Even though the fact that online betting is now a multi-billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of new wagerers around the world sign on every day to bet at web gambling halls, there are still millions of new players to the world of web betting who do not as yet have a clear understanding of a lot of the catchphrases used in internet wagering, and wagering on athletics in general. In any case, knowledge of these terms is indispensable to interpreting the games and codes of betting:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has put all of his chips into the pot. A side pot is set up for the players with additional chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on several horses in the same contest.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a specified value of chips into the pot beforeeach hand begins.
BRING-IN: A necessary wager in 7-card stud carried out by the player displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in twenty-one, when a gambler’s cards total over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum value of chips required to enroll in a match or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as a previously carried out bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match and not betting. This is allowed only if no other players wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to put a bet on par with but converse of the initial wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the three columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line wager, but carried out after the player has ascertained their number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to ascertain a number, or the 1st toss after a point has been established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to blanket all the spots on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, 3 or 12 is an automatic defeat on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the champions of the 1st two events of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To bet that the result of an event will be smaller than the lowest 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 gamble, which means to bet on a team or player to win or position in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays out the same number as bet, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: wagering that 2 horses in a race will finish in the exact identical assignment as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a grouping of five numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.
