An Online Betting Encyclopedia
Regardless of the fact that internet betting is now a multi-billion dollar business, and endless thousands of new players around the world log on each day to wager at internet casinos, there are additionally millions of newbies to the environment of internet gambling who don't as yet have a good comprehension of a lot of the doublespeak employed in online wagering, and wagering on sports in general. However, insight of these ideas is essential to comprehending the games and policies of gaming:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has deposited all of her money into the pot. A side pot is created for the bettors with additional chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on several horses in the same contest.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a specified number of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A required bet in seven-card stud carried out by the gambler displaying the smallest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in twenty-one, when a gambler's cards are valued over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The the least sum of chips required to enter a match or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals a prior carried out wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match without wagering. This is allowed only if no other gamblers bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to place a wager on par with but opposite of the leading bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the three columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line wager, but carried out after the player has achieved his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to establish a number, or the initial toss after a number is established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to blanket all the numbers on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, three or 12 is an automatic loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the winners of the first two events of the night.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result of an action will be smaller than the smallest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to bet on one or more of 3 sets of 12 numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports bet, which means to wager on a team or player to win or position in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the same number as bet, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in a match will complete the race in the exact identical order as the bet - also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet carried out on a group of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.
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