Despite the actuality that internet wagering is now a many billion dollar business, and boundless thousands of new bettors around the world sign up daily to wager at online gambling halls, there are still millions of newbies to the world of internet betting who don’t as yet have a good comprehension of much of the catchphrases used in online wagering, and wagering on sports in general. Notwithstanding, insight of these terms is essential to knowing the games and codes of betting:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has put all of her chips into the pot. A second pot is set up for the bettors with remaining chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on several horses in the same contest.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a specified figure of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in seven-card stud made by the gambler displaying the smallest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in vingt-et-un, when a gambler’s cards are valued over 21.
BUY-IN: The minimum amount of funds necessary to enter a game or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as a previously made wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not wagering. This is allowed only if no other players wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to put a bet on par with but opposite of the leading wager.
COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line wager, but carried out after the shooter has ascertained his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to achieve a number, or the 1st toss after a number is arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to cover all the spots on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, three or 12 is an automatic loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the initial 2 matches of the day.
DOWN BET: To wager 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 wager on one or more of three categories of twelve numbers, 1-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletics gamble, meaning to wager on a team or player to win or position in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the identical value as bet, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: Betting that two horses in a race will finish in the exact same order as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet carried out on a block of 5 numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.