A
- Ace — When a player kills the entire enemy team in one round
- Active Map — Maps that are played by the professional scene and include Inferno, Dust II, Cache, Overpass, Train, Mirage, and Nuke
- ADR — Average Damage per Round that does not factor in Overkill damage
- Against the Spread — Betting for the underdog or against the odds
- Aimbot — A hack where a bot automatically locks onto the enemy target and is commonly found in first-person shooter games like CS:GO
- All-In — When a bettor puts his whole inventory into one pot
- Anchor — (1) The worst player on the team that is dragging the team down
(2) The last CT (counter-terrorist) on site when the other CT players rotate
- Anti-Eco — A round where a team attempts to counteract an eco round by the enemy team
- Anti-Strat — A strategy that is used to counteract the enemy team’s strategy
- Arbitrage — When a bookmaker uses the process of buying and selling to manipulate the prices of a bet in order to achieve a profit
B
- Bait — (1) When you put your teammate in danger by the enemy team
(2) Making the enemy converge on a certain location by exposing yourself
(3) When a player on the T (terrorist) side plays aggressively in a certain area to make the CT side waste their grenades before the actual push - Bankroll — The amount of money that you can use to bet
- Bet — Putting money down on the outcome of an event
- Betting Strategy — A strategy or method that is used to give the bettor an advantage over the house
- Bettor — A person who bets on a certain outcome
- Bomb — An item that the T side plants in one of two sites
- Bookmaker — A person or entity that gives out odds in order to accept bets by bettors
- Breaking Even — Not winning or losing money
- Buffed — When a weapon is improved by the developers of the game (such as increased damage per bullet)
C
- Carrying — When a single player supports the weight of the entire team by playing better (think LeBron in the 2018 playoffs)
- Chalk — The outcome of a certain event that is most likely to occur
- Choking — When a team or player gives up a huge lead
- Closing Line — The value of a bet that is most similar to the price before the market closes
- Closing Odds — The value of a bet that is most similar to the price before the market closes
- Clutch — When a player is outnumbered by the enemy team and still manages to win the round
- Coin Flip — A popular CS:GO betting game in which you bet on which side the coin will land on
- Commission — The cost imposed by a bookmaker or betting exchange when you place a bet or when you win a bet
- Counter-Terrorist (CT) — A side in CS:GO that wins by defusing the bomb, killing the entire enemy team, or preventing the terrorist side from planting the bomb
- Crash — A CS:GO betting game in which a person predicts when the multiplier of the bet ends
- Crossfire — Setting up several positions in a certain area to ambush the enemy team when they arrive
- CS:GO Betting Exchange — An online market that allows bettors to bet on the outcome of certain events (the difference between a bookmaker and a betting exchange is that, at a betting exchange, you bet against another bettor)
- CS:GO Professional Team — A team that plays against other teams in LAN events or Valve-sponsored tournaments in order to win a cash payout
- CS:GO Skins — A cosmetic that allows a player to change the appearance of a weapon or glove and can be bought and sold in the Steam market for cents or hundreds of dollars
D
- Dice — A popular CS:GO betting game where you input odds manually to determine how much the payout multiplies on your bet
- Double Action — A bet that is placed conditionally on if the previous bet wins
- Double Bet — When a bettor bets twice the initial amount of the first bet after he wins
- Double Kill — When a person kills two enemy players in a single round
- Drift — When the odds increase, the possibility of a certain event is less likely to occur
E
- Eco — A round where a team saves their money by buying cheap pistols and SMGs instead of more expensive but stronger weapons (“full eco” means that a team doesn’t buy anything at all)
- Economic Damage — A term to describe damage to the other team’s economy by kills or the planting of a bomb
- Edge — The upper hand over another bettor or bookmaker by taking advantage of ineffective margins or insider knowledge
- Entry Frags — The first kill by a team in order to take over a certain area of the map (most commonly used after getting a kill at a site)
- EV Betting — A type of strategy using a formula that focuses on how much money will be won or lost after a certain amount of bets (Odds of Winning x Amount of Money Won per Bet) – (Odds of Losing x Amount of Money Lost per Bet)
- Execute — A strategy that is used to take over a site
- Exit Frags — Getting a kill while saving in order to disrupt the enemy team’s economy
- Exotic — A riskier type of bet that involves guessing multiple winners of an event
