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| Exit [Skydiving] |
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Letting go or jump out of the aircraft and entering the air.
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| Exotic [General] |
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Any wager other than a straight bet or parlay (also referred to as a proposition or prop)
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| Exotic (Wager) [Horse Racing] |
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Any wager other than win, place or show. For the mathematically inclined, the amount of combinations in any exotic wager can be figured by the formula n!/(n-a!), where n is the number of horses in your wager and a is the number of finishers in the wager (two in an exacta, three in a trifecta, etc.)
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| Exotic Bet [General] |
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Action other than a straight bet or parlay.
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| Exotic Numbers [Lotto] |
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A term used to refer generally to unusual combinations like Triples, Double-Doubles and Quads in the 3- and 4-digit numbers games; numbers that are rarely drawn.
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| Exotic Wager [General] |
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Any bet other than a straight bet, i.e., parlays, teasers, if bets, reverses, round robin, round robin box reverses, etc.
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| Exotic Wagers [Horse Racing] |
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Any bets other than straight win, place and show bets. The term comes from the philosophy that it's tough enough to pick one horse, let alone more than one. Sometimes referred to as gimmick bets.
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| Expanded Rosters [Baseball] |
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Active rosters must be set at 25 the midnight before the first major-league game that counts in the standings. The active roster may be expanded to as much as 40 after August 31. After the last game of the regular season, all 40-man rosters players become a part of the active roster until the following opening day. 40-man Rosters must be set by November 20 to protect minor-leaguers from the Rule 5 Draft.
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| Expansion [Ice Hockey] |
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The addition of teams to the NHL.
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| Expansion Draft [Ice Hockey] |
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A special arrangement to assist new franchises in obtaining players, where expansion teams choose players from other teams’ rosters.
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| Expansion Joint [Luge] |
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A small space separated sections of track to allow expansion or contraction because of temperature changes.
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| Expansion Team [Ice Hockey] |
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A team that has been recently added to the NHL.
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| Expectation [Video Poker] |
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[1] A term referring to the amount of you expect to gain on average if you make a certain play. For instance, suppose you put $10 into a $50 pot to draw at a hand that you will make 25% of the time, and it will win every time you make it. Three out of four times, you do not make your draw, and lose $10 each time for a total of $30. The fourth time, you will make your draw, winning $50. Your total gain over those four average hands is $50-$30 = $20, an average of $5 per hand. Thus calling the $10 has a positive expectation of $5. [2] The amount you expect to make at the poker table in a specific time period. Perhaps in 100 hours play, you have won $527. Then your expectation is $5.27/hr. Of course, you won't make that exact amount each hour (and some hours you will lose), but it's one measure of your anticipated earnings.
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| Expected Return [Video Poker] |
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The average amount of money paid back on a particular play for a particular bet. The Expected Return (ER) is the Expected Value of a play multiplied by the amount bet. Most commercially available video poker analysis programs, when analyzing a hand, give the ER of each possible play. The program may call those numbers Expected Values, but any qualified statistician will confirm that as a misnomer.
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| Expected Value [Video Poker] |
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The statistically projected average per-unit-bet payback of a particular play. Another way of looking at the EV is the average of all possible outcomes for a particular play or game. Most commercially available video poker analysis programs give the Expected Return (ER) of each possible play when a hand is analyzed. Assuming a five coin bet, dividing the ER by five will give the EV. A better technique, however, is to change the bet to one coin and adjust all one-coin payoffs to per-coin values so that the program will give EV directly. For more details, see my article "What is Expected Value?"
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| Expected Win [Blackjack] |
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Another term similar to expectation or expected value. Generally, this term is used to describe what a player or the house may expect to win over a certain period of play. For example, if a card counter is playing with a 1.5% advantage over the house and has an average bet of $100, it may be said that his expected win per 100 hands would be $150.
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| Expedite System [Table Tennis] |
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A method of limited a game's duration under certain circumstances, most commonly if neither player has reached 9 points after 10 minutes of play (19 points after 15 minutes if game is 21). Players alternate serving and the receiver is awarded a point for returning 13 successive shots.
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| Experimental Free Handicap [Horse Racing] |
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A year-end projection of the best North American two-year-olds of the season, put together by a panel, under the auspices of The Jockey Club, that is based on performances in unrestricted races. Two lists are drawn up, one for males and one for females.
