Glossary Terms

Sports Spread Betting

Sports spread betting is a type of betting that involves predicting where a score, time or results will be. The more accurate you are the more you win, but also the more incorrect you are the more you lose. With sports spread betting you buy or sell on a pounds per point basis a price …

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Sportsbook

A sportsbook is a website that accepts bets like ESPN Bet. The term is more common in the US, as opposed to “bookie” in the UK that offer fixed odds betting. In the UK, when you fancy a flutter on the football or the races, you’d pop down to the ‘bookie’, short for ‘bookmaker’. This …

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Spot the ball

Spot the ball is a skill based game where players try and guess the location of a removed ball from a photograph, usually of a football game. Spot the ball was traditionally playing in British newspapers and is still used as a main game in the football pools. BOTB (Best of the Best) is one …

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Spread (sports spread betting)

The spread in sports spread betting is the difference between the higher or buy price, and the lower or sell price, that is quoted by a spread betting bookmaker.

Spread-limit

‘Spread-limit’ is a form of limit poker where bets and raises can be made between the minimum and maximum value.

Spreadex

Spreadex Sports Expert Review Spreadex Sports Reviewed: The more you’re right the more you win Did you also know that if you want to talk about how Spreadex’s sports spread betting works, you have to wear skinny jeans, a white top and a black blazer? It’s true, because when I sat down with Andy Mckenzie …

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Stake

The term stake refers to the amount of money you are placing on a bet. You might also hear the phrase ‘stake money’, which is the cash you have got to bet with.

Starburst

Starburst is an online slot found in many online casinos. Developed by NetEnt, this game was released in 2012 and comes with 3 rows, 5 reels, and 10 paylines. The slot has a brightly coloured space theme and allows players to wager between 1p and £100 per spin. The symbols on the reels are made …

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Starting price

The starting price is often abbreviated to SP and refers to the final odds a selection was when the event begins. It is most commonly used in horse racing, so if a race starts and a horse was 3/1, that would be its starting price.

Steam Tower

Steam Tower is an online slot developed by the software providers at NetEnt. Released in 2015, this has a steampunk theme and is set in the 19th-century Victorian era. As you play, the aim is to ascend floors and save a princess from the dragon. Steam Tower has 5 reels and 15 paylines and allows …

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