Even though the fact that web wagering is now a billion dollar industry, and boundless thousands of new wagerers around the world sign up each day to bet at internet gambling dens, there are still millions of newbies to the world of internet betting who don’t as yet have a good comprehension of much of the jargon employed in internet gambling, and betting on athletics in general. Notwithstanding, knowledge of these terms is indispensable to understanding the games and regulations of play:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has put all of his chips into the pot. A second pot is created for the players with additional chips.
ALL-UP: To bet on many horses in the identical race.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a required amount of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A required wager in 7-card stud made by the gambler displaying the smallest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in blackjack, when a gambler’s cards are valued over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimal value of cash required to appear in a game or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as a prior carried out wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not wagering. This is applicable only if no other gamblers bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to lay a bet equal to but converse of the starting wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but carried out after the hurler has ascertained their point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st roll to arrive at a point, or the 1st roll after a point is established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to cover all the numbers on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, three or 12 is an automatic defeat on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the winners of the first 2 matches of the night.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result of an event 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 3 categories of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event wager, meaning to bet on a team or player to succeed or place in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays out the same sum as bet, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in a contest will complete the race in the exact same order as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a group of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.
