Even though the reality that online gambling is now a multi-billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of additional players world-wide log on daily to play at internet gambling halls, there are still millions of new players to the world of internet wagering who don’t as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the terminology used in online gambling, and gambling on athletic event in general. Notwithstanding, insight of these ideas is indispensable to comprehending the games and codes of play:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has risked all of his chips into the pot. A side pot is created for the players with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the identical race.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a required amount of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A necessary wager in 7-card stud made by the gambler showing the lowest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in twenty-one, when a player’s cards exceed a value over 21.
BUY-IN: The minimum amount of chips necessary to appear in a match or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals a prior made wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match without wagering. This is allowed only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to make a bet on par with but opposite of the starting wager.
COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the three columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but carried out after the player has achieved his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial toss to arrive at a point, or the initial toss after a point is arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to blanket all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, three or twelve is an automatic loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the winners of the 1st 2 matches of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result of an event will be lower than the smallest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to wager on one or more of 3 groups of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event gamble, meaning to gamble on a group or player to succeed or place in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays out the identical amount as wagered, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: Betting that 2 horses in an event will complete the race in the absolute identical order as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a grouping of 5 numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.
