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An Internet Wagering Dictionary

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Regardless of the fact that online gambling is now a many billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of brand-new gamblers around the world log on each day to play at online gambling halls, there are still millions of new players to the world of internet wagering who don’t as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the doublespeak used in web betting, and betting on sports in general. Notwithstanding, understanding of these terms is essential to knowing the games and policies of gambling:

ACTION: Any style of wager.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a gambler has put all of her chips into the pot. A side pot is set up for the players with additional chips.

ALL-UP: To bet on many horses in the identical race.

ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a specified number of money into the pot just beforeeach hand begins.

BRING-IN: A required wager in 7-card stud made by the gambler displaying the smallest value card.

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

BUY-IN: The minimum amount of money required to enroll in a game or tournament.

CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as a previously carried out bet.

CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game without betting. This is applicable only if no other gamblers bet in that round.

CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to place a wager on par with but converse of the starting bet.

COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette game.

COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but made after the player has ascertained their point.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st roll to achieve a point, or the 1st roll after a point has been ascertained.

COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to fill all the squares on a bingo card.

CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, 3 or 12 is an automatic defeat on the come-out toss.

DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the winners of the 1st two races of the day.

DOWN BET: To bet 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 gamble on any of 3 categories of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletic event bet, meaning to wager on a team or player to succeed or position in an event.

EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays out the same value as wagered, ( 1-1 ).

EXACTA: wagering that 2 horses in a race will complete the race in the exact identical order as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".

FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet made on a grouping of 5 numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.

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