An Online Gambling Encyclopedia
December 6th, 2007 at 17:17
Even though the fact that internet gambling is now a billion dollar industry, and boundless thousands of additional players world-wide sign up daily to wager at web gambling dens, there are additionally millions of new players to the environment of online betting who don’t as yet have a good understanding of a lot of the jargon used in web wagering, and gambling on sports in general. Nonetheless, knowledge of these ideas is indispensable to interpreting the games and regulations of betting:
ACTION: Any style of wager.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has put all of his chips into the pot. A side pot is developed for the wagerers with remaining chips.
ALL-UP: To bet on many horses in the identical race.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a necessary value of money into the pot just beforeeach hand begins.
BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in seven-card stud carried out by the gambler displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You do not win; As in blackjack, when a player’s cards exceed a value over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimal value of money necessary to appear in a game or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals a already made wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match and not wagering. This is allowed only if no other players bet in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to lay a bet on par with but converse of the leading bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but carried out after the player has achieved his number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial toss to achieve a point, or the first roll after a number has been achieved.
COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to cover all the squares on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, three or twelve is an automatic defeat on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the champions of the first two races of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an action will be lower 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 three categories of 12 numbers, one-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event wager, indicating to bet on a group or player to succeed or medal in an game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays out the same sum as bet, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: wagering that two horses in a match will finish in the absolute same order as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet placed on a group of 5 numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.