Casinowoordenlijst
53 terms, defined plainly. Met kruisverwijzingen en gegroepeerd per onderwerp. We richten ons op termen die bepalen wat je kunt opnemen, wanneer en tegen welke kosten; niet op het marketingjargon.
Wiskunde en kans
- # RTP — Return to Player
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The theoretical long-run percentage of all wagered money a game returns to players. A 96% RTP slot returns about €96 per €100 wagered over millions of spins. RTP is a long-run average, not a per-session guarantee — short-term variance routinely produces outcomes far above or below.
- # House Edge
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The casino's mathematical advantage on a given game, expressed as 100% minus the RTP. A 96% RTP slot has a 4% house edge. House edge applies to every wager regardless of the outcome of any specific bet.
- # Volatility — Variance
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How dispersed a game's wins are around the average. Low-volatility games pay smaller wins frequently; high-volatility games pay rarely but with much larger maximum wins. Volatility is independent of RTP — two games can share the same RTP and feel completely different.
- # Hit Frequency — Hit Rate
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The percentage of spins that produce any win — including wins smaller than the bet. A 25% hit frequency means roughly 1 in 4 spins lands a paying combination. Hit frequency says nothing about how big those wins are; volatility does.
- # Standard Deviation
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Statistical measure of how widely individual outcomes deviate from the mean. Used in advantage-play math to estimate bankroll requirements. Published consistently for table games but rarely for slots outside lab-test reports.
- # Expected Value — EV
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The average outcome of a bet, weighted by probability. Negative-EV bets (most casino wagers) lose money on average; positive-EV opportunities exist in advantage play and certain bonus situations.
Bonussen en promoties
- # Wagering Requirement — WR, Playthrough
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The total amount you must wager before bonus funds (or winnings derived from them) become withdrawable. Commonly expressed as a multiplier: "30x bonus" means a €100 bonus needs €3,000 in turnover before cash-out is allowed.
- # Sticky Bonus
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A bonus where the bonus amount itself is never withdrawable — only winnings derived from it can be cashed out. The original bonus is forfeited on first withdrawal.
- # Cashable Bonus
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A bonus where both the bonus amount and any winnings can be withdrawn after the wagering requirement is met. The default for most modern welcome offers.
- # No-Deposit Bonus — NDB
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A bonus credited without any deposit — typically €5–€25 in cash or 20–50 free spins. Almost always carries strict wagering requirements and a low maximum-cashout cap.
- # Match Bonus
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A bonus that matches a percentage of your deposit. "100% match up to €200" means a €200 deposit becomes €400 in playable funds, with the bonus portion subject to wagering.
- # Free Spins — FS
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Spins on a designated slot at a fixed bet, without using your real-money balance. Winnings from free spins typically count as bonus funds and inherit the offer's wagering requirement.
- # Reload Bonus
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A match bonus offered on deposits made after the welcome offer is exhausted. Often weekly or tied to specific deposit thresholds.
- # Cashback
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A refund of net losses over a defined period (daily, weekly, or monthly), credited as cash or as a bonus. Real cashback (no wagering) is more valuable than bonus cashback by a wide margin.
- # Maximum Bet (Rule) — Max Bet
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The per-spin or per-hand cap that applies while a bonus's wagering requirement is active. Typical: €5. Exceeding the cap almost always voids the bonus and any winnings — frequently buried in T&Cs.
- # Game Contribution — Game Weighting
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The percentage of each wager that counts toward the wagering requirement, depending on game type. Slots typically contribute 100%; table games 10% or 0%; live dealer often 10% or excluded entirely.
- # Maximum Cashout — Max Win Cap, Win Cap
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A cap on how much you can withdraw from a bonus or its winnings, regardless of how much you actually win. Common on no-deposit bonuses (€50–€100). Hits a fairness wall: a 5,000× free-spin win on a high-vol slot still pays out only the cap.
- # No-Wagering Bonus
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A bonus with zero wagering requirement: any winnings are immediately withdrawable as cash. Honest no-wagering offers exist but are not the norm; many advertised "no-wagering" bonuses still impose max-cashout caps.
- # Predatory T&C Pattern
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A clause in bonus or operator terms that materially shifts risk to the player — short expiry, ambiguous "irregular play" definitions, max-bet rules buried in nested clauses, retroactive bonus voiding, or undefined "abuse" criteria. We catalogue these per-bonus.
Gokkastterminologie
- # Payline
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A line across the reels along which matching symbols pay. Classic slots have 9–25 paylines; modern slots increasingly use ways-to-win or cluster mechanics instead.
- # Ways to Win
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Wins are awarded for matching symbols on adjacent reels regardless of position (typically left-to-right). A 5-reel ways slot offers up to 243 or 1,024 ways depending on configuration.
- # Megaways
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A patented mechanic by Big Time Gaming, licensed to most major providers. Each spin sets a random number of symbols per reel (typically 2–7), producing up to 117,649 ways to win on a 6-reel game.
- # Cluster Pays
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Wins are awarded when 5 or more matching symbols connect horizontally or vertically anywhere on the grid. NetEnt's Aloha! Cluster Pays (2016) popularised the mechanic for the modern slot era.
- # Tumble / Avalanche / Cascade — Tumbling Reels, Cascading Reels
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After a winning combination, the winning symbols are removed and replaced by new symbols dropping in. Multiple consecutive wins from a single paid spin are possible; many tumble slots compound multipliers across cascades in free spins.
- # Wild Symbol
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A symbol that substitutes for any other paying symbol to complete a combination, typically excluding scatter and bonus symbols.
- # Sticky Wild
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A wild symbol that remains in place across multiple spins, almost always within a free-spins or bonus round.
