As craps is a game of real chance you need to focus on the bets that give you the best odds in craps to win.
Craps Odds of success with the best bets are surprisingly good and you can play at almost even with the house, making craps odds on best bets, better than those in other games of chance such as roulette and slots.
Let’s look at the bets with the best odds in craps.
To understand the game better, and why Craps Odds on the right bets give you great chance of winning, lets look at the various bets you can make, and what advantage (in percent) they give to the house.
Although there are over 40 bets you can make in Craps, here are the most popular and the odds (advantage) they bring to the house.
SEVEN -16.66%
ELEVEN -16.66%
PLACE BETS – 1.51%.
BUY BETS – 4.76%. Note: Player pays 5% “vigorish” to get true odds on all numbers. Only the 4 and 10 make buy bets are worth it. They reduce the house edge to 4.76%.
PASS LINE – 1.414%
DON’T PASS – 1.402%
COME BETS & DON’T COME Same house percentages of 1.414% and 1.402%, as pass line bets.
THE FIELD – 5.55%.
ANY CRAPS – 11.11%
BIG 6 & 8 – 9.09%
How to get it even.
As each throw of the dice is unique, systems cannot predict anything, especially what will fall on the next throw.
All you will need to know, to play well and win is how to bet with the best Craps Odds bets.
First, you need to know how to bet on the passline and then how to apply Craps Odds.
The passline bet is first made before the new shooter begins his throw. If he throws a 7 or 11, you win with him. If he throws a 2, 3, or 12, you lose with him. But if he throws a 4 or 5 or 6 or 8 or 9 or 10, he achieves a “point” (a number he will roll to make again before he rolls a 7), and here you can apply Craps Odds.
The Odds Bet
As we said, the Odds bet will reduce the house advantage. Here is how it’s done.
After you bet on the passline and the shooter has his point, the house may allow you to make an additional bet known as an Odds bet. You place this bet behind your original passline bet on the table.
If the shooter makes his point, you are paid even money for your passline bet and additionally you are paid the true odds for you odds bet reducing the house advantage. These are:
If the point is 4 or 10 your win is paid 2 to 1.
If the point is 5 or 9 your win is paid 3 to 2.
If the point is 6 or 8 your win is paid 6 to 5.
Some casinos will allow you to take double Crap Odds on your passline bet. For example if you put $50 on the passline, you would be able to place odds bet of $100.
Statistically, the passline bet has a house advantage of 1.41%. When you place an additional odds bet, you bring this way down.
A passline bet with single odds has a house edge of 0.85% and with double odds the edge is further too just 0.61% 4, 5, 6 Times Odds. A player sometimes allowed to take three/ four / five times odds, depending on the point number.
If the point is 4 or 10 you can take 3 times odds
If the point is 5 or 9 you can take 4 times odds.
If the point is 6 or 8 you can take 5 times odds.
Always take odds when you have the opportunity to do so The best bet?
When betting you need to keep the odds of craps bets in your mind and only play the ones with the best chances of success.
For right bettors (those betting with the shooter) are pass and come bets with full odds on both for wrong bettors (those betting with the house) are don’t pass and don’t come with full odds on both.
Focus on the bets with the best craps Odds and you will increase your chances of winning dramatically and keep in mind craps is a fun game to but more fun, when you’re winning!
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7:24 am on October 8th, 2009
The four upper “Hardway bets” are only a one roll bet if instructed as a “Hop Bet” by the player. Otherwise they are “All day” bets that only lose if rolled “Easy” or a “Seven Out” while working. Does your casino work the hardways on the comeout?
7:24 am on October 8th, 2009
This is an interesting question. Note that the odds for throwing number breaks down like this:
24 – 1/144
23 – 2/144 (1/72)
22 – 3/144 (1/48)
21 – 4/144 (1/36)
…
13 – 12/144 (1/12)
…
4 – 1/48
3 – 1/72
2 – 1/144
So the odds of winning straight away are 14/144 (7/72).
