Online Craps Strategy

By: Kena Sen
Submitted: 2008-08-06 15:45:55
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Rolling of dice for winning money is first recorded in the Rig Veda. Written before 1500 BC, it has its roots in an earlier oral tradition. Therefore, the strategies that are employed to win cannot be much different from what a sense of history will convey. The basic thing to keep in mind to win at craps is to focus on placing bets with the greatest odds success. Apart from the excitement and the thrill of the game, you can reduce the house edge against you considerably with proper focus. You must have a good size stake, patience, and knowledge.

The typical craps table is oblong and the players stand at one end of it and throw dice to the other end. A player is said to come out if he or she throws a 7 or an 11. However, if a 2, 3, or 12 are thrown it means that he or she has lost. The free odd bet is available to a person after putting a bet on the pass line. It is called the free odds because the house has no statistical advantage here. If you really have to place, a bet put it on the pass line so that the house has a small statistical odds advantage there. Once the point is decided, you can place a bet equal to the former bet on the pass line. This then reinforces the pass line bet.

There are other bets to be made but they will reduce your odds of winning, as the odds against you will be high. On the other hand, the free odds will keep you playing for hours. Therefore, to put it succinctly, a good way to win at craps is to have a game plan in mind, the knowledge of the game and a high amount of discipline to execute this. A good games plan will ensure that you do not land up with a bad debt. You have to be sure as to when to when to bet, how much and what to bet on. You should also be aware of the odds for any number that is rolled in the game. Therefore, you will realize that since the house will always have higher advantage the chances that a 7 will roll are pretty slim. A 2 has a one in 36 chance of being rolled while an 8 has a chance of 5 in 36. All you have to do is apply your common sense and go for numbers with higher odds.

Nevertheless, the only thing that needs to be emphasized here is discipline. In addition, here you should not fall for the systems that are marketed by swindle artists. For example, the martingale system where you start by betting $1 and doubling the bet, whenever you lose. If you win, you start over with $1. Nevertheless, the flaw here is that to win a dollar you might end up losing $128. You might also run up against the table limit. Moreover, if you continue at higher dollar tables then you might reach the point where you have no more money and have to quit. Therefore, casinos impose a limit on the amount you can bet. If you keep doubling your bet, you will soon run up against the limit and be unable to recover your previous losses on a single turn.

Other systems depend on a mathematical fallacy. One of them asks you to bet on an 11 if it has not occurred in the past few runs. What is overlooked is the fact that the dice are not living entities endowed with a memory and so the chances of rolling an 11 remain 1 on 18 at every roll. This despite, the fact that it may not have occurred in the past 10o rolls.

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