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Sawbuck: Ten dollars.
Sawdust Joint: Unpretentious casino.
Scared Money: Money that a gambler can't afford to lose.
Score: A large win.
Scout: Person who studies a team during play or practice and reports findings.
Second Dealer: A dealer who can peek at the top card and deal the next card if the top card is not to his advantage.
Send It In: A player who takes advantage of a winning streak by increasing his/her bets substantially.
Session: A series of plays at a gambling game.
Set: In Pai Gow Poker, players set their seven cards into two separate hands of two and five cards each.
Seven Out: The rolling of a seven after the point has been established.
Seventh Street: In 7 card stud, the fifth and final round of betting is called seventh street because players have seven cards.
Shark: A clever player often posing as a fish early in the game.
Shiner: A small mirror or reflecting object which is used by a cheater to see unexposed cards.
Shoe: The box in which the dealer places the shuffled cards from two or more decks. Cards are then dealt from the shoe.
Shooter: The person rolling the dice.
Short Ender: The underdog in a bet.
Showdown: In poker, after the last betting round, the players who remain in the pot must show their hands in the showdown to determine the winner.
Shuffle: Before each hand the dealer mixes up the order of the cards.
Shutter: A window covering a number on a re-usable bingo card. The shutter can be pulled down to mark each number as it is called.
Silks: A jockey's uniform.
Silver Mining: Searching for unguarded coins left in the slot machines area.
Single: A Straight bet on one selection.
Single Odds: An additional wager equal to one's original bet.
Singleton: In poker, a card that is the only one of its rank.
Sixth Street: In 7 card stud, the fourth round of betting is called sixth street because players have six cards.
Skin: A dollar.
Skin Game: In poker, a game having two or more cheaters.
Skinning The Hand: A cheater's way of getting rid of excess cards in Poker.
Skinny: A bet on any Seven.
Skipped: A person who left town owing money leaving no forwarding address.
Skoon: A dollar.
Slot Schedule: The details usually at the top of a slot machine detailing the type of machine, denomination, and payout details.
Smart Money: When a professional gambler places a bet.
Snake Eyes: In craps, when a player rolls a two.
Snapper: In Blackjack, it refers to an Ace and 10 count card.
Soft Count: The counting the takings inside a gambling machine.
Soft Count Room: The room where the soft count takes places.
Soft Hand: A hand in blackjack that contains an ace counted as eleven.
Soft Player: A player who bets less following a win and doubles up following a loss.
Spinner: Winning streak.
Spit: A very small amount of money.
Split Bet: A combination bet across two numbers on the inside of the roulette table.
Spooking: Standing behind the dealer in a Blackjack game in order to relay the dealer's card values to a player.
Spot: Any number from 1 to 80 that a player selects on a keno ticket. It also refers to the number of numbers that are marked on a ticket.
Square Pair: A hard 8, meaning two 4s.
Squares: Perfect dice to within a tolerance of 1/5,000 of an inch.
Stack: The amount of money (stack of chips) a player has on the table.
Stake: The amount of money a player is willing to play with in a given session.
Stand: In Blackjack, to stand is to refrain from taking another card.
Standing Hand: A Blackjack hand with 17 or more.
Steal: In poker, to win the pot by bluffing.
Steamer: A player who will only bet big when losing.
Stickman: The dice dealer who calls the numbers rolled and controls the stick.
Stiff: In Blackjack, a hand that is not pat and that may bust if hit once. Stiffs include hard twelve through sixteen.
Still Up: What the dealer says to remind players that a wager is still in play.
Store: An establishment that caters to small play.
Straight: In poker, a hand consisting of five cards of consecutive ranks, but not of the same suit.
Straight Flush: In poker, a hand consisting of five cards of consecutive ranks of the same suit.
Straight Keno: The basic keno game, played by marking individual numbers on a keno ticket.
Straight Up Bet: A Straight bet on one selection.
Stripping: Card shuffling technique.
Stuck: Losing.
Stud Poker: A poker game with no draw.
Suit: Any one of the four types of cards: clubs, diamonds, hearts or spades.
Surrender: In Blackjack, to give up half one's wager before the hand is complete, for the privilege of not playing out a hand, thus saving half the wager. In roulette, one effectively loses only half the wager on an even money bet when the ball lands on 0.
System: A method of betting.

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