An Online Gambling Encyclopedia
Even though the fact that web gambling is now a billion dollar industry, and countless thousands of new bettors world-wide sign on every day to gamble at internet gambling halls, there are still millions of new players to the environment of online betting who don't as yet have a clear understanding of much of the dialect employed in internet gambling, and wagering on athletics in general. However, insight of these ideas is indispensable to knowing the games and codes of gambling:
ACTION: Any type of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has risked all of his bankroll into the pot. A side pot is developed for the players with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the same race.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a required value of chips into the pot beforeeach hand begins.
BRING-IN: A necessary wager in seven-card stud made by the player displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You don't win; As in blackjack, when a player's cards are valued over 21.
BUY-IN: The minimal sum of chips necessary to get in a match or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals a prior made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the match without betting. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to lay a bet equal to but converse of the initial bet.
COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line wager, but carried out after the shooter has arrived at her point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial toss to achieve a number, or the 1st toss after a number is achieved.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to blanket all the numbers on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, three or twelve is an automatic loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the winners of the first 2 events of the day.
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 known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to bet on one or more of 3 categories of twelve numbers, 1-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports wager, meaning to gamble on a group or player to win or place in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays out the same sum as wagered, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: gambling that two horses in a contest will complete the race in the exact identical order as the wager - also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet carried out on a block of five numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.
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