An Web Betting Cyclopedia
Regardless of the actuality that web gambling is now a billion dollar industry, and countless thousands of new wagerers world-wide sign up every day to wager at internet gambling dens, there are still millions of new players to the world of online betting who don’t as yet have a good understanding of much of the terminology employed in online wagering, and gambling on sports in general. Notwithstanding, understanding of these ideas is essential to knowing the games and policies of wagering:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has put all of her money into the pot. A second pot is created for the wagerers with remaining chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the identical contest.
ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a specified sum of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A required bet in 7-card stud carried out by the gambler displaying the smallest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in vingt-et-un, when a gambler’s cards total over 21.
BUY-IN: The the lowest amount of cash necessary to enroll in a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals a previously made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game and not betting. This is applicable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to make a wager equal to but converse of the first bet.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the three columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but made after the player has achieved his number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st roll to establish a point, or the first roll after a point has been ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to cover all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, 3 or 12 is an automatic loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the 1st two matches of the day.
DOWN BET: To bet 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 3 sets of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports wager, meaning to wager on a group or player to win or position in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the same sum as bet, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: gambling that two horses in a race will complete the race in the exact same order as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet made on a grouping of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.