An Web Gambling Encyclopedia
Regardless of the fact that web gambling is now a many billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of new bettors around the globe log in every day to wager at internet gambling halls, there are still millions of new players to the environment of online gambling who do not as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the dialect employed in web betting, and gambling on sports in general. Nonetheless, understanding of these ideas is necessary to interpreting the games and codes of wagering:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has deposited all of her chips into the pot. A side pot is created for the gamblers with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the same contest.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a required figure of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A necessary wager in 7-card stud carried out by the gambler showing the smallest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in blackjack, when a gambler’s cards are valued over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum sum of funds necessary to enter a game or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as an already made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match and not wagering. This is allowed only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to make a bet on par with but opposite of the first bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the three columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line bet, but carried out after the shooter has arrived at his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial toss to achieve a number, or the first roll after a point is ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to blanket all the spots on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, 3 or 12 is an immediate defeat on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the winners of the 1st two races of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To bet that the result of an action will be lower than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also referred to as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to wager on one or more of three groups of 12 numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event wager, indicating to bet on a team or player to succeed or medal in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the same value as bet, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: Betting that 2 horses in a contest will finish in the absolute identical assignment as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a block of 5 numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.