Global Sports: How to play Craps - Part 3

Monday, August 22, 2011

How to play Craps - Part 3

By Jessie Dumpton


Welcome to the third part of the casino's Vegas Craps tutorial. If you wish to begin playing Craps on your computer, you can do so by downloading to casino's software free of charge.



We have already covered the Pass Line, Don't Pass Line, Taking The Odds, Come and Don't Come Bets. There is however a few more that you need to learn if you wish to become a complete online Craps participant.


Field Bets

Field Bets are possibly the simplest bets that you can place at the Craps Table. These bets are also self-explanatory. The waging area of the Field bet is found under the Come Bet area. You will see the numbers 2,3,4,9,10,11 and 12 appear on the table's felt. This bet will pay 1-to-1 odds to the winner, 2-to-1 if the roll is a 2, and 3-to-1 if the roll is a 12. Filed bets are singular bets that can be placed at any given time and have nothing to do with sequential bets such as Pass Line and Don't Pass Line Bets. With Field Bets you will be essentially wagering on all dice outcomes excluding 5, 6, 7 or 8, the most likely of numbers to come out from any two dice combinations. Remember, Field Bets do not require the establishment of Points, and this means that you can place wagers any time you wish.



Before we take a look at some other Craps bets, let us find out about a section of jargon applied in the game of Craps. If you choose to activate the lobby's sound, you will hear the virtual dealer call out some of the following rolls Craps lingo:



1-1: Snake Eyes
1-2: Ace Deuce
1-3: Easy Four
1-4: Fever Five
1-5: Easy Six
1-6: Seven Out
2-1: Ace Deuce
2-2: Hard Four
2-3: Fever Five
2-4: Easy Six
2-5: Seven Out
2-6: Easy Eight
3-1: Easy Four
3-2: Fever Five
3-3: Hard Six
3-4: Seven Out
3-5: Easy Eight
3-6: Nina
4-1: Fever Five
4-2: Easy Six
4-3: Seven Out
4-4: Hard Eight
4-5: Nina
4-6: Easy Ten
5-1: Easy Six
5-2: Seven Out
5-3: Easy Eight
5-4: Nina
5-5: Hard Ten
5-6: Yo-leven
6-1: Seven Out
6-2: Easy Eight
6-3: Nina
6-4: Easy Ten
6-5: Yo-leven
6-6: Boxcars/Midnight

Hardway Bets

Hardway bets are placed smack-bang in the middle of the Craps table. These wagers involve double dice outcomes including twos, threes, fours and fives - notice that these bets involve 'hard' dice outcomes as in the Craps Jargon guide above. Since Snake Eyes and Boxcars are not regarded as 'hard' numbers, they are not integrated in this type of Craps wagering. We will cover both Snake Eyes and Boxcar bets later in this article.

The losers in Harway bets are soft outcomes of the original bets. Let us suppose that you have made a bet on the hard four but three and one comes up on the dice. This outcome, together with any 7 (seven out) will be an unfavorable outcome to the Hardway wager. If you do however attain a hard dice outcome, the following odds will be in your favor:

2-2 (hard four): 7-to-1
3-3 (hard six): 9-to-1
4-4 (hard eight): 9-to-1
5-5 (hard ten): 7-1



Most land based casinos also offer players the SoftWay bets, but this has not been added to Microgaming's Vegas Craps rendition.




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