An Web Gambling Glossary

Sunday, 11. January 2026

Regardless of the actuality that internet wagering is now a billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of new players world-wide log on each day to bet at internet gambling halls, there are additionally millions of new players to the environment of online betting who do not as yet have a clear understanding of a lot of the doublespeak used in internet betting, and wagering on athletic event in general. However, knowledge of these terms is essential to interpreting the games and codes of play:

ACTION: Any style of bet.

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

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

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

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

BUST: You don’t win; As in twenty-one, when a gambler’s cards are valued over 21.

BUY-IN: The minimum amount of funds required to appear in a match or tournament.

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

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

CLOSING A BET: Like in spread betting, meaning to place a bet on par with but opposite of the initial bet.

COLUMN BET: To bet on one or more of the 3 columns of a roulette game.

COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but carried out after the player has achieved his point.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st roll to arrive at a number, or the 1st toss after a point has been established.

COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to fill all the numbers on a bingo card.

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

DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the 1st 2 matches of the day.

DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an event will be smaller than the lowest 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 twelve numbers, one-twelve, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletic event wager, meaning to wager on a team or player to succeed or position in a match.

EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the identical number as wagered, ( one to one ).

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

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

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