An Online Betting Glossary
Regardless of the reality that online gambling is now a many billion dollar business, and countless thousands of additional gamblers around the globe sign up each day to wager at online gambling dens, there are still millions of newbies to the world of internet gambling who do not as yet have a clear comprehension of much of the jargon employed in online wagering, and gambling on sports in general. However, knowledge of these ideas is necessary to interpreting the games and regulations of wagering:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has risked all of his bankroll into the pot. A second pot is created for the bettors with remaining chips.
ALL-UP: To bet on numerous horses in the identical event.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a required value of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in 7-card stud made by the player displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in blackjack, when a player’s cards are valued over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimal sum of chips necessary to enter a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as an already made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match and not wagering. This is applicable only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to lay a bet on par with but converse of the opening wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but made after the hurler has achieved his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to achieve a point, or the 1st roll after a point has been arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to cover all the numbers on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, three or twelve is an immediate loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the first 2 races of the night.
DOWN BET: To bet that the result of an action will be smaller than the smallest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to gamble on any of three sets of twelve numbers, one-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event wager, indicating to bet on a group or player to win or position in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the identical value as bet, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: Betting that two horses in an event will complete the race in the exact identical order as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet made on a group of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.