Professional Gambling Guide – Gambling Strategies

CRAPS TIPS from FLAMINGO CLUB

The game of Craps is considered America’s most popular gambling game. Because the Craps table uses unfamiliar language, it is often considered very complicated. However, after learning the terminology, it is in reality, quite easy. In the middle of the Craps table are what is known as proposition bets. This includes all one roll proposition bets. The House has an advantage on these bets of from 2.778% on the “field” to 16.667% on any 2 or 12. For this reason, we will not be going into detail on any of these bets. If you want to win consistently, you want to stay away from these bets.
You may stand at either end of the table, as both sides contain exactly the same bets. If you were the first player at the table you would stand at one end of the long table and the stickman would let you pick a pair of dice. You, being the “shooter” would have to bet on either the pass line bet or the Don’t pass. The first roll of the dice is called the “come-out” roll.

PASS LINE BET
If the dice thrown on the come-out roll total 7 or 11, ( a
natural) you win and are paid 1 to 1. (You would then bet and
roll another come-out. ) If the dice thrown total 2, 2 or 12 (
a crap ) you lose. ( The dice would then go to the next player
for another come-out roll. ) If the dice thrown total 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10 then the total becomes the “point”. You are more likely to win, than lose on the come-out roll. However, once the point is made, the odds
turn against you. Now, if 7 comes up on the dice, you lose the bet you made at the beginning. If the point comes up, you win.

Pass Bet Rules:

Come-out roll: Natural 7 or 11 you win Crap 2, 3, or 12 you lose
Points: 4 5 6 8 9 10 Point rolls: Point you win 7 you lose

DON’T PASS BET

If the dice thrown on the come-out roll bet total 7 or 11, you lose. 2 and 3 win, and on 12 you “push” (neither winning or losing).
If the dice come up 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10 as before, this becomes the point. After this, if 7 comes up first, you win. To lose, the point must come up.

Don’t Pass Rules:

Come-out roll: Natural 7 or 11 you lose Crap 2 or 3 you win
Crap 12 push Points: 4 5 6 8 9 10 Point rolls: Point you lose
7 you win

COME BET
After a point has been made, you may place a bet in the space marked Come. This has almost the same rules as pass. 7 or 11 win, crap 2, 3 + 12 lose. When a new point is established, the bet is moved to the appropriate box above the come space. Then the bet wins if the point appears, loses if 7 appears first.
Payment again is 1 to 1.

DON’T COME BET

After a point has been made, you may place a bet in the space marked Don’t. This has almost the same rules as don’t pass. 7 or 11 lose, crap 2 + 3 win, 12 is a push. When one of the point numbers comes up, the bet is moved to the appropriate box. Now you want 7 to come up before your don’t come point number.
After what you have read so far is understood, you can “lay the
odds”. A bet not even on the Craps table. Let’s say you have made a pass line bet and point 5 has been established. You may now bet a like amount by placing it behind your pass line bet. This means an “odds bet” on 5. If 7 turns up before 5, you lose both bets. If 5 turns up before 7, you win both bets.
On a come point the bet is the same. You identify the point to
the dealer saying for example “odds on 5″. He will place your bet on top of your come bet. If the come-out roll intervenes this, the odds bet is off unless you specify to the dealer that you wages “work” on the come-out roll.

ODDS Payoff ( by exact odds )

Point 4 or 10 6 to 3 5 or 9 6 to 4 6 or 8 6 to 5 To maximize the odds, you should bet 3 units of the table minimum so you may always get full odds. Pass + Come Don’t Pass + Don’t Come Point payoff Bet payoff
4 or 10 2 to 1 6 units 3 to 6
5 or 9 3 to 2 6 units 4 to 6
6 or 8 6 to 5 6 units 5 to 6
In this way, if the point is 5 or 9, you may be a full 6 units ( more than the original bet ) instead of the actual odds of 4 1/2 to 3.
Work on your game and begin this way: 1st bet only on the pass line. When you have learned the game well enough, bet full odds on the point rolls. Then make come bets and bet full odds on point rolls. ( You can at this point bet don’t pass or don’t come with full odds. )

CRAPS
Introduction to the Game

Welcome to our introductory craps page. We’ll start with the very basics of the game and explain how you would make your first bet. Before reading this page we highly recommend you download GoldenPalace.com software and start up a free play session. This way you can practice as you learn, and our examples will be easier to understand.

The first bet for players is most often the ‘Pass line bet’, and it’s made by placing your chips in the large band that runs around the outside of the table with the word PASS written in it. The pass line bet is placed in anticipation of the ‘come out roll’. The come out roll is the first roll of a session. Since there is no one else playing playing along with you while you are online, it may be difficult to tell if a session has begun. There is one sure way to determine if the session has started already, or if you are currently on the come out roll. Just like in land-based craps games, there is what is known as a ‘puck’ on the table at all times. This puck has the word ‘OFF’ written on one side, and the word ‘ON’ on the other. If the session has not yet started and we are on a come out roll, the puck will not be on the playing surface and it will be ‘OFF’ side up.

