Regardless of the actuality that internet betting is now a billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of brand-new gamblers world-wide log in each day to gamble at web gambling dens, there are still millions of newcomers to the environment of online gambling who do not as yet have a clear understanding of much of the doublespeak employed in online wagering, and wagering on athletics in general. However, knowledge of these ideas is indispensable to knowing the games and policies of betting:
ACTION: Any style of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has risked all of her bankroll into the pot. A side pot is created for the wagerers with additional chips.
ALL-UP: To bet on many horses in the same contest.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a required sum of chips into the pot beforeeach hand begins.
BRING-IN: A required wager in 7-card stud made by the gambler showing the smallest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in blackjack, when a gambler’s cards are valued over 21.
BUY-IN: The the lowest amount of funds required to enter a match or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as a previously made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game without betting. This is applicable only if no other gamblers bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to make a bet equal to but converse of the first bet.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the three columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but made after the hurler has ascertained their number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to ascertain a point, or the first roll after a point is ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to blanket all the squares on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, three or twelve is an automatic defeat on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the initial two races of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome of an action 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 three sets of 12 numbers, 1-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports gamble, which means to wager on a team or player to succeed or position in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays out the same sum as gambled, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: Betting that 2 horses in a race will finish in the absolute identical order as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet placed on a grouping of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.