An Easy Strategy for Beginning Players to Learn in Craps

Published: May 1, 2014

Go around and ask online casino fans what the most complicated game is, and chances are you'll get a high percentage of them answering with craps. Craps is one of the most popular dice games, if not the most popular dice game, to ever be played in modern times. With that having been said, it's also very intimidating for new players who see it as a game with difficult gameplay to follow and plenty of ways to go wrong. To help beginning players to learn this game and to get started off on the right foot, we have an easy strategy that you can follow that has a low house advantage.

The bet you're going to focus on is the pass line bet on the come out roll. The come out roll is the first roll that a shooter makes. While this is the most basic bet in craps, it's not the easiest one to follow. The way the pass line bet works in a nutshell is that you can either win, lose or enter another stage of the game with your come out roll. You win on 7 or 11, and you lose on 2, 3 or 12. Another stage of the game is entered if the come out roll is 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10.

In this second stage, your come out roll establishes what's known as a point number. So if a six was rolled on the come out roll, six would be your point. The goal in this stage of the game is to continue rolling the dice until you either roll your point again and win or roll a seven to lose. Keep in mind that the seven wins for you on the come out roll only. If you establish a point and enter this second part of the game, then it loses.

When a point is established, another bet will open up to you called the odds bet. This is basically putting up even more money that you'll make your point. Hitting any of the points is harder than hitting a seven, so you are given favorable odds to do so. What's so great about these bets is that they have a zero percent house advantage. The pass line bet only has a house advantage in the 1.4 percent range, so you wind up with a low house edge overall when you look at all of the bets you're making.