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| Explode [Golf] |
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To hit the ball from sand using a steeply lofted club with the club hitting into the sand behind the ball and spraying a large amount of sand.
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| Explosion Shot [Golf] |
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A shot out of a sand trap that takes a great deal of sand with it.
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| Exposed Card [Poker] |
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1) Any card dealt face up, as any of the up cards in a stud game. 2) A card that inadvertently appears face up during the deal in a draw game, or that gets accidentally turned face up. Card rooms have various rules for dealing with such accidental exposures, such as ruling the card dead (that is, not legally playable), dead at some times but not others, and so on. For example, in draw poker (high), an exposed card during the initial deal is often not declared dead, but is dead at any time during the draw. In lowball, during the initial deal, sometimes any exposed card 6 or higher is declared dead, but any card A through 5 can be kept by the player to whom it is dealt; during the draw, usually any exposed card is deemed dead. In stud and flop games, down cards inadvertently exposed by the dealer are usually ruled dead.
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| Exposed Pair [Poker] |
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In stud games, any open or visible pair, as opposed to a hidden pair; two cards of the same rank in the face-up position in one player's hand.
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| Exposure [Wrestling] |
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Having your back angled toward the mat at less than 45 degrees (90 degrees in international styles).
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| Extend [Fencing] |
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To straighten the sword arm in the direction of the target.
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| Extended [Horse Racing] |
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Forced to run at top speed.
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| Extended Coverage [Motor Sports] |
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A policy that covers any extras that are not in the original policy.
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| Extending Shafts [Golf] |
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The process of using a piece of material inserted into the shaft to make the club longer. The portion of the extender inside the shaft holds it in place (with epoxy), while the portion sticking out of the shaft butt will make the club longer, up to 1 ˝”. The extension may be made of wood, steel, aluminum or graphite.
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| Extension [Skiing] |
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The opposite of compression, usually refers to straightening of the body, arms or legs.
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| Extensor Tendon [Horse Racing] |
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Extends the knee (carpus) joint, ankle joint, pastern and foot and flexes the elbow. The muscles begin above the knee and attach to the coffin and pastern bones.
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| Extra [Golf] |
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Same as press.
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| Extra Board [Blackjack] |
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A list of dealers hired and processed by the casino, who have not been assigned a permanent work shift. They are allowed to work as needed until a regular position becomes available. "I was on the extra board for a month before a shift opened up on graveyard."
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| Extra Hole [Golf] |
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A hole played after a regulation round or match to break a tie.
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| Extra Outs [Poker] |
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Cards that improve a hand in more ways than the self-evident outs. Both terms (outs and extra outs) are usually used with reference to a hand that needs to improve to win the pot (because it is currently beat by some other hand).
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| Extra Point(s) [Football] |
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Additional point(s) scored by a team after it has scored a touchdown, either by a point-after-touchdown (1 point) or a 2-point conversion (2 points).
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| Extra Skater [Ice Hockey] |
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A player, usually a forward, who is on the ice to replace the goalie, either during a delayed penalty or when a team desperately needs a goal late in the game.
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| Extremus Deafus [Wrestling] |
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The inability of anyone involved in a match to hear the enterance music of their enemy being played over the PA system until they actually get involved in a match (works also for referees). - [email protected].
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| Eye [Blackjack] |
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1. A colloquial term for the cameras used to watch the gaming areas in any casino. 2. Reference to the casino employee(s) viewing the video screens or employee(s) watching play directly from an unseen vantage point. Also: "Eye in the sky."
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| Eye in the Sky [Blackjack] |
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A video camera, usually mounted in a bubble on the ceiling, used by surveillance personnel to observe dealers and customers to catch them if they are stealing or cheating. In some casinos almost every hand of Blackjack is recorded on video to detect cheaters as well as counters.
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| Eye Splice [Sailing] |
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A splice causing a loop in the end of a line, by braiding the end into itself or similar methods. It may or may not be reinforced by a metal fitting known as a thimble.
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| Eyes [Poker] |
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In hold 'em, a pair of aces, particularly when they constitute a player's down cards. Also called eyes of Texas.
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| Eyes of Texas [Poker] |
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In hold 'em, a pair of aces, particularly when they constitute a player's down cards.
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