An Web Wagering Dictionary
Regardless of the fact that web wagering is now a billion dollar industry, and countless thousands of additional wagerers around the world sign up every day to wager at online gambling dens, there are still millions of new players to the world of online wagering who don’t as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the terminology employed in online gambling, and wagering on athletic event in general. However, understanding of these ideas is essential to understanding the games and rules of gaming:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has deposited all of her chips into the pot. A second pot is created for the wagerers with remaining chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on several horses in the identical contest.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a required amount of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in seven-card stud made by the player displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in twenty-one, when a gambler’s cards are valued over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum amount of money necessary to enroll in a match or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as an already carried out bet.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the match without wagering. This is acceptable only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to lay a wager on par with but converse of the opening wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line bet, but made after the shooter has achieved her number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st roll to arrive at a point, or the first toss after a number is achieved.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to blanket all the numbers on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, three or twelve is an automatic defeat on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the first two matches of the night.
DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome 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 bet on any of three sets of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports bet, which means to gamble on a team or player to win or medal in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays out the same number as bet, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: wagering that two horses in an event will finish in the exact same assignment as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager placed on a group of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.