The odds of losing straight away are 4/144 (1/36 or 2/72)
The odds of neither happening are 63/72. If neither happens, you have to keep rolling until you get a 13 or his point number again. This will involve a lot more rolling than regular craps because the end numbers are less likely! So let's say he rolled a point of 22–what would the odds of him rolling that number again before the point? Well, he has 3/144 of rolling a 22, and 12/144 of rolling a 13–anything else is a re-roll. His only two endpoints are those, so he has 3/15 (1/5) of winning and 4/5 of losing. All of the other numbers will be like this as well. So let's make a chart of all of his starting rolls and the expected value of winning each. 13 or 23 starting roll will have a EV of 1 for the autowin, and 2,3,24 are 0 for the loss. We can multiply each by the odds of rolling that number to figure out the total EV:
Odds of roll
EV/roll
Multiplied
2 1/144* 0=0
3 2/144* 0=0
4 3/144* 3/15=0.004166667
5 4/144* 4/16=0.006944444
6 5/144* 5/17=0.010212418
7 6/144* 6/18=0.013888889
8 7/144* 7/19=0.017909357
9 8/144* 8/20=0.022222222
10 9/144* 9/21=0.026785714
11 10/144* 10/22=0.031565657
12 11/144* 11/23=0.036533816
13 12/144* 1=0.083333333
14 11/144* 11/23=0.036533816
15 10/144* 10/22=0.031565657
16 9/144* 9/21=0.026785714
17 8/144* 8/20=0.022222222
18 7/144* 7/19=0.017909357
19 6/144* 6/18=0.013888889
20 5/144* 5/17=0.010212418
21 4/144* 4/16=0.006944444
22 3/144* 3/15=0.004166667
23 2/144* 1=0.013888889
24 1/144* 0=0
SUM 0.437680591
It's quite a bit worse than real craps where this number is 0.492929293.
7:24 am on October 8th, 2009
Sorry but in no sense is your question sensible or thought provoking. Using the same logic I could claim that there is a 50/50 chance that I am the President of the United States. Either I am or I am not right? You simply misunderstand some basic concepts, sorry.
7:24 am on October 8th, 2009
Didn't Hillary give a great little speech on the progress of women?
It was nice of them to give her a moment to do that.
At least, now, we know she prefers pearls AND diamonds.
Wow, perhaps I SHOULD become a democrat!
She's starting to remind me of my long lost mother…….
7:24 am on October 8th, 2009
7:24 am on October 8th, 2009
The New York Jets over the Redskins in the first ever Overtime Super Bowl 24-21. Mark my words.
The New York Jets were two, not one, but two missed FG away from the AFC Championship game two seasons ago. They suffered massive injuries last year, and have added players to become more solid all around. In the NFL teams have been known to go worst to first. Rams '99, Ravens '00, Pats '01, Panthers '03. Besides the Jets don't have to be the best in the AFC, just get in the playoffs and get hot. As evident from last year the 6th best team in the AFC was 11 points better in the Super Bowl than the best team in the NFC.
Redskins, were a good unit last year, and are better all around this year. The addition of Al Saunders (Offensive Coordinator) makes them more dynamic on offense. Clinton Portis should have a career year. This will be the best team in the NFC.
7:24 am on October 8th, 2009
I thought that for the most part, Jim Cornette was blunt, honest and at the very least, partially right. I can see both the positives and negatives of having a star like Christian on a show like ECW. For starters, Cornette wasn't ripping into Christian. He was correct when he said that he wasn't 6'6 with a Hulk Hogan like build. But he also said that he's a better wrestler and more talented than 95 percent of the WWE roster, and that for a guy with his look, he has to be used and booked properly.
That being said, I don't think that size is as big a hindrance to a wrestler as most people make it out to be. I can fully understand that someone with a Batista-like physique is probably going to be pushed before a Jamie Noble, but that isn't something I agree with. Look at Rey Mysterio or Jeff Hardy. Neither of them are big and they are two of the most over stars in professional wrestling.
