Despite the fact that online gambling is now a many billion dollar business, and boundless thousands of additional bettors around the globe sign up daily to wager at internet gambling dens, there are still millions of newbies to the world of web gambling who do not as yet have a clear comprehension of a lot of the jargon used in internet wagering, and wagering on athletics in general. Notwithstanding, understanding of these ideas is necessary to understanding the games and codes of play:
ACTION: Any style of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has deposited all of his chips into the pot. A second pot is set up for the wagerers with additional money.
ALL-UP: To wager on many horses in the same event.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a specified amount of money into the pot just beforeeach hand begins.
BRING-IN: A required wager in 7-card stud carried out by the player displaying the smallest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in blackjack, when a player’s cards are valued over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum amount of money necessary to get in a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as an already carried out wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match and not betting. This is allowed only if no other gamblers bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to put a bet on par with but opposite of the leading bet.
COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the three columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line bet, but made after the player has achieved her number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to ascertain a number, or the first roll after a point has been ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to blanket all the spots on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, 3 or twelve is an immediate loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the winners of the 1st two events of the night.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result of an event 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 gamble on any of three sets of twelve numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event gamble, which means to wager on a team or player to win or place in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the same value as gambled, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in an event 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 block of five numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.