Despite the reality that web wagering is now a billion dollar business, and countless thousands of new bettors world-wide log in each day to gamble at online gambling halls, there are still millions of newbies to the environment of internet betting who do not as yet have a good understanding of much of the doublespeak employed in internet wagering, and betting on sports in general. In any case, knowledge of these terms is necessary to understanding the games and regulations of play:
ACTION: Any style of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has risked all of her chips into the pot. A side pot is set up for the wagerers with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To wager on many horses in the identical contest.
ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a necessary number of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A necessary wager in seven-card stud made by the gambler displaying the smallest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in 21, when a gambler’s cards are valued over 21.
BUY-IN: The minimum value of chips required to enter a match or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals a prior made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not betting. This is allowed only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to put a wager equal to but converse of the first 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 wager, but carried out after the player has achieved his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to achieve a number, or the initial roll after a number has been arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to blanket all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, 3 or 12 is an immediate loss on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the initial 2 events of the day.
DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an action will be smaller than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also referred to as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to gamble on one or more of 3 groups of 12 numbers, 1-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event wager, meaning to bet on a team or player to win or place in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the identical value as bet, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in a contest will complete the race in the absolute identical order as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager placed on a group of 5 numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.