Personally, I don't really have an issue with putting Christian on ECW. I think that both RAW and Smackdown are so loaded with main event level talent right now that Christian would get lost in the shuffle so to speak. I also think that Christian is the number one candidate to get drafted to RAW or Smackdown when this year's draft roles around after Wrestlemania. Cornette was correct when he said that Vince has traditionally not been that high on Christian, but I don't think that's the case anymore. Heading into Money in the Bank, I think that Christian is a leading contender, right up there with MVP, to win the briefcase.
It is true, I think that from a business standpoint, bringing Christian back to WWE in a storyline with Edge had the potential to draw back some of the old fans from the Attitude Era and they could have churned out a few interesting storylines. But after that, where do you go with it. By putting Christian as one of the frontrunners on ECW, you can get him re-established as a WWE star.
And that's the thing: a WWE star. Cornette talked about how ECW was WWE's third tier, developmental show that nobody cares about, but what he didn't say was that ECW draws better numbers on a weekly basis then TNA does. They pretty much run neck and neck with each other. Now, I know that TNA has a significant following among the big wrestling fans on Y/A, but for the average fan, the regular joe average, they don't have a clue what TNA is. For the most part, they just know that Kurt Angle wrestles on TNA. So yes, Christian may have been a superstar on TNA, but he was a big fish in a small pond, as Cornette likes to say so much.
Overall I thought that Christian's return was fine. It wasn't perfect, but what did Cornette expect Vince to do? Triple H, Randy Orton, John Cena, The Big Show, Edge, Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, CM Punk, Shawn Michaels and JBL were all involved in major programs when Christian made his return. What, he thought that he would just automatically be vaulted back into the main event?
I wouldn't worry too much about Christian Madison. I think that he's about to get a major push and won't be on ECW for long. ECW was just a platform to get the fans behind him again. And you know what? If you judge the cheers of the crowd from when he first came back to now, it's working.
I did think that some of his lines were hilarious though, plus his Triple H knock.
"A five year old blind kid with Autism could have seen that they should have brought Christian back with Edge!"
Say what you will about Jim Cornette, but he does love the dramatics.
7:24 am on October 8th, 2009
The 5 count is BS. If you read Scoblete's book he even says it does nothing but limit your exposure and force you to play less often. It does nothing statistically to reduce your chances of losing.
No, there really isn't anything you can do to prevent losing your established come bets if a 7 comes on the come out roll (there is no other number that causes you to lose them BTW). If you wanted you could hedge them with a lay bet, but it's not really a great bet. Here's how to do that: Say you had $30 in come bets on 5,6, and 9. You would then place an $82 lay bet on the 4 or 10. If a 7 comes, you lose your come bets and win $38, for a net $8 profit. But if you hit the number you layed, you lose the $82. You could also try calling off the come bets, but I've never tried to do this so I do not know if it's allowed.
A better play would be to call all you odds bets on the come bets "working" on the come out roll. That way, if the numbers hit on the come out, you win the odds and come bet instead of just the come bet. You're risking more, but in reality you will do better in the long run playing like this, since your best bets that are out (odds bets) are exposed just as much as your worse bets (come bets).
7:24 am on October 8th, 2009
Volcanic Fallout and lightning bolt should work wonders against his deck. Do a fallout after he plays howl (fallout is an instant where pyroclasm is not). Lightning Bolt his elvish pipers or archdruids. as long as you keep his piper off the field, his bigger things will be much harder to play.
hope this helps
7:24 am on October 8th, 2009
It was a devistating lose no doubt. The hardest part is knowing that both of these men and alot of WWEs current roster is willing to suffer TNA's pay cut, and In Lesnar case the NFL which left him at a pay cut.
Whether you liked Angle or not that was a critical blow against the WWE, and with WWE desperately hanging out at EXIT doors of the TNA venues, thinsg dont look good in camp McMahon. Some people are just getting tired of it.
Good Question.