How to Play Craps is a beginner craps video I made with my son. This was his very first time playing craps and he had a lot of good questions. Create your own game by placing a bet on the Come Line. The same rules of the Pass Line apply, only you will be playing outside of the main Pass Line game. If you are the one rolling the dice, make sure the roll is hard enough that it hits the back wall. Be sure that you have a firm grasp of all the types of bets before playing online craps. Use software simulators to play free craps and start practicing and honing your skills before you play for real money bets. Finally, follow some of the craps tips outlined below.

Most casino games are designed in a way that discourages professional players from participating. You can find professional poker players, professional blackjack players, and professional sports bettors. But you’ve probably never heard of professional roulette or baccarat players.

A few people claim to be professional craps players, but these people are also usually trying to sell you a book or seminar on dice control. I’m not here today to argue about the possibility of dice control. I’m going to teach you how to play craps like a professional based on the odds and traditional house edge numbers.

Like all casino games, craps has a house edge built in. But unlike other casino games, there’s a bet available at the craps table that doesn’t have a house edge. Pros know all about this special bet and always use it when they can.

In addition to this special wager, craps also offers two other bets that have a low house edge. I’m going to teach you about these bets, too. You can make many other bets when you play craps, but if you want to play like a pro, there are only a few bets you’re ever going to make. I cover all of them below.

1 – Pass Line Wager

Every time you gamble, you need to be concerned and educated about the available wagers and the house edge of the bets you can make. Not only should you limit your play to the games that have the lowest house edge wagers, you also need to make sure you only make the best craps bets.

The good news is that craps has a few bets with a low house edge. And if you stick with them and avoid all of the other available bets at the table, you can play with a lower house edge than most other casino games offer.

The pass line wager is the most popular bet made at the craps table. Most craps players feel that making the pass line bet is the best way to play, because in a way, when they make this bet, they’re rooting for the shooter to win.

A pass line wager has a house edge of 1.41%. This is lower than almost every slot machine, most table games, roulette, and some blackjack games. A pass line wager also often takes several rolls of the dice to resolve, so you can play longer using the same bankroll than when you play many games.

But the pass line bet isn’t the best bet available at the craps table. It isn’t even the second best bet available. The best bet is an odds bet, which I cover later. The way that craps is designed, you have to make either the second- or third-best available wager before you’re allowed to make the best bet.

The second-best bet at the craps table is the don’t pass line wager. You can learn more about this bet in the next section.

2 – Don’t Pass Line Wager

The second-best bet you can make playing craps, and the best option for the come out roll, is the don’t pass line wager. The house edge is only 1.36%, making it one of the best wagers in the casino.

I mentioned in the last section that most craps players prefer to make a pass line bet instead of a don’t pass line wager. The don’t pass line is often called betting the dark side or going over to the dark side. I always recommend making the bet offering the lowest house edge, and in the long run, the don’t pass bet is the best come out bet you can make.

But if you make a don’t pass line wager, you might receive some negative feedback or reactions from the other players at the table. This shouldn’t matter, because you can make any bet you want. After all, it’s your money, and you should be able to do whatever you want to do with it.

However, if you want to avoid the wrath of other players, you can stick with the pass line wager. And in the long run, it doesn’t cost you much.

If you make $100,000 worth of come out bets in a year, the difference in your expected loss between the pass line and don’t pass line bets is only $50. In other words, if you make 1,000 bets of $100, you only lose an average of five cents on each bet more than you’d lose betting on the don’t pass line.

3 – Full Odds

Possibly the best bet in the casino, the odds bet at the craps table doesn’t even have a spot listed on the felt. After a point has been established on the come out roll, you can place an odds bet by placing your chips behind your original pass line or don’t pass line wager.

The odds bet has a zero house edge, which makes it unique.

The way the payouts for an odds bet are designed, in the long run, you break even on all of your odds wagers. This might not sound like a great bet, but the casino doesn’t have any other bets that are offered at fair odds.

You still have to deal with the house edge on your original line bet, because the casinos don’t let you make an odds wager unless you make a line wager first. But you can usually make a much larger odds wager than line wager, so it helps lower your effective house edge when you make a full odds wager.

The amount of the odds bet you can make varies from casino to casino, with a few casinos offering odds bets as high as 100 times your line bet. Probably the most common odds bet size allowed is 10 times. It doesn’t matter what the maximum odds bet amount is; you should always take the maximum if your bankroll is big enough.

When you’re playing craps online, most software providers have a spot behind your come out bet where you click to place an odds bet. Like land-based craps tables, the odds bet is not marked on the table when you play online.

4 – Play Online Craps

I’m a big supporter of playing casino games online. I like the ease of use, the ability to play without travel, and the ability to control how fast you play. While these things are also true with craps, the one difference is that I recommend playing land-based craps at least one or two times, even if you usually play online.