- Expected Value — A formula that focuses on how much money will be won or lost after a certain amount of bets (Odds of Winning x Amount of Money Won per Bet) – (Odds of Losing x Amount of Money Lost per Bet)
- Exposure — Money that the bookmaker is risking if they lose
F
- Fake — (1) Pretending to plant a bomb on the T side in order to draw the enemy team out
(2) Pretending to defuse a bomb on the CT side in order to draw the enemy team out
(3) Making noise at one site to bait the CT side into rotating in order for the T side to plant at the other site - Favorite — The outcome of a certain event that is most likely to occur
- First-Half Bet — Betting on the result of the first half of a game
- Fixed-Odds Betting — Betting using odds presented by the bookmaker that are predetermined
- Flanking — Not attacking an enemy straight on, but instead going around behind them or to their side
- Forcebuy — Buying whatever you can because you need to (i.e., the last round before the half)
- Frag — Slang for kill
- Future — A bet on the winner of a certain event several weeks or months ahead
G
- Glass Cannon — Using a sniper rifle without any armor
H
- Handicap — Giving the underdog better odds
- Handicapper — A person who assigns a mathematical advantage or disadvantage to a team in order to equal out the odds
- Handicapping — Assigning a mathematical advantage or disadvantage to a team in order to equal out the odds
- Handle — The total amount of bets that a bookmaker has taken up
- Headshot — A shot to the head which deals a significant amount of damage to the player hit
- HP (Health Points) — The amount of health a player has starting from 100
I
- ICB (Inventory Clearing Bet) — A bet based on a certain percent of your Steam inventory
J
- Jackpot — A popular CS:GO betting game that you essentially pay to win (the more skins you put in to achieve a higher value, the higher chance you have to win the entire pot of skins put in by other players)
- Joint Favorite — Two teams or more that have an equal chance to win
- Juice — A commission imposed by the bookmaker for placing a bet
K
- K/D — Kill/Death ratio represented by a variable
- Kelly Formula — The formula that is used to find how much in bets is needed in order to make the most money
- Kobe — A well-placed high-explosive grenade that gets a kill
L
- Lag — Having a bad connection or ping to the game server which leads to a slower reaction time
- Laying the Points — Betting on the favorite of the match to win
- Layoff — (1) When a bookmaker uses another bookmaker to bet against himself (in case his initial bet loses)
(2) When a bettor bets against his initial bet (in case his initial bet loses)
- Limit — The maximum amount of money you can bet
- Line — Synonym for odds
- Linemaker — A person who calculates the odds for the bookmaker
- Live Betting — Betting while the game is still going on
- Lock — An outcome that is almost guaranteed to win or the term for the person who bets on this outcome
- Longshot — An outcome that is almost guaranteed to lose but has huge returns if it wins
- Lurker — A player who picks off enemy players that are rotating
M
- Map Callouts — When you tell your team information using locations on the map
- Map Selection — A process where two teams decide on which active maps to play in tournaments
- Match Bet — A way of making money by getting free bets offered by bookmakers
- Middle — Winning a bet on both sides by using price movements or mistakes made by bookmakers
- MM (Matchmaking) — A procedure to look for matches against other players
- Moneyline — Betting on whether a team will win
N
- NA (North America) — (1) Stands for North American servers
(2) An insult to a player who makes a mistake - Nap — The best tip of the day that is given out by a tipster
- Nerfed — When a gun is weakened to balance out the game
- Ninja Defuse — When a player on the CT side defuses the bomb before the T side kills him
- No Action — A bet that is canceled and refunded or rescheduled
- Non-Runner — When a team is scheduled to play but doesn’t show up
O
- Odds — The probability of an event occurring
- Odds-On Favorite — Odds greater than a 50% chance of a specific event occurring
- Oddsmaker — A person who calculates the odds for the bookmaker
- Off the Board — When the line is not being offered by the bookmaker
- Outright Winner — A bet placed on the overall winner of a certain tournament
- Over — A type of bet that speculates that the rounds of the game will be more than what the bookmaker proposed
- Overbroke — Betting percentage less than 100% which benefits the bettor
- Overround — Betting percentage more than 100% which benefits the bookmaker
P
- Parlay — A type of bet that predicts the winner of two or more games rather than just one
- Payout — How much you win from a bet
- Peek — Gathering information in a certain area with the cost of exposing your body from cover to other players
- Pick — No favorites and no handicap
- Pick (CS:GO) — When you get the first kill on the enemy
