Sportsbook at Wynn Las Vegas, during Super Bowl XLII, February 2008
A sportsbook (sometimes abbreviated as book) or a race and sports book is a place where a gambler can wager on various sports competitions, including football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, horse racing and boxing. The method of betting varies with the [...]

wash
To mix the deck by spreading the cards face down on the table and mixing them up. A dealer may wash the deck before shuffling.

weak ace
An ace with a low kicker (e.g. four). Also “small ace,” “soft ace,” “ace-rag.”

whipsaw
When a player is caught in the middle between two [...]

A punchboard is a game board, primarily consisting of a number of holes which was used once for lottery playings.
History
Punchboards were originally used in the eighteenth century for gambling purposes. A local tavern owner would constuct a game board out of wood, drill small holes in it, and fill each hole with [...]

The poker game called Chicago is one of the most popular card games in Sweden today. Relying on the keeping of score instead of the placing of bets, it is suitable even for environments such as schools, where gambling is often prohibited. The game exists in countless versions, so here a (somewhat [...]

When offered the dice to shoot, a player may pass the dice to the next player without fear of offending anyone; however, keep in mind that at least one player must always be a “shooter” betting on either the pass line or don’t pass line for the game to continue.
Players are encouraged [...]

vig, vigorish
The rake.

vnh

Abbreviation for “very nice hand”, used in online poker chat.

Player releases a short jump shot, while her defender is either knocked down, or trying to “take a charge.”
Shooting is the act of attempting to score points throwing the ball through the basket. While methods can vary with players and situations, the most common technique can be outlined here.
The player should [...]

WinHoldEm is an online Texas hold ‘em bot, created by Ray Bornert. Bots of this kind can sometimes be used in online poker play, but this is considered cheating by poker rooms, and grounds for account termination. The bot is loaded, and will play in lieu of a real human, calculating pot [...]

A batter squares to bunt, moving his hands up the barrel of the bat to increase his control and deaden the ball on impact.
The ultimate goal of the team at bat is to score runs. To accomplish this feat, the team at bat successively (in a predetermined order called a lineup or [...]

In the game of poker, opens and raises are considered aggressive plays, while calls and checks are considered passive (though a check-raise would be considered a very aggressive play). It is said that “aggression has its own value”, meaning that often aggressive plays can make money with weak hands because of [...]

A cricket match in progress. The lighter strip is the cricket pitch. The men wearing black trousers on the far right are the umpires.
Cricket is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players on each side. It is a bat-and-ball game played on a roughly elliptical grass field, in [...]

under the gun
The playing position to the direct left of the blinds in Texas hold ‘em or Omaha . The player who is under the gun must act first on the first round of betting.

underfull
In a community card game, a full house that is one of the lowest full [...]

Tee for the first hole at The Links at Spanish Bay
Golf (gowf in Scots) is a sport where individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. It is defined in [...]

Texas Hold’em Bonus Poker is a gambling card game is owned and licensed by Mikohn Gaming/Progressive Gaming International Corporation. The game is based on traditional multi-player Texas Hold’em poker.
Rules

The game is played with a standard 52 card deck.
Each player makes an ante bet of 1 unit and may make an optional bonus [...]

The New England Patriots (blue) playing offense, against the Philadelphia Eagles (white) in an NFL game.
American football, known in the United States and Canada [1] simply as football, is a competitive team sport. The object of the game is to advance the football towards the opposing team’s end zone and score [...]

third man walking
A player who gets up from his seat in a cash game, after two other players are already away from the table, is referred to as the “third man walking”. In a casino with a “third man walking rule”, this player may be required to return to his seat [...]

In the declaration phase, the players ascertain who has the better hand in each of three categories. This is done in an oblique sort of way that leads to some of the intrigue of Piquet. Elder hand declares first, with Younger responding.
In each part of the declaration, the Younger hand may choose [...]

There is a way to compute the Skalansky Malmuth table for those people who have trouble memorizing. The results are almost identical to those generated using the Chen Point Count.[1] To compute the point count the following formula should apply:

Take the high card and score it. A=10,K=8,Q=7,J=6,T-2 = 1/2 value shown.
If the 2nd [...]

Betting odds slang is a series of words used to describe particular common fractional odds.

Evens – Levels, Scotch
2/1 – Bottle
3/1 – Carpet, Gimmel
4/1 – Rouf
5/1 – Hand
5/2 – Face
6/1 – X’s
7/1 – Nevs
8/1 – T.H.
9/1 – Enin
10/1 – Cockle, Net
11/10 – Tips
33/1 – Double Carpet
100/30 – Burlington Bertie

satellite
A tournament in which the prize is a free entrance to another (larger) tournament.

scare card
A card that comes that may have improved an opponent’s hand. The Jack of spades on the turn was a scare card because it put both flush and straight possibilities on the board.

scoop
In [...]