Even though the fact that online betting is now a multi-billion dollar business, and endless thousands of additional bettors world-wide log on each day to wager at internet gambling halls, there are still millions of new players to the world of internet gambling who do not as yet have a clear comprehension of a lot of the doublespeak used in online gambling, and betting on sports in general. However, knowledge of these ideas is essential to knowing the games and policies of gambling:

ACTION: Any style of wager.

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 additional money.

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

ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a required sum of money into the pot beforeeach hand starts.

BRING-IN: A mandatory bet in seven-card stud carried out by the player showing the lowest value card.

BUST: You don’t win; As in blackjack, when a gambler’s cards exceed a value over 21.

BUY-IN: The the lowest amount of cash necessary to enter a game or tournament.

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

CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not wagering. This is acceptable only if no other players bet in that round.

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

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

COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line bet, but made after the hurler has established his number.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters 1st toss to achieve a point, or the initial toss after a point has been established.

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

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

DAILY DOUBLE: To choose the winners of the 1st two races of the day.

DOWN BET: To wager that the result of an event 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 gamble on any of 3 categories of twelve numbers, 1-12, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletic event wager, indicating to gamble on a group or player to succeed or position in an event.

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

EXACTA: laying odds that 2 horses in a contest will finish in the exact identical assignment as the wager – also known as a " Perfecta ".

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