An Online Betting Cyclopedia
Regardless of the reality that internet gambling is now a multi-billion dollar industry, and countless thousands of new players around the world sign on each day to bet at web gambling halls, there are still millions of newbies to the environment of online gambling who don’t as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the doublespeak employed in internet wagering, and wagering on athletics in general. In any case, knowledge of these terms is indispensable to knowing the games and rules of play:
ACTION: Any style of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has risked all of her bankroll 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 event.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a required number of money into the pot just beforeevery hand starts.
BRING-IN: A mandatory bet in seven-card stud made by the player showing the smallest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in vingt-et-un, when a player’s cards total over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The the least value of cash required to appear in a match or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals a prior made wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match and not betting. This is allowed only if no other gamblers bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to lay a wager equal to but opposite of the opening bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the 3 columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line bet, but carried out after the shooter has established their point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to establish a point, or the 1st roll after a point has been ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to fill all the squares on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, three or 12 is an automatic loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the winners of the 1st 2 matches of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an action 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 wager on one or more of three sets of 12 numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletics wager, which means to wager on a team or player to succeed or place in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the same number as wagered, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: wagering that 2 horses in a contest will finish in the absolute identical assignment as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a grouping of 5 numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.