Topic: Length of Time Before You Learn All These Gambling Terms Or Jargons (Read 551 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.

This depends how serious is someone in gambling. Like me who doesn't gamble often, I still don't fully understand those terms. I only know about that martingale because I tried that strategy once when I gambled.

I also don't think that casual gamblers know much about those terms, as long as their gambling experience has no issue then they won't bother to know how those terms work completely.

I could remember when I started gambling, it was very hard for me to understand many gambling terms because I was not used to them. I had to meet friends especially those that are very good in football sport to take me along when ever they are going to place bets at sportbet shops. Most time I had to stop what I'm doing to follow them so I can learn very well. Gambling is not easy especially when you are just a newbie in it. It takes good friends that are good I'm gambling for one to learn and understand gambling very quickly.

talking about this subject, I took and still take a lot of time for every single day to be learning about things like Asian handicap, over and under goals, and what gives me the most headaches and the corners and cards market that I even had to download one image with the values that I can consult when placing bets. These are definitely things that take time. if this was already a headache for me then I had to learn more terms that I'm still learning. It's not easy and it takes time to master it. at least for my case it will still take a long time to master all these terms


To be honest, I don't know how much longer I'll need to master all these terms, because in addition to the terms as I said above, there are things like understanding and memorizing each market well: whether over or under, it's the Asian market, there's also the European market for goals and corners... emim in the world of betting there is so much that it took me a long time to know

The jargons for online gambling and off line gambling are surely the good point you have mentioned.Now with the passage of time as the online gambling and crypto is getting more hype. There are new jargons emerging. But the real gamblor - those who played in real casinos would be the real champs who would tell what it feels like to learn jargon and how soon they have learnt it.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that you have to be very detached from the world in order not to understand general terms in a couple of days at most, since many concepts are intuitively clear from the very beginning, we heard about others in other areas, and special terms can be googled in a few seconds. Another thing is that different communities have different slang, it seems to me that the slots community has some features that will be incomprehensible to those who, for example, only bet on sport and vice versa. In addition, there are even differences from forum to forum.

There are still terms that I'm confused about and still trying to learn more. I'm still in the process of discovering things about gambling so there are still things that I have to learn. Some might have a short time learning the jargon but for others, it takes a long time and I think that depends on how often we gamble. There are gambling terms that need research before we fully understand and that's a part of the process.

I'm still not familiar with terms or jargon in gambling. Because this is my first time getting into gambling. The possibility to be able to learn everything takes not too long, I continue to monitor and be in the gambling forum. occasionally try some gambling just for fun.
Gambling terms or jargon are still very foreign and I started to learn them, just like the terms in crypto, everything can be understood as long as you get used to it.

In my understanding the word 'Jargon' is not appropriate in gambling, Jargon tends to be used more often in those that are technical in nature or more familiar with fields, professions and secret words such as military passwords etc.

The word 'term' may be appropriate in gambling, because the term contains meanings, such as: circumstances, processes, technology and science about gambling or the concept of betting.

From your two questions, of course gambling has risks, as long as you know the risks of making bets, it doesn't take long to learn the term gambling, you need to look at their reviews only and study carefully, be it legal or license they operate at once as I said above, the explanation of the Terms, reviews at least have a chance for you to learn gambling terms 70% before registering and betting.

Hope you will remain a friends with him forever, but to be honest we are luckier fellow gamblers because meet on this forum. The community teaches a lot of things from what we should to know and we also share experiences at here, I found more terms/jargon in this forum as well. By the way sorry a little out of topic, it is an open group? "if yes ! you can send me a pm, because that's a group discussion is better discussed in private so as not to get out of topic OP discussion" if you don't mind.

I am a fast learner , I even gather more information in anything that I entered for so basically jargons and gambling terms will only make me 1-2 months before knowing it deeply .
I have learned many things in gambling on my own because i dig them for my own benefits since this is important to be with other gamblers specially in real casino gambling .

I agree with you Hahay, it depends on how much someone is interested in gambling and all gambling-related stuff! I also think that just a few gambling terms are really important, other terms just simplify communication among gambling lovers... so instead to say the mathematical advantage that the gambling game has over you as you play over time we can simply say house edge!

I know all the gambling terms/jargon in my language! But even after years of playing only online, I am familiar just with some gambling terms that I find important!

In my opinion in order to play gambling there is no sense to learn all the terminology and jargon at once because even if you know it all it will not help you win. As you gain new gambling experience you will hear and see new words and expressions. In order to understand what they mean it is enough to look on the Internet, because it is a treasure trove of information.

