A great entertaining casino game! Craps is known everywhere and is played by people of all ages. The aim of the craps game is to bet on or against numbers or number combinations being rolled on a pair of six-sided dice. The rules are very simple.
In casino, there are exactly 4 persons actively running the craps game:
• The "boxman", who sits behind the middle of the craps table. He is the boss and keeps a constant watch over the game.
• The 2 dealers on each side of him pay off the winners and "rake" in the losers' chips. Each dealer handles all the craps participants on his side. The craps board is divided by the midpoint box of proposition bets and also by the "stickman", who stands on the participants' side of the craps desk.
• The "stickman", who controls the action of the craps dice and the speed of the craps game. After seeing all craps bets are down, the stickman pushes a couple of sets of dice to the shooter. That participant selects a pair of dice and is set to throw them across the craps board so that they smack the wall at the far end. If, on the first roll, you nominate a 11 or 7, you've got a "natural" and you are the winner. What you win is the exact amount of chips you have bet on the pass line. If you roll a 2, 3 or 12 on your first pitch that is called "craps" and you unfortunately lose. The dealer picks up your pass-line bet. However, the shooter does not relinquish the dice. He resumes throwing until he "sevens out". If, on the first throw, you shoot a 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10, that is your established "box point." The goal then is to maintain rolling the dice until you get that figure again. You lose, however, if you throw a seven prior to making your box point.
Let’s follow with the bets. There’re different bets in the game, and the most popular of them are:
Eleven - one-roll wager. It rewards 14 to 1, but the true odds are 17 to 1 with a house percentage of 16.66%...Very bad gamble!
Seven - This one-roll l bet rewards odds of 4 to 1, appropriate odds are 5 to 1 with the distinction giving the house a 16,66% edge.
Buy Bets - Player pays 5% "vigorish" to receive true odds on all figures. Only the 4 and 10 make buy bets valuable. They downgrade the house edge to 4.76%.
Place Bets -The 4 and 10 pay 9-5, true odds 10-5, yielding a house edge of 6.66%. The 5 and 9 pay 7-5, true odds are 7.5-5 (house edge 4%). The 6 and 8 pay 7-6, true odds are 6-5 (house edge 1.51%.
Pass Line - Pays even money (house edge is very small, 1.414%). One of the best bets on the board.
Don't Pass - Pays even money (house edge 1.402%). Slightly better odds than pass line bet odds.
Come Bets & Don't Come - The come bet area takes up a sizable portion of the center of the craps desk. The come bet is essentially the same as the pass line bet, but can be made after a come-out roll has already established a point. The opposite of the come bet is the don't come bet, in the same way that the opposite of the pass line bet is the don't pass bet. Same house percentages of 1.414% and 1.402%, as the pass line bets.
Hard Ways - This wager can be made on the 4, 6, 8 and 10. Payoff is 9 to 1 on the 6 or 8 and 7 to 1 on the 4 or 10. The house edge is 9.09% and 11.11%, relatively. Bad wager.
Any Craps - This is an one-roll wager. If a 2, 3 or 12 hits, you'll obtain 7 to 1 odds. House edge is 11.11%, which makes this a bad bet.
The Field - A one-roll gamble that rewards even money or 2 to 1 on 2 or 12. House edge is 5.55%.
Horn Bet - Although the 2, 3, 12 and 11 may be bet individually, this zone is also known as the "Horn." A participant makes a horn bet by handing the bet to the dealer, shouting, for instance, "$4 horn bet." This would provide him $1 on each and every of the four one-roll propositions. Payoff is 30 for 1 on a 2 or 12, A 3 or 11 pay 15-for-1. True odds are 35 to 1 (2 & 12) and 17 to 1 (3 & 11). The house edge on all four bets is a whopping 16.66%. Obviously, a very very bad bet. Not recommended!
Big 6 & 8 - Player bets in boxes marked as such as gets even money instead of 6 to 5 true odds. House has a 9.09% edges.
Odds - When a point is made (either the shooter's point on his first roll, or a come point on a succeeding roll), a participant can obtain the odds. He will get 2 to 1 on 4 and 10; 3 to 2 on 5 and 9; 6 to 5 on 6 and 8. He lays exactly the same odds when he bets against the point.
Proposition BetsThese bets can be made at any time and, except for the hardways, they are all one roll bets:
Any Seven - Wins if a 7 is rolled. Payoff 5:1
Eleven - Wins if a 11 is thrown. Payoff 16:1
Any Craps - Wins if a 2, 3 or 12 is thrown. Payoff 8:1
Ace Deuce - Wins if a 3 is rolled. Payoff 16:1
Aces or Boxcars - Wins if a 2 or 12 is thrown. Payoff 30:1
Horn Bet - it acts as the bets on 2, 3, 11 and 12 all at once. Wins if one of these numbers is rolled. Payoff is determined according to the number rolled. The other three bets are lost.
Hardways - The bet on a hardway number wins if it's thrown hard (sum of pairs: 1-1, 3-3... before it's rolled easy and a 7 is thrown. Payoffs: Hard 4 and 10, 8:1; Hard 6 and 8, 10:1.
