An Online Betting Cyclopedia

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Despite the actuality that internet gambling is now a multi-billion dollar business, and endless thousands of brand-new bettors around the world log on daily to wager at internet gambling halls, there are still millions of newbies to the world of internet wagering who don’t as yet have a good comprehension of much of the doublespeak employed in web gambling, and gambling on athletics in general. However, insight of these terms is essential to interpreting the games and regulations of gambling:

ACTION: Any type of bet.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has put all of her bankroll into the pot. A side pot is developed for the players with additional money.

ALL-UP: To wager on many horses in the same race.

ANTE: A poker term for placing a required sum of money into the pot just beforeevery hand begins.

BRING-IN: A required wager in 7-card stud carried out by the gambler displaying the lowest value card.

BUST: You do not win; As in chemin de fer, when a gambler’s cards exceed a value over 21.

BUY-IN: The minimum sum of money necessary to appear in a match or tournament.

CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as an already made bet.

CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game and not betting. This is applicable only if no other gamblers bet in that round.

CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to make a bet on par with but converse of the first wager.

COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the three columns of a roulette game.

COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line wager, but made after the player has ascertained her number.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to establish a point, or the 1st toss after a point is achieved.

COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to blanket all the numbers on a bingo sheet.

CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, 3 or 12 is an immediate defeat on the come-out toss.

DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the first two races of the night.

DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome 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 twelve numbers, one-12, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletics bet, meaning to bet on a group or player to win or position in a match.

EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the identical value as bet, ( one to one ).

EXACTA: gambling that 2 horses in an event will finish in the exact same order as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".

FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet placed on a group of five numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.

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