An Online Betting Cyclopedia
Despite the actuality that internet wagering is now a many billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of new gamblers around the world log on each day to wager at internet casinos, there are still millions of newbies to the environment of internet betting who don’t as yet have a clear understanding of much of the terminology used in internet gambling, and gambling on athletics in general. In any case, knowledge of these terms is indispensable to interpreting the games and regulations of wagering:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a gambler has risked all of his chips into the pot. A second pot is set up for the gamblers with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To bet on numerous horses in the same event.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a necessary figure of money into the pot beforeevery hand starts.
BRING-IN: A mandatory bet in seven-card stud carried out by the gambler showing the smallest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in 21, when a player’s cards are valued over 21.
BUY-IN: The the lowest value of funds necessary to enter a match or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as an already carried out bet.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the match and not wagering. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to place a bet on par with but opposite of the starting bet.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but made after the hurler has arrived at their point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial toss to achieve a number, or the initial roll after a number is arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to blanket all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, 3 or 12 is an automatic loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the winners of the first two races of the night.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result of an event will be lower than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also referred to as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to gamble on any of three categories of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports wager, which means to gamble on a group or player to succeed or place in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the identical number as wagered, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: Betting that 2 horses in an event will finish in the absolute same order as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a block of 5 numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.