Craps Strategy Guide — Step-by-Step Guide & Transcript

[00:01] go-to strategies that I play at the casinos. Hi, I'm Jeremy and I am a craps fanatic. My job to teach you the game, to teach you the math and some strategies and with a little luck, you can color up. I personally like to stick

[00:15] can color up. I personally like to stick to the good bets and I keep things complicated strategies, but for me personally, I like to keep it pretty simple. So, I'm going to avoid some of the prop bets. I'm going to start with a

[00:28] different levels. I'll play this on a $5 table, $10 table. that's what I'm going to show that today. So, I'm going to start with a bet on the six and eight and then I'm going to follow it up with a come bet and

[00:43] those are the only two bets I'm going to make. Now, the rule of this strategy is to never have more than three units at risk at one time. So, in this situation, if we roll the nine, the come bet goes to the nine.

[00:58] now we have three units at risk, but if the seven were to roll, we win in our come. So, we really only have two units at But, let's say this the 10 rolls and this goes up to a 10.

[01:15] Now again, I can make one more come bet because while it looks like I have four units at risk, if I were to make this bet the seven rolls, I would lose four win back one. So, [snorts] again, I really only have three units at risk.

[01:31] Now, if the come bet travels to something like the five, at this point, bet. And so, I would tell the dealer, "Hey, pull down my six and eight temporarily." And then I'd wait for one of these to

[01:44] hit because right now, I can't make another come bet because it could These down. So, if the come bet traveled to the four, now I have four units at risk and then that kind of breaks my rule.

[01:56] So, I would have to just wait. Let's say the nine wins. paid. And then I would just go, you know what? I can make my six and eight bets again. Then I can make another come bet. So,

[02:09] that's the strategy. Let's test it out with a live roll. >> I like to play this with $150 per shooter. Now, normally I recommend

[02:21] having enough for 10 shooters, which would be $1,500. But, with this type of strategy, this is more of a grind type strategy. You're not going to probably make a big jackpot win, but you're also not going to lose

[02:34] a little bit here and there. So, saying that you could probably get away with, you know, maybe 500 bucks for this one. I have a thousand just to kind of keep is pull

[02:48] to my front rack and I use the rack as a little bit of a management. And if I can keep my chips straight, and so I can kind of see where I'm at per shooter at any given time. Now, I don't generally play the pass

[03:03] line. That's only required if you're rolling the dice, but for this demo, rolling the dice. So, let's go ahead and get a point set and then we'll start the strategy. So, here we go. New shooter coming out looking for a point. Six hard

[03:17] way, six hard. Point's going to move to the six and we're going to give uh $60 to the dealer. I don't have $60, say, "Give me the six and eight for 30 each."

[03:30] each." So, we'll get 15 in change. then we're going to put $25 in the come and see what happens. Here

[03:42] in the come and see what happens. Here we go. So, the come bet travels to the five. Now, we have three units of risk, but we we add a come bet, we really only have two units at risk to the seven.

[03:58] So, let's see what happens with this one. getting any repeaters yet. This will travel to the 10. Now, seemingly we have travel to the 10. Now, seemingly we have four units at risk, but now we don't

[04:12] we're back down to three. So, hopefully we can repeat a number. There's an eight. Okay. Here our place bet is our $30

[04:24] place bet wins 35. The come bet will travel into the eight, and this can come down. But, notice we have three locked contract bets up here. So, if we make a number, and we would have four units of risk. So, I'm also going to tell the

[04:39] risk. So, I'm also going to tell the dealer to pull down my six. dealer to pull down my six. And we'll rack this up. Now, you'll notice I started with uh 150, and we've got

[04:53] 150, and we've got we've got uh 110 dollars. But, the reason I mentioned that is once I have my 150 dollars back and some profit, then I will start adding odds to these bets. Um but, right now once we just got

[05:06] to hit some, and hopefully we can recoup some money cuz right now if the seven money. So, here we go. There's the seven. Just like I

[05:19] happened. All right. So, we lose 75 there. Puck's going to go off, and so uh there. Puck's going to go off, and so uh 75 100 110, we lost 40 dollars on that shooter. This is my go-to crap strategy, and I also want to share my go-to phone

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[05:47] version. The link's in the description or just head to colorup.club. here and we'll restart. So, we'll do 100 So, we'll do 100 and $50 for this shooter.

[06:02] and $50 for this shooter. Here we go. Right, eight the hard way, eight hard. Again, we don't really care what the All right, so we can give the dealer exact change this time. So, dealer give

[06:17] me a $30 six and eight. $25 on the come. $25 on the come. And here we go.

[06:29] All right, in this case we're going to lose 60. Our last come wins 25. So, another quick loser. That was no good. 100 and 15.

[06:44] and 15. 125, 150.

[06:58] Two, craps. We [snorts] don't care about that. All right, dealer give me that $30 six and eight.

[07:18] So, 30 will pay 35. Come back will travel inside. Dealer take down that eight. Now, we can rack that up. I'll move it up a little bit where so I can reach a little more. And then we'll

[07:33] can reach a little more. And then we'll leave a come back going. That is a you lose to a 2 3 and 12 there.

