An Online Gambling Glossary
Despite the fact that web betting is now a many billion dollar industry, and countless thousands of new gamblers around the globe log in each day to play at internet gambling dens, there are still millions of newbies to the world of internet gambling who don’t as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the dialect employed in internet wagering, and wagering on sports in general. Nonetheless, knowledge of these terms is essential to knowing the games and rules of betting:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has deposited all of her money into the pot. A side pot is set up for the wagerers with additional money.
ALL-UP: To bet on several horses in the same contest.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a necessary sum of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A mandatory bet in 7-card stud made by the player showing the lowest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in 21, when a player’s cards exceed a value over 21.
BUY-IN: The the least amount of cash necessary to appear in a match or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals an already made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the match and not wagering. This is applicable only if no other players wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to make a wager on par with but opposite of the leading bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the three columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but carried out after the hurler has ascertained his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial toss to arrive at a number, or the first toss after a number is ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to blanket all the numbers on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, 3 or twelve is an immediate defeat on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the winners of the initial two matches of the night.
DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome 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 one or more of 3 sets of twelve numbers, one-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletics wager, which means to bet on a group or player to win or medal in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the same sum as wagered, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: wagering that two horses in a match will complete the race in the exact same assignment as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager placed on a block of 5 numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.
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