An Online Betting Glossary
Even though the fact that web gambling is now a many billion dollar industry, and countless thousands of additional players around the globe log on daily to wager at internet gambling dens, there are still millions of newbies to the environment of online gambling who do not as yet have a clear comprehension of much of the terminology employed in web betting, and wagering on sports in general. However, insight of these terms is essential to comprehending the games and policies of gambling:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has risked all of her chips into the pot. A side pot is set up for the players with additional chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on many horses in the identical race.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a necessary figure of money into the pot beforeeach hand starts.
BRING-IN: A necessary wager in 7-card stud made by the player showing the lowest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in vingt-et-un, when a player’s cards total over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum value of chips required to get in a game or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals a previously carried out bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match and not betting. This is allowed only if no other players wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to make a bet on par with but opposite of the first 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 made after the shooter has established her number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st roll to ascertain a number, or the 1st toss after a number has been established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to cover all the numbers on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, 3 or 12 is an automatic defeat on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the winners of the 1st 2 races of the day.
DOWN BET: To wager 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 any of three groups of twelve numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports bet, which means to bet on a team or player to win or position in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays out the same sum as wagered, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: Betting that 2 horses in a match will finish in the absolute identical order as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager placed on a group of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.
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