Craps Strategy: 'Right' Betting
The first thing to make clear here is that ‘Right' betting in a game of Craps means betting with the Shooter. You are betting that he or she will win the Come Out roll, or Point, or roll the number you predict the next time they lob the dice down the table. The second thing to stress here is that if either of those last two sentences made no sense at all to you, then we strongly advise you take some time to read our Beginners Guide to Craps before getting any deeper into this!
Two elements need to be considered for strategic play when ‘right' betting at an online Craps game. The first is the house edge on the right bets you're considering playing, the second is the dice-chucking skills of the Shooter. That latter statement may sound insane when discussing the online game, but bear with us – it's an important distinction to make between playing Craps with real dice at a real table, and playing one of the excellent simulations found at the UK online casinos this site features. With the real-world game, some Shooters can bring some skill to bear when throwing standard casino dice – they can't guarantee throwing a specific number, but may be able to increase the frequency with which certain outcomes happen. Whilst ‘past performance is no guarantee of future returns', a skilful Shooter can improve players chances of winning bets if they are showing some consistency with their rolls. Comparing this situation with online Craps games, here the virtual dice are technically ‘rolled' by an independently certified random number generator, the upshot of which is that no skill can be applied to a roll. The conclusion from this is that when considering playing Craps at an online casino, the best bet strategy is to apply good money management with knowledge of the bets that attract the lowest house edge.
As explained elsewhere on this site, a low house edge s worth seeking out as it indicated that the bet has odds that more accurately reflect the true mathematical chance of winning it. Put another way, a low house edge means the statistical average loss per bet is minimised.
Amongst all the ‘right betting' options available in Craps the Pass Line and Come Bet offer the lowest house edge (the list of the typical odds and associated house edge percentages for Craps bets can be found here). You may find some UK online casinos offer Craps games that allow players to place supplementary ‘free odds' bets, added to their initial Pass Line and /or Come Bets as a multiple of that bet. These bets also attract the lowest house edge which reduces even further as the multiple of the original bet increases. To limit the advantage this can bring players, it is not uncommon to find that UK online casinos limit the maximum value bet players may add to the table in this way. A typical limit is double the initial Pass or Come bet.
