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An Online Gambling Encyclopedia

Even though the actuality that web gambling is now a billion dollar business, and boundless thousands of additional bettors world-wide sign up each day to play at internet gambling dens, there are additionally millions of newcomers to the world of web gambling who do not as yet have a clear comprehension of a lot of the terminology employed in web betting, and gambling on sports in general. In any case, insight of these terms is indispensable to knowing the games and rules of play:

ACTION: Any style of wager.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has put all of his chips into the pot. A side pot is created for the gamblers with additional chips.

ALL-UP: To wager on several horses in the same contest.

ANTE: A poker term for placing a required figure of chips into the pot beforeeach hand begins.

BRING-IN: A mandatory wager in seven-card stud carried out by the gambler showing the lowest value card.

BUST: You lose; As in chemin de fer, when a gambler’s cards total over twenty-one.

BUY-IN: The minimal sum of money required to enter a match or event.

CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals an already carried out bet.

CHECK: In poker, to stay in the match and not betting. This is applicable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.

CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to lay a bet equal to but converse of the opening bet.

COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette table.

COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line bet, but made after the shooter has ascertained his number.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to achieve a point, or the initial roll after a point is established.

COVERALL: A bingo term, which means 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 select the winners of the initial 2 events of the night.

DOWN BET: To bet that the result of an event will be lower than the lowest end of the quote on a spread bet, also referred to as a "sell".

DOZEN BET: In roulette, to wager on any of 3 categories of twelve numbers, one-twelve, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletics bet, indicating to gamble on a team or player to win or place in a match.

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

EXACTA: laying odds that two horses in a contest will complete the race in the absolute same assignment as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".

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