Craps is by far the fastest-moving of all casino table games. On a busy blackjack table, it runs around at 60 hands per hour, but the house expects around 100 decisions per hour at craps. Combine that along with the habit of players to place multiple bets happening simultaneously, suggests that craps need a bigger bankroll. The crap table offers the most variety in the type of bets that can be made. It has dozens of betting options available on the table.
The crap table is very intimidating to a new player. But casino games were designed to attract players not chase them away. Craps is actually easier than it looks. There are a large number of betting options, but in reality there are only a few wagers worth playing. However, those are the best bets in the casino.
Majority of crap tables today have double layouts. At the middle of one side of the table is the boxman, he manages the game and takes the cash collected by dealers and deposits it in a drop box. Opposite him is the stickman, he controls the tempo of the game and uses a stick to control the dice. The stickman calls out the outcome of each roll and keeps up a continuous chatter, urging players to place their bets.
There are a couple of dealers at the side who take wagers, pay the winners, and gather the losing bets. Players stand around in these areas. A “Pass” line is a bar that extends all around the table for players who are betting with the shooter. A “Don’t Pass” bar is for bettors that are wagering against the shooter. The areas labelled “Come” and “Don’t Come” is for wagers similar to the Don’t Pass and Pass bar.
There are areas marked “Field” for one-roll bet that one of seven numbers will show up. The boxes marked four, five, six, eight, nine, and ten are for the “Place” or “Buy” bets that the number selected will be come out before the next seven. At the corner at both ends are boxes marked 6 and 8 called the “Big 6″ and “Big 8″ wagers that a six or eight will come out before a seven. A mile-a-minute mouth of a stickman is part of the joy in playing a game of craps.
Realistically, there is no craps strategy that can give you an edge against the house. What a player can do, however, is to diminish the house edge to a minimum and get as much delight as possible out of playing session.
Among all bets available in Craps, some offer better odds than others, some even worse. On one hand, some bets give player odds that make it more or less even money against the house. A player should try find these bets and stick to them in the midst of all the chaos when playing craps. The money will last longer, and if you’re lucky leave a winner.
First don’t bet on this The Field (house advantage 5.6%), or Big 6/Big 8 (9.1%), or Horn (12.5%), or Craps 2/Craps 12 (13.9%) and any 7 (16.7%). Here are the good bets in craps are pass (house advantage 1.41%), don’t pass (1.36%), come (1.41%) and don’t come (1.36%).
The house edge on the simple Craps bets is quite decent for a casino game. Players can actually do even better than those odds. There is a wager that a player cannot find indicated on the table, the Odds Bet. An Odds Bet is a bet that a player may make in addition to the simple bets. Once a point has been recognized, a player may make odds bets on any simple bets.
Usually Odds Bets are capped to two or three times your original bet. If a player made a $20 Pass wager, the player could bet another $20 as a 2X Odds Bet. This bet reduces the house edge to 0.6%. Sometimes online casinos would have higher Odds Bets, bringing the house advantage closer to nil.
This article was written by Alexis.
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