An Internet Betting Glossary
Despite the actuality that internet wagering is now a multi-billion dollar business, and boundless thousands of new gamblers world-wide sign up each day to wager at internet gambling dens, there are still millions of newbies to the environment of internet gambling who do not as yet have a clear understanding of much of the dialect used in internet betting, and gambling on sports in general. However, insight of these ideas is necessary to interpreting the games and policies of gambling:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has risked all of her chips into the pot. A side pot is created for the players with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the identical race.
ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a specified value of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A necessary wager in seven-card stud made by the player showing the smallest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in twenty-one, when a player’s cards total over 21.
BUY-IN: The the lowest value of money required to appear in a game or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals a prior made wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not betting. This is applicable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to lay a wager on par with but opposite of the opening wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line wager, but carried out after the hurler has ascertained his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to ascertain a number, or the first roll after a number has been arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to cover all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, three or 12 is an automatic loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the champions of the 1st two events of the day.
DOWN BET: To bet that the result of an event will be smaller than the smallest 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 groups of 12 numbers, one-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletics wager, meaning to gamble on a team or player to win or medal in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the identical amount as bet, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: gambling that two horses in a contest will finish in the exact same order as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet placed on a group of 5 numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.
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