An Online Wagering Cyclopedia


Regardless of the fact that online betting is now a billion dollar business, and endless thousands of additional players around the world sign up each day to gamble at online casinos, there are still millions of new players to the world of online betting who do not as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the dialect used in internet gambling, and wagering on sports in general. In any case, understanding 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 player has deposited all of her chips into the pot. A second pot is set up for the players with remaining money.

ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the same contest.

ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a specified number of money into the pot beforeeach hand begins.

BRING-IN: A mandatory bet in 7-card stud carried out by the gambler showing the smallest value card.

BUST: You don’t win; As in blackjack, when a player’s cards total over 21.

BUY-IN: The the lowest sum of cash necessary to enter a game or event.

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

CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game without wagering. This is applicable only if no other players wager in that round.

CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to lay a bet on par with but opposite of the starting 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 carried out after the shooter has established their number.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to ascertain a number, or the first toss after a number has been achieved.

COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to cover all the squares on a bingo card.

CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, three or 12 is an automatic defeat on the come-out toss.

DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the champions of the initial two matches of the day.

DOWN BET: To wager that the result of an event will be smaller than the smallest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".

DOZEN BET: In roulette, to wager on one or more of 3 categories of 12 numbers, one-twelve, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A sports wager, which means to gamble on a group or player to win or medal in a game.

EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the identical number as wagered, ( 1-1 ).

EXACTA: gambling that two horses in a contest will finish in the exact same assignment as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".

FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a group of 5 numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.

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