Regardless of the reality that online wagering is now a many billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of brand-new bettors world-wide sign on each day to wager at internet gambling dens, there are still millions of newbies to the environment of internet betting who do not as yet have a good understanding of much of the dialect employed in online wagering, and wagering on sports in general. However, knowledge of these terms is essential to knowing the games and codes of gaming:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has deposited all of her chips into the pot. A second pot is developed for the gamblers with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To bet on several horses in the identical event.
ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a required sum of money into the pot beforeevery hand begins.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in 7-card stud carried out by the player showing the lowest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in chemin de fer, when a gambler’s cards exceed a value over 21.
BUY-IN: The the least sum of money necessary to appear in a game or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as a previously made wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match without wagering. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to place a wager equal to but opposite of the starting bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager on any 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 achieved his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to arrive at a number, or the first roll after a point has been achieved.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to cover all the spots on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, three or 12 is an immediate loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the first 2 events of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an event will be smaller than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to bet on one or more of 3 sets of 12 numbers, 1-12, 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 wager that pays out the identical sum as bet, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in an event will finish in the exact identical order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet carried out on a block of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.