An Online Gambling Dictionary
Despite the actuality that online gambling is now a multi-billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of additional bettors world-wide log in each day to bet at internet casinos, there are still millions of newbies to the environment of web betting who don’t as yet have a clear comprehension of a lot of the terminology employed in internet betting, and betting on sports in general. However, insight of these terms is necessary to understanding the games and rules of gaming:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has put all of his money into the pot. A side pot is set up for the wagerers with additional money.
ALL-UP: To wager on several horses in the same contest.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a specified number of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A necessary wager in 7-card stud made by the player displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in blackjack, when a player’s cards exceed a value over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum amount of money necessary to get in a match or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals a prior carried out bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not wagering. This is acceptable only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to put a bet on par with but opposite of the opening wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the three columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but carried out after the shooter has established their number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st toss to arrive at a point, or the first roll after a number is established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to cover all the squares on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, three or twelve is an automatic loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the winners of the first 2 matches of the night.
DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome of an event will be smaller than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also referred to 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 sports wager, which means to wager on a team or player to win or place in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the identical number as wagered, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: wagering that two horses in a match will finish in the exact same assignment as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager made on a grouping of five numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.