Regardless of the actuality that online wagering is now a billion dollar industry, and countless thousands of additional gamblers around the globe sign up each day to gamble at online gambling dens, there are additionally millions of newcomers to the environment of online betting who do not as yet have a good comprehension of much of the doublespeak used in internet wagering, and wagering on athletic event in general. In any case, understanding of these terms is indispensable to interpreting the games and regulations of betting:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has put all of his chips into the pot. A side pot is set up for the players with additional chips.
ALL-UP: To bet on numerous horses in the identical contest.
ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a specified sum of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A necessary bet in 7-card stud made by the player displaying the smallest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in chemin de fer, when a gambler’s cards total over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimal amount of money required to enroll in a match or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as a prior made wager.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game without wagering. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to make a wager on par with but opposite of the opening wager.
COLUMN BET: To wager 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 shooter has ascertained his number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st toss to establish a point, or the first roll after a number has been arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to fill all the squares on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, three or 12 is an immediate loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the 1st 2 races of the night.
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 gamble on one or more of 3 categories of twelve numbers, 1-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletics bet, which means to bet on a team or player to win or place in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the same number as wagered, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: laying odds that two horses in a contest will complete the race in the exact identical order as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager placed on a grouping of 5 numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.
