An Online Wagering Encyclopedia
Even though the fact that internet wagering is now a many billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of additional bettors world-wide log on each day to gamble at internet gambling dens, there are still millions of newcomers to the environment of internet gambling who don’t as yet have a good understanding of much of the doublespeak used in online betting, and wagering on athletic event in general. Notwithstanding, insight of these ideas is essential to knowing the games and rules of betting:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has risked all of his money into the pot. A second pot is set up for the wagerers with additional chips.
ALL-UP: To bet on several horses in the same race.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a required figure of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A mandatory bet in seven-card stud made by the player displaying the smallest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in twenty-one, when a player’s cards are valued over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The the lowest amount of chips necessary to appear in a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as an already carried out wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game without betting. This is acceptable only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to make a wager equal to but opposite of the leading bet.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line bet, but made after the shooter has ascertained his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to ascertain a point, or the initial toss after a point has been ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to blanket all the squares on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, 3 or 12 is an immediate loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the 1st two matches of the day.
DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome 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 wager on one or more of three sets of 12 numbers, 1-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports bet, meaning to bet on a group or player to succeed or position in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the identical value as gambled, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: Betting that two horses in a match will finish in the absolute identical order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager made on a grouping of 5 numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.
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