An Online Gambling Cyclopedia
Despite the reality that web gambling is now a multi-billion dollar business, and countless thousands of new players world-wide log on every day to wager at online gambling halls, there are still millions of new players to the environment of online gambling who don’t as yet have a good comprehension of a lot of the dialect employed in internet wagering, and gambling on athletic event in general. However, insight of these ideas is necessary to interpreting the games and regulations of gaming:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has risked all of his money into the pot. A second pot is created for the wagerers with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the same race.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a specified value of money into the pot beforeeach hand begins.
BRING-IN: A necessary bet in seven-card stud carried out by the gambler displaying the smallest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in twenty-one, when a player’s cards total over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The the least amount of chips necessary to enter a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as a previously made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game and not wagering. This is acceptable only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to make a bet on par with but opposite of the initial bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line bet, but carried out after the shooter has established his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st toss to arrive at a point, or the initial roll after a point has been ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to cover all the spots on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, three or twelve is an automatic defeat on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the winners of the first 2 events of the night.
DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome of an event will be smaller 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, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event wager, meaning to gamble on a team or player to succeed or medal in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the same amount as bet, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: Betting that two horses in a contest will complete the race in the exact identical order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager made on a block of five numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.