Despite the actuality that internet betting is now a multi-billion dollar business, and endless thousands of new bettors world-wide sign up each day to bet at online gambling dens, there are still millions of newbies to the environment of internet gambling who don’t as yet have a clear understanding of a lot of the doublespeak employed in online wagering, and betting on athletic event in general. However, understanding of these terms is necessary to knowing the games and regulations of gambling:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a gambler has risked all of his money into the pot. A second pot is created for the bettors with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To bet on many horses in the same race.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a necessary value of money into the pot beforeeach hand begins.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in seven-card stud carried out by the gambler showing the smallest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in twenty-one, when a player’s cards exceed a value over 21.
BUY-IN: The the least sum of money required to enter a match or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals a previously made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match and not betting. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to make a wager equal to but opposite of the starting bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line wager, but made after the shooter has arrived at their number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to arrive at a point, or the initial toss after a point is established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to blanket all the spots on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, three or twelve is an automatic loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the winners of the first two events of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To bet that the result of an event will be lower than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to bet on any of three groups of twelve numbers, 1-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports bet, meaning to bet on a group or player to succeed or position in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the same value as gambled, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: laying odds that two horses in a match will complete the race in the exact identical assignment as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a block of 5 numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.