In time we will find a gambling buddy and they will teach us many things , I remember also when I was new in crypto gambling and tried joining Groups that teaches or giving us some tips and updates ,  in that group I met my mentor and yes he teaches me many things that until now i am using in my gambling activities.
and until now he keeps giving me some worth betting tips and brings me earning, he also thought me jargons and gambling terminologies .

It depends on how much you want to understand it because just reading it sometimes becomes boring. But for me personally even though they have many terms I think only a few are important, but if it is casino gambling then of course the house edge is one factor that must be the main. Then it depends on how much money you will bet, because every casino has certain limits for you to bet. So yeah, there's not much to learn at the start, because over time you'll understand everything when you're comfortable using it.

There were gambling terms that I knew beforehand. There were also terms which I learned to know while learning the game itself. But there are also terms which I learned later on. Some terms I just learned alongside gambling itself are house edge, bet, odds, etc. Other terms like Martingale I took time to research. But it doesn't mean I never used that strategy before. Other terms like provably fair and seed I only learned when I started gambling with crypto. If I can remember it right, I learned them only when I came here in this forum.

As you said so, gamblers who played on traditional casino doesn't need to know and understand those jargon since they don't care about it. I think they're know few jargon like wager and provably fair, since wager is really common and provably fair is used to know the legitimate of slots. If they're playing a sports then they will know what is odds, different game have different jargon.

There's already internet and it's easy for them to search it out.

These jargons are normal to know if you've been a gambling for a long time but it's not that as important if you're the casual type. And if they encounter those words that they don't understand.

They have a lot of places to ask and search for it so, someone has to go through and encounter those words first and we don't know how long it will take for them to know it.

Learning process will really vary on each person but understanding different aspects and terms won't really be taking too long or you could really understand it directly without needing that long time for you to evaluate.Its not really that hard to learnt up things which even using up your common sense is enough but for technicalities then it might really be easy or hard for others to understand but it
Isn't really that much complicated to understand everything.

I think majority of us here didn't really understand some of the terms and jargons when we started our gambling journey. All we have to learn is to simply put our bets whether sports betting or slots or even card games. And down the time, when we slowly learn the basic, then we gain experience and absorb everything, then that is the time we realized that there is some jargons that we need to master in order to have a good gambling experience. So probably it will take months or even years for average average to learn all this phrases.

I've been playing gambling since I was in college but for all this jargon, I've only known it for the past few years (that's because I play in a crypto casino). for gambling players who have never played online (only focus on offline) I'm sure jargon like the one above they will never know.

When i was starting i didn't know the meaning of paralay and had to search for it but most probably you are going to come across these terms on the forum or the new post and would not need a sepcific dictionary as well, it's all in the process and you can learn gradually other than that i still don't know how to re- check for probably fair games but am not interested in that for me it's more important to play for fun every once in a while rather than be extremely mathematical about it..
I do think if you are new, it's all dependent on you, the more you sought these terms out the more you will learn, for me it's best if it's done gradual 🤞

Some people are way to smart the jargons easily, I see young kids knowing and learning things pretty faster than we grown up.
I think the one who is more interested in gambling since the childhood is more quick learner then oldies.

You didn't research it on google because it is already laid out inside the site you are playing or in their chat room to be specific but it nice that they have a chat room for that, that is very informative for new players that wants to learn all those terms. It is important especially the seed and provably fair as they are related to the legitimacy of the site or if they are truly fair.

On the site that I am playing with, there's also an explanation of seed and provably fair but there's no info about the martingale and wage/wager so I did search them in google. They aren't my concern at my early days in gambling because my goals is only to have fun but it take me a week or two (I think) to master them since there are variations of martingale and different ways to wager effectively.

That's what most people who get involved in gambling experience for the first time. They don't think about the term's meaning or even they don't know if such a term exists in gambling. But after they play gambling for some time, they find out that there is some kind of term in gambling and it will make them curious and eventually look for its meaning. Google will help them find the meaning of those terms so they can figure it out easily.

The more popular terms are easily understood during the early days of my betting days, you can easily find the terms on Youtube and on many articles about gambling these terms are the most explored, there's a lot of discussion of martingale and provably fair on every casino thread and games, so for new gamblers, these are the terms worth exploring.
When I was just starting out it took me two to three weeks for those easy terms and just do research and explore on harder terms, you will not get loss really because we have the internet as the information highway and of course Bitcointalk, you can easily ask here and you will be accommodated.

