Craps

Are you a superstitious person? You know, the kind of person who won’t open an umbrella inside a house, won’t walk under a ladder and has to spin around three times when stepping over a crack in the pavement? Here’s a list of some of the more common craps superstitions compiled by some of the great craps players. Incidentally, they believe in a lot of this nonsense too!

1. If the stickman changes, in the middle of a roll, a seven will follow.

2. If a cocktail waitress approaches the table, a seven will follow.

3. If the dice being thrown hits somebody’s money, a seven is likely.

4. If the dice being thrown hits the glass, a seven will appear.

5. If there’s too much chatter among the dealers, frequent sevens.

6. If the dice are thrown off the table, seven will be the next number up.

7. If new dice are requested, seven is likely to follow.

8. If someone yells out the number “7″, a seven will surely follow. All of this may sound like a whole lot of nothing to you but sometimes you can be involved in an active game where the dice are passing a little too frequently. If you pay attention, you will discover that several of the superstitions are, in fact, occurring. You’ll notice that the stickman changes a little too often, that instead of one cocktail waitress, the table now has two waitresses serving drinks and many other strange happenings that ultimately mean a seven is going to be thrown by the shooter. Remember, you can always bring your bets down and wait until the next shooter. You can also turn your bets off, but if you do, don’t turn them back on, because if you do… a seven will follow!

Players At A Craps Table

If you are looking for excitement, noise and more fun than you can stand, then craps is the only game to play. Craps is a fast-paced game with high-rollers, low-rollers, and everyone in between. If you are a people-watcher this is one game that you will love to observe. There’s the high roller, buying in with a large bankroll and making loud announcements when he bets across the board, “$520 across,” you’ll hear him say. He’s the player to watch at this table and he knows it. They will either win big or lose big and there’s no in between. There’s the low-roller, possibly trying to acquaint himself with the high-roller. He will inform the other players of books he’s read on dice setting and hang around the hottest shooter at the table, ready to talk and “pick each others brains”. There’s the student of Frank Scoblete latest craps class. While Frank is the best there is, his student needs to do his homework. This guy will take five minutes to set his dice, so practice patience. My favourite people at the table are the true gents from the old times. These elderly gentlemen are normally patient, mostly kind and will almost always offer tips from the “good ole days.” There are many other personalities that you will find around a crowded Craps table. When you take the plunge and decide to join the game, make sure you use proper etiquette. Find a spot on the rail and put your money down in front of you in the “come” area. Never do this when the dice are in motion or you will become known as the last personality I wanted to mention, the jerk.

A Beginner’s Online Craps Strategy

There are many reasons why people play craps at an online casino. The biggest (and probably the best) reason is the potential to win large amounts of cash in a very short period of time. While the strategy here is not going to win you huge amounts of cash, it will help you realise small, consistent wins online. If you know the general rules and understand the game, you are in great shape to play online. If not, you need to start playing online and learn some of the different bets before you take your game to the next level. There are only two bets you need to play online when first starting out. Start a game and place a pass line bet. Place $5 on the pass line and roll the dice. When your point is established, place your odds behind the line. For the purposes of this example, place $5 behind the line too. Let’s say on the first, or “come out” roll, you established a point of nine (9), what this means is that you will need to roll a nine again, before the appearance of a seven, in order to win. While you are still learning the rules of the game, this is the only bet you need to make in craps when playing online, unless you want to be a bit more aggressive. If so, play the field. What this means is that anytime a two, three, four, nine, 10, 11 or 12 is rolled, you win. Don’t play anything else until the online version of the game becomes a little more realistic in the natural appearance of sevens. It doesn’t get any easier than the above two bets. Pass line with odds and throw in a field bet for “a little more action”. Keep in mind, while the field bet is one of the better bets online, it’s not one of the best bets in the brick and mortar casinos.

Bet Large and Win Small in Craps

If you decide to use this system you need to have a sizeable bankroll and incredible discipline to walk away when you realise a small win. For the purposes of this article and example buy in of $2,000 is used. The Horn Bet numbers are not always considered the “winning way to play” and the horn bet itself carries a house edge of over 12%. However, the numbers in the horn are the all you should consider when using this system. All you are playing is $5 on the pass line and ONE number from the horn. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a “craps” or “yo” as long as you play it consistently. The Yo is more popular with people using this system for obvious reasons. Buy in for $2000 when you join the table but put only $5.00 on the passline and $1 on either the 2, 3, 11, or 12. If it wins, great, if it loses press to $2. If it loses again, press to $4 and then to $8, then to $16 and after that add a $1.00 each time. Every time you lose, bet the previous amount plus another dollar. Using this system, if for instance after 15 rolls, the number you chose (11) hasn’t been thrown, you probably should walk away. However, this is what could happen. On the tenth roll, you have a total of $126 in the game and the YO finally hits, you win $315 with a profit of $189. Now is a good time to walk away as it is a lot more than what you entered the table with. If the YO doesn’t hit until the twentieth roll, you will have a total investment of $391 and because your current bet is at $31, you win $465 with your profit at $74. As you can see, using this system with only a $1.00 “press,” your profit margin becomes smaller the longer you play on without winning. That is why you must walk away after a win or you must bet a “full press” again and then continue on with the $1.00 increase with each hand. Crunch some numbers at home before you try this so you are very familiar at when this system becomes a losing proposition instead of a profitable one.