Entries D - Du
D poker - Diamonds (the suit), in written text. Qd, for example, is the queen of diamonds.
Da or Da2 (blackjack) - Abbreviations for double down on any first two cards.
Daber (bingo)
Daily Game (lotto)
Daily Tote Double (general terms)
Daily Tote Treble (general terms)
D'alembert (blackjack)
D'alembert Betting System roulette
Dame poker - Queen (the card).
Dance Every Set poker - Play every hand, or appear or claim to.
Dancing Queen (bingo) - 17
Danny La Rue (bingo) - 52
Dark poker
Dark Bet poker - A blind bet.
Darken poker - Bet without looking at your cards. "I'll open dark." "He made a dark bet."
Darth Vader poker - In hold 'em, the two black fours (the "dark force") as one's first two cards.
Das (blackjack) - An abbreviation for a rule that allows the player to double after splits. See double after split.
Daub (blackjack) - A paste or fluid used to mark cards for the purpose of cheating.
Daub poker - Markings put on cards with paint, ink, or some other fluid. Also called cosmetics.
Dauber (bingo)
Dauber poker - A thief who uses daub.
David poker - The king of spades. Probably comes from the Biblical King David
Day poker
Day Shift
Days
Dd (blackjack)
De (blackjack)
Dead (blackjack) - No action or very slow activity. "The casino is dead on Graveyard (shift)."
Dead poker
Dead Blind poker
Dead Button Rule poker - The rule that the button doesn't move if the small blind position leaves.
Dead Card poker - A card no longer legally playable.
Dead Draw poker - See Drawing Dead.
Dead Game poker - A game full of mostly house players (that is, with few or even no live players).
Dead Hand poker - A hand no longer legally playable, due to some irregularity.
Dead Heat (general terms)
Dead in the Pot poker - Having no way of winning a particular pot.
Dead Man's Hand poker
Dead Money poker - Money contributed to the pot by players who have folded.
Dead Spread poker - A Dead game.
Dead Table (blackjack) - A table with no players. "You can't go home until there is one more dead table."
Dead Table roulette - A table that is manned and ready for action but has no players.
Dead Wreck. poker
Deadwood
Deal (blackjack) - The distribution of the cards to the players during the play of the game.
Deal poker
Deal a Slug poker
Deal Around (blackjack)
Deal Bottoms poker - Perform a cheating maneuver in which a card manipulator deals cards from the bottom of the deck.
Deal in poker
Deal Off poker
Deal Out poker
Deal Seconds poker
Deal Yourself poker
Dealer
Dealer Advantage poker
Dealer Blind poker
Dealer Button poker
Dealer Control poker
Dealer Edge poker
Dealer School (blackjack)
Dealer-Advantage Game poker
Dealer's Choice poker - A game in which each dealer, in turn, chooses the type of poker to be played.
Dealing poker - Distributing cards to each player in a card game.
Dealing Seconds (blackjack)
Deal-Yourself Game poker - A game in which each player in turn physically distributes the cards.
Dean poker - A gambler who has the ability to calculate the odds, particularly in card games. Also, professor.
Debit Bet (general terms)
Decision poker - The resolution, usually by a house employee, of a dispute in a poker room.
Decision / Play Decision (blackjack)
Deck (blackjack)
Deck Stacking (blackjack)
Declaration poker
Declare poker
Declare Games poker - Games in which a player must declare the value of his hand in order to claim the pot.
Deductions (general terms)
Deep poker
Defensive Bet
Degenerate (general terms) - A compulsive gambler.
Delivery (blackjack) - Method of getting cards to the players. "In the single deck game we pitch the cards to the players."
Denomination poker - The rank of a card.
Denomination (videopoker)
Dent poker
Dept. of the Interior (craps) - When you want to make an inside bet.
Depth-Charging (blackjack)
Derniere roulette - A French term for last and refers to the last group of 12 numbers in the Dozen Bet.
Designated Shuffler (blackjack)
Desirability Index (blackjack)
Deuce (blackjack) - An expression used for a card numbered two (2)
Deuce (keno) - Two keno spots grouped together.
Deuce poker - Twos are sometimes called deuces. So 22277 can be called deuces full of sevens.
Deuce Dealer poker
Deuce Player poker - Someone who usually plays $2-limit.
Deuce to Seven poker
Deuces Full poker - A full house consisting of three deuces and another pair.
