An Internet Wagering Glossary
Despite the actuality that online gambling is now a many billion dollar industry, and countless thousands of additional wagerers around the world log on every day to bet at online gambling halls, there are still millions of newbies to the environment of internet betting who don’t as yet have a clear understanding of a lot of the doublespeak employed in internet betting, and wagering on athletics in general. Nonetheless, knowledge of these terms is essential to understanding the games and rules of play:
ACTION: Any style of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has deposited all of her chips into the pot. A side pot is created for the wagerers with additional chips.
ALL-UP: To bet on several horses in the same contest.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a necessary value of money into the pot beforeevery hand begins.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in seven-card stud carried out by the gambler showing the lowest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in vingt-et-un, when a gambler’s cards are valued over 21.
BUY-IN: The minimum sum of money necessary to appear in a game or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as a previously made wager.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game without betting. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to place a bet equal to but opposite of the opening wager.
COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line wager, but made after the shooter has arrived at her point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to establish a point, or the initial toss after a point is ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to cover all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, three or twelve is an immediate defeat on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the initial two matches of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result of an event will be smaller than the smallest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to wager on any of 3 categories of twelve numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event wager, indicating to wager on a team or player to win or medal in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the identical sum as bet, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: Betting that two horses in a match will complete the race in the absolute identical order as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager made on a block of 5 numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.