Despite the reality that online betting is now a many billion dollar industry, and countless thousands of additional players around the world sign on each day to bet at internet casinos, there are additionally millions of new players to the environment of internet betting who do not as yet have a clear comprehension of much of the dialect employed in online wagering, and gambling on athletics in general. In any case, knowledge of these ideas is essential to knowing the games and rules of betting:
ACTION: Any style of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has risked all of his chips into the pot. A side pot is created for the players with additional chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the same race.
ANTE: A poker term for allocating a required amount of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A necessary wager in seven-card stud carried out by the player displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in blackjack, when a player’s cards are valued over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum sum of cash necessary to appear in a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals an already made wager.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game and not betting. This is allowed only if no other gamblers bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to lay a wager on par with but opposite of the initial wager.
COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line bet, but made after the hurler has achieved his number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st toss to establish a point, or the 1st toss after a number is achieved.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to fill all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, 3 or 12 is an automatic defeat on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the winners of the first 2 matches of the day.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result of an action will be smaller than the smallest end of the quote on a spread bet, also referred to as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to gamble on any of 3 categories of 12 numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event bet, meaning to wager on a group or player to win or medal in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the same value as bet, ( 1:1 ).
EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in a race will complete the race in the absolute same order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet placed on a grouping of 5 numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.