Despite the fact that online gambling is now a many billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of new wagerers around the globe log on each day to play at internet casinos, there are still millions of new players to the environment of internet betting who do not as yet have a clear understanding of much of the terminology employed in internet gambling, and betting on athletics in general. However, knowledge of these ideas is indispensable to interpreting the games and rules of betting:
ACTION: Any style of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has put all of her bankroll into the pot. A side pot is created for the gamblers with remaining chips.
ALL-UP: To bet on numerous horses in the identical race.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a required number of money into the pot beforeeach hand begins.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in seven-card stud made by the player displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in chemin de fer, when a player’s cards total over 21.
BUY-IN: The the least value of cash necessary to appear in a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as a prior carried out wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match without wagering. This is applicable only if no other gamblers bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to lay a wager equal to but converse of the opening wager.
COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but made after the hurler has established her point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to arrive at a number, or the first roll after a number is arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to fill all the spots on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, 3 or twelve is an automatic loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the champions of the 1st 2 events of the day.
DOWN BET: To bet 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 wager on any of 3 categories of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports wager, which means to gamble on a team or player to succeed or place in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the same value as gambled, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: wagering that 2 horses in a race will complete the race in the exact same order as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager made on a grouping of 5 numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.