Topic: Length of Time Before You Learn All These Gambling Terms Or Jargons (Read 568 times)

hi,
I do not understand, the counter question on your part, even more so when you give yourself the answer based on your thinking, when in my post I gave my point of view. There is the answer.

I never said "it's embarrassing, it is difficult to learn, etc" don't put me in your words. By the way and it is worth saying, there is nothing wrong with your answer, but it is your opinion not mine.

There is nothing embarrassing, or anything  learning, we must bear in mind that your jargon may not be mine in all the scope of concepts that exist, that is the point that makes it individual / personal, my specialty is poker and I remember that one of the first concepts I learned was the implicit odds (if you don't know what it is, there is no problem GS) some time later I read that one of the best poker players someone asked him about it and he replied that he did not know what they were talking about, when they explained the concept to him he understood what they were referring to.

Now if you understand the point (!?), in that particular case he has stated that he is an empirical player and not influenced by concepts, readings, specialized techniques, but he knew the concept , so his learning was different, that player is Phil Ivey.

Who by the way at 2003 in a curious interview he mentioned something like "... I didn't know much about holdem": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NXzafZfQjw

It is a matter of interest and the level of interest you have will determine how long it will take for one to understand those jargons. This means you will have to put more effort in knowing them. Example is if you play steady and you are losing because of certain reason and you don't understand those terms used, you will research more on them to get real understanding about the terms to be better in the game and able to discuss it with other gamblers better.

Why personal? Is it because someone will feel embarrassed if others will find out that it takes them a long time to learn such gambling terms? But, I think there is no need to be shy about that. What can they do, their brain is just slower to process things but what important there is they don't give up and they still be able to learn it. That is something that one must be proud of.

Also we need to know the term first or their definition before we apply them as that can make things easier. From my long time of stay here, I already learned a lot of gambling terms but I didn't apply the others because they are from a different category, it was from sports betting already and I am not really a fan of it.

You are asking this question as if gambling is rocket science and there are thousands of gambling terms and jargons, which have to be studied for months and years. There are quite a few gambling terms and I've learned them in a day or two. Almost all gambling terms are pretty easy to understand. Just play around with an online crypto casino and you will learn everything you need in a week.
I remember that it was difficult for me to understand terms like wager and house edge, when I was a kid(I wasn't gambling back then).
By the way, I don't consider martingale to be an actual gambling term. Martingale is a stupid betting "strategy" that never worked and it never will.

It shouldn't take more than a few weeks imo. Once you start gambling seriously, you start reading about it a lot too. Once you start reading, it will build up very quickly. In a week or two, you will learn almost everything you need to know. It is a very natural process and you shouldn't worry about it. This actually applies to everything you are interested in.

Hmmm, I've never really given it a thought. I guess it just grows on you, you know. The now exposure you get the more you subconsciously learn these terms. The more your reticular activating system (RAS) keeps directing your attention to these Gambling Terms Or Jargon. If I were to make a guess, I'd say about 3 - 4 months because on some days I spent more time researching these words and on other days I spent time playing the games. Some how it stuck.

I find it bizarre that you include "martingale" because it's an utter joke joke of a "system" and the only reason a gambler should be aware of it is to stay well clear - it has no useful purpose except but will waste your money quicker until you go bust. It really depends on the game, poker for example has all kinds of obscure and regional lingo that you might only learn if you really play a wide variety of the game, however many will choose to specialize in one particular thing like Texas hold'em. If you're talking about slots, then there is probably little useful terminology to learn, game manufacturers simply make new stuff up all the time to add supposed excitement to this predefined and boring game.

i can agree with you here. because you can learn all those jargons in one day if you will sit on a gambling table. but how to apply those would be another story. because it would take years before you can truly understand them and apply it to your games.
anyway, with this digital age, one click over the net, and you will get tons of answers about your query. so for me, if you have doubts on any subject, why not use the power of search?

Rare question, seriously, it is something very personal, the correct question would be what jargon exists but the most important is not to learn it or know what it means, but to apply it and be successful, that can take years in some cases to be honest.

