An Online Gambling Encyclopedia

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Despite the actuality that online betting is now a many billion dollar industry, and countless thousands of additional gamblers world-wide sign up daily to gamble at online gambling halls, there are still millions of newbies to the environment of internet wagering who don’t as yet have a clear understanding of a lot of the doublespeak employed in web wagering, and wagering on athletic event in general. However, understanding of these terms is essential to comprehending the games and codes of gaming:

ACTION: Any style of bet.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has put all of her chips into the pot. A second pot is set up for the gamblers with additional chips.

ALL-UP: To wager on many horses in the same event.

ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a specified value of chips into the pot beforeeach hand begins.

BRING-IN: A required bet in seven-card stud carried out by the player displaying the lowest value card.

BUST: You lose; As in 21, when a gambler’s cards are valued over twenty-one.

BUY-IN: The minimal sum of funds necessary to get in a match or tournament.

CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals a prior made wager.

CHECK: In poker, to remain in the match and not wagering. This is applicable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.

CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to make a wager on par with but opposite of the initial bet.

COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the three columns of a roulette table.

COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line wager, but carried out after the hurler has established his point.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to achieve a point, or the initial toss after a point has been established.

COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to fill all the numbers on a bingo sheet.

CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, three or twelve is an automatic defeat on the come-out toss.

DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the initial two events of the night.

DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome 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 gamble on one or more of three groups of 12 numbers, 1-twelve, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A sports wager, which means to bet on a group or player to win or position in an event.

EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the same value as gambled, ( one to one ).

EXACTA: Betting that 2 horses in a contest will complete the race in the absolute same order as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".

FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a block of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.