Even though the fact that web wagering is now a many billion dollar industry, and countless thousands of brand-new gamblers around the world sign up each day to bet at internet gambling halls, there are still millions of newbies to the environment of internet betting who don’t as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the jargon used in online betting, and gambling on sports in general. Nonetheless, insight of these terms is indispensable to knowing the games and policies of wagering:
ACTION: Any style of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has put all of his money into the pot. A second pot is developed for the bettors with additional chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the same race.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a specified figure of money into the pot just beforeeach hand begins.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in seven-card stud made by the player showing the lowest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in 21, when a player’s cards total over 21.
BUY-IN: The minimum amount of money required to enter a match or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals a prior carried out bet.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game without wagering. This is allowed only if no other gamblers bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to make a bet on par with but opposite of the leading wager.
COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the three columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but made after the shooter has ascertained their number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to establish a number, or the initial roll after a number has been arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to cover all the numbers on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, 3 or 12 is an immediate defeat on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the winners of the 1st two races of the day.
DOWN BET: To bet that the result of an action will be lower than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to gamble on one or more of three sets of 12 numbers, 1-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletics gamble, meaning to wager on a group or player to succeed or medal in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the same number as wagered, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: gambling that two 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 made on a grouping of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.