An Online Wagering Cyclopedia


Despite the fact that web wagering is now a multi-billion dollar business, and endless thousands of additional bettors around the world sign up every day to bet at online gambling dens, there are still millions of new players to the world of web gambling who don’t as yet have a clear comprehension of much of the terminology employed in online gambling, and gambling on sports in general. However, knowledge of these ideas is essential to interpreting the games and rules of gambling:

ACTION: Any style of wager.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has put all of her bankroll into the pot. A second pot is developed for the bettors with additional money.

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

ANTE: A poker term for allocating a required amount of chips into the pot just beforeevery hand starts.

BRING-IN: A necessary bet in seven-card stud carried out by the player showing the lowest value card.

BUST: You don’t win; As in chemin de fer, when a gambler’s cards total over twenty-one.

BUY-IN: The the lowest sum of money necessary to enter a game or tournament.

CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as a prior made bet.

CHECK: In poker, to remain in the match without betting. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.

CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to place a bet on par with but opposite of the first bet.

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

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

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to arrive at a number, or the initial toss after a point is arrived at.

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

CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, three or twelve is an automatic loss on the come-out toss.

DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the initial two races 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 referred to as a "sell".

DOZEN BET: In roulette, to bet on any of three sets of twelve numbers, 1-12, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A sports wager, which means to bet on a team or player to win or position in an event.

EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the identical value as wagered, ( one to one ).

EXACTA: Betting that 2 horses in a contest will finish in the exact same order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".

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

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