Deuces Wild
Deuce-to-Seven Lowball poker
Device
Devil's Bedposts poker - The four of clubs.
Devil's Number (bingo) - 13
Devil's Playthings poker - Cards.
Dewey poker
Dewey Duck poker
Dfa (general terms) - District Football Association.
Dha (general terms) - District Hockey Association.
Di (blackjack) - 1. The acronym for "Desirability Index". 2. The acronym for Desert Inn, a Las Vegas casino.
Diamond poker - Any card in the diamonds suit.
Diamond-Back Cards poker
Diamonds poker
Dice (craps)
Dice Pass (craps)
Die in the Wood, Roll no Good (craps) - One of the dice landed in the players chip rack.
Dig poker
Dime poker - 1) $10, or a $10 bill. 2) $100, or a $100 bill. 3) $1000, particularly in sports betting.
Dime (general terms) - $1000.00
Dime Bet (general terms) - A $1000 wager.
Dime Line (general terms)
Dime Store poker
Dime Stores poker - In any high poker game, two pair, 10s and 5s. Also called five and dime.
Direction poker - In a high-low split game, which half of the pot, high or low, a player is contesting.
Dirty Gertie (bingo) - 30
Dirty Knee (bingo) - 33
Discard poker
Discard Buttons (videopoker)
Discard Holder / Discard Rack / Discard Pile / Discard Tray (blackjack)
Discard Pile poker - The place on a poker table where the discards go.
Discard Rack (general terms) - Area of the table where the used cards are placed.
Discards
Disk (craps)
Dispensing Device (bingo)
Distance (general terms)
Distributor (bingo)
Dividend (general terms) - The return for a single winning unit usually on the tote but bookmakers also offer dividend prices.
Doa (Double Only Any Two Cards) (blackjack) - Casino rules that allow for doubling on any two playing cards.
Doctor Pepper poker - A wild-card game with 10s, 4s, and 2s wild. (Those numbers are part of the Dr Pepper logo.)
Doctored Cards poker - Marked cards.
Doctors Orders (bingo) - 9
Dog
Dog Player (general terms) - A person who usually bets on the underdog.
Dollar poker - $100 or a $100 bill.
Dollar (general terms) - $100.
Dollar Bet (general terms) - A $100 wager.
Dolly Parton poker - In hold 'em, 9-5 as one's first two cards. From the movie, 9 to 5, in which she starred.
Dominate poker
Dominated poker
Dominated Hand poker
Don’t Come Bet (general terms)
Don’t Pass Bet (general terms)
Don’t Pass Line (craps) - The area on the layout where Don’t Pass bets are placed.
Don’t Pass Line (general terms) - The area on the layout where Don’t Pass Bets are placed.
Donate poker - Put chips into a pot that one doesn't expect to get back. "Oh, you raised it again? Okay, I'll donate."
Donation poker - Put chips into a pot that one doesn't expect to get back. "Oh, you raised it again? Okay, I'll donate."
Don't Come (craps) - The reverse of Come. You're betting that 7 will come up before the shooters point.
Don't Come Bet (craps) - A wager against the dice placed after the come-out roll.
Don't Come Box (craps) - The area on the layout where a don't come bet is made.
Don't Pass (craps) - A bet made on the come-out roll that the dice will not pass.
Door poker - 1) Door card. 2) The door position in a hand. "I can see what he's got in the door." Also window.
Door Card poker - A player's first up card in stud games.
Doped Cards poker
Double
Double Action (general terms) - An "if bet" that is processed if the precedent bet wins, ties or cancels.
Double after Split (Das) (blackjack) - Casino rules that allow doubling down after the players has split any pair.
Double Ante poker
Double Belly Buster poker
Double Bet (general terms) - A wager for twice the size of one's usual wager.
Double Carpet (general terms) - The price of 33-1
Double Deck (blackjack)
Double Down / Doubling Down (blackjack)
Double Dynamite Roulette System roulette - A combination of Big Number play and sector slicing for short-range play.
Double Exposure 21 (blackjack)
Double Gutshot poker
Double Hand poker - Pai gow poker.
Double Header (general terms) - Two separate baseball games played on the same day for the same two teams.
Double Inside Straight Flush (videopoker)
Double Jackpot poker
Double Limit poker
Double Machines (slots) - Pays double or triple with winning combinations of certain symbols lined up, e.g. Double
Diamond, Triple Diamond, RWB 7's.