Maybe about a week to know the term, some got from people and some researched themselves. When I started gambling honestly I didn't know anything, just tried and played it. Lucky to find a good gambler, who tells everything he knows to me. It's actually quite easy to find out any term, just typing words it in google search engine and it will be found quickly.

I would say that until now there are still some jargons that are uncertain to me so i just keep on researching and continue gambling because the more i gamble, the more i learned those terms about gambling. I think experience will definitely be your best teacher when it comes to that  as researching alone can still be confusing sometimes without videos or demonstrations that will supplement your learning. Its like you will keep on learning those gambling jargons if you continue exposing yourself into gambling activities.

To be honest I exactly don’t remember how much time it take me to learn.
It happened with a flow.
I guess this thing happened with almost all the gamblers out their.
I remembered when I was playing at Bitsler, the chatrooms taught my many things.
In the chat room while i was conversing , i learn about these terms and their meanings .
Almost all the words mentioned in the OP, I learnt myself. I haven’t researched or googled, just adapted it while playing.
Willing to hear other people’s story on this.

Yeah and it will really takes time to be understood , because there are also cases that it is depend on what game are we talking here and if we are familiar in that game or we are beginner .
if we are to start? then this will be depending on how we can familiarize the game in order to focus in our betting and not just for the sake of terms because we can do bets and we can play without those .

The more we know about gambling jargon, the easier it will be for us to communicate or discuss in a gambling group, like we are new traders who want to know terms about hold, dump, bull market, bear, resistance, and many more. another. In my opinion, some jargons are easy to understand as long as they want to explore many new things in gambling, but gamblers are relatively more focused on one favorite gambling game so that it will hinder understanding other jargon within a month or 2 months.

I have been playing for years already so I cant exactly remember how long it takes me to learn the jargons of gambling.

But what I know is everytime I encounter of this term that I cant understand I just research the meaning and thats how it started until I became familiar.

Anyway, even we know these jargons it doesnt mean we already have an edge to win, its just a basic things that we must know if you're a gambler.

Do We really need to understand those Gambling terms to be considered as gamblers? we can simply work for the Game itself and not for the words and terminologies using in each game.
Honestly? i learn those Jargons long term and not that easily .
so for me? this is a need to be learned along the road and you dont need to push your self to understand those.

That is the problem with the question, if we were to try to study all of that jargon in the same way we did so at school then we may have an idea of how long it took us to remember all of those terms, however since that is not the way we learn, since when it comes to gambling we learn by doing then it is almost impossible to know how long it took us to remember all of those terms, and if to this we add that depending on how frequently we gamble this will affect our learning speed then the only honest answer we can give to the question of the OP is that we do not know how long it takes since it depends on each person.

Yes , sooner or later jargons can really help us in our game. We can have a better communication with other people ,and maybe can build friends and networks. But for my situation, it took me years before I know some of it, I did not pay too much attention to it since I only gamble if I have a free time , maybe I am lack in some experiences as well because  you will encounter these jargons along the way when you play.

from the point of view some people may think this jargon is necessary and mastered by understanding and comfortable for a position. Your thread gives and opens the mindset of many people bro, it worked for me too.
if the jargon is a position with a gap because of our habit of knowing from previous playing experience, it can make our legs strong and confident.
I often hear the term martinggel from the influencer of binary options which in my opinion the principle is almost the same.
add capital to position yourself with strength and hope that things will turn around. indeed everything depends on how to respond and in my opinion this thread is new knowledge that has not been thought of by me even though the probability may be 50:50.
there are various interesting responses

I think that the time period for learning the terms varies from one gambler to another. This depends on the gambler's intelligence rate, his interest in gambling, and the type of games he likes to play. Personally, I do not remember the exact amount of time I spent learning it. And if you have a desire to learn it you should join the local casino so that you can understand it in a short time. But be careful not to become addicted!!!

I don't know the length of time but I know that I learn all of them through my gambling journey,I had absolutely no idea who Martingale and his strategy was before I started to gamble,by the way although 100% of the people including me do not like and believe that strategy works there are some new guys in the gambling arena that say if you are patient enough to double your bet on the same team in sport betting and choosing one of the lasts teams in the table that has odds over 2 you can eventually win.

I told them maybe but at what cost,lost a lot of time and money before you even can get a win(more money than you bet),not worth my time.The other terms I learned when starting playing slot machines as I don't play sport betting anymore except F1 races where I bet continuously.

If it's just a common jargon,i think it's around a week to understand most of them.But for jargon that need to be applied first in a game or bet,maybe a month or more because i need to keep playing it and understand what kind of system that in work here.

