Despite the reality that online wagering is now a multi-billion dollar business, and boundless thousands of new bettors around the world sign up every day to bet at web gambling dens, there are still millions of newcomers to the world of web betting who don’t as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the doublespeak employed in web betting, and wagering on sports in general. In any case, insight of these ideas is essential to interpreting the games and rules of gambling:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has deposited all of her money into the pot. A side pot is created for the players with additional money.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the same event.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a required sum of chips into the pot just beforeeach hand starts.
BRING-IN: A required wager in 7-card stud made by the gambler displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in 21, when a player’s cards are valued over 21.
BUY-IN: The the lowest sum of money necessary to appear in a game or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as a previously made wager.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game and not wagering. This is applicable only if no other players wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to lay a wager equal to but converse of the starting wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line bet, but made after the hurler has achieved his number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to ascertain a number, or the 1st roll after a number is achieved.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to cover all the numbers on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, 3 or 12 is an automatic defeat on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the winners of the first two events of the night.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result of an event will be smaller than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also referred to as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to wager on one or more of 3 sets of 12 numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event bet, indicating to bet on a group or player to succeed or medal in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays out the same amount as bet, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: laying odds that two horses in an event will complete the race in the absolute identical order as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet made on a grouping of five numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.