Regardless of the fact that online gambling is now a many billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of additional wagerers around the world log in each day to wager at internet gambling halls, there are still millions of newcomers to the world of internet gambling who do not as yet have a good comprehension of much of the dialect employed in web wagering, and wagering on athletics in general. Notwithstanding, insight of these terms is essential to understanding the games and rules of play:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has risked all of her chips into the pot. A side pot is set up for the bettors with remaining money.
ALL-UP: To wager on numerous horses in the same event.
ANTE: A poker term for placing a necessary figure of money into the pot prior to the start of each hand.
BRING-IN: A mandatory bet in seven-card stud made by the gambler displaying the lowest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in blackjack, when a gambler’s cards total over twenty-one.
BUY-IN: The minimal amount of money necessary to enroll in a match or event.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as a prior made bet.
CHECK: In poker, to remain in the game without betting. This is applicable only if no other players wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to put a bet on par with but opposite of the initial bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the 3 columns of a roulette game.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but made after the player has established his number.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial toss to establish a number, or the initial roll after a point has been arrived at.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to blanket all the numbers on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, three or twelve is an immediate defeat on the come-out roll.
DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the champions of the initial 2 events of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To bet that the result of an action 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 gamble on one or more of three sets of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event gamble, meaning to bet on a team or player to succeed or place in an event.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the same value as wagered, ( 1-1 ).
EXACTA: Betting that two horses in a match will complete the race 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 grouping of 5 numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.