I don't really know the term jargon especially in real casinos most gamblers don't really care about it when they play, jargon or other terms players will gradually understand it.


in my experience, some things to know in every gambling activity especially slots, slots offer big profits but little chance to win a lot, poker offers more effective advantages playing with other players is fair enough, soccer betting offers a fairly fair choice for you  choose as a bet or you can choose a parlay for big results if you have good predictions.  all of them offer a different uniqueness.

I was actually unfamiliar with gambling terms when I was starting with gambling. I had confusion but learned a lot about it through years of gambling. I can't remember the first term that I've learned but since we encounter them every day, we didn't notice that we're using most of them already. There are still exciting things to learn about gambling and most of them could be learned in our daily encounters.

It didn't take long for me to memorize or recognize a lot of them. Usually, most of the terms used on gambling with cryptocurrency are terms that I already have some surface knowledge of, and it's just a matter of confirming whether what I know is correct or not. Also, the more you engage yourself in gambling, the easier it is for you to learn the meanings of different random terminologies that they are using on the platform.

Can we really remember that stuff? We will learn that terms without realizing we already actually learned them.

It's a common thing to encounter that terms while playing online casinos and as soon as we progress, we will automatically learn them without even putting a focus to learn those. We will not realize if it's just days, weeks, months, or so on.

If someone remembers how long before they learned it, I will be surprised they able to record it.

I can't remember how long it was but sure it was a long time before I understood almost everything. Thanks to those long time gamblers that are not selfish to share what they know about terms and as well as strategies that they've known.  And there are still too many to learn not just this jargon. If there's an unfamiliar term that I've read, I'm quickly searching about the meaning of it and how to do it.

Lucky for you if you can visit a land-based casino because, during this pandemic, few casinos have reopened their business. Maybe from there, you can increase your knowledge of gambling because I think those terms are the same as online gambling. To make it easier, we can look for it through a search engine to know the meaning of the term and not have to play gambling just to find out.

It's not really that long maybe one or two weeks every time I stumble on a new term when I'm playing or when I'm participating in a discussion I Google it and I can easily get the terms and the meaning, I only learn to gamble online but I only visit a land-based casino twice and I am not yet active in gambling it's just when I join and play on online casinos that I grasp and understand some of the meaning of these popular terms in gambling.

Interest and experience would gradually teach you these gambling terms or jargon. If one is interested in learning them, then such person must research about them to get their meaning and how they work. A newcomer in the gambling space can learn all the jargons faster than someone that have been a gambler for a long time if he studies about these terms diligently and comprehensively. Another factor is experience which comes with time and consistency. A consistent gambler would easily get familiar with those terms as he keeps gambling. As he is gaining more experience, those gambling jargons will unconsciously become part of him. 

It took me a week I was a participant in the 777Coin signature campaign and I have to play in casinos to be able to participate in discussions about gambling, there are a lot of articles and Youtube videos about gambling terms and jargon I did not have a hard time understanding these terms I applied some of them, but as a small-time gambler, I am limited to my understanding on the whole concept of being high rollers.
But the best jargon I learn is to only play money that you can afford to lose and enjoy the game its all about enjoyment.

Those gambling terms or jargons are really easy to understand if you have previously gamble on fiat casino or understand how cryptography work, if you not understand those two stuffs, then you're need to learn from zero. But usually some people doesn't really care with that, they're prefer to understand how the game work and other feature e.g. bonus feature on slots, multi bet in sports etc. As long as they're keep gambling, they will learn it ASAP.

When we are trying to make research with that jargon this is for a short term only but if leaves an idea to you that will remember you the word once you hear it again, you can get a knowledge in different ways such has observing the game and the player itself how they use the jargon words, next is through research if you are a person capable to remember everything it is an idea to do, and next is through experience by that you will now adopt the norms uses by the players every day they play.

Getting to know the terms in gambling takes time but I guess it doesn't cost a lot of money because we can get that information through the internet and not because of playing gambling.
I'm also not very familiar with the terms in gambling but I let myself get to know it slowly and not in a hurry.
Even if you stop gambling, you can still learn or find out about those terms so you can still know them.

The funny thing is, I have learned most of these words here in the forum just by staying in the gambling section.
Spreads, parlay, picks, odds, and a lot of things. I thank most of the members here for explaining it and some I did my own research just to understand the meaning of them when it comes to being used in a gambling term.
I am still learning, and I love that fact. I think that should be the goal, never stop at what you receive, there's no end to learning more because times are changing.

