An Internet Wagering Glossary
Despite the reality that online betting is now a multi-billion dollar industry, and boundless thousands of new bettors world-wide sign up daily to wager at online gambling dens, there are additionally millions of new players to the environment of web wagering who do not as yet have a clear understanding of much of the catchphrases employed in internet gambling, and gambling on sports in general. Nonetheless, knowledge of these terms is indispensable to knowing the games and rules of gambling:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has risked all of his bankroll into the pot. A side pot is developed for the players with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To bet on many horses in the same event.
ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a required value of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A required bet in seven-card stud made by the player showing the lowest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in chemin de fer, when a player's cards exceed a value over 21.
BUY-IN: The the lowest sum of money necessary to enter a game or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals a previously carried out bet.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game and not wagering. This is allowed only if no other gamblers bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to make a bet on par with but opposite of the first bet.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the three columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but made after the hurler has established her number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to achieve a number, or the first roll after a point is arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to blanket all the numbers on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, three or twelve is an immediate defeat on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the first 2 matches of the night.
DOWN BET: To bet that the result of an event will be smaller than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to bet on one or more of 3 categories of twelve numbers, one-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports wager, meaning to wager on a team or player to succeed or position in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the same sum as bet, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: laying odds that two horses in a contest will finish in the exact same assignment as the wager - also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager placed on a block of five numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.
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