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The Best Strategies in Craps

If you're looking for the best strategy to use in craps, you're better
off learning about the odds and payoffs of bets. Read more about this in our article.

The truth is there's really no craps strategy that can
qualify as the "best". In craps, strategies do not work for all types of
players. While many veterans rake in winnings by hedging their bets,
newbies wouldn't be able to do the same because of lack of experience.
Players who rely on their luck ? and get away with it ? on the other hand
wouldn't be able to share their secrets, even if they want to. They're
just born under the lucky star, I guess.

So what do we have to advise you with when playing craps?

Know the betting types, know the payoff, know the odds and that's it.

And since we told you to do that, here's a starter guide for you.

The Pass Bet and the Come Bet
Without free odds, players who take Pass Bets or Come Bets get to enjoy a relatively low 1.4% house advantage. With that kind of odds, it's
like you're playing blackjack and not craps!

With double odds, however, the low house advantage gets even lower as it's sliced into half ? more so even ? at just .6%. This very low house
advantage can also be applied to their opposite bets, the Don't Come
and Don't Pass Bets if double odds are used once more.

The Field Bet
Just for recap, the Field Bet is a one-roll bet which means you can
take a Field Bet any time you feel like doing so.

The Field Bet area in the craps table layout holds the following digits: 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 and 12. Remember
that you get to enjoy twice as much profit if the next roll reveals
either 2 or 12.

The Field Bet has a house advantage of 5.55%. Why? Because there are 20 different ways that you could lose the Field Bet while there are only
16 ways that you could win your bet. Do you feel the odds are unfair?
Well, that's life.

But a lot of people tend to still hold the Field Bet in favor so I
guess we're all entitled to our own opinions.

The Big 6 or the Big 8
When you place your chips on the Big 6 or Big 8 betting area, you are
wagering that the 6 ? or an 8 if you went for the Big 8 ? would appear
before a 7. Don't mind if the succeeding rolls would come up with other
numbers. They don't count. All you need is for the Big 6 or 8 to appear
before a 7, that's it!

You win even money with this bet.

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