An Internet Betting Dictionary
Even though the fact that web wagering is now a many billion dollar business, and endless thousands of brand-new wagerers world-wide log on every day to play at web gambling halls, there are additionally millions of newbies to the environment of internet betting who do not as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the jargon used in web gambling, and wagering on sports in general. Notwithstanding, understanding of these terms is necessary to interpreting the games and rules of gaming:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has risked all of her chips into the pot. A second pot is set up for the bettors with additional money.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the identical race.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a necessary amount of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A necessary bet in 7-card stud carried out by the player showing the smallest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in blackjack, when a gambler’s cards total over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum value of cash necessary to enter a match or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as a prior made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not betting. This is allowed only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to lay a bet equal to but opposite of the first bet.
COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but made after the hurler has established his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st toss to ascertain a number, or the initial roll after a number has been arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to blanket all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, three or 12 is an automatic defeat on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the first two races of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an event will be smaller than the smallest 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-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports gamble, meaning to bet on a group or player to succeed or medal in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the same value as bet, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: wagering that 2 horses in a contest will complete the race in the exact same assignment as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet made on a grouping of 5 numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.
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