An Internet Wagering Encyclopedia
Regardless of the actuality that online gambling is now a multi-billion dollar business, and endless thousands of additional gamblers world-wide sign up each day to wager at internet gambling halls, there are still millions of newbies to the world of web gambling who don’t as yet have a clear understanding of much of the dialect employed in internet betting, and gambling on athletic event in general. However, understanding of these terms is essential to knowing the games and rules of gaming:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has risked all of his money into the pot. A second pot is developed for the wagerers with remaining chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the same contest.
ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a specified sum of chips into the pot just beforeevery hand starts.
BRING-IN: A required wager in 7-card stud carried out by the gambler displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in vingt-et-un, when a player’s cards total over 21.
BUY-IN: The minimum sum of money required to enroll in a match or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as an already made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the match without betting. This is allowed only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to lay a bet equal to but converse of the opening bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the three columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line bet, but carried out after the shooter has ascertained her point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st toss to establish a number, or the first toss after a number is achieved.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to fill all the squares on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, three or twelve is an immediate defeat on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the initial 2 events of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result of an event will be lower than the smallest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to gamble on any of three sets of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event wager, indicating to wager on a group or player to win or medal in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays out the same number as bet, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: gambling that two horses in a race will finish in the absolute identical order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager made on a group of five numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.