You should learn and understand all the terms and meanings in gambling in the shortest possible time if you are an active player even as a newbie, the first term I learn is a martingale, a technique where you double your bets every time you lose, I understand the concept before I fully understand that martingale whatever variations or technique you're using will not yield you a good profit, I never boast that understand all terms about gambling but I fully understand the concept of gambling that you must not try to win or you will be setting yourself in the trap.

The only terms I know was martingale, wage, multiplier, odd, house edge, etc. since when I started gambling I don't really have any experience on cryptocurrency casino. I stopped playing a long time ago before learning all the stuffs in gambling. But it might take a while for someone to learn all terms in gambling. It will also gonna need a lot of money to be spend before you get enough experience to survive in gambling world, and in no time you'll notice that you've learned a lot from it.

I'm constantly learning gambling terms all the time, and I must say sometimes it's difficult to understand something people say, because I'm not used to talk to others person to person about gambling, so the only source of information I have is this forum, plus some articles, reviews and videos I watch once in a while. One of the last terms I've learned was the called RTP (return to player) from slot machines. That was a feature I wasn't aware of, but it was really good to learn about it, since now I pay attention to the RTP percentage before choosing a slots game to start playing. Actually, knowledge is never enough and there will be always something new to learn and absorb on this world, doesn't matter if you are a newbie, intermediary or professional.

if you play with friends of course it will be easier to understand. at least we understand what the jargon means.
Nor do I follow whether it is important for us to understand or not. because I only often play at soccer betting sportsbooks. not much jargon bothers me. something simple is shown, and I think a lot of people have a hard time understanding master in other games.

I forget how long it took me to learn the jargon of gambling and I think it was while I was gambling. But I didn't think about whether it was a term in gambling or just a term and when I didn't know what it meant, I immediately googled it. I guess understanding the meaning doesn't take long because it's all in the search engines but it depends on how people want to find out or not.

Honestly, it is sounds familiar but I really don't know why it is. Maybe I could try to search in later on, I am just an occasional gambler and only plays when it is convenient for me or I have some extra money in hand. And I think other gambler like me doesn't know some of it, I hope someone will make a list of that here. I don't have some mentor or friends teaching me some jargons maybe that's one of the reason why but then just what I said, I only play occasionally so it really doesn't matter to me so much.

I think when you learn everything, it may not necessarily give you a win at a gambling place because the system from a gambling place sometimes cannot be predicted correctly, so stay careful when you want to gamble and as much as possible to keep control of your patience, don't be influenced to always enter, when you have made a profit from the capital you use, it is better for you to make a withdrawal as quickly as possible so that you will not lose the profit you have received from the gambling place.

Someone has to create a thread for this. Listing gambling terms that are supposedly learned by newcomers.

Its easier to learn such all these with friends but sometimes they just knock the table. At first I don't know what this knocking mean actually.
Its not like basketball where there is a game you understand since childhood.

You are right. You only get to understand the jargons in gambling if you start playing and experience it by yourself using those terms while gambling. Research is not enough, sometimes those terms are still confusing  even if you do a lot of reading. But once you gamble more often, those jargons has made easier for you to understand without complicating them.

Yes, I think the same, it's rather that you learn them as you go, or better said, as you play. The best way to learn them all quickly would be to study statistics applied to games of chance, which in turn would help you understand much better how they work.


That happened to me too, lol. The important thing is that you learn how to play well, the specific terms you will learn little by little.

This is something difficult to know, because very few people are going to take the time to accurately remember how much time it took them to memorize something so specific, also it depends. for someone that is only interested in a single game they are not going to need remember many terms while those which are interested in many games and to study them profoundly then it is going to take a lot longer to learn all the jargon that is needed to have a conversation with another gambler.

your environment always contributes what you learn. surround yourself with gamblers and you will become a gambler and talk like gambler.  

may be start playing cards in a local casino, you will eventually learn it in less than a week. in my country every time there's a dead's wake, people in such gathering are gambling to stay awake. i often attend to gamble too. its a country's tradition to fund the wake.

It only took few minutes of your time if you knew how to use google search and understand it carefully. There are a lot of blogs and articles that explain all the info about gambling in ELI5(Explain Like I'm 5) which can be easily understand of most readers.

These jargons is not too important to fully understand if you are just a jormal gambler since you can't still verify some terms if you have technical knowledge such seed, How can you guarantee that the seed that you verify is really trusted if you didn't know how to check code.   