- Ping — Millisecond count of the response time of your connection from your computer to the internet server (low ping equals fast – high ping equals slow)
- Pistol Round — The first round of the first and second half of the game
- Points Spread — The difference between the underdog and the favorite in numerical values
- Post Time — When the betting starts
- Pot — A term for the money you get if you win when you bet against another player
- Power Rankings — Past ratings that are used by bettors to predict future bets
- Prefiring — Shooting a shot before you see the target
- Prop Bet — A bet based on events that occur while the game is playing
- PUG — A semi-professional pick-up game in CS:GO
- Pushing — Moving or attacking at an area by yourself or with your team
Q
- Quad Kill — Killing 4 players in a single round
- Quasi-Buy — A type of force-buy where you can still afford to buy in the next round
R
- Reset — In CS:GO, every time you lose a round, your loss bonus money increases until you win, which would then reset the loss bonus back to $1400
- Rotate — When you move to another spot in the map (most used to talk about when you move from Site A to Site B or vice versa)
- Roulette — A popular CS:GO betting game that is exactly like the actual roulette game with 18/18/2 odds
- Round Robin — A type of bet where you can bet all the possible combinations of the parlays in one bet
- Rushing — Going to a site or location aggressively
S
- Saving — Not trying to fight the enemy team, but instead saving whatever grenades, armor, and weapons you have for the next round
- Scalping — Making money on the spread of the back and lay price
- Scrim — Short for scrimmage or practice game between two professional teams
- Second-Half Bet — Betting on the outcome of the second half
- Sharp — Slang for a successful bettor
- Site — The only spots where you can plant the bomb as a terrorist
- Slots — A popular CS:GO betting game where you try to match similar images onto a single line
- Split — Attacking a site from multiple locations
- Sportsbook — Another name for bookmaker
- Spread — Another name for handicap
- Spread Betting — Unlike fixed betting, the bettor decides if the true outcome of the game’s spread will be higher or lower than what the bookmaker offered
- Square — An amateur bettor
- Stacking — Having more players in one location than normal
- Stake — How much money you are risking
- Staking Method — A type of method where you use calculations to decide how much money you are putting in each bet
- Steam — Fast, volatile movement in the line
- Straight Bet — A type of bet where you wager on who will win
- Strat — Short for strategy
- Support — An unofficial role for a player who is more focused on the utility of the game like throwing ‘nades for cover and entry
- Sway — Slang for misinformation
T
- Taking on the Points — Betting for the underdog and in favor of the point spread
- Teaser — A type of bet that allows you to add or subtract points from the point spread for two games
- Terrorist (T) — A side in CS:GO that can win by planting the bomb and getting it to detonate or by killing the entire CT side
- Throwing — Losing a match on purpose or sometimes on accident once the team is tilted (playing poorly or erratically)
- Ticket — A ticket is like a receipt that tells you the odds of your bet, when the game starts, how much you bet and will win, and what team you bet on
- Tier — A number grade of how good a team is (i.e., Division 1 in collegiate sports)
- Tilt — A mental lapse where you become angry at the game and start playing poorly (typically after a team loses a lot)
- Tip — Insider knowledge of the conditions of the players or the team (i.e., someone is sick)
- Tipster — The person who gives out the tips
- Tissue Price — The price decided by the bookmaker that comes from the perceived odds of the game
- TK (Team Kill) — When you kill a player on your team
- Total — The total of how many rounds or kills were made by both teams in a single game
- Totals Bet — A type of bet where you wager on if the real total will be lower or higher than what the bookmaker presented
- Trade — Getting a kill after one of your teammates dies or vice versa
- Triple Kill — When you get 3 kills in a single game
- True Odds — The actual probability of winning not influenced by the bookmaker
U
- Under — Betting on whether the total in the game will be less than what the bookmaker presented
- Underdog — The team that is less likely to win
- Unit — A percentage of your bankroll
- Utility — Another name for a grenade
V
- VAC — Another name for Valve Anti-Cheat
- Value — Betting with odds lower than the probability, which would give the bettor more profit
- Valve — The company that created and develops CS:GO
- Vigorish — Another name for the commission that the bookmaker applies to a bet
- Valve — The company that created and develops CS:GO
W
- Wager — Another name for a bet
- Wise Odds — Someone who knows a lot about what they are betting on