 |  Craps Rules
Everybody at the craps table has a chance to roll the dice. The dice travels clockwise around the table from one craps player to another, so every shooter has his/her turn. If you choose, you may decline to throw, and the dice will be offered by a stickman to a player next to you.
Suppose it’s your turn and you decide to shoot. When you shoot, you are required to make a Pass Line bet or a Don’t Pass bet. If you bet on the Pass Line, you and all other players making the same bet are called right bettors. If your bet is a Don’t Pass bet, you and everybody else with the same bet are called wrong bettors. Pass and Don’t Pass bettors are also called line bettors. "Right" and "Wrong" in these instances are casino terms to distinguish two kinds of players. Casino use of these terms has nothing to do with their usual meaning.
You can be an automatic winner or a loser on a come-out roll. If you are a right bettor, you are an instant winner if you roll a total of a 7 or 11. It is also called to throw a natural. You lose if you roll craps – a 2,3 or 12. If you bet wrong, it is a loss in case of a 7 or 11, and you win with a 2 or 3. A 12, however, is a standoff – otherwise, a player would have an advantage against the house with a Don’t Pass bet. Casino bars 6-6 to have almost as much advantage on the Don’t Pass (1.402%) as it has on a Pass bet (1.414%). In some casinos the 2 is barred instead of the 12, but the house edge is still the same, because both numbers can be made with only one combination of the dice (1-1, or 6-6). If you win or lose automatically on a come-out roll, you still retain the dice and start a new come-out roll.
Suppose you throw a point – a 4, 5,6,8,9 or 10 – on the come-out roll. In that case you continue to roll the dice until a point or a 7 is rolled. If you are a right bettor, you bet with the dice and you win if a point is repeated before a 7 is rolled. You lose if a 7 appears before a point. If you are a wrong bettor you bet against the dice and you win if a 7 is rolled before a point. If, for. ex, the point is a 6, then only a 6 and a 7 determine the win or the loss for Pass and Don’t Pass bettors. All other dice totals rolled will be neutral throws for the line bettors. As soon as the point is repeated or a 7 is thrown, the shoot is over and the following roll will be a new come-out roll for a new round of play. As long as you win, you keep the dice and continue to shoot. If you seven-out, the dice goes to a new shooter.
I’ve just described the basic game of Craps. There are many other craps bets you can make. Some of them you can make at any time and others – only after come-out roll. I will discuss all the bets later on in this chapter. It is very important to realize that those bets are more than just the numbers on the table layout – they are possible outcomes of the throw of the dice that carry different house advantages against a player. To understand those bets we have to discuss, first, the probabilities and the odds associated with them. The probabilities and the odds along with the house payoffs give those bets their inner nature as the vehicles for the house edge over the shooter.
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