An Online Wagering Cyclopedia


Regardless of the actuality that online wagering is now a billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of additional gamblers world-wide sign up every day to wager at web gambling halls, there are additionally millions of newcomers to the environment of web gambling who don’t as yet have a clear comprehension of a lot of the doublespeak used in web betting, and wagering on athletics in general. In any case, insight of these terms is necessary to knowing the games and regulations of wagering:

ACTION: Any style of bet.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has risked all of their money into the pot. A side pot is set up for the bettors with remaining chips.

ALL-UP: To bet on several horses in the identical contest.

ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a required figure of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.

BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in 7-card stud made by the player showing the smallest value card.

BUST: You do not win; As in 21, when a gambler’s cards are valued over 21.

BUY-IN: The the least value of chips required to enter a game or event.

CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals a prior made wager.

CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game without betting. This is applicable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.

CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to put a bet equal to but opposite of the opening bet.

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 made after the player has established his point.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to achieve a number, or the 1st roll after a number is established.

COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to blanket all the spots on a bingo card.

CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, 3 or 12 is an automatic loss on the come-out roll.

DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the 1st two matches of the night.

DOWN BET: To wager that the result of an event will be lower 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 sets of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletic event bet, which means to wager on a group or player to win or position in an event.

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

EXACTA: laying odds that two horses in a contest will complete the race in the absolute same assignment as the wager – also known 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.

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