An Internet Wagering Cyclopedia
Despite the actuality that online betting is now a many billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of brand-new gamblers around the world sign up daily to bet at online gambling halls, there are still millions of new players to the environment of online gambling who do not as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the doublespeak used in online gambling, and wagering on athletic event in general. Nonetheless, understanding of these ideas is essential to interpreting the games and codes of gambling:
ACTION: Any style of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has risked all of his chips into the pot. A second pot is set up for the wagerers with additional chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the same event.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a required amount of money into the pot just beforeevery hand begins.
BRING-IN: A required wager in seven-card stud carried out by the player displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in twenty-one, when a player’s cards total over 21.
BUY-IN: The minimum sum of money required to get in a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals an already made wager.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game without betting. This is allowed only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to make a bet on par with but converse of the first wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but made after the shooter has ascertained his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to ascertain a number, or the 1st roll after a point is achieved.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to blanket all the numbers on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, 3 or 12 is an automatic loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the first 2 matches of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an event 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 groups of 12 numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports bet, indicating to wager on a team or player to win or place in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the same amount as wagered, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in a match will complete the race in the exact same order as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet carried out on a group of 5 numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.
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