Despite the fact that internet gambling is now a billion dollar business, and boundless thousands of additional gamblers world-wide log in daily to wager at web casinos, there are still millions of newbies to the environment of web betting who do not as yet have a clear comprehension of much of the jargon employed in internet gambling, and gambling on sports in general. However, knowledge of these ideas is indispensable to understanding the games and codes of betting:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has deposited all of his chips into the pot. A side pot is set up for the wagerers with additional chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on several horses in the identical race.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a necessary sum of chips into the pot beforeevery hand starts.
BRING-IN: A necessary wager in 7-card stud made by the player showing the smallest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in vingt-et-un, when a gambler’s cards exceed a value over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum sum of cash required to get in a match or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals a prior carried out wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not wagering. This is applicable only if no other players wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to put a bet on par with but opposite of the first bet.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line wager, but carried out after the shooter has established her point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to arrive at a point, or the first toss after a point has been achieved.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to blanket all the spots on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, 3 or 12 is an immediate loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the winners of the 1st 2 matches of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result of an event 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 three categories of 12 numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports bet, indicating to wager on a group or player to succeed or medal in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the same sum as wagered, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in a match will complete the race in the exact identical order as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet placed on a group of five numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.