Craps Strategy
If you are looking for a good craps strategy, the best thing I can suggest is to learn the odds for all of the bets in craps and the House Edge that comes with all of the odds. If you learn these, you will learn the best bets to make (not the bets that a newbie makes, even if – shhhhh – you are actually new to playing the game), and you’ll find that this will become the best craps strategy you can learn. So read up on the odds and House Edge in craps (below) and you’ll be good to go.
Learning the Odds and House Edge
I personally believe that the very best land-based and online craps strategy is learning (and then using the knowledge of) the odds and House Edge to the game. If you learn these “craps strategies”, you will walk away from the game making the best bets you can make.
| Bet | Odds (Payout) | True Odds | House Edge |
Pass Line bets and Don’t Pass Bets (4 or 10, 5 or 9, 6 or  |
2 to 1, 3 to 2, or 6 to 5 | —- | 1.414% |
| Come bets and Don’t Come bets | Same as Pass Line bets | —- | 1.414% |
| Place Bets: 6 and 8 | 7 to 6 | 6 to 5* | 1.51% |
| Place bets: 5 and 9 | 7 to 5 | 7.5 to 5 | 4% |
| Buy Bets | Player pays 5% | Gets true odds on all numbers | only 4 and 10 make this a good bet , reducing edge to 4.76% |
| Field bets (on 2 or 12) | 2 to 1 | —- | 5.55% |
| Place bets: 4 and 10 | 9 to 5 | 10 to 5 | 6.66% |
| Big 6 or 8 bet | Even money instead of *) | —- | 9.09% |
| Hard 6 or Hard 8 | 9 to 1 | —- | 9.09% |
| Any Craps, Hard 4, or Hard 10 | 7 to 1 | —- | 11.11% |
| Craps 3 or 11 | 15 to 1 | —- | 11.11% |
| Craps 2 or Craps 12 | 30 to 1 | —- | 13.9% |
| Any 7 | 4 to 1 | 5 to 1 | 16.67% |
| 11 | 14 to 1 | 17 to 1 | 16.67% |
| Horn bet (2, 3, 12, and 11) | 30 to 1 (for 2 and 12) 15 to 1 (for 3 and 11) |
35 to 1 (2 and 12); 17 to 1 (3 and 11) | 16.67% |
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As you can see, to make this craps strategy the easiest to understand, I placed the best bets on the top of the table and the worst bets on the bottom. If you learn which bet is the best to make (Pass Line, Don’t Pass, Come, and Don’t Come bets being the best), you will see how well this online craps strategie really works.
The Craps Bonus
Another free craps strategy I can offer if you decide to take the odds after a point is made (your choice whether you make it on the shooter’s point on the first roll or on a Come point on any roll after the first roll). You can receive 2 to 1 on 4s and 10s, 3 to 2 on 5s and 9s, and 6 to 5 on 6s and 8s. You also lay the same odds if you bet against the point.
The last craps strategy I am giving is only for playing craps at an online casino. When you can find one (and it’s not so easy to find one), always, always, always use a craps bonus!! So, these are about all of the craps strategies I have for you… so go play a game with you newfound knowledge! Be sure to play within your means… know your limits!
