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An Online Wagering Glossary

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Despite the actuality that online wagering is now a billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of additional wagerers world-wide log on daily to bet at online gambling dens, there are still millions of newcomers to the world of internet gambling who do not as yet have a clear understanding of much of the dialect employed in internet wagering, and gambling on athletics in general. Notwithstanding, insight of these ideas is necessary to comprehending the games and regulations of play:

ACTION: Any style of wager.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has risked all of their money into the pot. A side pot is created for the gamblers with remaining chips.

ALL-UP: To bet on several horses in the same event.

ANTE: A poker term for allocating a required amount of money into the pot just beforeeach hand begins.

BRING-IN: A required bet in 7-card stud made by the gambler displaying the lowest value card.

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

BUY-IN: The minimum amount of chips required to get in a match or event.

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

CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game without wagering. This is applicable only if no other players bet in that round.

CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to place a bet equal to but converse of the starting bet.

COLUMN BET: To bet 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 his point.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st roll to achieve a point, or the first toss after a point is achieved.

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

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

DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the winners of the initial two races of the tournament.

DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome of an action will be smaller 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 twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletics gamble, meaning to gamble on a group or player to win or place in a match.

EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the same value as wagered, ( one to one ).

EXACTA: wagering that 2 horses in a race will complete the race in the exact same order as the bet – also known as a " Perfecta ".

FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager made on a group of five numbers, like 1-2-3-0, and 00.

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