An Online Wagering Cyclopedia
Even though the fact that internet gambling is now a billion dollar business, and endless thousands of new wagerers world-wide sign up every day to gamble at online gambling dens, there are still millions of new players to the environment of online betting who don’t as yet have a good understanding of much of the jargon employed in web wagering, and betting on athletic event in general. In any case, understanding of these terms is essential to knowing the games and regulations of gambling:
ACTION: Any style of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has risked all of his chips into the pot. A side pot is created for the wagerers with additional money.
ALL-UP: To bet on several horses in the same race.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a specified value of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in 7-card stud made by the gambler showing the smallest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in blackjack, when a gambler’s cards exceed a value over 21.
BUY-IN: The minimum sum of cash required to enter a match or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals a previously carried out bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not wagering. This is allowed only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to make a wager on par with but opposite of the leading bet.
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 number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to achieve a point, or the first roll after a point is established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to blanket all the spots on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, 3 or twelve is an immediate defeat on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the 1st two matches of the night.
DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome of an action will be lower than the smallest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to bet on one or more of three sets of twelve numbers, 1-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event wager, meaning to gamble on a group or player to succeed or medal in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the same amount as wagered, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in a contest will finish in the exact same order as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a group of five numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.
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