An Internet Gambling Dictionary

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Despite the actuality that web wagering is now a billion dollar industry, and countless thousands of new gamblers world-wide log on every day to wager at online gambling halls, there are still millions of new players to the environment of online gambling who do not as yet have a clear comprehension of a lot of the doublespeak used in web betting, and wagering on athletics in general. Nonetheless, insight of these terms is indispensable to understanding the games and policies of gaming:

ACTION: Any style of wager.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has risked all of her chips into the pot. A side pot is developed for the bettors with additional money.

ALL-UP: To bet on several horses in the same event.

ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a necessary amount of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.

BRING-IN: A necessary wager in seven-card stud carried out by the player displaying the smallest value card.

BUST: You do not win; As in chemin de fer, when a player’s cards exceed a value over 21.

BUY-IN: The the lowest sum of chips required to enter a game or tournament.

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

CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game without betting. This is acceptable only if no other players wager in that round.

CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to place a bet equal to but converse of the starting bet.

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

COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but carried out after the shooter has arrived at her point.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial toss to ascertain a number, or the 1st toss after a number has been established.

COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to fill all the numbers on a bingo sheet.

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

DAILY DOUBLE: To select the winners of the first two races of the day.

DOWN BET: To bet 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 one or more of 3 groups of 12 numbers, one-12, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletics gamble, meaning to wager on a group or player to win or position in an event.

EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the same sum as bet, ( 1-1 ).

EXACTA: Betting that 2 horses in a match will finish in the exact identical order as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".

FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager made on a group of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.

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