- # Expanding Wild
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A wild that grows to cover an entire reel (or row), substituting in every position it now occupies.
- # Scatter Symbol
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A symbol that pays based on its count anywhere on the reels (not on a specific payline) and typically triggers bonus rounds when enough land at once.
- # Multiplier
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A factor applied to a win (×2, ×5, ×100). Multipliers can be fixed, progressive, or random; in free-spins rounds they often persist or compound across cascades.
- # Bonus Buy — Feature Buy
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An optional purchase, typically 50× to 500× the base bet, that immediately triggers the slot's bonus round. Restricted or banned in the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands; permitted in many other markets.
- # Max Win Cap
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The maximum payout per spin or session, expressed as a multiple of the base bet (e.g., 10,000×). Caps reduce headline RTP slightly when the natural max-win distribution would exceed them — more relevant on ultra-high-volatility slots.
- # xWays / xNudge / xSplit
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Trademarked Nolimit City mechanics. xWays: hidden symbols reveal stacked copies of one type during the spin. xNudge: wilds nudge to fully cover their reel and add a multiplier. xSplit: wilds split adjacent symbols into two.
RNG en eerlijkheid
- # RNG — Random Number Generator
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The cryptographic algorithm that determines slot and RNG-table-game outcomes. Independently audited by labs such as eCOGRA, GLI, iTech Labs and BMM Testlabs before deployment.
- # Provably Fair
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A cryptographic scheme used predominantly by crypto casinos: a server seed (committed in advance) and a client seed (player-supplied) combine to determine an outcome the player can verify after the fact. Distinct from third-party RNG audits used by traditional casinos.
- # Independent Auditing — eCOGRA, GLI, iTech Labs
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Third-party labs that verify RNG correctness, claimed RTPs, and operator practices. Their certification mark is a legitimacy signal — but the absence of one isn't always disqualifying for sites licensed in tight jurisdictions like the UK or Sweden.
Betalingen en bedrijfsvoering
- # KYC — Know Your Customer
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Identity-verification process required by AML law: photo ID, proof of address, and sometimes source of funds. UK and most EU regulators require KYC before the first withdrawal; some jurisdictions require it at registration.
- # AML — Anti-Money Laundering
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Statutory framework requiring operators to monitor customer transactions, file Suspicious Activity Reports, and verify the source of large deposits. The legal driver behind most KYC delays.
- # Source of Funds — SoF
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Documentation proving the origin of money deposited (payslips, savings statements, asset-sale records, inheritance documents). Increasingly requested by regulators when cumulative deposits cross thresholds.
- # Withdrawal SLA
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Operator's stated processing time for cash-outs, typically split into pending time (operator review) plus payment-method time (bank/e-wallet). "0–2 hours" e-wallets are not the same as "1–3 business days" bank transfers.
- # Reverse Withdrawal — Withdrawal Reversal
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A T&C clause allowing players to cancel a pending withdrawal and play with the funds again — almost universally a predatory pattern. Reputable operators have eliminated it.
- # Pending Time
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The window between requesting a withdrawal and the operator releasing it (KYC checks, manual review). Common predatory pattern: extended pending periods designed to push players into reversing withdrawals.
Regelgeving en verantwoord spelen
- # UKGC — UK Gambling Commission
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Statutory regulator for Great Britain, established by the Gambling Act 2005. Reputed for the strictest player-protection requirements among major jurisdictions; binding compliance document is the LCCP.
- # MGA — Malta Gaming Authority
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Maltese regulator covering most pan-EU operations under the EU services framework. Widely held as the EU's reference licence for cross-border iGaming.
- # Curaçao eGaming — CGCB, GCB Curaçao
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Caribbean jurisdiction historically used for offshore online licensing. The legacy "master licence" structure is being replaced under the 2024 National Ordinance on Games of Chance, which introduces stricter player-protection standards.
- # GamStop
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UK national multi-operator self-exclusion scheme. UKGC-licensed operators are required to block accounts of registered users. GamStop covers GB-licensed brands only — offshore sites are not part of the scheme.
- # Self-Exclusion
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A formal request to be blocked from gambling for a fixed period (typically 6 months to 5+ years). Regulated jurisdictions require operators to honour it; most also offer cooling-off and deposit-limit tools.
- # Affordability Check — Financial Vulnerability Check
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Operator obligation to assess whether a player can afford their losses, triggered by spend thresholds. Phased in by the UKGC under the Gambling Act White Paper (2023); implementation continues through 2025–2026.
- # LCCP — Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice
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The UKGC's binding compliance document for GB-licensed operators. Specifies licence conditions, social-responsibility codes, and ordinary code provisions that operators must meet.
Spelerspraktijken
- # Bankroll Management
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Discipline of allocating a fixed gambling budget per session or period and never exceeding it. The single highest-impact responsible-gambling habit a player can build.
- # Bonus Hunting — Bonus Whoring
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Strategy of opening accounts to extract positive-EV bonuses. Operators commonly close accounts and void winnings citing "bonus abuse" T&C clauses, even where the strategy is legal — read the abuse clause before depositing.
- # Advantage Play
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Umbrella term for legal strategies that exploit positive-EV opportunities — favourable bonuses, comp redemption, table-game basic strategy. Operators are within their rights to refuse service to identified advantage players.
- # Chasing Losses
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Betting larger or longer to recover a losing position. A primary indicator of problem gambling and a flagged item on standard responsible-gambling assessments such as the PGSI.
- # Variance Tolerance
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A player's psychological tolerance for swings in their bankroll. Determines suitable game volatility: high-variance slots demand a deeper bankroll and stronger emotional control.
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