An Online Betting Dictionary

by Alex on October 15th, 2015

Even though the fact that web betting is now a multi-billion dollar business, and countless thousands of new bettors world-wide sign on every day to play at online gambling dens, there are still millions of newcomers to the environment of online gambling who do not as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the terminology employed in internet gambling, and betting on athletic event in general. Notwithstanding, insight of these ideas is essential to interpreting the games and codes of wagering:

ACTION: Any style of bet.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has deposited all of her chips into the pot. A second pot is set up for the bettors with remaining money.

ALL-UP: To bet on numerous horses in the same race.

ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a necessary figure of money into the pot beforeevery hand begins.

BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in seven-card stud made by the player showing the lowest value card.

BUST: You lose; As in chemin de fer, when a gambler’s cards are valued over twenty-one.

BUY-IN: The minimum value of money required to get in a game or tournament.

CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as a prior carried out wager.

CHECK: In poker, to remain in the match without wagering. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers bet in that round.

CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to lay a wager equal to but converse of the opening bet.

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 wager, but carried out after the player has achieved his number.

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

COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to fill all the spots on a bingo sheet.

CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, three or 12 is an immediate loss on the come-out roll.

DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the champions of the 1st 2 events of the night.

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

DOZEN BET: In roulette, to gamble on one or more of three categories of 12 numbers, 1-12, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletic event gamble, which means to gamble on a group or player to win or medal in an event.

EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the identical value as wagered, ( 1:1 ).

EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in an event will complete the race in the exact identical order as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".

FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet made on a group of 5 numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.

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