An Internet Wagering Glossary
Even though the fact that internet betting is now a multi-billion dollar industry, and countless thousands of additional gamblers world-wide log on each day to gamble at web gambling halls, there are still millions of newcomers to the environment of web gambling who do not as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the dialect employed in online wagering, and betting on athletics in general. However, insight of these ideas is indispensable to knowing the games and regulations of gaming:
ACTION: Any style of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has put all of her chips into the pot. A side pot is set up for the gamblers with additional chips.
ALL-UP: To bet on several horses in the same event.
ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a necessary amount 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 showing the smallest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in chemin de fer, when a player’s cards are valued over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum value of money required to enter 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 acceptable only if no other gamblers bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to put a bet on par with but converse of the leading bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the three columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line bet, but carried out after the hurler has ascertained her number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to arrive at a point, or the first roll after a point has been established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to blanket all the spots on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, three or twelve is an immediate loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the winners of the first two matches of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome of an event will be lower than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to gamble on any of 3 sets of 12 numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports gamble, meaning to wager on a team or player to succeed or medal in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the same value as wagered, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in a contest will complete the race in the exact same order as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a block of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
