Despite the fact that online gambling is now a billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of additional gamblers around the globe sign on each day to gamble at internet gambling halls, there are still millions of new players to the world of web gambling who don’t as yet have a good understanding of much of the dialect employed in internet betting, and betting on athletic event in general. Notwithstanding, knowledge of these terms is essential to interpreting the games and rules of betting:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has risked all of her money into the pot. A second pot is developed for the gamblers with additional chips.
ALL-UP: To bet on numerous horses in the same race.
ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a required figure of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in seven-card stud made by the gambler displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in vingt-et-un, when a gambler’s cards are valued over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimal value of chips necessary to appear in a game or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals a previously carried out wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match without betting. This is acceptable only if no other players wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to put a bet equal to but converse of the leading wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but made after the shooter has arrived at their number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st toss to achieve a number, or the 1st roll after a point has been ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to fill all the squares on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, 3 or twelve is an automatic defeat on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the winners of the first 2 events of the day.
DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an action will be smaller than the smallest end of the quote on a spread bet, also referred to as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to gamble on one or more of three groups of twelve numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletics bet, which means to bet on a team or player to succeed or medal in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the same number as wagered, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: wagering that 2 horses in a contest will finish in the exact identical order as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a block of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.
