Despite the fact that internet wagering is now a many billion dollar business, and countless thousands of new players around the world log on daily to bet at internet gambling halls, there are still millions of new players to the world of online gambling who do not as yet have a good understanding of much of the jargon used in web betting, and betting on athletics in general. Nonetheless, knowledge of these terms is indispensable to knowing the games and rules of betting:

ACTION: Any type of wager.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a player has deposited all of his chips into the pot. A side pot is set up for the wagerers with remaining money.

ALL-UP: To bet on many horses in the same race.

ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a required value of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.

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

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

BUY-IN: The the lowest sum of cash necessary to appear in a game or tournament.

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

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

CLOSING A BET: As in spread wagering, meaning to make a bet equal to but opposite of the first bet.

COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the 3 columns of a roulette game.

COME BET: In craps, the same as a pass-line bet, but carried out after the hurler has achieved his number.

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

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

CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, 3 or twelve is an immediate loss on the come-out roll.

DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the champions of the initial 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 referred to as a "sell".

DOZEN BET: In roulette, to wager on any of 3 categories of 12 numbers, 1-12, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletics gamble, indicating to gamble on a group or player to succeed or place in a game.

EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the same sum as bet, ( 1-1 ).

EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in an event will complete the race in the absolute identical order as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".

FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a wager carried out on a grouping of five numbers, for instance 1-2-3-0, and 00.