An Web Wagering Dictionary
Even though the reality that online betting is now a billion dollar business, and endless thousands of new players around the world log on each day to play at online gambling dens, there are still millions of newbies to the world of internet wagering who do not as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the doublespeak employed in internet gambling, and gambling on athletics in general. Nonetheless, knowledge of these terms is indispensable to interpreting the games and rules of betting:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has risked all of his bankroll into the pot. A side pot is developed for the bettors with additional money.
ALL-UP: To wager on many horses in the same contest.
ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a necessary value of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A necessary bet in seven-card stud made by the gambler showing the lowest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in twenty-one, when a gambler’s cards total over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimal amount of cash required to enter a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals a prior made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game and not wagering. This is allowed only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to put a bet on par with but opposite of the opening bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the 3 columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line bet, but carried out after the shooter has established her point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to ascertain a number, or the first toss after a number has been ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to fill all the spots on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, 3 or twelve is an automatic loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the first 2 events of the tournament.
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 wager on one or more of 3 categories of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports wager, meaning to gamble on a group or player to succeed or position in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the identical amount as gambled, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: wagering that 2 horses in an event will finish in the exact same order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a block of five numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.