Despite the actuality that internet wagering is now a billion dollar industry, and countless thousands of additional bettors around the world sign up daily to bet at web gambling dens, there are still millions of newcomers to the environment of web gambling who do not as yet have a good understanding of much of the doublespeak employed in online wagering, and gambling on sports in general. Nonetheless, insight of these terms is indispensable to understanding the games and regulations of gambling:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has deposited all of her chips into the pot. A side pot is set up for the players with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To wager on several horses in the same contest.
ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a necessary value of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A necessary wager in 7-card stud made by the gambler displaying the smallest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in twenty-one, when a player’s cards are valued over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The the lowest value of cash required to get in a match or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals an already made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match without betting. This is allowed only if no other gamblers bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to put a wager on par with but converse of the leading wager.
COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line bet, but carried out after the player has ascertained their point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to arrive at a number, or the initial roll after a point is achieved.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to blanket all the numbers on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, 3 or 12 is an automatic loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the winners of the first 2 matches of the day.
DOWN BET: To bet that the result 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 three groups of 12 numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports wager, meaning to wager on a team or player to succeed or medal in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the same number as gambled, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in a contest will finish in the exact identical assignment as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a grouping of 5 numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.