Despite the reality that web wagering is now a billion dollar business, and countless thousands of additional players around the world log on every day to wager at internet gambling halls, there are still millions of newbies to the environment of online wagering who don’t as yet have a good comprehension of much of the dialect employed in internet gambling, and wagering on athletics in general. Notwithstanding, understanding of these terms is necessary to interpreting the games and codes of betting:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has put all of his chips into the pot. A side pot is set up for the players with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To wager on many horses in the same event.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a specified sum of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A required wager in 7-card stud made by the player displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in chemin de fer, when a gambler’s cards are valued over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimal value of money required to appear in a match or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals an already made wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game without betting. This is allowed only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to make a wager equal to but opposite of the initial wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the three columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line bet, but made after the shooter has ascertained their number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st toss to achieve a number, or the first toss after a point has been established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to blanket all the spots on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, 3 or 12 is an automatic defeat on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the winners of the initial two events of the day.
DOWN BET: To bet that the result of an event will be smaller than the lowest 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 12 numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event bet, indicating to bet on a team or player to succeed or medal in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the identical amount as bet, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: Betting that 2 horses in an event will complete the race in the exact same order as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager made on a block of five numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.