An Internet Gambling Dictionary
Regardless of the actuality that web betting is now a multi-billion dollar business, and endless thousands of brand-new gamblers around the globe sign up daily to gamble at online casinos, there are still millions of newcomers to the environment of online betting who do not as yet have a clear understanding of much of the terminology used in internet wagering, and betting on athletics in general. However, insight of these terms is essential 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 bankroll 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 contest.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a required value of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in seven-card stud carried out by the player displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in vingt-et-un, when a gambler’s cards total over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The the lowest amount of money necessary to enter a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals a previously carried out bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not betting. This is applicable only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to lay a bet on par with but converse of the starting bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but made after the player has ascertained her number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to achieve a number, or the initial toss after a number is achieved.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to fill all the spots on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, three or twelve is an automatic defeat on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the first two events of the day.
DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an action will be lower 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 3 sets of 12 numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletics wager, which means to bet on a team or player to win or position in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the identical number as wagered, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: laying odds that two horses in an event will finish in the exact same order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet carried out on a grouping of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.
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