An Online Betting Encyclopedia
Regardless of the reality that online wagering is now a multi-billion dollar industry, and countless thousands of new gamblers world-wide log in daily to wager at web gambling halls, there are still millions of newcomers to the environment of web gambling who do not as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the jargon employed in web gambling, and betting on sports in general. In any case, insight of these terms is necessary to knowing the games and rules of play:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has deposited all of her chips into the pot. A side pot is set up for the wagerers with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To wager on several 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 mandatory bet in seven-card stud carried out by the player showing the lowest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in twenty-one, when a player’s cards exceed a value over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The the least value of cash necessary to get in a match or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals an already carried out bet.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game and not betting. This is applicable only if no other players wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to put a wager equal to but converse of the starting bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the three columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but carried out after the shooter has achieved their point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to establish a number, or the first roll after a number is achieved.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to fill all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, three or 12 is an automatic defeat on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the first two races of the day.
DOWN BET: To wager 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 wager on one or more of three groups of 12 numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletics gamble, indicating to wager on a group or player to succeed or position in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the identical sum as bet, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in a race will finish in the absolute identical order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager made on a grouping of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.