Despite the fact that internet wagering is now a billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of new bettors around the globe sign up every day to gamble at web gambling halls, there are still millions of newcomers to the world of online wagering who do not as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the terminology employed in web gambling, and wagering on athletics in general. In any case, insight of these ideas is indispensable to interpreting the games and rules of gambling:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a gambler has deposited all of their money into the pot. A second pot is set up for the players with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To bet on many horses in the same contest.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a necessary number of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in seven-card stud made by the player displaying the smallest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in blackjack, when a gambler’s cards are valued over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum amount of chips necessary to appear in a match or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as an already carried out bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match without wagering. This is allowed only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to lay a wager on par with but converse of the initial wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the three columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, similar to a pass-line wager, but carried out after the player has achieved their point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to establish a point, or the initial roll after a point is ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to fill all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, three or twelve is an automatic loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the 1st 2 races of the day.
DOWN BET: To bet that the result 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 wager on one or more of 3 sets of 12 numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event gamble, which means to bet on a team or player to win or medal in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the same number as wagered, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: wagering that 2 horses in a race will complete the race in the exact same order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet made on a block of five numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.
