An Internet Gambling Cyclopedia

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Despite the actuality that web betting is now a billion dollar business, and countless thousands of new bettors around the world sign on each day to wager at internet gambling dens, there are still millions of newcomers to the environment of online gambling who don’t as yet have a good understanding of much of the terminology employed in online betting, and gambling on sports in general. Nonetheless, understanding of these ideas is necessary to knowing the games and policies of betting:

ACTION: Any style of wager.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has put all of his money into the pot. A side pot is developed for the players with additional chips.

ALL-UP: To bet on numerous horses in the same contest.

ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a necessary figure of chips into the pot beforeevery hand starts.

BRING-IN: A required wager in 7-card stud made by the player displaying the lowest value card.

BUST: You don’t win; As in blackjack, when a gambler’s cards are valued over twenty-one.

BUY-IN: The minimum value of funds required to appear in a match or event.

CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as an already carried out 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: As in spread betting, meaning to place a wager equal to but converse of the opening wager.

COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the 3 columns of a roulette game.

COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line wager, but made after the hurler has ascertained his point.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st toss to ascertain a number, or the initial roll after a point is arrived at.

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

CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, 3 or 12 is an automatic defeat on the come-out roll.

DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the initial two races of the night.

DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome of an action will be lower than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also referred to as a "sell".

DOZEN BET: In roulette, to wager on any of three categories 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 game.

EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the identical amount as wagered, ( one to one ).

EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in a race will complete the race in the exact same order as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".

FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet carried out on a grouping of five numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.