An Internet Wagering Cyclopedia


Despite the actuality that internet gambling is now a many billion dollar industry, and boundless thousands of additional wagerers around the globe log on each day to gamble at online gambling halls, there are additionally millions of newbies to the environment of web betting who don’t as yet have a good comprehension of much of the terminology employed in online betting, and wagering on athletic event in general. However, insight of these terms is indispensable to knowing the games and rules of gaming:

ACTION: Any style of bet.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has risked all of her chips into the pot. A side pot is developed for the gamblers with additional money.

ALL-UP: To bet on several horses in the identical contest.

ANTE: A poker term for allocating a required value of chips into the pot beforeevery hand starts.

BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in 7-card stud carried out by the player displaying the lowest value card.

BUST: You don’t win; As in chemin de fer, when a gambler’s cards are valued over 21.

BUY-IN: The minimum value of cash necessary to get in a game or event.

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

CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game and not wagering. This is acceptable only if no other players bet in that round.

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

COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the 3 columns of a roulette game.

COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but made after the shooter has established her number.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to achieve a point, or the 1st roll after a point has been ascertained.

COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to cover all the squares on a bingo sheet.

CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, 3 or twelve is an immediate defeat on the come-out roll.

DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the winners of the 1st two events of the tournament.

DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an action will be lower than the smallest end of the quote on a spread bet, also referred to as a "sell".

DOZEN BET: In roulette, to bet on any of 3 categories of 12 numbers, 1-twelve, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletics wager, indicating to bet on a team or player to win or place in a game.

EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the same value as wagered, ( one to one ).

EXACTA: laying odds that two horses in a race will finish in the absolute same assignment as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".

FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet carried out on a block of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.

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