Slot machines can have as many as eight paylines, although most have only one. Payback percentage is 100 percent minus the house edge. A posting somewhere on the front of a slot or video poker machine, that tells you what each winning hand will pay for the number of coins or credits played. An area of a casino in which a group of table games are arranged, where the center area is restricted to dealers and other casino personnel. The person who supervises all the games and casino personnel associated with a pit during a particular work shift.
Pit bosses are in place to watch for cheating, settle disputes, and give comps to big bettors.
In a poker game, the amount of money that accumulates in the middle of the table as each player antes, bets, and raises. The pot goes to the winner of the hand. Probabilities are expressed as numbers between 0 and 1. The probability of an impossible event is 0, while an event that is certain to occur has a probability of 1. When the progressive jackpot finally hits, the amount resets to the starting number.