Craps Strategy: Money Management

A vital part of any strategy to playing online casino games such as Craps is intelligent management of your player account. Keeping proper tabs on the gains and losses shown in your account is the only way to objectively assess your performance during a gaming session.

Never lose sight of the fact that at the heart of online Craps is a game of chance. The only skills to be brought to this table game are choosing the most mathematically advantageous bets from those offered, and knowing when to end a session. This latter skill is where good money management comes into play.

Without wishing to sound negative, the first step of good money management is realistically setting a sum of money you are prepared to lose in a session – to be more positive, think of this as how much you're happy to pay for a session of good gaming entertainment. Never play with money you cannot afford to spend! Setting such a limit gives you the simple measure to know when to stop playing. If you think you might be a little weak-willed, it can be a good idea to make sure your player account only holds that predetermined sum of money, so that if you do spend it all you cannot continue to play without making a further deposit, giving you pause for prudent thought!

A further strategy we advocate when playing online casino games such as Craps is to also begin the session with a point in mind at which, if you are making gains, you continue to play only with winnings accrued in that session. By way of illustration if, say, a successful session with the dice sees you making overall gains, if those gains hit a certain level then ‘ring fence' that as your playing funds you will use for the rest of the session. This gives you the choice to quit with a profit while you're ahead and ready to stop, or the marker at which can quit with no net loss or gain if you get to the point that you've spent the winnings.

The final point we'd make, and a crucial one, is that any strategy becomes worthless if you don't stick to it! Never be tempted to bet a penny more than you can afford – your sole motivation for playing Craps, or any game for that matter, at a UK online casino should be to have some fun, not to try and fix any financial woes you might be experiencing!