Regardless of the reality that internet betting is now a multi-billion dollar business, and countless thousands of new wagerers around the globe sign up every day to gamble at online gambling dens, there are still millions of new players to the environment of internet gambling who do not as yet have a clear understanding of much of the doublespeak employed in web wagering, and betting on sports in general. Nonetheless, understanding of these terms is necessary to interpreting the games and policies of play:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has deposited all of her chips into the pot. A second pot is set up for the players with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To bet on several horses in the same contest.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a required figure of money into the pot beforeevery hand begins.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in seven-card stud made by the player displaying the smallest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in 21, when a player’s cards are valued over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimal amount of funds required to enroll in a match or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals a prior carried out wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match without wagering. This is acceptable only if no other players wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to make a bet on par with but opposite of the opening wager.
COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but made after the shooter has established his number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to establish a point, or the first roll after a point has been ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to blanket all the squares on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, three or twelve is an automatic loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the initial 2 races of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result 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 one or more of 3 sets of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports wager, which means to bet on a team or player to win or place in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays out the same number as wagered, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: wagering that 2 horses in a match will complete the race in the absolute identical order as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager placed on a group of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.
