Casino

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Regardless of the reality that web gambling is now a billion dollar business, and boundless thousands of additional players around the globe sign up each day to gamble at web casinos, there are still millions of newcomers to the environment of web betting who do not as yet have a clear comprehension of a lot of the jargon used in web gambling, and wagering on sports in general. However, insight of these terms is indispensable to comprehending the games and rules of gaming:

ACTION: Any style of bet.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has deposited all of his bankroll into the pot. A second pot is created for the bettors with remaining chips.

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

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

BRING-IN: A required bet in seven-card stud made by the player displaying the smallest value card.

BUST: You do not win; As in blackjack, when a player’s cards total over 21.

BUY-IN: The minimal sum of funds necessary to appear in a game or tournament.

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

CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not betting. This is allowed only if no other players wager in that round.

CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to lay a bet on par with but opposite of the first wager.

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

COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but made after the shooter has ascertained her point.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first toss to ascertain a point, or the 1st toss after a point has been arrived at.

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

CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a two, 3 or 12 is an immediate defeat on the come-out roll.

DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the champions of the 1st 2 races of the tournament.

DOWN BET: To wager that the outcome of an action will be smaller than the smallest end of the quote on a spread bet, also known as a "sell".

DOZEN BET: In roulette, to bet on one or more of 3 sets of 12 numbers, 1-twelve, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A sports bet, which means to bet on a group or player to win or place in an event.

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

EXACTA: laying odds that two horses in a race will complete the race in the exact identical order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".

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