Double Nuts poker
Double Odds (craps)
Double Odds Bet (craps)
Double Off poker
Double Out (general terms)
Double Qualifier poker
Double Saw on Boxcars (craps) - Betting that the next roll will be the total sum of 12 (6&6).
Double Shuffle poker
Double Through poker - Going all-in against an opponent in order to double your stack if you win the hand.
Double Up
Double Zero roulette - Number on the wheel. Green in color. Can be wagered the same way as numbers 1-36.
Double-Ace Flush poker
Double-Barreled Shotgun poker
Double-Dealing poker
Double-Discard poker
Double-Double (lotto)
Double-Draw London Lowball poker
Double-End Straight poker - Four cards to a straight which can be completed by drawing a card at either end.
Double-Ended Straight poker - Four cards to a straight which can be completed by drawing a card at either end.
Double-Flop Hold 'em poker
Double-Hand Poker Dictionary poker - Pai gow poker.
Double-Pop poker - Raising a raise. "I bet, Jim raised it, and Mary double-popped it."
Doubler (slots)
Double-Suited poker - In Omaha, having just two suits among your four down cards.
Double-Up System of Betting roulette
Doubleyou poker
Double-Zero Wheel roulette
Doubling For Less (blackjack)
Douzaine roulette - French term for the Dozen Bet.
Down
Down and Dirty
Down Card (baccarat) - A face down card.
Down Card poker
Down For Poker
Down on your Knees (bingo) - 43
Down Slot (slots) - Slot's average payoff is low.
Down the River poker - Seven-card stud.
Down the Road poker
Down the Street poker
Down There poker
Down to the Felt poker - A player who has lost most of his chips.
Down to the Green poker
Down-the-Card (general terms) - Indicates races at the same meeting
Downtown (blackjack)
Doyle Brunson poker
Dozen Bet roulette - A wager on twelve numbers on the roulette layout at the same time. Numbers 1-12, 13-24, or 25-36.
Drag poker
Drag / Dragging (blackjack)
Drag Arms (bingo)
Draw
Draw Card poker - The card that one has received on the draw.
Draw Dead poker
Draw Down poker
Draw For Deal poker - Participate in a top-card draw.
Draw For Seats poker
Draw Game poker - A game in which or a table at which Draw Poker is played.
Draw Live poker
Draw Lowball poker - A form of poker in which the lowest hand wins.
Draw Out poker
Draw Player poker - Someone who plays draw poker (usually exclusively, or in preference to other forms of poker).
Draw Poker Dictionary
Draw Ticket (keno)
Draw to poker
Draw Twice poker
Drawers poker
Drawing Dead poker
Drawing Hand poker
Drawing Snow poker
Drift (general terms)
Drink Pot poker
Driver's Seat poker
Droopy Drawers (bingo) - 44
Drop
Drop Box
Drop Cut (blackjack)
Drop Game poker - A game in which the house takes a certain amount, called the drop, from every pot.
Drop the Deck (blackjack)
Drop Through (slots)
Drop-in poker
Dropping / Putting Down (blackjack) - Putting tokes in the toke box.
Drum poker - What players sometimes compare a tight player to, as, "He plays tighter than a drum."
Drummer poker - A conservative or tight player.
Dry poker - Out of money; broke.
Dry Pot poker
Ds (blackjack) - 1. See DAS. 2. The acronym for Don Schlesinger, author.
Dso (general terms) - Divisional Sports Officer.
Dtmc (general terms) - Domestic Tournament Monitoring Committee.
Ducat poker - A card; also called ticket. "Shuffle them ducats, and let's deal another one."
Duck poker - 1) Deuce. 2) Manage to escape a situation in which one might have lost a lot of chips.
Duck and Dive (bingo) - 25
Due For (general terms) - A team that is "due for" whether it is a win or a loss; many bettors like to play "due for" situations.
Duke (blackjack) - A very good hand, a long winning hand at craps.
Duke poker
Dumb End poker
Dummy Up and Deal (blackjack).
Dummy Up poker
Dumping
Dumping Table (blackjack) - A table where the dealer is losing frequently and the chip tray is constantly being refilled.
Duplicate Ticket (keno)
Duplicated poker
Dust poker
Dutch Straight poker
