An Online Betting Glossary
Despite the fact that web betting is now a billion dollar industry, and boundless thousands of additional bettors around the world sign on daily to gamble at internet gambling dens, there are still millions of new players to the world of internet gambling who don’t as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the jargon used in web wagering, and betting on sports in general. Nonetheless, insight of these terms is essential to interpreting the games and policies of play:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has put all of his bankroll into the pot. A second pot is developed for the gamblers with remaining chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the same contest.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a necessary value of chips into the pot beforeevery hand begins.
BRING-IN: A necessary wager in seven-card stud made by the gambler showing the smallest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in 21, when a gambler’s cards exceed a value over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum amount of funds necessary to enter a match or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as an already made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game without wagering. This is applicable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to put a bet on par with but opposite of the first wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line bet, but carried out after the shooter has arrived at her point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to achieve a point, or the 1st toss after a number has been ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to cover all the squares on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, 3 or 12 is an automatic loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the champions of the 1st two 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 wager on any of 3 categories of twelve numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletics gamble, which means to wager on a group or player to win or place in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the identical amount as wagered, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: Betting that two horses in a race will finish in the absolute same order as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet placed on a grouping of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.
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