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An Internet Gambling Dictionary

August 22nd, 2007
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Despite the actuality that web wagering is now a many billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of brand-new gamblers around the world log on every day to wager at online gambling halls, there are additionally millions of newcomers to the environment of web wagering who don’t as yet have a good understanding of much of the doublespeak employed in web gambling, and wagering on athletic event in general. However, insight of these terms is essential to interpreting the games and codes of gaming:

ACTION: Any type of wager.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has deposited all of their chips into the pot. A second pot is developed for the wagerers with additional money.

ALL-UP: To bet on several horses in the identical race.

ANTE: A poker term for allocating a necessary sum of chips into the pot beforeeach hand starts.

BRING-IN: A necessary wager in 7-card stud carried out by the player displaying the smallest value card.

BUST: You don’t win; As in 21, when a player’s cards are valued over twenty-one.

BUY-IN: The the least value of cash required to appear in a game or tournament.

CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as a previously carried out wager.

CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match and not wagering. This is applicable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.

CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to make a bet on par with but opposite of the initial wager.

COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette table.

COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line wager, but carried out after the hurler has ascertained their point.

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

COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to blanket all the squares on a bingo sheet.

CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, three or twelve is an immediate loss on the come-out toss.

DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the initial 2 races of the day.

DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome 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 gamble on one or more of 3 sets of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A sports gamble, indicating to gamble on a group or player to succeed or place in a game.

EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the same value as gambled, ( 1:1 ).

EXACTA: gambling that two horses in a contest will complete the race in the absolute identical order as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".

FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager placed on a grouping of five numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.