Craps Game

If you know the rules to craps, playing craps in a land-based casino, especially a hot table, is the most exciting thing you’ll ever do in a casino! Playing the craps game online is also really fun to play, perhaps even more exciting than online slots. However, playing craps is not as easy to play as one would think. The craps game table looks a little bit like a roulette table (granted, a very little bit), but once you get all of the rules down, you won’t just be playing the game; but you’ll learn how to win at online craps games.

One Important Thing

One important thing about the craps game, if you’re playing at an online casino, you’re probably not going to have to learn all of the terminologies of the rolls like I explained in how to play craps. But regardless of whether you play online or land-based craps, the basic way for how to win craps is by learning the table for craps games.

Since the House Advantage is so low on a few bets in craps (nearly nothing compared to other casino games), craps is known to have the best betting odds in the casino world. There are a bunch of bets for craps (that are explained below in relation to the picture below). Learn all of these bets, and you’ll soon be winning at craps!

All The Bets For Craps Game

NOTE: An important thing to know before placing any bet on the craps table, once you place chips on the PASS LINE, DON’T PASS LINE, COME, or DON’T COME areas, you cannot remove those bets until you win or lose. Bets or odds placed on the rest of the table can be removed whenever.

PASS LINE BET: You can bet on the Pass Line, which means that if the shooter rolls a Natural (7 or 11), you win. If a 2, 3, or 12 is rolled, you “crap out” and lose. If a 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 is rolled, you establish a point (meaning that your bet is held until the next roll), and if that previous point (one particular number) is re-rolled before a 7 is rolled, you win. You keep rolling until one of these numbers appears. If a 7 is rolled, the bet loses (and is called a Seven Out).

TAKING THE ODDS: After a point has been established, you can “take odds” for that Pass Line bet. You can also take the odds for a Come bet, too. When you take the odds, you place more money behind your current money. This, along with the Pass Line bet, is the best bet in the casino odds-wise for the player.

COME BET: This bet is very similar to the Pass Line bet, except that it can be made after the shooter established a point. It’s as if no point has been established in the Pass Line. If the pass line bet point is rolled, you don’t win, and your chips remain on the table. Just like the Pass Line, you win on 7 or 11, and lose on craps. Once a new point has been “established”, you wait for that number to be re-rolled. Just like the Pass Line, once you place chips in the Come area of the table, you win if any of those numbers are rolled in the Come Out roll and lose if a 7 is rolled (after they new point has been established).

DON’T PASS BAR BET: This bet is basically the opposite of the Pass Line bet. If you bet on this, there are a few ways to win: if the Come Out roll is a 2 or 3, or if a 7 is rolled before the point is rolled again, you win. If a 7 or 11 is rolled, you lose. And a 12 is a push (you neither win nor lose).

DON’T COME BAR BET: This bet is very similar to the Don’t Pass bet. You also place your bet on the Don’t Come Bar area after the point has been established (just like with the Come bet). You win on a rolled 2 or 3 and lose on a rolled 7 or 11. A 12 is a push. If a 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 is rolled, the Don’t Come Bar bet is moved by the base dealer onto a box representing the number the shooter rolled. You win this bet if a 7 is rolled before 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10.

LAYING THE ODDS: Laying the odds is the opposite of when you take odds, except players lay odds on the Don’t Pass Bar bet or Don’t Come Bar bet. This is also done only after a point has been established after the Come Out roll.

NOTE: As explained above, any of these next ONE ROLL bets can be removed.

PLACE BET (4, 5, SIX, 8, NINE, or 10): With the Place bet, you get to decide the odds you want to play. You win if any of these numbers is rolled before a 7. You place this bet yourself (the dealer doesn’t do it for you).

BIG 6 OR 8 BET: As long as the 6 or 8 is rolled before a 7, you win with this bet. However, the House Advantage is much higher with this bet (roughly 9%). This bet does not give good odds.

FIELD BET: This bet is a disadvantage for the player (you don’t get the odds from the bet). You place your chips on this area which includes any one of these numbers (2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, and 12). If the shooter rolls any number, you win.

ANY SEVEN BET: Any 7 wins.

ANY CRAPS BET: Any craps (2, 3, or 12) wins.

CRAP 2, CRAP 3, CRAP 12, OR YO-LEVEN BET: Depending on which number you bet on, either craps (2, 3, and 12) or Yo-leven wins.

HARD WAY BET: Any hard roll wins (double 2s, 3s, 4s, or 5s), but you bet on each hard number separately. This is primarily favors the House, but at a hot table, it can pay nicely.

WORLD (0R WHIRL) BET: There isn’t an actual spot on the table, but it is bet for any craps, 7, or 11.This is basically a combination of the Horn bet and Any Seven bet.

HORN BET: This bet is a conglomeration of four numbers: (craps) 2, 3, 12, and Yo (11). You make the bet in multiples of $4, one dollar for each number. You can also play HORN HIGH, where you bet $5 and assign one of these four numbers to be the “high” number (by placing $2 on it instead of $1).

Now you know the basic rules to playing the online craps game (but I explain the odds to craps in this linked article). So what are you waiting for? Get playing… because it’s a really fun game!