So the question is not to learn or to know the concept of what is allin! it is the experience of knowing when to use it, it applies to all the jargon you can learn related to gambling.

You are right. The important thing is that we know how to play each game or in the game, we want to play and it doesn't take long to understand how to play it. But if it is sports betting, it may take a little longer to understand how to play it. What takes a little longer, maybe is how we make the right strategy that can help us win.

In my case it's probably around a few months, I started learning those terms when I was still new to bitcoin gambling and got interested in reading discussions related to casinos and gambling. I have to agree with the others though they barely matter and some of the terms are straightforward so others don't have to worry if they weren't able to learn these terms while gambling. Eventually, gamblers would stumble upon those terms at some point and understand them.

As said, the terms involved in gambling isn't necessary. whatever the game played you'll get to know about the terms within two days time. When one gets into gambling it is all about the strategies and the tricks that need to be known/learnt to make yourself have the higher winning chance.

Gambling terms is not necessary for all punters, if you are playing a particular game and bet with it, you will know the terms used in those games, that is certain, the more you play it the more the terms would become just common words known to you. But on the other hand, if you are betting on a game that do not require those terms, then you will not know it. It is not what someone should just think about at all, highly not necessary.

It's hard to put a label on that because everything is connected in life. As I kid I already was very interested in casinos and watched many movies about it. There so many different older movies that show the life of a gambler and use all the casino language. As a big poker fan Rounders is a must watch. Also Casino and 21 are great movies. I always prefer to watch movies in their original language with subtitles than on my own language. Like that you get exposed to the casino language and jargon.
In high school I already had majors in mathematics and economics which introduced me to words like martingale, we also had some course later about gambling and Black Jack strategy to get used to probabilities. Like that I already got used to gambling languages and strategies without ever being in a casino. And then of course spending a vacation in Las Vegas or Macau can also teach a lot about the casino language.

Correct, not many people are going to care about something like this, after all most people do not gamble enough to remember those terms organically as the next time they gamble they have already forgot about any term they could have learned during the previous session, so I do not think it is something important for most players as they will prefer to spend their time learning the rules of whatever game they are interested at the time.

It's really hard to understand all of the terminologies in the gambling industry. Those who are very dedicated to gambling will know most of them as some of the terminologies are needed to be researched and some of them are exclusively used in some gambling games only.

I myself who occasionally gamble for the past few years still can't understand most of the terminologies as I mostly gamble on dice, and sportgames. Martingale which is one of the most common strategy in dice games can be heard in various discussions however there are other strategy out there. Upon doing a quick google search, I've recently found out that there are other martingale strats out there like inverse- martingale, break-even martingale and many more.

True that but what is the point of learning all the terminologies of gambling when only a few can be applied to my actual gameplay.  I would rather spend my time learning things that will give benefit to me than learning things that will sit idly in my head.  Besides as you say, internet search is just a button press away, so why not learn them when it is necessary.  Take note, I am not against research and learning but I believe that the time will come when we need to learn something and that what I believe is the time to start looking for them.

Even if the people don't know the jargon before gambling - this is the time where learning things are not difficult.
The interesting thing is people can google right at the spot. And can learn right away.

I think it will take a lifetime if you are talking about all the gambling terms.  You see, we don't learn everything in one day, it is a process while we are getting involved in the gambling industry.  Besides, we don't actively research the whole gambling terminology.  We look at them as we encounter them and probably needed to learn them because we are currently on that kind of gambling game.   So basically a gambler won't learn all the terminology because he does not care about other gambling terminology.  The same goes for me.  I only research terms that are important to me and ignore that have nothing to do with me. So basically I cannot learn all terminologies because I only limit my research to the games I am interested in.

Indeed, earning gambling jargons could really take some time. It's nice to be familiar with the terms little by little. Knowing some terms one step at a time is an accomplishment already especially to those people who really want to learn how to gamble and understand how gambling works, especially the strategies and techniques.

We can learn some by reading articles in the Internet and by reading posts here in forum and then checking the terms you don't know. It'll be a long and continuous process because words also evolve, but it'll be fun to learn every once and then.