An Online Betting Encyclopedia
Despite the fact that web gambling is now a multi-billion dollar industry, and boundless thousands of additional players around the world sign on every day to wager at online gambling halls, there are additionally millions of newbies to the world of internet wagering who don’t as yet have a clear comprehension of much of the doublespeak used in internet betting, and wagering on athletics in general. However, understanding of these terms is essential to interpreting the games and policies of wagering:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has risked all of her chips into the pot. A side pot is created for the wagerers with additional money.
ALL-UP: To bet on numerous horses in the same event.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a necessary figure of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A required wager in seven-card stud made by the gambler displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in chemin de fer, when a player’s cards are valued over 21.
BUY-IN: The minimum amount of funds necessary to enter a game or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as a previously carried out bet.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the match without wagering. This is applicable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to put a wager equal to but opposite of the opening bet.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the three columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line bet, but carried out after the player has arrived at his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to achieve a number, or the initial roll after a point is arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to blanket all the spots on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, three or twelve is an automatic loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the 1st two races of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome of an action will be smaller 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 3 categories of twelve numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports gamble, meaning to wager on a team or player to succeed or place in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays out the identical amount as gambled, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: wagering that two horses in an event will complete the race in the absolute identical order as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet made on a group of 5 numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.