Craps
Craps is a casino dice game in which players bet on the total of two dice thrown by a shooter, with each round settled by a first throw called the come-out roll. Online, it appears as an RNG table game and in some live casino lobbies. Its main bet, the pass line, carries a house edge of 1.41%, one of the lowest at the table. Side bets on the same layout cost far more, which is why the term covers a game with very different prices on one felt.
How a Round of Craps Is Settled
On the come-out roll, a total of 7 or 11 wins the pass line bet at even money, while 2, 3 or 12 loses it. Those losing totals are the ‘craps’ that give the game its name.
Any other total, meaning 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10, becomes the point, and the shooter keeps throwing until the point comes again for a win or a 7 arrives for a loss.
The house edge comes from those probabilities. Over many rounds, a pass line bet wins about 49.29% of the time, so €100 staked returns roughly €98.59 on average, a long-run figure rather than a forecast for any one evening.
The odds stay identical whatever happened on earlier throws.
Pass Line Versus Don't Pass
Don’t pass is the bet most often confused with the pass line, because it simply reverses it: 2 or 3 wins on the come-out, 7 or 11 loses, and 12 is usually a push rather than a win.
That push is the whole difference in price, and it brings the don’t pass edge down to 1.36% per bet made. Some land-based tables push on 2 instead of 12, and online rules can vary between operators and studios, so the help file of each game is the place to confirm which total is barred.
Proposition bets in the centre of the layout are priced quite differently, and several carry edges well above the line bets.
