An Web Wagering Glossary


[ English ]

Regardless of the actuality that internet betting is now a billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of new wagerers around the globe log on daily to wager at web gambling dens, there are still millions of newbies to the environment of web betting who do not as yet have a clear understanding of a lot of the doublespeak employed in internet betting, and gambling on sports in general. Notwithstanding, knowledge of these ideas is indispensable to interpreting the games and policies of gaming:

ACTION: Any style of bet.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has put all of her money into the pot. A side pot is created for the players with remaining money.

ALL-UP: To bet on many horses in the same contest.

ANTE: A poker term for allocating a required figure of chips into the pot just beforeevery hand begins.

BRING-IN: A required bet in seven-card stud carried out by the player showing the smallest value card.

BUST: You don’t win; As in chemin de fer, when a player’s cards exceed a value over 21.

BUY-IN: The minimum amount of funds required to appear in a match or event.

CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals a previously made bet.

CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game and not wagering. This is allowed only if no other gamblers wager in that round.

CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to lay a wager equal to but opposite of the starting wager.

COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the 3 columns of a roulette table.

COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but carried out after the player has established their number.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to arrive at a number, or the initial toss after a point is arrived at.

COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to cover all the spots on a bingo sheet.

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

DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the winners of the 1st 2 matches of the day.

DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome of an action will be smaller than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".

DOZEN BET: In roulette, to gamble on any of three sets of twelve numbers, 1-12, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletics gamble, which means to bet on a team or player to win or place in a game.

EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the identical amount as wagered, ( 1-1 ).

EXACTA: laying odds that two horses in a match will complete the race in the absolute identical assignment as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".

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

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