An Internet Wagering Cyclopedia
Regardless of the reality that online wagering is now a billion dollar business, and endless thousands of new gamblers around the world log on daily to wager at online gambling halls, there are additionally millions of new players to the world of web betting who do not as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the terminology used in online betting, and betting on sports in general. Notwithstanding, understanding of these ideas is indispensable to knowing the games and policies of wagering:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has risked all of their money into the pot. A second pot is developed for the players with remaining chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the identical contest.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a required figure of money into the pot just beforeeach hand starts.
BRING-IN: A required wager in seven-card stud carried out by the player displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in blackjack, when a gambler’s cards exceed a value over 21.
BUY-IN: The minimum value of money necessary to appear in a game or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as a previously made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not betting. This is applicable only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to make a bet on par with but opposite of the initial bet.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the three columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line bet, but made after the hurler has arrived at her number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st toss to achieve a point, or the initial roll after a point has been achieved.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to cover all the numbers on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, three or twelve is an automatic defeat on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the winners of the initial 2 races of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result of an event will be lower than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to bet on one or more of 3 groups of twelve numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports bet, which means to wager on a team or player to succeed or medal in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the identical amount as bet, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: laying odds that two horses in a race 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 bet carried out on a grouping of 5 numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.
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