then secretly convey the information to a partner player sitting at the table. An illegal form of cheating.
• Stand-off - (Also Tie or Push.) Both player and dealer have the same hand total - player keeps bet.
• Stand or Stay - Not requiring any more cards, to refrain from taking another card.
• Stiff Hand - Hand with little chance of winning. A hand that is not pat and that may bust if hit once. Stiffs include hard twelve through sixteen.
• Surrender - Giving up your hand and lose only half the bet.
• Tell Play - Observing the dealer's body language and expressions to determine his hand of cards.
• Third Base - Last taken seat to the dealer's right.
• Tie - (Also Push or Stand-off.) Both player and dealer have the same hand total - player keeps bet.
• Upcard - The dealer's first dealt card, placed face up for all the players to see before they play their hands


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