Craps Game Strategy

There are many methods used to beat the game of online craps but not a single one is capable of doing this in the long run. However your long run craps strategy will help improve your play, hence reducing the overall exposure to the house edge making it possible for your craps strategy to work. Maybe they'll work for you or may be they won't - it's gambling after all. Only several of these methods are worth mentioning. (We mention several general online craps strategies below). 5-Count This method aims at improving the quality of shooters you're betting on. Will help you select the possibly hot players while dump the others. Here's how this craps strategy works: the new shooter is on the come-out roll. If he / she throws a point (4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10) that's Count 1. If not you wait until the player does this and then start counting. Count 2, 3, 4 will follow after Count 1 no matter what the player rolls. To achieve Count 5 the player must throw again a point (the counting is stopped until this happens). The fact you reached Count 5 makes this player a hot one. Begin betting. Hedge Betting The Hedge Betting craps strategy consists of placing a bet that almost entirely cancels out another one. Almost any roll will bring you profit (a small one, but a profit) in online craps. You'll lose when the dice roll is not covered by the hedge bet. Besides the fact you get to play online craps longer because your bets have now a smaller risk, this method will substantially increase your comps (complimentaries offered by the online casino). Almost any bet can be turned into a hedge bet. For example, a pass line bet can be hedged from craps (2, 3, and 12) by betting the proposition bet any craps. More, you can make place bets before the come out and hedged them by the pass line bet. Progressive Betting This is a very simple craps strategy. So you have placed your online craps bet. Each dice roll you win your wager you will increase the current bet by that initial one. Every time you lose you'll bet the current amount minus the initial one. As long as you are winning you will continue to raise your bets and when you start losing you'll bet the same bets but in a descending order. Anything But Seven Objective of this craps strategy: To win on any number thrown except a Seven. Don't place any bets on the Don't Pass or Pass Line, but wait until a point has been established. Place two units on 5, 6, & 8. Place one unit on the Field. Results: This method is a little riskier than the previous online craps strategies, since your total monetary risk is: $39.00. Therefore, it is suggested that you remove all bets after three rolls. Should the shooter hold the dice for at least three rolls, you will stand to win anything from $15.00-$27.00(more if the numbers 2 or 12 are rolled). Betting Options The Pass Line: A bet on the "pass" line is a bet with the shooter. This means that if, on his first toss of the dice, called the "come out" roll a 7 or 11 is thrown the "pass" line bets win and the shooter keeps the dice for another roll. If the shooter rolls a 2,3 or 12 all "pass line" bets lose. The shooter still retains the dice, he can however give them up at any time. Any other number 4,5,6,8,9,10 are called the "point" and the shooter will continue to roll until he makes his point. If a seven appears first the shooter and all pass bets lose and the dice go to the next player. The Don't Pass Line: This line bets against the shooter which means he will either crap out with a 2 or a 3, or he will get a point and 7 out before he makes his point. If a 12 is thrown the "don't pass" line becomes a push bet, nobody wins. The Come Line: This line bet can be made any time after the shooters point has been established. You win if the next roll after your bet is a 7 or 11 and lose on a 2, 3, or 12. Any number other than these numbers becomes your point and you win if the number is repeated before a 7 is thrown. The Field: The "field" allows you to make a bet with every roll of the dice but you are limited by choice and you either win or lose on the roll, you get one chance only. You win if the shooter rolls 2,3,4,9,10,11 or 12. But you lose on 5,6,7, or 8. You have 16 ways to win, but the house has 20 ways to win, thus giving the house that ever present edge. Big Six or Eight: A bet placed on, what is called the big 6 or the big 8 wins if that number comes up before a 7. Any Seven Bet: You can make this bet any time you feel lucky and think the dice are going to come up seven. But be careful because you only get one roll on this bet and if seven doesn't come up you loose that bet. Any Crap's Bet: As the opening implies you are betting that a craps will be rolled, 2, 3, or 12, in which case you win. Any other number and you lose. Like the Sevens bet you only get one shot at it win or lose. The Hard Way Bets: There are four so-called hard way bets, they're called hard way because each of them can only be won if they come up in pairs. 10 with a pair of five's, 8 with a pair of fours, 6 with a pair of threes and a 4 with a pair of twos. Your hard way number must come up before either a seven or your numbers easy way equivalent. For example an 8 with a three and a five or a two and a six. These bets can be made any time before the dice are thrown. Click to continue and learn about the best and worst bets in craps Our Sponsors Online Roulette King Sports Betting King Online Slots King King's World Series of Poker King's World Series of Blackjack Back to top