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published by Griffin Investigations and containing photos, listed individuals are generally suspected of being, or known to be, either advantage players or outright cheaters at casino games. These individuals are perceived as a threat to a casino's profits and include those who use leal and illegal means including card counters, card markers, and those who attempt to cheat slot machines. The Cooker: "damn, that dude bettin all that cash just got kicked out of the casino."
Pete Dick: "must be in the Griffin Book." |
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| 37. | cash table | ||
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Playing poker with live money in the form of chips at a casino. There are certain tables for certain games, such as No Limit Texas Hold 'em, Limit Hold 'em, Omaha, and Seven Card Stud. Each of these tables also has a particular stake, ranging from $1/$2 into the thousands with its own minimum buy-in (No Limit and Pot Limit tables also a maximum buy-in).
Not to be confused with tournament tables, one can sit at and exit a cash table at their leisure, bringing and taking their chips with them, and may switch tables as much as they like. At cash tables it is also customary to tip the dealer with a chip or two when you win a substantial pot, as a symbol of "thanking" the dealer for the cards. While the dealer has nothing to do with the cards other than dealing them out in random orders, their income from tips is notable enough to justify doing it both from a symbolic perspective and a friendly, sportmanlike persective. Plus, you'll seem stingy to them and the other players if you don't. "Roy took his winnings from his first cash table and tried to move up to higher stakes. Unfortunately, he ended up going broke within the first few minutes there."
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| 38. | pot limit | ||
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A poker term used for the restriction of betting. In Pot Limit, the biggest bet or raise may only match the current pot size, as opposed to No Limit, where the range of betting is unlimited.
For example, if there are 30 chips in the pot when Player A decides to bet, the most he can bet is another 30 chips. If Player B decided to raise, he would call the 30 from Player A (bringing the pot to 90), and could raise up to 90 more (This is because whenever someone raises in any form of poker, the raised amount includes the call of the original bet/raise with an extra amount on top). The most common forms of poker played Pot Limit are Omaha and Five Card Draw, and occasionally Texas Hold 'em. "Scott was so embarrassed when he repeatedly tried to go all in on small pots and forgot that he was playing Pot Limit instead of No Limit."
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| 39. | Cha-Swipe | ||
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Using a credit/debit card instead of cash. Taken from Cha-Ching.
"Damn, I got no cash on me. Guess I'll have to Cha-Swipe it"
"Dude, don't Cha-Swipe at the shoe show, cuz you'll have nothing in your account once they're done with it." |
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| 40. | Yuppie ATM | ||
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The practice of collecting all cash chipped in to pay a restaurant or bar tab and charging the entire amount to one's credit card. Short of cash, Fred decided to make use of the yuppie ATM by whipping out his credit card and picking up his friends' yuppie foodstamps.
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| 41. | Register Fire | ||
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Any situation that interrupts the normal flow of a checkout line — resulting in the cash register and/or cashier metaphorically bursting into flames. Causes include employee incompetence, consumer ignorance or (in rare but highly disruptive circumstances) an actual technical malfunction. Register fires typically strike without warning, usually during peak shopping hours. While a shopper can sometimes spot a register fire in progress and avoid the affected checkout line, most register fires are impossible to predict. Don’t get in that line. Looks like a register fire.
Some idiot tried to return a CD without a receipt and started a register fire. Her credit card got declined. Register fire! Abort! |
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| 42. | maplesnob | ||
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See also NX whore. A person who possibly steals his mommy/daddy's credit card to buy ridiculous amounts of Nexon Cash, or a trust fund kid, or even a person who earns their own money but puts most of their paycheck into buying NX for the game, who sits around "looking pretty", wasting server space, and harassing/defaming other characters who pass them by just because they don't have NX or don't have "enough" NX... instead of doing anything productive on the game. Usually seen in a group, though they generally don't know more than one or two of their Maple Story friends in real life... most likely making up for lack of a social life. Usually spams super megaphones. At least changes looks once a month, and outfits are always cliche and overdone, but each of them will swear they had the outfit first. Tends to more often than not be higher level characters who cheated or hacked to get to that level because they were too lazy and impatient to do it themselves, or they just suck at gaming that badly. Tend to think they're cooler and/or better than everyone else but really everyone else just thinks they're terribly pathetic. Overuse of the word "noob" or any of its variants and "ew", also apparently don't know proper grammar. Maplesnob to maplesnob buddies: "Meh stoopid mum wont gib meh teh 10$ moar i needz 2 finnish off meh outfit 4 dis month!!!1!11! but dats ok... ill juz steel her cridit card 2marow."
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