| Pack |
Unopened deck of playing cards. |
| Package |
The cheating technique of switching a pre stacked deck of cards with the actual playing cards. |
| Pack Up |
Act of leaving a game. |
| Paddle |
Plastic board used by the dealer to push the money into the drop box. |
| Pad Roll |
A cheating technique where the dice is made to roll without spinning. |
| Pai Gow |
A table game played with domino-type playing pieces and dice. The game is played with seven players and a banker. |
| Paint |
Refer to a Jack, Queen, King or 10. |
| Pair |
Refer to an Even wager in European Roulette.
Poker term for a hand of two cards of same value. |
| Pair Splitting |
The act of splitting two cards of same value to two hands. |
| Palm |
A cheating technique where the player during dealing the card places the unwanted cards into the hollow of the cheats’ hand. |
| Pan |
A card game. |
| Panhandler |
A person who asks money from players. |
| Paper |
A term for money |
| Pari-mutuel |
Races in which the wagers are pooled and winnings are determined. |
| Parlay |
Sports betting term for a wager placed on a combination of games.
Refer to the act of increasing the winnings by multiple wagers. |
| Partage |
Another term for Le Partage |
| Party |
A term used by cheats to gesture a prospect for scam. |
| Pass |
Craps term for a natural roll o a roll before a seven. |
| Passé |
European Roulette term for wager placed on large numbers. |
| Passers |
Refers to a crooked dice. |
| Pass Line |
Craps term which means the table area to make pass bets or refers to the basic wager in which the player bets with the shooter. |
| Pat |
Refers to hand of seventeen or more in Blackjack. |
| Pathological Gambling |
A mental disorder where the player cannot stop wagering. |
| Pay Off |
Collection of bet. |
| Pay Off Odds |
The proportion used to establish the pay off. |
| Payout |
Casino term for the players’ winnings. |
| Payout Interval |
The time taken by a casino to payout the winnings. |
| Pay Out Board |
The act of the casino of paying out every player at the table without considering the count total. |
| Pay Table |
The table on slot machines that display the payout for each combination. |
| Payline |
The lines on which the symbols must lien up for the player to win in the game of slots. |
| Payoff |
Wining money on a bet. |
| P.C |
Percentage of house advantage over the player. |
| Peek Freak |
A term used to describe a hole card player impolitely. |
| Peeking |
Cheating technique where the player peeks at the card being dealt. |
| Peek the Poke |
A cheaters term for the effort required to determine the money a mark has in their wallet. |
| Peg |
Craps term for a puck or maker in the number. |
| Pegging |
Cheating technique used by players where the cheats mark the playing cards. |
| Pencil |
Used to refer to a person who has the power to write comps. |
| Penny Ante |
Refer to wager made for very small amount. |
| Pepper |
Refers to a victim of a gambling cheat. |
| Perceived Risk |
Used to refer to how a player sees or views the negative action. |
| Percentage |
Refers to house advantage.
Cheating techniques where the dice is altered to alter the advantage. |
| Percentage Game |
A banking game with advantage being obtained through disproportionate odds. |
| Percentage Tops and Bottoms |
A Cheating technique where the player uses mis-spotted dice. |
| Perfects |
Refer to dices which are 1/500 of an inch of being a perfect cube. |
| Philistines |
Loan Sharks |
| Phoebe |
Craps term for to indicate that the point is five. |
| Phony |
Used to refer to a cooked dice or a fake person |
