An Online Gambling Encyclopedia
Even though the fact that online betting is now a multi-billion dollar business, and boundless thousands of additional gamblers around the globe log on every day to bet at web gambling halls, there are still millions of newcomers to the environment of online wagering who do not as yet have a clear understanding of much of the dialect employed in online wagering, and betting on athletic event in general. Nonetheless, understanding of these terms is necessary to interpreting the games and regulations of wagering:
ACTION: Any style of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has risked all of his money into the pot. A second pot is set up for the wagerers with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To wager on many horses in the same contest.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a required sum of chips into the pot just beforeevery hand starts.
BRING-IN: A required bet in 7-card stud carried out by the gambler displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in twenty-one, when a gambler’s cards exceed a value over 21.
BUY-IN: The the lowest sum of funds necessary to enter a game or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as an already made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match without betting. This is applicable only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to make a bet equal to but opposite of the initial wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but carried out after the player has ascertained his number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to achieve a number, or the first roll after a number is established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to blanket all the numbers on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, three or twelve is an automatic loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the champions of the first 2 matches of the night.
DOWN BET: To bet that the result of an action will be smaller than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also referred to as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to gamble on one or more of 3 groups of twelve numbers, one-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event wager, indicating to bet on a group or player to succeed or position in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the same amount as bet, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: wagering that two horses in an event will complete the race in the exact identical order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager placed on a block of 5 numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.