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An Online Gambling Glossary

Even though the fact that online wagering is now a multi-billion dollar business, and countless thousands of new gamblers around the world log on each day to play at web casinos, there are still millions of newbies to the world of web gambling who don’t as yet have a good comprehension of much of the doublespeak used in web betting, and betting on sports in general. In any case, understanding of these ideas is necessary to interpreting the games and policies of gaming:

ACTION: Any type of bet.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has put all of his money into the pot. A side pot is set up for the players with additional money.

ALL-UP: To wager on many horses in the identical race.

ANTE: A poker term for allocating a necessary value of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.

BRING-IN: A required wager in 7-card stud carried out by the player showing the smallest value card.

BUST: You don’t win; As in blackjack, when a gambler’s cards total over twenty-one.

BUY-IN: The the lowest value of funds necessary to get in a game or event.

CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as a previously made wager.

CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game and not betting. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.

CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to lay a wager equal to but opposite of the first wager.

COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the three 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 number.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to achieve a number, or the 1st roll after a point has been ascertained.

COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to cover all the squares on a bingo sheet.

CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, three or 12 is an automatic loss on the come-out roll.

DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the champions of the first 2 events of the tournament.

DOWN BET: To bet that the result of an event will be lower than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".

DOZEN BET: In roulette, to bet on one or more of three categories of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A sports gamble, meaning to gamble on a group or player to win or medal in an event.

EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the same value as bet, ( one to one ).

EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in an event will finish in the absolute same assignment as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".

FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager made on a group of five numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.