Despite the actuality that online wagering is now a billion dollar industry, and boundless thousands of additional players world-wide sign up daily to play at online gambling halls, there are still millions of newcomers to the world of web gambling who don’t as yet have a clear understanding of much of the terminology used in web gambling, and wagering on athletic event in general. In any case, knowledge of these terms is indispensable to knowing the games and policies of play:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a gambler has put all of his chips into the pot. A second pot is developed for the bettors with additional money.
ALL-UP: To bet on numerous horses in the same race.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a required number of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A required wager in 7-card stud made by the gambler displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in twenty-one, when a player’s cards exceed a value over 21.
BUY-IN: The the least value of cash required to get in a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as a prior carried out wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match and not wagering. This is allowed only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to put a wager on par with but converse of the opening wager.
COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but carried out after the player has ascertained his number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to achieve a point, or the 1st roll after a number is arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to fill all the squares on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, three or twelve is an automatic defeat on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the winners of the 1st 2 events of the night.
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 gamble on any of 3 categories of 12 numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports wager, indicating to gamble on a team or player to succeed or position in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays out the same value as gambled, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in an event will finish in the exact identical assignment as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a block of 5 numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.