Despite the reality that internet betting is now a many billion dollar business, and countless thousands of additional players around the world sign on every day to bet at internet gambling halls, there are still millions of new players to the world of online wagering who do not as yet have a good comprehension of a lot of the jargon employed in web betting, and betting on athletics in general. Nonetheless, knowledge of these ideas is essential to interpreting the games and regulations of gambling:
ACTION: Any style of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has put all of his chips into the pot. A second pot is created for the gamblers with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To bet on many horses in the identical race.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a necessary figure of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A required wager in seven-card stud made by the gambler showing the smallest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in twenty-one, when a gambler’s cards are valued over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum sum of chips necessary to enter a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as a previously made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match and not wagering. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to make a bet on par with but converse of the first bet.
COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the three columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line bet, but made after the shooter has established her number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to arrive at a number, or the initial roll after a number has been achieved.
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 defeat on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the winners of the 1st two matches of the night.
DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an action will be lower than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also referred to as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to bet on any of 3 groups of twelve numbers, 1-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event bet, indicating to wager on a group or player to win or medal in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the same amount as bet, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: Betting that 2 horses in a race will finish in the exact same assignment as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet made on a block of five numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.