The way the game of craps is played isn’t really different online versus in a land-based casino. The mechanics of the game are the same, but the feel of the game is entirely different. Most craps tables are the loudest and happiest place in a land based casino. It’s almost like a family atmosphere where everyone at the table is having fun and rooting for each other.

This is fun for many players, but some players don’t like the noise and being around wild players. Still, I suggest trying land-based craps at least a few times in your life to see if you enjoy it.

The Bottom Line:

Craps has a house edge no matter what you do. You simply can’t overcome the house edge in the long run. But you can control how much you risk and how fast you play when you play online.

You also can find online casinos willing to give you a bonus to use when you play craps online. You need to read the terms and conditions of every online bonus offer closely, because some of them restrict your play. But a bonus can help extend your bankroll so you can play craps longer and afford to make higher odds bets.

Conclusion

Here’s the perfect formula if you want to play craps like a pro! Play at an online casino site that offers a large craps bonus and low minimum bets. Play for the table minimum and always make the don’t pass line wager and back it up with full odds. This makes your bankroll last as long as possible and reduces the house edge as low as possible.

The most important thing you need to do in addition to the formula above is make sure you have a large enough bankroll so you can always take the maximum available odds. If you’re playing at a table that offers 100 times odds and you’re making $50 come out bets, the maximum odds bet is $5,000. This requires a huge bankroll. If you can’t afford this much, make smaller come out bets.

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Craps is a wonderful game played with dice and if you love dice games then you should select craps to play at casinos. Most players specially the ones who are new gamers always look for easy method to win the game and therefore search for cheats and hacks. But the truth is you end up behind bars if you are caught up cheating at games when playing at land casinos so better understand the game and practice for free first at online casinos and then jump to play with real dollars.

Here we bring to you three tricks to cheat at the game of craps most commonly used by players. Our intention is not lure you to cheat but to gain information on such hacks at the craps game table so that you know if other player cheats and save yourself. Like popular cheat for any table game going at real land casinos is that other players might try to steal your chips while you’re involved in the game and not looking. Craps can be such a high action game that players often forget to keep an eye on their rail chips. Other cheats will try to collect your bets off the table. Since you are responsible for collecting your own winnings you must be sure to keep track of where your money lies on the craps table. Some players may also try to cheat the house by placing their bet after the decision has been made. This doesn’t hurt you directly but it’s not the kind of play you want to see at your craps table.

Tricks To Playing Craps

Also there are many players who cheat with the dice. Some players will attempt to slip a pair of altered dice into the game. The alterations maybe in the form of a loaded die which can weight down on one side to increase the odds of a certain number being rolled. Or it can be crooked dice that will have certain sides rounded out and others left flat, again to increase the odds of a certain number. There are many ways to catch such altered dice. Just hold the sides of the two dice together in and turn them in a very methodical order. You will find that rounded sides will not match up correctly causing the dice to wobble. Also to check for loaded dice try holding each die by the corners between two fingers with little pressure applied you will find that weighted sides will rollover repeatedly.

#1 Cheat by Dice Control

Dice control is a way used by cheats to shoot otherwise legal dice in a manner that controls the roll of the dice. If done correctly, dice control causes some numbers to appear more often than others. To do so, you have to set the dice in your hand before the roll. Setting the dice means certain desirable numbers are arranged as you hold the two dice. But this is difficult, because casinos have rules against holding dice with two hands. You would have to learn the various dice control methods before getting an accurate idea of whether dice control works.

The most difficult method of cheating is the “whip shot”. The whip shot is a throw that sends both dice spinning on a vertical axis all the way down the table without tumbling over. Most craps supervisors are trained to recognize this throw and modern dice rarely maintain a vertical axis on craps tables equipped with speed bumps and rubber bumpers. An attempt to roll a whip shot will usually result in the box man calling “no roll”.

#2 Cheat by Making Late Bets

Making late bets can be effective in craps, though a cheater has to be quick with sleight of hands. By making late bets after the result of the roll is known, you take all the guesswork out of dice shooting. In our previous posts we have talked about this kind of cheat called “past posting” in the game of roulette and is an effective way to cheat, if the cheater and the croupier are colluding. Remember as craps tables has four dealers, making late bets is less effective. It is much less likely you could get 4 dealers to collude, because of the risk and the need to share winnings 5 ways instead of 2 ways. Even if you did, the chance one of the dealers would rat you out is much higher. Making late bets on your own without dealer help means you have to fool 4 sets of eyes, or 5 if you count the pit boss.

#3 Cheating at Craps with Fixed Dice

There are various methods used by players to fix dice. The risk of using loaded dice is great in legal casinos and private dice games alike. Remember that a craps cheat has to switch their loaded dice with the official dice at the craps table.

