Q to R - Glossary of Terms
Quarter. A $25 chip.
Rack. 1. The special place in the table where the dealer keeps the house chips, stacked horizontally in rows; also known as Tray. 2. In some casinos, players can ask for racks to hold their chips.
Rainbow bet. A bet, usually large, comprised of chips of various denominations, haphazardly arranged in a single pile, mostly in order to camouflage a bet increase.
Rainbow blackjack. This is a proprietary variation of blackjack which identifies each player's position at the table with a color. Each player has betting spots for each of the other colors, allowing him to bet on other players' hands as well as his own. This game is not widely offered, seen mainly in southern Mississippi.
Rat holing (chips). When the player secretly sneaks a portion of his chips into purse or pocket in order to hide from the pit crew how much he's winning.
RC. The acronym for "running count".
RE. An abbreviation for "regarding".
Red chip. A $5 chip.
Red Seven Count. An unbalanced counting system devised by Arnold Snyder and included in his book, Blackbelt in Blackjack. It gets it's name from the fact that the player counts only the red sevens as plus one and assigns a zero value to the black sevens. The other values assigned include plus one for 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's and 6's and minus one for ten valued cards and aces.
Resplit. Usually a reference to splitting pairs if another like card is dealt after splitting a pair for the first time.
RF. The acronym for the poker hand of a Royal Flush.
RFB. An abbreviation for complimentary room, food, and beverage.
Rider bet. (also called "Over-the-shoulder bet") The bet made by a player (the "Rider") behind another player's bet. Most casinos allow two Riders max. The total amount of bets placed on the betting circle (spot) cannot exceed the table maximum. In most casinos, the player who has the original bet on the spot gets to direct how the hand will be played. The original bettor also gets to fill up the spot up to the maximum bet at any time, if he so chooses, leaving out anyone else who wishes to place Rider bets. In some casinos, the player who gets to direct the play of the hand is the player who has placed the largest bet, even if he's a Rider. If a Rider has the option of making the extra bet on pair splits, there are some variations to basic strategy that can help the rider. See Basic Blackjack for details.
Riffle. The act of shuffling the cards by dividing them into two equal stacks and blending them together, accomplished by holding the cards between the thumb and the first two fingers of each hand.
Risk of ruin. Describes the likelihood of losing all of one's bankroll.
Risk-averse Indices. The idea that when making a playing decision the player should not always maximize the expected (average) profit, but should also take the possibly increased risk into consideration.
RNG. The acronym for random-number generator.
ROTFL. The acronym for rolling on the floor laughing. Variation: ROTFLMAO, for rolling on the floor laughing my ass off.
Round. A completed hand to all players at a blackjack table.
Rounding (Rounded indices, or indexes) : A practice which reduces every "precise" index number to just an integer. When Rounding, all the index numbers are rounded to the nearest integer, following the mathematical rules which apply when rounding numbers. Examples: -1.50 becomes -2, -1.49 becomes -1, -0.50 becomes 0, +0.49 becomes 0, +0.50 becomes +1, +1.49 becomes +1, +1.50 becomes +2. Of course, an index number which has been calculated to be "precisely" an integer, does not change: +3.000000 remains as +3. [See also: Flooring; Truncating.]
ROR. 1. The acronym for risk of ruin. 2. The acronym for rate of return.
RPC. The acronym for Revere point count.
RSA. An abbreviation for resplit aces.
Rule of eleven. A method devised by Green Chip member Fine Tuner as a general guide to quickly gauge if a double deck game is worth playing. Eleven, minus the number of players, equals the worst cut percentage that is playable. For example, in a game with 3 players already there, if you sit down, there will be 4 players. 11 minus 4 = 7. This means you need 0.7 or better cut for the game to be playable. Conversely, if you know the cut is 1.0, then you also know it's playable only if you get it heads up. The table:
Spots Cut 4 players 0.7 3 players 0.8 2 players 0.9 1 player 1.0
Rule of six. A policy followed by many casinos at single deck. They require a dealer to deal five rounds to one player, four rounds to two players, three rounds to three players and two rounds to four players. Some casinos carry this rule to the extreme and only deal one round to five or more players.
Running count. The total number of points a card-counting system assigns to the cards seen as a player is counting them.