An Online Wagering Cyclopedia
Regardless of the actuality that web wagering is now a many billion dollar business, and endless thousands of additional players around the world sign on every day to bet at web gambling dens, there are still millions of new players to the environment of web gambling who do not as yet have a clear understanding of much of the dialect used in web gambling, and wagering on athletics in general. Notwithstanding, understanding of these terms is necessary to knowing the games and rules of gaming:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has risked all of her chips into the pot. A second pot is created for the bettors with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To bet on several horses in the identical race.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a specified amount of chips into the pot just beforeevery hand begins.
BRING-IN: A necessary bet in 7-card stud carried out by the player showing the smallest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in 21, when a player’s cards total over 21.
BUY-IN: The the lowest sum of funds necessary to appear in a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as a previously carried out wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game without betting. This is applicable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to lay a wager on par with but converse of the starting wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the three columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line bet, but carried out after the player has achieved their number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to arrive at a point, or the initial toss after a point has been established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to cover all the spots on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, three or 12 is an immediate loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the first 2 matches of the day.
DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome of an action will be smaller than the smallest end of the quote on a spread bet, also referred to as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to wager on any of three groups of twelve numbers, one-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletics bet, which means to bet on a team or player to win or place in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays out the identical value as bet, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in a race will finish in the exact same order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager made on a group of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.