An Web Betting Cyclopedia
Despite the actuality that web wagering is now a many billion dollar business, and boundless thousands of brand-new wagerers world-wide log in every day to gamble at internet gambling halls, there are still millions of newbies to the environment of internet betting who do not as yet have a good understanding of much of the catchphrases used in web betting, and gambling on sports in general. However, knowledge of these terms is indispensable to interpreting the games and regulations of wagering:
ACTION: Any style of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has deposited all of her money into the pot. A side pot is set up for the gamblers with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To wager on many horses in the identical contest.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a specified value of chips into the pot beforeevery hand starts.
BRING-IN: A required wager in 7-card stud made by the gambler displaying the smallest value card.
BUST: You don't win; As in vingt-et-un, when a gambler's cards exceed a value over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimal value of chips required to enroll in a match or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals a previously made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not betting. This is allowed only if no other gamblers bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to lay a bet equal to but opposite of the starting bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager 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 arrived at her point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to establish a point, or the 1st roll after a number has been established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to blanket all the spots on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, 3 or 12 is an automatic defeat on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the winners of the initial two matches of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an event will be lower 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 three sets of 12 numbers, 1-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletics bet, which means to bet on a team or player to succeed or position in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays out the identical sum as bet, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: wagering that two horses in a match will finish in the exact same assignment as the bet - also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet made on a block of 5 numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.
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