An Online Wagering Dictionary
Despite the actuality that web gambling is now a multi-billion dollar business, and boundless thousands of new bettors around the globe sign up every day to bet at internet gambling dens, there are still millions of newbies to the environment of online wagering who don’t as yet have a clear comprehension of a lot of the catchphrases used in internet betting, and wagering on sports in general. Nonetheless, insight of these terms is indispensable to understanding the games and codes of play:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has risked all of her money into the pot. A second pot is set up for the gamblers with remaining chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on many horses in the identical contest.
ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a required figure of money into the pot just beforeeach hand starts.
BRING-IN: A required wager in 7-card stud carried out by the gambler displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in 21, when a gambler’s cards total over 21.
BUY-IN: The minimum amount of money necessary to enter a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals a prior carried out bet.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game without betting. This is acceptable only if no other players wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to make a wager equal to but opposite of the leading bet.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but made after the player has achieved his number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to ascertain a number, or the initial toss after a point is established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to fill all the spots on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, three or twelve is an immediate loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the winners of the first 2 races of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result 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 any of three groups of twelve numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports wager, indicating to wager on a group or player to succeed or position in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the same sum as wagered, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in a contest will finish in the exact same order as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet carried out on a grouping of 5 numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.
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