Despite the fact that web betting is now a billion dollar industry, and boundless thousands of additional bettors around the globe sign on every day to play at web gambling dens, there are still millions of new players to the world of web gambling who don’t as yet have a clear understanding of much of the dialect used in web wagering, and gambling on athletic event in general. However, knowledge of these terms is essential to interpreting the games and policies of gaming:
ACTION: Any style of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has deposited all of his chips into the pot. A second pot is set up for the gamblers with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To bet on numerous horses in the same event.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a specified number of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A necessary wager in seven-card stud carried out by the player showing the lowest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in blackjack, when a player’s cards are valued over 21.
BUY-IN: The the least amount of funds necessary to enter a game or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals a prior carried out wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game without wagering. This is allowed only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to make a wager on par with but converse of the starting bet.
COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the three columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but carried out after the shooter has established their number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st roll to establish a point, or the 1st toss after a point is ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to blanket all the numbers on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, 3 or 12 is an immediate loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the winners of the initial 2 races of the day.
DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an action will be smaller than the smallest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to gamble on any of 3 categories of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports gamble, meaning to wager on a team or player to win or medal in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the identical number as wagered, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: Betting that 2 horses in a race will finish in the exact identical order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet made on a grouping of five numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.