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An Online Gambling Encyclopedia

Regardless of the reality that web gambling is now a multi-billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of additional bettors world-wide log on daily to gamble at online casinos, there are still millions of newcomers to the environment of online betting who don’t as yet have a clear understanding of a lot of the doublespeak used in web gambling, and wagering on sports in general. However, understanding of these ideas is necessary to interpreting the games and regulations of gaming:

ACTION: Any type of bet.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has risked all of his bankroll into the pot. A second pot is set up for the players with additional chips.

ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the identical event.

ANTE: A poker term for placing a specified value of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.

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

BUST: You lose; As in 21, when a gambler’s cards total over twenty-one.

BUY-IN: The the lowest sum of money necessary to enroll in a match or tournament.

CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as a prior carried out wager.

CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not wagering. This is acceptable only if no other gamblers wager in that round.

CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to put a wager on par with but opposite of the first 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 hurler has established their point.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to ascertain a point, or the initial roll after a number has been established.

COVERALL: A bingo term, which means to blanket all the numbers on a bingo card.

CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, 3 or 12 is an automatic loss on the come-out roll.

DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the champions of the first two events of the tournament.

DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome 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 any of 3 categories of 12 numbers, 1-12, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A sports wager, meaning to gamble on a group or player to win or medal in an event.

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

EXACTA: laying odds that two horses in a race will finish in the exact same order as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".

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

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