Despite the fact that online gambling is now a billion dollar business, and boundless thousands of additional players around the world log on daily to bet at online gambling halls, there are still millions of new players to the environment of online wagering who don’t as yet have a good understanding of much of the terminology used in online gambling, and wagering on athletic event in general. However, insight of these terms is necessary to interpreting the games and policies of wagering:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has put all of his chips into the pot. A second pot is set up for the wagerers with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the same contest.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a necessary amount of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in 7-card stud made by the gambler displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in blackjack, when a gambler’s cards total over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The the lowest value of money required to enter a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals a previously carried out wager.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the match without betting. This is acceptable only if no other players wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to make a wager on par with but opposite of the starting wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the three columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but made after the shooter has arrived at their number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st roll to achieve a number, or the first toss after a point is ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to cover all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, 3 or 12 is an automatic loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the winners of the first two events of the day.
DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome of an action will be lower than the smallest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to bet on any of three groups of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletics gamble, meaning to gamble on a group or player to win or position in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the same sum as bet, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: laying odds that two horses in a race will finish in the absolute identical order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager placed on a group of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.