Jargons in Roulette

Jargons are used to talk about things that are common to a group. They help facilitate easier conversations, and they foster exclusivity. If you think that you are part of the roulette community, it is then your right and responsibility to learn even a few jargons:

Negative Progression - a strategy of betting in roulette where each time you lose, you increase the amount of bet on the next spin. It is called negative progression because the increase is based on a previous negative outcome.

Nickel - chips in casinos are usually color-coded in terms of their amounts. For example, the nickel, which one can use in roulette, is a red chip, worth five dollars each. No action - this happens when a particular spin or result is considered null and void.

Non-Value Chip - more commonly used in roulette, this chip bears no intrinsic value. Instead, its amount is determined by the number of chips bought for a certain price. For example, if you bought 50 chips for $200, then, the value of a single chip is 4$. This is what is known as the buy-in, or the table minimum bet in roulette.

Odd bet - betting that in the next round, the winning number will be an odd number.

Odds - the possibility or chance of a particular result to come out. In roulette and in other casino games, these are usually expressed in mathematical terms. On the Square - this is a roulette game that is played honestly, or without cheating.

Orphans - betting on three numbers which sit closely to each other on the roulette wheel, but when you look at them at the roulette layout, they are very far from each other. Examples of these numbers are 6,34, and 17. This slang originated from the French.

Orphelins - also a French slang, it is also quite similar to the orphans. It is also a bet on numbers which are near to each other on the roulette wheel, but are distant from each other on the layout found at the roulette table. The difference is that the betting is not restricted to just three numbers.

Outside bets - bets made on the outer side of the layout found in the roulette table.

Paddle - an instrument used by the dealers or other casino employee to shove the money into the drop box where it should be placed. Pair - what the French call the Even Bet, or betting that the next winning number will be an even number.