Craps Strategies

Many players have studied the game of craps in an attempt to come up with a method to better the casino.  However no player (or other person) has yet to develop a meaningful scheme that will give them the necessary advantage.  The two major problems in trying to come up with a system are:

The game of craps is an unstructured contest: A player has no idea of the length of time the shooter will carry on playing their turn can go on for one roll or continue to last for ten, twenty or even further rolls.

Craps games are random: Every roll of the dice is independent of the last roll, unlike a game like Blackjack where you are familiar with the playing cards that have been discarded and will be retired until the decks are reshuffled.

Owing to the lack of a successful strategy the only thing players can do is adopt a tactic they hope will be successful for the short term (the casino always wins in the long run) and take pleasure in playing the game.

  • Set your limits prior to you starting to play.  For an illustration; should you hold $100 in your bankroll, resolve ahead of time to stop whenever your bankroll goes down to say $50 or when it goes up to say $500.
  • Remain honest with yourself as to how much you’ll be able to achieve in an individual outing.  Every one would love to win big and break the bank, however the probability is definitely not on your side, so be happy in the event that you come out a winner on any given outing.
  • Be familiar with your bets.  Understand what the wagers are, how to make them and what the odds are of winning.  This information will allow you to make different more dangerous wagers intelligently if you become bored making conservative bets.
  • Start out slowly, bet conservatively until such times as you have increased you funds (pass line bets with odds are your wisest bet as they have the smallest casino edge).  After that assuming you win you can determine if you wish to bet more aggressively with your winnings.

Craps is an exciting game and has one of the lowest edges of all the casino games.  Keeping this in mind you should get pleasure from your craps playing experience.