An Internet Wagering Cyclopedia
Even though the fact that web wagering is now a billion dollar business, and countless thousands of brand-new gamblers around the globe log in each day to gamble at web gambling halls, there are still millions of newbies to the environment of internet wagering who do not as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the terminology employed in web wagering, and wagering on athletic event in general. Notwithstanding, knowledge of these terms is essential to understanding the games and regulations of wagering:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has risked all of their chips into the pot. A second pot is created for the players with remaining chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on several horses in the same contest.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a necessary figure of money into the pot just beforeevery hand begins.
BRING-IN: A required wager in 7-card stud made by the gambler showing the smallest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in chemin de fer, when a player's cards exceed a value over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum sum of funds required to enroll in a match or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as an already made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game without wagering. This is allowed only if no other players wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to make a bet equal to but opposite of the opening wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the 3 columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line bet, but made after the hurler has ascertained her point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st toss to ascertain a point, or the 1st toss after a point is established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to blanket all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, three or twelve is an immediate loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the first two events of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome of an action 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 one or more of 3 categories of twelve numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event 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 number as gambled, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: laying odds that two horses in a race will finish in the exact same assignment as the bet - also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a grouping of five numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.
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