An Online Wagering Encyclopedia
Despite the actuality that online gambling is now a many billion dollar business, and endless thousands of additional wagerers world-wide sign on every day to gamble at online casinos, there are still millions of newcomers to the world of internet gambling who don’t as yet have a clear comprehension of much of the doublespeak employed in web betting, and betting on sports in general. However, knowledge of these ideas is indispensable to interpreting the games and rules of betting:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a gambler has risked all of her chips into the pot. A side pot is set up for the players with remaining chips.
ALL-UP: To bet on many horses in the same event.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a required sum of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A necessary bet in seven-card stud carried out by the gambler showing the lowest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in 21, when a player’s cards total over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The the least amount of funds required to enter a match or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as a previously carried out wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game without wagering. This is allowed only if no other gamblers bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to lay a bet on par with but opposite of the initial wager.
COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the three columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line wager, but carried out after the player has established their point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to achieve a point, or the 1st roll after a point has been established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to blanket all the numbers on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, 3 or twelve is an automatic defeat on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the initial two races of the night.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result of an action will be lower than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to wager on any of three sets of twelve numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports bet, which means to wager on a group or player to succeed or position in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the same amount as bet, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: wagering that 2 horses in a contest will finish in the absolute same assignment as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager placed on a group of five numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.