The major premise of the game of craps revolves around the two states that a game can be in. These are: with a session started (the puck is on the board and set to ON), or with a session not started (the puck off the table and set to OFF). During a come out roll the session is not started. This is when we place our pass line bet.

With our pass line bet in place, the come out roll is thrown. If the total of the two dice adds up to any of 2, 3, or 12 on the come out roll, the session resets and all pass line bets lose. However, if the total on the come out roll is a 7 or an 11, the session resets and all pass line bets win. If any other number is thrown, the session has started and the dice total becomes known as the ‘point number’ for the remainder of the session.

If a point number is set, pass line bets neither win nor lose; they simply stay in place with their fate to be determined later in the session. At this point it is common to back up your pass line with an odds bet. Commonly called ‘placing odds’ or ‘placing free odds’, this type of bet is particular to craps, and what you are doing in effect is backing up a previous bet with more money. Only a couple of bets can be backed up with free odds, and the most common is our pass line bet.

To back up your pass line bet with odds after the point has been set, put more chips just below the pass line, as though you were placing them just off of the playing board, behind your initial bet. This becomes your odds bet, and it is literally the best bet in the casino. The house edge on a pass line bet is quite low to begin with, and gets lower the more odds you back it with. Free odds bets are paid back at even odds, meaning for the odds portion of your bet you will be paid exactly what probability suggests you should, the house has no edge whatsoever. The catch is that to place that odds bet you must place a negative expectation bet before hand (the pass line), and then back it with odds. This is why the pass line bet, which already has a nice low house edge, in combination with free odds, is often considered the best bet in the casino.

You’ll notice in our session flow diagram that after a point is set it says we are ‘shooting for the point now’. This is how a session progresses. Let’s say a six was rolled on the come out roll, so the point number for the session is now six (you’ll see the puck flip to the ON position and move over to the six printed on the craps table). For our pass line bet to win, the shooter must roll a six again before they roll a seven. The session ends when the shooter either hits their point, or hits a seven. Hitting the point number again makes pass line bets win, but hitting a seven first makes all pass line bets lose.

As you can also see from the diagram, the shooter continues to throw the dice until they either hit the point number, or hit a seven. In the meantime any other number can come up, and we can place all sorts of bets on these rolls.

Now that you understand how to place a pass line bet and know what a session is, you can play a basic game of craps. Learning to place more bets on the table will be simple once you understand how to place your pass line and pass line with odds bets.

To learn about each of the other bets available on the craps board, and whether or not they are a good idea, read our craps rules page. Do this while playing our free version of the game and you can discover exactly what you are allowed to do and not do, and read all about which bets are favorable.

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ROLLING THE DICE………CRAPS STRATEGIES

Games at casinos are of two kinds. The game of skill which is one counts on the acquired skill of a player. Such games include blackjack, baccarat and poker. Games such as roulettes, slot machines and craps are games that rely on the player’s luck, which are called games of chance.

The game of crap is played with a dice. As all players know, each dice has six sides with number one through six accordingly. Crap uses two dice. With it, two (1, 1) the smallest number that can be rolled, and twelve will be the biggest number (6, 6). Seven being the most common number that is rolled, establishes and determines the odds.

Here are reasons why players often lose the game. Understanding this, one can have a better game:

*More often then not, these gamblers rely on their luck.

*Usually these players already have losing in “mind”.

*Often, players have very little understanding of the game.

Here are different strategies that one can count on in playing craps:

*Betting the Pass Line. When one wins, this pays an even winning. Place your bet on the Pass Line area. If the result of the rolled dice is seven or eleven, you win. While if two, three or twelve, you lose. If the results are other than these numbers, you continue dicing until you roll a seven, you win. If it comes out before a point, you lose.

*Betting the Don’t Pass Bar. This is the exact opposite of betting the Pass Line bar. You win when the result of the come out roll is two or three. You lose if the result is seven or eleven. If the result is the number twelve, it is declared a push. You keep on rolling the dice until such time a point seven is rolled. You win id before the point, seven comes out.

*Come out bet. This type of a bet can only be done after a come out roll resulting in the following numbers – 4, 5,6,8,9, or 10. Similar to the Pass Line bet, if the result of the next roll is the number two, three or twelve, you lose. While if the resulting next roll is seven or eleven, you are a winner.

The bottom line in any game is to always play wisely. Think with your head and never rely on your luck when betting. Look at the statistics; they will increase your chances of winning, as they will show you the betting probabilities. Having a solid game plan, the discipline to execute them, as well as effective and precise money management will increase your winning chances.