Play Craps
Craps will make you sweat and smile, worry and laugh, shout and count your winnings! In craps everything depends on you, it is you who decides whether to play, stand around and watch, or put bets, and it is you who will determine the size and amount of your wagers.
Craps has a great variety of bets, to tell the truth there’s hardly any casino game that has more bets than craps. The following side bets should be taken into consideration before putting any wagers, for knowledge is great power:
- fire bet is an optional bet that is allowed only in some casinos. It should be placed before the shooter starts throwing dice. Players who lay the bet do it guessing that the next shooter will get different value points. Payouts won’t be paid till the fourth roll and up to the sixth roll, though the first three scores will be put down on the craps table. The paid odds for a fire bet are rather huge in craps, yet the house edge is above 20%.
- single roll bets include a lot of wagers in craps, so let’s show them vividly, in a table.
| single roll bet in craps | what score should a shooter get | odds |
| yo | a shooter has rolled 11 points | 15 to 1 |
| 2 | the bet wins after rolling a 2 | 30 to 1 |
| 3 | the same, though the shooter should roll a 3 | 15 to 1 |
| 12 | the shooter throws a 12 | 30 to 1 |
| hi-lo | it wins after a 2 or a 12 coming up | 15 to 1 |
| craps | means that the shooter has rolled any of a 2, a 3, or a 12 | 7 to 1 |
| c and e | a player places half of the bet on craps and the other half on yo. Either may win, either may lose. | 7 to 1 on yo, 3 to 1 on craps |
| any 7 or big red | it wins after a 7 coming up | 4 to 1 |
| field | a player lays a wager on one of the following numbers: a 2, a 3, a 4, a 9, a10, a11, a 12. | 1 to 2 if on 2 and 12, 1 to 1 if the rest numbers |
| horn | this bet has a 2, a 3, a 11 and a 12 unity. | 3 to 1 if 3 or 11, 27 to 4 if the remaining numbers |
| whirl or world | combines the horn bet and the big red bet. | 26 to 5 if on 12 or 2, 11 to 5 if on 11 or 3, a tie on 7 |
Now you see that craps can be easy to play if one grasps all the bets and the paid odds, and what is more – if she can feel the rhythm of the game.