An Web Betting Dictionary
Despite the reality that online wagering is now a multi-billion dollar industry, and boundless thousands of new gamblers world-wide log on every day to play at internet gambling halls, there are still millions of newcomers to the world of internet gambling who do not as yet have a clear understanding of much of the doublespeak used in internet wagering, and wagering on athletic event in general. Nonetheless, understanding of these ideas is indispensable to comprehending the games and policies of betting:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has risked all of their bankroll into the pot. A side pot is set up for the wagerers with remaining chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the identical race.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a necessary value of chips into the pot just beforeevery hand starts.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in 7-card stud made by the player displaying the smallest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in twenty-one, when a player’s cards total over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The the lowest sum of funds necessary to enter a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as an already made wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not wagering. This is applicable only if no other players wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to place a bet on par with but converse of the opening bet.
COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the 3 columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but carried out after the hurler has ascertained their point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to ascertain a number, or the 1st toss after a number has been arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to fill all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, three or 12 is an immediate defeat on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the initial two races of the day.
DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome of an event 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 one or more of 3 sets of 12 numbers, 1-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event wager, which means to bet on a team or player to win or medal in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the identical sum as bet, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: wagering that 2 horses in an event will complete the race in the exact identical order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager made on a grouping of 5 numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.