An Web Wagering Dictionary


Despite the actuality that internet wagering is now a multi-billion dollar business, and boundless thousands of new players around the world log on daily to wager at online gambling dens, there are additionally millions of new players to the world of web wagering who don’t as yet have a clear understanding of much of the terminology used in internet betting, and wagering on athletic event in general. Notwithstanding, knowledge of these terms is indispensable to understanding the games and policies of gambling:

ACTION: Any style of wager.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has risked all of her chips into the pot. A second pot is created for the wagerers with additional money.

ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the identical event.

ANTE: A poker term for allocating a required amount of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.

BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in 7-card stud carried out by the gambler showing the smallest value card.

BUST: You don’t win; As in vingt-et-un, when a gambler’s cards are valued over twenty-one.

BUY-IN: The minimal value of chips necessary to appear in a game or tournament.

CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as an already carried out bet.

CHECK: In poker, to remain in the match and not wagering. This is allowed only if no other gamblers bet in that round.

CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to make a bet on par with but opposite of the opening wager.

COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the three columns of a roulette game.

COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but made after the hurler has arrived at their point.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to establish a point, or the first toss after a point has been ascertained.

COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to cover all the numbers on a bingo sheet.

CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, 3 or twelve is an automatic loss on the come-out roll.

DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the initial two events of the tournament.

DOWN BET: To bet that the result of an event will be smaller than the lowest 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 groups of 12 numbers, 1-12, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletic event gamble, which means to gamble on a team or player to succeed or place in a game.

EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the same sum as gambled, ( one to one ).

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

FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet placed on a grouping of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.

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