Craps Playing Tips

Craps is played with two dice. The person throwing the dice is called the shooter. It is played on a high sided table. The surface of the table is printed with a grid and the bets you can make are printed on the table.

This game is a reworked version of the old British game of Hazard which was very favorable to the house. The reworked and renamed game now provides the house with a small margin of about 1.3%.

Online craps is played in a similar manner to other online gambling games by clicking various buttons.

There are a vast array of bets that you can place in this game. Some of these bets are much better value than others.

You should study the rules of the game as applied by your chosen casino very carefully before starting to play this game. It will take a novice quite a while to learn to play craps properly.

Games move very quickly and it is easy to get caught up in the excitement and choose all the bad bets without realizing that you are making bad choices. If your principal motivation for playing is for entertainment, you would be wise to choose another game.

I have seen novices to this game loose substantial amounts of money playing it in a very short space of time. Read the rules carefully and make sure you know them well before you start playing for real.

Don't get sucked in by the stickman constantly extolling you to bet "any craps". This is the biggest sucker bet of all in craps.

.If you choose to play craps for real without studying and memorising the rules and the best bet options, you will most definately need lady luck riding upon your shoulder! We will be expanding the craps section shortly by listing the good, the bad and the ugly craps bets for you.

Good Luck!