Avoid Rounding Errors Since the five and nine pay 3:2, always keep your full odds bet an even amount, as casinos usually don’t pay an uneven amount. The come line works like a mini pass line, allowing you to play for another point while awaiting the outcome of your pass line bet.

I also recommend one or two come line bets if you can keep track of them. If a casino does not offer you five times or better, don’t play there. Sadly, that casino no longer allows a $1 bet, but you can still find casinos that will offer up to 100 times odds on craps. That allowed me to shoot dice for five to seven hours breaking even, not losing much or leaving as a big winner depending on how the shooters did. I found one place on the Vegas Strip that, for a time, would let you bet $1 on the pass line and take up to 100 times odds (in that case, up to $100) on your pass line bet, meaning that the only house advantage on me was on the $1 I bet on the pass line.

The idea is wager as little as possible on the pass line and take the full odds, which depends on the casino. The house has no advantage here as it pays the exact odds of your point or number coming up before a losing seven is rolled. Unlike all of those bad bets with the bright colors and vast real estate, the odds aren’t marked-it’s just the space behind the pass line, directly behind your pass line bet. Once a point is established, your next bet is to take full odds behind the pass line. You get paid if the point is made before a seven, but you need odds to steepen your profits and cut into the house edge. Any other roll becomes the point, and that’s where the real action begins. On the first roll for a new shooter, known as the come-out roll, you will be paid for a seven or 11, and lose with a two, three or a 12. Your first bet should be the pass line, which pays even money. Do not wager on any other proposition bets, which includes the field, hard way rolls (betting that the next eight, say, will come up as two fours, rather than a six and a two or a five and a three), or any craps, as they are major sucker bets.

House Edge: 1.41% (pass line), 0.0% (full odds)Ĭraps looks complicated, but in the end you can ignore most of the felt and pay attention to just a small portion, for there are really only four bets you should make: pass line and full odds, and come line bets and full odds. Craps is fast, exciting and confusing to the uninitiated.

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