An Online Wagering Glossary
Despite the actuality that internet wagering is now a multi-billion dollar business, and endless thousands of additional wagerers around the globe sign up daily to bet at internet casinos, there are additionally millions of newcomers to the world of online gambling who don’t as yet have a clear understanding of a lot of the dialect used in online gambling, and betting on athletic event in general. Notwithstanding, insight of these terms is necessary to knowing the games and regulations of play:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has put all of her chips into the pot. A second pot is created for the bettors with remaining chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on many horses in the same event.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a necessary amount of money into the pot just beforeeach hand starts.
BRING-IN: A necessary bet in 7-card stud made by the player displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in vingt-et-un, when a player’s cards total over 21.
BUY-IN: The the lowest sum of money required to get in a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as a previously made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not wagering. 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 converse of the opening bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line wager, but carried out after the shooter has ascertained her point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to establish a point, or the 1st roll after a number is arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to blanket all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, 3 or twelve is an automatic defeat on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the first two events of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To bet that the result 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 gamble on one or more of 3 groups of 12 numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event wager, which means to bet on a group or player to succeed or place in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the same amount as bet, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: wagering that two horses in a race will complete the race in the exact identical order as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager made on a block of 5 numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.
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