Despite the fact that internet gambling is now a multi-billion dollar business, and endless thousands of additional bettors world-wide log on each day to wager at web casinos, there are still millions of newbies to the environment of internet betting who do not as yet have a good understanding of much of the jargon used in internet betting, and gambling on sports in general. Nonetheless, knowledge of these terms is necessary to understanding the games and rules of betting:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has put all of his money into the pot. A side pot is developed for the bettors with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the identical contest.
ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a necessary amount of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A necessary wager in 7-card stud made by the player displaying the smallest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in chemin de fer, when a gambler’s cards total over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The the least sum of funds required to appear in a match or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as a previously carried out bet.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game and not betting. This is allowed only if no other players wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to place a bet equal to but opposite of the starting bet.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the three columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but carried out after the player has established his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to arrive at a point, or the 1st roll after a point is established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to blanket all the squares on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, three or 12 is an immediate defeat on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the winners of the initial 2 matches of the night.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result 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 wager on one or more of three groups of twelve numbers, one-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletics bet, meaning to bet on a team or player to win or place in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays out the same sum as bet, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: Betting that 2 horses in a race will finish in the absolute identical assignment as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet placed on a group of 5 numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.
