An Internet Betting Cyclopedia


Even though the fact that internet gambling is now a many billion dollar business, and boundless thousands of additional players around the world log on daily to wager at internet gambling dens, there are still millions of newcomers to the world of online gambling who do not as yet have a clear understanding of much of the terminology used in online betting, and wagering on athletic event in general. In any case, understanding of these terms is indispensable to interpreting the games and policies of gambling:

ACTION: Any type of wager.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has put all of her money into the pot. A side pot is set up for the wagerers with remaining money.

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

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

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

BUST: You lose; As in blackjack, when a player’s cards exceed a value over twenty-one.

BUY-IN: The minimum sum of chips necessary to enroll in a match or event.

CALL: As in poker, when a bet equals a previously made bet.

CHECK: In poker, to remain in the match and not wagering. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers bet in that round.

CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to make a bet equal to but converse of the initial bet.

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 wager, but made after the shooter has achieved his point.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to establish a point, or the initial roll after a number is arrived at.

COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to cover all the numbers on a bingo sheet.

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

DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the first 2 matches of the night.

DOWN BET: To bet that the result of an event 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 wager on one or more of 3 groups of 12 numbers, one-12, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletics bet, which means to bet on a group or player to succeed or medal in a game.

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

EXACTA: laying odds that two horses in a contest will complete the race in the absolute identical order as the wager – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".

FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a group of 5 numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.

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