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)
