An Web Betting Glossary

by Tamia on November 25th, 2009

Despite the reality that online gambling is now a multi-billion dollar industry, and boundless thousands of new players world-wide sign up every day to wager at web casinos, there are still millions of new players to the environment of internet wagering who do not as yet have a good understanding of much of the doublespeak employed in internet wagering, and gambling on athletic event in general. Nonetheless, understanding of these ideas is necessary to understanding the games and rules of gaming:

ACTION: Any style of bet.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has risked all of her chips into the pot. A side pot is created for the bettors with additional chips.

ALL-UP: To bet on numerous horses in the identical race.

ANTE: A poker term for placing a necessary figure of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.

BRING-IN: A required wager in seven-card stud carried out by the player showing the lowest value card.

BUST: You don’t win; As in vingt-et-un, when a gambler’s cards total over twenty-one.

BUY-IN: The minimal value of funds necessary to appear in a game or tournament.

CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as a prior made wager.

CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game without betting. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.

CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to lay a wager equal to but converse of the first bet.

COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the three columns of a roulette game.

COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line bet, but carried out after the player has established his point.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st roll to ascertain a point, or the 1st roll after a point is established.

COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to blanket all the spots on a bingo card.

CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, three or 12 is an automatic loss on the come-out roll.

DAILY DOUBLE: To select the winners of the 1st two races of the night.

DOWN BET: To bet that the result of an event will be lower 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 groups of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletic event gamble, indicating to bet on a team or player to win or medal in a match.

EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the identical sum as bet, ( one to one ).

EXACTA: Betting that two horses in a match will finish in the exact identical order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".

FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager made on a block of five numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.

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