Regardless of the reality that online gambling is now a multi-billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of additional players around the globe log in every day to gamble at online casinos, there are still millions of new players to the world of web wagering who do not as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the doublespeak used in online betting, and gambling on athletics in general. However, understanding of these terms is essential to understanding the games and codes of gambling:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has put all of their bankroll into the pot. A side pot is set up for the players with additional chips.
ALL-UP: To bet on many horses in the same race.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a specified figure 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 smallest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in twenty-one, when a player’s cards total over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum value of funds required to get in a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals a previously made wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not betting. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to lay a wager equal to but opposite of the opening bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the three columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but made after the hurler has established their point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to arrive at a number, or the initial toss after a number is ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to fill all the squares on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, 3 or twelve is an immediate loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the champions of the first two races of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome of an action 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 any of 3 groups of twelve numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event bet, which means to gamble on a team or player to win or position in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the identical value as wagered, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in a race will finish in the exact identical order as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a group of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.
