Craps – a brief introduction

• Author: Ed
• Filed under: Craps
• Date: Jul 9,2008

For those of you that have never walked into a casino and visited the craps table, you’ve missed out on a fair bit. Of all the casino games, craps has to be one of the most energetic and sociable ones out there. However, sadly it is also one of the most complicated.

In the next few posts, we’re going to be telling you all a little about craps, how it works – how to play the game, and how to become more successful at this very complex looking game.

So to start off with the series, let’s take a little look at a craps table.

As you can see there is a lot to take in, and it looks very complicated. However, as is the rule with most casino games – it is only designed to LOOK that way.

The secret, is to do exactly what you are doing now – read up about the game beforehand in a neutral environment.

So – Craps.

The basic theory behind the game, is that players take turn to be the “Shooter” that is the person rolling the dice. and the other players all bet on the person rolling the dice.

To go any further we need to give you a bit of a mini-glossary as the game has some ‘jargon’ that is hard to understand.
Come out – This is the first roll of a round.
Craps – when the come-out roll is either 2 3 or 12
Natural – when the roll is either 7 or 11
Point – 4, 5, 6, 8 or 9

This is just the beginning – next time we’re going to concentrate on more jargon and some basic playing rules.

Good Luck!