An Online Wagering Glossary
Despite the reality that internet wagering is now a billion dollar business, and boundless thousands of additional players around the world sign on each day to wager at internet casinos, there are still millions of newbies to the world of internet betting who don’t as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the dialect employed in internet gambling, and wagering on athletic event in general. However, knowledge of these ideas is indispensable to interpreting the games and rules of gaming:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has deposited all of her bankroll into the pot. A side pot is set up for the players with remaining chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the same contest.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a necessary amount of chips into the pot beforeeach hand starts.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in seven-card stud made by the gambler displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in 21, when a player’s cards total over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The the least amount of cash necessary to appear in a match or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as a previously made wager.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game without betting. This is allowed only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to put a bet equal to but opposite of the starting wager.
COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line wager, but made after the hurler has ascertained her point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st toss to establish a point, or the initial roll after a point is arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to cover all the spots on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, 3 or twelve is an immediate defeat on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the winners of the initial two matches of the day.
DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an action will be smaller than the smallest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to wager on any of three sets of 12 numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletics wager, indicating to wager on a team or player to succeed or position in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the same amount as bet, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: wagering that 2 horses in a contest will complete the race in the exact same order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet made on a grouping of five numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.