An Online Gambling Dictionary


Regardless of the actuality that internet gambling is now a many billion dollar business, and endless thousands of additional players around the world sign up each day to bet at internet casinos, there are still millions of newbies to the environment of online wagering who do not as yet have a good understanding of much of the terminology employed in online gambling, and betting on sports in general. In any case, insight of these terms is necessary to comprehending the games and rules of wagering:

ACTION: Any style of bet.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has put all of his chips into the pot. A second pot is developed for the wagerers with additional money.

ALL-UP: To bet on many horses in the same contest.

ANTE: A poker term for allocating a necessary figure of chips into the pot beforeevery hand begins.

BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in 7-card stud made by the player displaying the smallest value card.

BUST: You don’t win; As in vingt-et-un, when a gambler’s cards total over twenty-one.

BUY-IN: The minimum sum of funds required to get in a match or event.

CALL: As in poker, when a bet 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 wagering, meaning to make a bet equal to but converse of the initial wager.

COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the three columns of a roulette game.

COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line wager, but made after the player has achieved his number.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st roll to ascertain a point, or the first roll after a point has been ascertained.

COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to blanket all the squares on a bingo sheet.

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

DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the winners of the first 2 races of the day.

DOWN BET: To bet 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 wager on one or more of 3 sets of 12 numbers, 1-12, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletic event wager, meaning to gamble on a group or player to win or medal in a match.

EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the same amount as gambled, ( one to one ).

EXACTA: wagering that two horses in an event will finish in the absolute same assignment as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".

FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager made on a grouping of 5 numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.

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