Regardless of the reality that online betting is now a billion dollar business, and endless thousands of new players around the world log in daily to bet at internet casinos, there are still millions of new players to the world of internet betting who don’t as yet have a good understanding of much of the doublespeak used in online betting, and wagering on athletics in general. In any case, knowledge of these terms is essential to interpreting the games and codes of betting:

ACTION: Any style of wager.

ALL-IN: In poker, all-in alludes to a gambler has risked all of her money into the pot. A side pot is created for the gamblers with additional money.

ALL-UP: To wager on several horses in the same race.

ANTE: A poker phrase for placing a necessary number of chips into the pot prior to the start of each hand.

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

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

BUY-IN: The the lowest amount of cash necessary to appear in a match or event.

CALL: As in poker, when a bet is the same as an already made bet.

CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game without betting. This is allowed only if no other gamblers wager in that round.

CLOSING A BET: Like in spread wagering, meaning to lay a wager on par with but converse of the leading bet.

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 wager, but carried out after the player has ascertained their number.

COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters initial roll to ascertain a point, or the 1st roll after a point is ascertained.

COVERALL: A bingo term, meaning to cover all the spots on a bingo sheet.

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

DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the winners of the initial 2 events of the day.

DOWN BET: To bet that the outcome 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 bet on one or more of 3 sets of twelve numbers, 1-twelve, etc.

EACH WAY BET: A athletics wager, indicating to bet on a team or player to succeed or medal in an event.

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

EXACTA: wagering that 2 horses in a race will complete the race in the exact same order as the bet – also known 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.