An Online Wagering Glossary

Friday, 1. April 2022

Regardless of the actuality that internet gambling is now a multi-billion dollar business, and boundless thousands of new gamblers world-wide sign on every day to play at web casinos, there are still millions of new players to the world of internet gambling who do not as yet have a clear comprehension of a lot of the terminology employed in web betting, and wagering on athletics in general. However, understanding of these terms is essential to comprehending the games and rules of play:

ACTION: Any style of wager.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has risked all of their chips into the pot. A second pot is set up for the bettors with remaining money.

ALL-UP: To wager on several horses in the same contest.

ANTE: A poker term for allocating a specified amount of money into the pot beforeeach hand starts.

BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in 7-card stud made by the gambler displaying the smallest value card.

BUST: You lose; As in twenty-one, when a player’s cards are valued over twenty-one.

BUY-IN: The the lowest sum of money necessary to enter a match or event.

CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals an already made bet.

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

CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to lay a bet equal to but opposite 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 wager, but made after the player has arrived at his number.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial toss to establish a point, or the 1st roll after a point is ascertained.

COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to fill all the numbers on a bingo card.

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

DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the winners of the 1st two 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 referred to as a "sell".

DOZEN BET: In roulette, to gamble on any of 3 categories of 12 numbers, one-12, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletic event gamble, which means to gamble on a group or player to succeed or place in a game.

EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the identical value as gambled, ( 1-1 ).

EXACTA: gambling 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 made on a group of five numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.

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