An Internet Betting Encyclopedia
October 17th, 2025 at 11:25
Despite the actuality that web gambling is now a billion dollar business, and boundless thousands of additional bettors around the globe log on every day to wager at online gambling halls, there are still millions of newcomers to the world of internet gambling who do not as yet have a clear comprehension of much of the dialect used in online gambling, and gambling on sports in general. Nonetheless, understanding of these ideas is indispensable to comprehending the games and policies of betting:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has risked all of her money into the pot. A second pot is created for the wagerers with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To wager on many horses in the identical event.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a specified sum of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A required bet in 7-card stud carried out by the gambler displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in vingt-et-un, when a player’s cards are valued over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The the least amount of funds required to get in a match or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as a prior carried out bet.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the match and not wagering. This is allowed only if no other players wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to make a bet equal to but opposite of the starting bet.
COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but made after the shooter has achieved his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to establish a point, or the initial roll after a point has been ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to fill all the spots on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, 3 or 12 is an automatic defeat on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the 1st two races of the night.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result 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 bet on one or more of 3 categories of twelve numbers, one-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletics bet, meaning to wager on a group or player to win or position in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the same number as gambled, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in a race will complete the race in the absolute identical order as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet placed on a grouping of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.