Despite the reality that internet betting is now a many billion dollar business, and boundless thousands of new gamblers around the globe sign up daily to gamble at internet gambling halls, there are still millions of newcomers to the environment of web betting who don’t as yet have a clear comprehension of much of the catchphrases used in internet gambling, and gambling on sports in general. Nonetheless, understanding of these ideas is essential to understanding the games and policies of play:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has put all of her chips into the pot. A side pot is developed for the players with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To bet on several horses in the identical race.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a required sum of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in 7-card stud carried out by the gambler displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in 21, when a gambler’s cards total over 21.
BUY-IN: The minimum value of funds required to enter a match or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as an already carried out wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match without betting. This is allowed only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to make a bet on par with but opposite of the opening wager.
COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line bet, but carried out after the player has ascertained his number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st roll to ascertain a number, or the 1st toss after a number is established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to blanket all the squares on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, three or 12 is an immediate loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the winners of the first two events of the day.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result 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 gamble on any of 3 sets of 12 numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event wager, which means to bet on a group or player to win or place in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the identical amount as bet, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: laying odds that two horses in a contest will complete the race in the absolute identical assignment as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet made on a group of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.