One of the ways is weighted dice where the players change the center of mass in the dice, so one side is favored when rolled. If you weight the die to the 6-side, then it will be more likely to come up the number on the other side. The common materials used to weight a die are lead, platinum, and gold. These are heavier, so you don’t need as much metal to weight the die.

Most casino cheats weight dice by drilling a hole in one of the dots and placing metal inside. Then they replace the hole in the pip and do their best to assure the die looks natural. A gaming inspector with an expert eye can usually spot an inconsistency, such as a dot that’s deeper than the rest of the dots.

The other way is tappers which are weighted in a more sophisticated manner, and makes them harder to spot. Tappers have a shape inside them which looks like a dumbbell, with the dumbbell arranged in such a way that one end is in the middle of the dice and another end is toward one side. This dumbbell is filled with mercury, a weighted medal that is liquid at room temperature.

If the mercury is in the center of the die, then it will seem normally weighted to an expert. Once the game begins, the cheater can “tap” the die to cause the mercury to flow to the side. Some tappers have a tiny ratchet mechanism inside, so the tap manipulates the mechanism. If this method is used, then the tapper needs rubber inside, to keep the die from making noises.

Then there is a way called floaters or “floats” which are dice with hollow insides. Because they weigh slightly less, they float on one end of the dice. This is the opposite of the weighted die, except with the opposite effect. Instead of one number being favored because it’s opposite is heavier from metal inserts, one number is favored because that side is hollowed-out and thus weighs less.

One of the method also used is Mis-spotted dice which do not have the normal number of spots. Most dice have three sets of opposite sides: 1-6, 2-5, and 3-4. On a mis-spotted die, one or more of the numbers is missing, while one or more of the numbers is doubly-represented. Some of the common names given to Mis-spotted dice in the craps cheat are “horses and tees”, “mis-spots”, “tops and bottoms”, and “tops”.

Dice with duplicated numbers generally are easy to spot, but some unobservant dealers might miss them at a casual glance. Mis-spotted dice are an old dice shooter’s trick. In April 2018, Norwegian archaeologists excavated a part of Bergen, Norway and found a set of mis-spotted dice later determined to be from the 15th century.

Often used are shaped dice that do not have an even side on all six sides but are shaped to have a slight curve or parabola, which affects the die roll. If the side is convex or curved like a hill, then that number is not likely to appear, because the dice keeps rolling. If the side is concave or indented like a valley, then the dice is likely to land on that number, meaning it’s opposite number is likelier to appear. To make shaped dice, cheaters heat them and shape them.

Similarly there are Beveled dice that are made to have one or more convex sides. These raised side keep the die rolling, so other numbers are more likely to appear on the roll. This is a sub-type of shaped dice.

Suction dice are another kind of shaped dice with a concave or valley in them and are the opposite of beveled dice. Due to the suction effect created, the die is more likely to land on the number that is concave.

Raised Spots is another way to affect the roll, much like beveled dice. In this case, the numbers or pips are raised from the surface of the die, instead of sunken. Because this side of the die has protrusions, it is more likely to keep rolling on the side with the raised spots. This is also easy to spot, either visually or by rubbing one’s finger across the die’s side. That’s why dice with raised spots are not used that often to cheat, but instead are used for practice.

Another way players cheat is paint the dice and this is done by a transparent substance that makes one or more sides sticky. To make the painted die stickier, the cheater has to get the painted side slightly wet, either from moisture from one’s drink, spittle, or palm sweat. This is a dangerous way to cheat at dice, because if the painted dice are too sticky, they might stick to the table, pick up detritus on the table, or stick to another player’s hand.

One way also to use this method is a slick die that has a substance on one side which makes it slicker than normal. This assures the dice will not land on the slick side, changing the craps odds. Slick dice are a safer way to cheat at craps, because older dice wear a bit and become more polished and slicker. When the slick side is noticed, dealers might well believe they simply need to replace old dice.

Some players in history have sticked a filament of some sort in one of the die’s numbers, so that it protrudes and causes the die to slow down when it rolls over that side. Naturally, this eventually will cause the die to come to a stop on the bristled side. Bristled dice sometimes simply are called “bristles”.

Many players create capped dice by shaving off one side and replacing it with a material that looks the same but has different properties. It might be because the new material is heavier, so the die lands on that side more or the new material made that side of the die bouncier, so the die lands on that side less.

Capped dice are effective and hard to spot, except when it gets worn down with use at which point it is easy to spot. Dealers who handle the die might apply pressure to capped dice and learn that one side pushes down more.

So basically it is the dice that players use to cheat often in the game of Craps. Remember again that it is better not to cheat in the game but play for free first to learn the game and play different bets to get the best out of it.

Playing Craps At The Casino

When playing at the land or real casinos keep an eye on your bets and on your chips specially when you win.

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