Even though the actuality that online wagering is now a many billion dollar industry, and boundless thousands of new players around the globe sign up each day to play at internet casinos, there are still millions of new players to the environment of web gambling who do not as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the jargon used in internet betting, and gambling on athletics in general. However, understanding of these terms is necessary to interpreting the games and policies of gaming:
ACTION: Any style of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has put all of his chips into the pot. A second pot is created for the gamblers with additional chips.
ALL-UP: To bet on numerous horses in the identical event.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a specified number of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A mandatory bet in seven-card stud carried out by the player showing the lowest value card.
BUST: You lose; As in 21, when a player’s cards exceed a value over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum amount of chips necessary to enter a match or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals a previously made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the match and not betting. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to put a bet equal to but opposite of the opening wager.
COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but made after the player has ascertained her point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to arrive at a number, or the initial toss after a number has been arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to cover all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, three or 12 is an automatic defeat on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the first two races of the night.
DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an action will be smaller than the smallest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to wager on any of 3 categories of twelve numbers, one-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A sports gamble, which means to bet on a group or player to succeed or position in a match.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the identical value as wagered, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in a match will complete the race in the exact identical order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager placed on a group of five numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.