An Online Gambling Cyclopedia

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Despite the actuality that internet wagering is now a multi-billion dollar business, and boundless thousands of brand-new wagerers around the world log on every day to play at online gambling dens, there are still millions of new players to the environment of online wagering who don’t as yet have a good comprehension of much of the dialect employed in web gambling, and gambling on athletics in general. However, insight of these terms is necessary to interpreting the games and policies of gambling:

ACTION: Any style of wager.

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

ALL-UP: To wager on several horses in the same event.

ANTE: A poker term for allocating a necessary amount of money into the pot just beforeeach hand starts.

BRING-IN: A necessary bet in seven-card stud made by the player showing the smallest value card.

BUST: You do not win; As in vingt-et-un, when a gambler’s cards are valued over twenty-one.

BUY-IN: The the lowest amount of funds required to enroll in a match or tournament.

CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as a prior made bet.

CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match and not betting. This is allowed only if no other gamblers bet in that round.

CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to put a wager equal to but opposite of the first bet.

COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the three columns of a roulette table.

COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but made after the player has arrived at his number.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to achieve a point, or the initial roll after a number is achieved.

COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to blanket all the spots on a bingo sheet.

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

DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the winners of the initial two matches of the tournament.

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

DOZEN BET: In roulette, to wager on one or more of 3 categories of twelve numbers, one-twelve, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A sports bet, indicating to wager on a team or player to win or medal in a match.

EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays out the identical sum as wagered, ( one to one ).

EXACTA: wagering that 2 horses in an event will finish in the exact identical order as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".

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

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