Despite the reality that online betting is now a billion dollar industry, and countless thousands of new gamblers around the world sign up daily to play at online gambling halls, there are still millions of new players to the world of web wagering who don’t as yet have a good understanding of much of the dialect used in online betting, and betting on athletics in general. Nonetheless, understanding of these ideas is necessary to comprehending the games and regulations of gaming:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has deposited all of his chips into the pot. A side pot is developed for the players with additional money.
ALL-UP: To bet on many horses in the same event.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a required number of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A required wager in seven-card stud carried out by the gambler showing the lowest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in blackjack, when a player’s cards total over 21.
BUY-IN: The the least value of funds necessary to appear in a game 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 game without wagering. This is allowed only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to put a wager on par with but opposite of the starting wager.
COLUMN BET: To wager 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 achieved his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st toss to establish a point, or the 1st roll after a point is arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to blanket all the numbers on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, three or twelve is an automatic loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the champions of the initial 2 matches of the night.
DOWN BET: To bet that the result of an event 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 one or more of 3 sets of 12 numbers, one-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports wager, meaning to bet on a team or player to win or position in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the identical amount as bet, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: Betting that two horses in a contest will finish in the absolute identical assignment as the bet – also known 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.