Despite the actuality that online gambling is now a many billion dollar business, and endless thousands of additional wagerers world-wide log in each day to wager at web gambling dens, there are still millions of newcomers to the environment of web betting who do not as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the jargon employed in internet wagering, and wagering on athletics in general. Nonetheless, understanding of these terms is indispensable to understanding the games and policies of wagering:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has put all of his chips into the pot. A second pot is set up for the wagerers with remaining chips.
ALL-UP: To bet on many horses in the same race.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a required amount of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A required wager in seven-card stud made by the player showing the smallest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in 21, when a player’s cards exceed a value over 21.
BUY-IN: The minimal sum of chips required to enroll in a match 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 without wagering. This is allowed only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to place a bet equal to but opposite of the first wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the 3 columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line wager, but made after the hurler has ascertained their number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to establish a point, or the 1st toss after a number has been ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to blanket all the squares on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, three or twelve is an automatic defeat on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the winners of the first two races of the day.
DOWN BET: To bet that the result 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 bet on any of 3 sets of 12 numbers, one-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletics bet, meaning to gamble on a team or player to succeed or place in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the identical value as gambled, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: Betting that two horses in a contest will complete the race in the exact same order as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager placed on a grouping of five numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.
