An Internet Gambling Cyclopedia
Despite the reality that web wagering is now a multi-billion dollar business, and countless thousands of additional bettors around the world sign on daily to wager at internet gambling halls, there are still millions of newcomers to the environment of online betting who don’t as yet have a clear comprehension of a lot of the doublespeak employed in web gambling, and wagering on sports in general. Nonetheless, knowledge of these terms is essential to understanding the games and codes of wagering:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has deposited all of their chips into the pot. A second pot is created for the bettors with additional money.
ALL-UP: To wager on many horses in the same race.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a necessary sum of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A required bet in 7-card stud carried out by the gambler displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in chemin de fer, when a player’s cards total over 21.
BUY-IN: The minimum value of chips required to enter a match or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals an already carried out wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match and not wagering. This is acceptable only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to put a wager equal to but converse of the leading bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the three columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line wager, but made after the player has achieved her point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st roll to establish a point, or the first toss after a point is achieved.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to fill all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, 3 or 12 is an automatic loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the champions of the initial two races of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an action will be lower than the smallest 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 12 numbers, 1-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event bet, which means to wager on a group or player to succeed or place in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the same value as gambled, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: gambling that two horses in a match will complete the race in the exact identical assignment as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet made on a group of five numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.