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An Online Wagering Encyclopedia

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Regardless of the actuality that online betting is now a many billion dollar industry, and boundless thousands of new wagerers around the world sign on daily to gamble at web gambling halls, there are still millions of newbies to the world of online gambling who don’t as yet have a clear understanding of a lot of the jargon employed in internet gambling, and wagering on athletic event in general. Nonetheless, insight of these terms is essential to comprehending the games and rules of play:

ACTION: Any style of wager.

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

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

ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a required figure of chips into the pot beforeevery hand starts.

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

BUST: You do not win; As in blackjack, when a player’s cards total over twenty-one.

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

CALL: As in poker, when a wager equals an already made wager.

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

CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to place a wager on par with 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, the same as a pass-line wager, but made after the player has established their point.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial toss to establish a number, or the 1st toss after a point is arrived at.

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

CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to toss a 2, three or twelve is an automatic defeat on the come-out toss.

DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the winners of the 1st 2 matches of the tournament.

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 three sets of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A sports bet, which means to gamble on a team or player to win or medal in a match.

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

EXACTA: wagering that 2 horses in a contest will finish in the exact identical assignment as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".

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

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