An Online Gambling Encyclopedia
Even though the actuality that web betting is now a billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of additional gamblers around the world sign on daily to gamble at internet gambling dens, there are still millions of newbies to the world of internet gambling who don’t as yet have a clear understanding of a lot of the terminology employed in online wagering, and wagering on sports in general. Nonetheless, understanding of these ideas is indispensable to understanding the games and codes of gaming:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has put all of his money into the pot. A side pot is created for the players with additional money.
ALL-UP: To wager on several horses in the same event.
ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a required sum of chips into the pot just beforeeach hand begins.
BRING-IN: A required bet in 7-card stud carried out by the player displaying the smallest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in blackjack, when a player’s cards are valued over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The the least sum of cash required to appear in a game or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals a prior carried out bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match and not wagering. This is allowed only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to lay a bet on par with but converse of the first wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the three columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but made after the shooter has established his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st roll to establish a point, or the first roll after a number is established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to fill all the spots on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, three or twelve is an immediate loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the winners of the first two races of the night.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result of an action 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 three categories of twelve numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports bet, indicating to gamble on a team or player to succeed or medal in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the identical value as bet, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: gambling that 2 horses in an event 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 wager carried out on a group of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.