• An Web Wagering Glossary

    Despite the actuality that web gambling is now a multi-billion dollar business, and endless thousands of additional bettors world-wide sign up each day to wager at internet casinos, there are still millions of new players to the world of online gambling who don’t as yet have a clear comprehension of much of the terminology used in internet gambling, and gambling on athletic event in general. Notwithstanding, knowledge of these ideas is indispensable to interpreting the games and regulations of gambling:

    ACTION: Any style of wager.

    ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has risked all of their money into the pot. A second pot is created for the wagerers with remaining chips.

    ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the same contest.

    ANTE: A poker term for allocating a required number of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.

    BRING-IN: A necessary bet in 7-card stud made by the gambler showing the lowest value card.

    BUST: You lose; As in 21, when a gambler’s cards exceed a value over twenty-one.

    BUY-IN: The minimum value of chips necessary to get in a match or event.

    CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as an already made wager.

    CHECK: In poker, to remain in the match and not betting. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.

    CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to put a wager equal to but converse of the opening bet.

    COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette game.

    COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but carried out after the hurler has arrived at their point.

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

    COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to fill all the squares on a bingo sheet.

    CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, three or twelve is an automatic loss on the come-out toss.

    DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the first 2 races of the night.

    DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an event 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 wager on any of three sets of twelve numbers, 1-12, etc.

    EACH WAY BET: A sports gamble, meaning to wager on a group or player to win or place in an event.

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

    EXACTA: laying odds that two horses in a match will finish in the absolute same assignment as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".

    FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager made on a grouping of five numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.

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