Despite the actuality that online wagering is now a billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of additional wagerers world-wide sign on every day to gamble at web gambling halls, there are additionally millions of new players to the world of online gambling who don’t as yet have a clear understanding of a lot of the doublespeak used in web wagering, and gambling on athletics in general. However, understanding of these terms is essential to interpreting the games and codes of gaming:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has put all of her chips into the pot. A second pot is developed for the bettors with additional money.
ALL-UP: To wager on several horses in the identical contest.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a necessary number of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in seven-card stud made by the gambler showing the lowest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in 21, when a gambler’s cards total over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum sum of money necessary to enroll in a match or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals an already carried out wager.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game and not betting. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to put a wager equal to but opposite of the initial bet.
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 shooter has ascertained his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to achieve a point, or the 1st toss after a number is achieved.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to cover all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, three or 12 is an automatic loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the winners of the initial 2 events of the night.
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 referred to as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to bet on one or more of 3 groups of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports bet, which means to gamble on a team or player to win or position in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the identical amount as bet, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: Betting that two horses in a race will finish in the exact identical order as the bet – 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.