Regardless of the fact that web gambling is now a billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of additional players around the globe sign on each day to bet at internet gambling halls, there are still millions of new players to the world of online wagering who don’t as yet have a good understanding of much of the jargon employed in web gambling, and betting on athletics in general. Notwithstanding, knowledge of these terms is essential to knowing the games and rules of wagering:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has risked all of her chips into the pot. A second pot is developed for the gamblers with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To wager on several horses in the identical event.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating 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 gambler displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in vingt-et-un, when a gambler’s cards exceed a value over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimal amount of money required to enroll in a game or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals a previously made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not betting. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to place a bet equal to but converse of the opening wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line wager, but carried out after the shooter has ascertained her number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st toss to arrive at a number, or the 1st toss after a number has been arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to fill all the spots on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, 3 or 12 is an immediate defeat on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the 1st two races of the day.
DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome of an action will be smaller than the smallest 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 categories of twelve numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletics gamble, which means to bet on a group or player to succeed or medal in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the identical amount as bet, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: wagering that 2 horses in a contest will finish 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.
