So, if the number you bet on is rolled before a 7 you win and you are paid as follows: 4 or 10 placed — odds, 5 or 9 placed — odds, 6 or 8 placed — odds.

As you can see the best for you is to place a bet on 6 or 8, because these bets have the best odds and also they have a good chance of hitting.

If you get the feeling like you want to place the 4 or 10, you should buy them instead, because although there is a Vig a fee for winning bets on these numbers, the edge comes out in your favor, however slightly.

However, the pass line bet is still the best one with the best odds and in the long run you should stick with it.

Although you can technically place a place bet at any time, it is impossible for it to come into effect until the shooters point is set, therefore it is more acceptable to ask for this bet after the come out roll is over.

This is a Bet on a Big 6 or Big 8, put down after the point has been established. If a 6 or 8 is rolled before a 7, you win This is a bet that you should not play because you can Place a bet on 6 or 8 and receive better odds.

Kind of what the name suggests, field bets are open to everyone who bets on the next number rolled. Placed before any throw.

Therefore, you should not bet these very often or you should hedge your bets when you do so. Proposition bets are those placed in the middle of the table layout, and those bets never have a good house edge.

You should make these bets only for fun and to make your game more exciting. A Hardway Bet is also made regarding the outcome of the next die throw.

A Hardway roll occurs when doubles are thrown with an outcome of 4, 6, 8 or An Easy roll is produced when the same outcome is achieved, but without rolling doubles.

For a Hardway Bet to win, the shooter must roll a double with an outcome of 4, 6, 8 or The wager loses if either a 7 or any Easy number is rolled.

You can make this bet at any time in the game and it can be placed on 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or A lay bet wins when 7 rolls before the number.

If the bet is on 4 or 10 you get odds, on 5 or 9 odds, on six or 8 odds. The 6 and 8 can be made in 5 difference ways using a set of dice and present the player with odds.

Finally comes the 7, which can be rolled 6 different ways using a pair of dice and it has odds of making it the most common number to come up in online craps.

Now let's look at some of the wagering odds. The following table illustrates the odds and payouts of craps bets at a Las Vegas casino. This chart can also be used as a general guide for online craps:.

You can use probability to figure out the odds of winning and losing in the popular casino dice game of craps. In the game of craps, on your first roll called the come out roll , three outcomes are possible:.

Point: Rolling a 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 — establishes the point for the next round of rolling. Mark Zegarelli is the author of many successful For Dummies titles on math, logic, and test prep topics.

As mentioned above, Place to Lose and Lay bets are exactly the same thing, but with different odds. The Big 6 and 8 are exactly like the place bets on 6 and 8, respectively, except pay even money, instead of 7 to 6.

You would be a fool to make these bets with you could get much better odds on the same thing with a Place bet. Rolling an even number with the same number of both dice is said to be the "hard way.

For example, a hard 8 would be a , while an easy 8 would be or There are four Hard Way bets, on the 4, 6, 8, and Each wins by rolling the specified number the hard way, and lose on any 7 or on an easy way.

Following is a flow chart showing how to adjudicate the Hard 8 bet, as an example. These bets are long shots so pay higher odds than everything we've seen so far.

In the U. In Australia, they add 0. Bravo Australia! In craps, the player may skip the come out roll on a pass or come bet. Such a late bet on the pass and come is known as a "put bet.

To be specific, However, you can combine a put bet with an odds bet, bringing down the overall house edge.

Here are the breakeven points, according to point. Many bets can be removed, or temporarily turned off, at any time. Namely all Odds bets, Place, Place to Lose, Buy, Lay, and Hard Ways bets.

While these bets can be temporarily turned off for a roll, some of them automatically are on a come out roll, unless otherwise requested.

Here are the rules of what is on and off on a come out roll. Proposition bets either win or lose on the next throw. In general these have the highest house edge of all the crap bets and players with any sense at all will avoid them completely.

The following table shows the various prop bets available. Different wins are known to exist on the prop bets. The casinos in the U.

Since all Proposition Bets resolve in one throw and never push the house edge is the same whether defined as per made, resolved, or per throw.

There are various ways of making combinations of prop bets. One common one is the "horn" bet, which is divided equally between the 2, 3, 11, and Sometimes a player will make "horn high" bet, which doubles the bet on one of those numbers.

Another common bet is the "world" which is five equal bets on the 2, 3, 7, 11, and Hot Tip : If you must bet on a 7, don't make the any 7 bet, with a house edge of Even at the stingy payoff of 15 to 1, you will still lower the house edge to The field is a one time bet that the next roll will be a 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, or All wins pay 1 to 1, except the 2 and 12 pay more.

In Las Vegas most casinos pay 2 to 1 on the 2, and 3 to 1 on the In Reno, they switch them, paying 3 to 1 on the 2, and 2 to 1 on the The following table shows the possible outcomes.

The lower right cell shows a house edge of 2. Some stingy casinos, namely the Harrah's corporate properties, the Riviera, and the Casino Royale, pay only 2 to 1 on both the 2 and This doubles the house edge to 5.

The Santa Ana Star casino in New Mexico pays 3 to 1 on both the 2 and 12, for exactly zero house edge. Optimal strategy in craps is pretty simple.

That is known as "playing the dark side," because the vast majority of players bet the opposite way. The following table shows the combined house edge on the pass or come bet, backed up by taking full odds according to the maximum odds allowed.

The next table shows the combined house edge on the don't pass or don't come, backed up by laying the full odds. The house edges in the don't table below are significantly less than the do table above.