Even though the reality that internet gambling is now a billion dollar business, and endless thousands of new gamblers around the world sign on every day to play at web casinos, there are still millions of new players to the environment of web betting who don’t as yet have a good comprehension of a lot of the catchphrases employed in web wagering, and gambling on athletic event in general. Nonetheless, knowledge of these ideas is indispensable to interpreting the games and policies of wagering:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has put all of his chips into the pot. A second pot is set up for the players with additional money.
ALL-UP: To wager on many horses in the same race.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a required number of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in 7-card stud carried out by the gambler showing the lowest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in chemin de fer, when a gambler’s cards are valued over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum value of cash required to get in a match or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as a previously carried out bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match without wagering. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to lay a wager on par with but opposite of the starting wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but carried out after the shooter has established his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to establish a number, or the first toss after a number is established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to blanket all the numbers on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, 3 or 12 is an immediate loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the champions of the 1st two races of the night.
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 known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to gamble on any of three sets of twelve numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports bet, indicating to bet on a group or player to succeed or position in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the identical sum as bet, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: laying odds that two horses in an event will finish in the exact same order as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a block of five numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.