An Online Betting Cyclopedia
Despite the fact that online gambling is now a billion dollar business, and endless thousands of additional bettors around the world sign on each day to gamble at internet gambling dens, there are additionally millions of newcomers to the environment of web betting who do not as yet have a good comprehension of much of the doublespeak employed in internet betting, and wagering on sports in general. Notwithstanding, insight of these ideas is indispensable to comprehending the games and regulations of gambling:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has put all of his chips into the pot. A side pot is developed for the wagerers with additional money.
ALL-UP: To bet on numerous horses in the same race.
ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a necessary amount of money into the pot beforeevery hand starts.
BRING-IN: A necessary wager in seven-card stud made by the player displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in twenty-one, when a gambler’s cards exceed a value over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum amount of cash necessary to appear in a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals a previously made wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match without betting. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to put a bet equal to but opposite of the first bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the three columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line wager, but carried out after the player has ascertained her point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st roll to achieve a number, or the 1st toss after a point has been ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to blanket all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, three or 12 is an immediate defeat on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the 1st 2 races of the day.
DOWN BET: To bet that the result of an event 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 3 groups of 12 numbers, one-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports gamble, which means to gamble on a group or player to succeed or place in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the same value as gambled, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: wagering that 2 horses in a contest will complete the race in the exact identical assignment as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet carried out on a group of five numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.
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