An Online Betting Glossary
Despite the actuality that online wagering is now a multi-billion dollar industry, and boundless thousands of additional wagerers around the world log on every day to play at online gambling halls, there are still millions of newbies to the world of online wagering who do not as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the dialect employed in web gambling, and betting on sports in general. In any case, understanding of these ideas is essential to interpreting the games and regulations of gambling:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has risked all of her chips into the pot. A second pot is set up for the bettors with additional chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the identical contest.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a necessary value of chips into the pot beforeevery hand begins.
BRING-IN: A mandatory bet in seven-card stud made by the gambler displaying the smallest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in vingt-et-un, when a gambler’s cards total over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum amount of money required to get in a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals a previously made wager.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the match and not wagering. This is applicable only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to put a bet equal to but opposite of the leading wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but made after the player has established his number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st toss to achieve a number, or the initial toss after a point is achieved.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to cover all the numbers on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, 3 or twelve is an immediate loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the 1st 2 matches of the night.
DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome 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 wager on one or more of three categories of 12 numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports bet, meaning to bet on a team or player to succeed or place in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the same value as wagered, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: wagering that two horses in a match will complete the race in the exact identical assignment as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet made on a block of five numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.