Despite the fact that online wagering is now a billion dollar industry, and endless thousands of additional players around the world sign on every day to bet at web gambling halls, there are still millions of new players to the world of online wagering who do not as yet have a clear understanding of much of the catchphrases employed in internet wagering, and wagering on sports in general. Nonetheless, understanding of these terms is necessary to understanding the games and rules of wagering:

ACTION: Any style of wager.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a player has put all of his chips into the pot. A second pot is developed for the bettors with remaining chips.

ALL-UP: To bet on many horses in the identical contest.

ANTE: A poker term for allocating a necessary amount of money into the pot beforeeach hand starts.

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

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

BUY-IN: The the lowest amount of funds required to enter a match or tournament.

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

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

CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to put a bet equal to but converse of the leading wager.

COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the three columns of a roulette game.

COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line bet, but made after the shooter has ascertained his point.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to establish a number, or the initial roll after a point is 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 automatic loss on the come-out roll.

DAILY DOUBLE: To select the champions of the initial 2 events of the day.

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 wager on one or more of three categories of twelve numbers, one-twelve, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletics bet, indicating to gamble on a team or player to win or medal in a match.

EVEN MONEY BET: A bet that pays the identical number as bet, ( 1-1 ).

EXACTA: gambling that 2 horses in an event will complete the race in the absolute same order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".

FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager made on a group of 5 numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.