An Online Wagering Dictionary
June 27th, 2025 at 5:25
Despite the fact that internet betting is now a multi-billion dollar industry, and boundless thousands of new players world-wide sign up every day to gamble at online gambling dens, there are still millions of newbies to the world of internet gambling who do not as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the terminology employed in online betting, and wagering on athletics in general. Notwithstanding, understanding of these terms is indispensable to understanding the games and policies of wagering:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has risked all of her money into the pot. A second pot is developed for the wagerers with additional chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the same event.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a specified sum of chips into the pot beforeeach hand starts.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in 7-card stud carried out by the gambler showing the smallest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in blackjack, when a gambler’s cards are valued over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimum amount of funds required to enroll in a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals a previously carried out wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match and not betting. This is allowed only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to make a wager on par with but converse of the starting wager.
COLUMN BET: To wager on one or more of the three columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but made after the shooter has achieved their number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to ascertain a number, or the first toss after a point is ascertained.
COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to cover all the squares on a bingo card.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a two, three or twelve is an automatic loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the winners of the initial two races of the day.
DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an event 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 bet on any of 3 groups of 12 numbers, one-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletics gamble, meaning to gamble on a group or player to succeed or medal in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays the same amount as wagered, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: gambling that 2 horses in a race will complete the race in the exact same order as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet made on a block of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.