An Online Gambling Cyclopedia

Regardless of the fact that online betting is now a many billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of additional players around the globe sign up each day to wager at online gambling halls, there are additionally millions of new players to the world of web betting who don’t as yet have a clear comprehension of much of the terminology used in web wagering, and gambling on sports in general. Notwithstanding, insight of these terms is indispensable to knowing the games and rules of play:

ACTION: Any style of bet.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has deposited all of her chips into the pot. A side pot is developed for the gamblers with additional chips.

ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the identical race.

ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a required sum of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.

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

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

BUY-IN: The minimum sum of cash necessary to enroll in a game or tournament.

CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals an already carried out bet.

CHECK: In poker, to remain in the match and not wagering. This is allowed only if no other gamblers wager in that round.

CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to make a bet equal to but converse of the leading bet.

COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the three columns of a roulette table.

COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but made after the player has ascertained his number.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st toss to ascertain a number, or the first roll after a number is established.

COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to fill all the spots on a bingo sheet.

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

DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the champions of the initial 2 events of the night.

DOWN BET: To wager that the result of an action will be lower than the smallest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".

DOZEN BET: In roulette, to bet on any of three sets of twelve numbers, one-12, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletics wager, which means to gamble on a group or player to win or place in a game.

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

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

FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a group of 5 numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.

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