An Internet Betting Glossary
Despite the reality that web wagering is now a billion dollar business, and endless thousands of additional wagerers around the globe sign up each day to play at online gambling halls, there are still millions of new players to the environment of web wagering who do not as yet have a clear understanding of much of the dialect employed in web wagering, and wagering on sports in general. Nonetheless, insight of these ideas is necessary to interpreting the games and regulations of wagering:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has put all of their chips into the pot. A side pot is created for the bettors with remaining chips.
ALL-UP: To bet on many horses in the same race.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a specified amount of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in seven-card stud made by the player displaying the smallest value card.
BUST: You don't win; As in chemin de fer, when a player's cards total over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum amount of money necessary to enroll in a game or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as a previously carried out wager.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the match and not wagering. This is allowed only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to lay a wager equal to but converse of the leading wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but made after the shooter has achieved his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st roll to arrive at a number, or the first toss after a point is established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to blanket all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, three or 12 is an automatic loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the winners of the first 2 matches of the day.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result of an action will be lower than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to bet on any of three sets of 12 numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports wager, meaning to bet on a group or player to win or medal in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the same number as bet, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: gambling that two horses in an event will finish in the absolute same order as the wager - also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet made on a grouping of 5 numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.
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