Even though the reality that online betting is now a multi-billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of additional players world-wide log in each day to gamble at internet gambling halls, there are still millions of new players to the environment of internet gambling who don’t as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the doublespeak employed in online gambling, and wagering on sports in general. However, insight of these terms is necessary to comprehending the games and rules of play:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has deposited all of his money into the pot. A side pot is created for the bettors with additional money.
ALL-UP: To bet on many horses in the same race.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a required sum of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in 7-card stud made by the gambler displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in twenty-one, when a gambler’s cards total over 21.
BUY-IN: The minimal value of money necessary to enroll in a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals a previously carried out bet.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not betting. This is applicable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to put a bet equal to but opposite of the opening bet.
COLUMN BET: To bet on any of the three columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but carried out after the shooter has established her point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial toss to arrive at a number, or the first toss after a point has been established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to blanket all the numbers on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, 3 or 12 is an automatic defeat on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the 1st 2 events of the day.
DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome of an action will be smaller than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also referred to as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to bet on one or more of 3 sets of twelve numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event wager, meaning to gamble on a team or player to succeed or position in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays out the same sum as gambled, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: laying odds that two horses in a match will finish in the absolute identical order 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, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.