I cant tell the exact time but I guess it took me over a month than before realizing those jargon because I'm not too much addicted in gambling but at the same time i know some of the friends playing and come with them by that i get an idea with their terminologies using with and of course over and over I just got known with these terms now, we didn't pay attention too much by that we cause time goes by we didn't expect we adopt those already.

Simply study the gambling terminology or jargon you don't understand the first time you come across them.

The only benefit I can think of when measuring the time it takes to understand gambling lingo is assessing the person's level of understanding within the specific field, which is usually irrelevant. Who cares if you are the most knowledgeable person in the gaming industry if luck is the game's driving force?

it is nothing different like Investing , there are terminologies that we must understand and learn so we can move forward in completely gaming .
and if you are into something? along the way you will learn everything inside.
like for example in simple games that we learn when we were young , just by playing and betting , in short period of time we manage to understand the terms so what more now that we are mature and truly interested in gambling?

The jargon for a specific game, e.g. poker or black jack, took me quite some time. Probably around a week? Granted I only played a few times each day, but it naturally came to me while playing. Never really tried looking for the jargon themselves and studying it though, cause if I did, it probably wouldn't even take that long. Now as for terms like "martingale" which is a strategy or a pattern to use, or any other term outside of specific games, then that took much longer since I did not even realize it exists in the first place. I used it unknowingly at one point even.

Though tbf, only jargon for specific games is rather important. Outside of those? Not really.

When I was just starting to gamble, the first thing I learned was the term "bet". For me, it was something that needed to be understood first because knowing that you can make sure that you are going to be approaching it the right way. Then comes the "strategies" that you are going to approach to "win". That's just the tip of the iceberg when dwelling with it.

I've never worried about having to acquire this knowledge, I believe it's something you learn over time and that it's not essential for those who are starting to play.
Of course, for those who are used to playing games of chance that only accept Fiat, starting to play on a site that accepts cryptocurrencies is a little challenging and requires a minimum of knowledge to be able to make deposits and withdrawals safely.

there is no length of time before you can learn all the gambling terms. unless of course you are actively looking and trying to learn them. I've been gambling for years but I can say that there are still a lot of gambling terms that I don't know especially on gambling games/types of gambling that I don't usually play.

I do not think that there are enough jargons or terms that are relatively difficult to understand.

I remember when I first entered a casino, it was very difficult for me to understand the basics of poker, especially that they use terms such as hit, fold, etc. I was somehow confused on what those are but I quickly learned the meaning after doing some research.

Maybe the jargons you are pointing out can be applicable to some gambling methods that are practiced culturally or that is specific in a given country. But from my experience alone, I have yet to encounter a term that is of its first kind.

There are different terms and jargons that are used in gambling. Perhaps the latest gambling technical terms that I learned are those associated with sports betting like parlay and others. I learned them many years ago when I started sports betting online. Prior to that, I do sports betting only with individuals, person to person in other words.

On the other hand, there are also other gambling terms which I learned much later than the game itself. For example, I learned and play poker much earlier than I learned the terms such as turn or river or rainbow or ante. Before, I just knew the mechanics and the game without really knowing the jargons.

To be honest, for an average gamblers that are not inclined to technology, maybe this terms are not important. But let say you are s smart gambler and the first time you wanted to try online gambling, then you will want to know how fair they are. So you will do and research it yourself, read their terms and conditions and maybe see this one or two terms under. And with that, it might be different for every individuals. Maybe in just one try and user experience they will have the grasp of it. But for the majority maybe it will take sometime to be familiarized with these jargons.

When I started gambling a few years ago, I was not very familiar with the jargon or terms in gambling and didn't really bother with it.
With more and more I play gambling, I mean, the intensity of playing gambling increases, making me slowly start to get to know the terms in gambling but that also doesn't make me curious to look for more terms because I think that I will find out later.
Because I just want to gamble in my spare time, I don't hear those terms very often.
Maybe for other people, they will find out the terms used in gambling.

Not sure how long it take me not just to learn, but to understand what and the hows of this jargons. But the first thing to do is really research about this terms and then actually playing and see how it is being apply when you gamble.

Probably the easiest is the martingale system though, I mean it's the most well known strategy or methods ever since. But other terms in online gambling is very different though and as I have said, you really have to play and experience it before understand them.

When you're starting out as a gambler there are terms and jargon that have to be explained to you or you have to research for you to understand its meaning and how it applies to gambling.

In your experience how long or the Length of Time Before You Learn All These Gambling Terms Or Jargon like wage, seed, provably fair, martingale, and so on.