[07:51] going our way so far. All right. Let's come get this paid. Puck's going to go off. So there's our 100. to go off. So there's our 100. Our 125.

[08:05] So we essentially lost $20 on that shooter. especially at a $25 uh table.

[08:19] 10 is going to be the point for this shooter. All right, dealer. Give me that uh $30 6 and 8. $25 coming. Here we go. I love to show this uh winning a little

[08:34] bit. We've shown the losses, which I always I don't mind that happening. So it's going to travel to the four. Make a new come bet.

[08:46] So they're going to pay you off and on for $25. All right, the come bet's going to travel to the 10.

[09:00] Puck's going to go off. Now this is a tricky one because I can't make a come bet to cuz these bets are always working even though the puck's off. The puck's off, these bets are off. These ones can still win or lose.

[09:12] working. Normally I would have a new come bet that would protect one, but you can't do that when the puck's off. bet when the puck's off by using the pass line. So that's really kind of the

[09:26] only time I would use the pass line. But I'm not going to do it. I'm just hold my breath and hope that the seven doesn't roll at this point of the game. So here we go. Let's see what happens.

[09:39] All right, there's a four, which works out just fine. So, again, it that's going to come down, get paid. We'll just rack that. get paid. We'll just rack that. And we'll do 25 with a new come bet.

[09:57] come. So, we'll rack that up.

[10:13] This is going to travel to the nine. So, we've got four units at risk. we've got four units at risk. Now, we only have three.

[10:25] This is place bet will get paid 35. This will come inside, and you're going to have to tell the dealer they just assume come bets people players want odds. We All right, so that's going to come down and also pull my eight down, because

[10:39] again, we can't make a come bet cuz we might have four units at risk. So, pull down my eight. Now, we have three units at risk. All right, here's our 150. And for this shooter, we actually have a

[10:52] small profit. So, I would say maybe if we get another win, we might start adding odds.

[11:05] So, the puck's going to go off. Now, these are at risk. There's nothing you can do about it. There's an eight.

[11:17] come down and win, I would immediately place the six and eight. So, you use the place bets first, and then followed by the come bets.

[11:29] So, this bet will come down and win. So, again, I'm going to tell the dealer immediately let's place that eight. And we can make a new come bet.

[11:45] This is going to travel to the nine. So, again, we can't make a come bet cuz So, dealer, just go ahead and pull down that eight. And now we've got uh we could add odds on a number. So, what

[11:58] do you want to do? How about odds on the six? And uh we're gambling a little bit now. Three craps. But we've locked in a little profit for

[12:10] the shooter. So, that's kind of up to you. Oh, So, that's kind of up to you. Oh, there's a six, so it paid off. paid. We're going to get paid $25 for our flat bet, and then we'll get paid

[12:23] our flat bet, and then we'll get paid $30 for the odds bet. So, we can uh well, we've got two units. So, we can actually dealer, let's go ahead and place that six and eight. And make one bet in the come and see

[12:36] what happens. Here we go. There's a six right back. So, win 35. Uh this will come inside the six. And then, you know what? We can we could

[12:51] And then, you know what? We can we could do it again. that six. Pull down my eight cuz we don't want Pull down my eight cuz we don't want more than three units at risk.

[13:07] got good bets out here. Let's keep it going. Nope, there's a seven. All right. So, down they come.

[13:22] So, here's our 150. So, this was our profit. We'll just throw it in the back. I'm actually going to exchange this for some red.

[13:41] 10 the hard way, 10 hard. That'll be our point. Dealer, give me that 6 and 8. 30 each. 30 each. Make $25 come back. Here we go.

[14:01] travels inside the 4. Make a new come back. All right, gets paid 35. Uh would you like any odds? No, I don't Just pull down my back, please. And then we'll leave $25 coming.

[14:19] Rack the rest. Here we go. So, we have too many units. Dealer pulled out my 8.

[14:34] these. There's the 9. then again, we're always going to have the 6 and 8 working. We're not about too many units. And then we'll make a come back.

[14:51] bowl. It wanted to go home, I guess. All right, there's a 12. That's no good Still have money for the shooter, though.

[15:08] So, this will just get paid off and on for $25. It's just a quick win. $25

[15:25] Right? So, this will get paid 35. This will come up. Dealer pull down my eight. And now, let's evaluate where we're at. We've got 150. So, we're in some profit. We can add odds if we want.

[15:39] I want to lock that in. Let's wait and make one of these pay for odds on another number. Here we go. Here we go. There's a six.

[15:52] But, we're going to place the six. Dealer, give me a six for $30 and make a new come bet. So, we're not even collecting yet, but hopefully we're hopefully we're going to win here.

[16:07] hopefully we're going to win here. No, there's a seven. units and then win one. So, essentially we lose two units there at the end, which is not bad. So, notice for that shooter, we won

[16:20] uh another 75, almost $100. 75, almost $100. So, there's our 150.

[16:42] Dice move to a new shooter. And here we go. pass line players going to be rooting for.

[16:55] We're going to ask the dealer to also give us the six and the eight and make a come bet. Here we go. Dice off the table. I can reach that one.

[17:14] Superstition held true there. So, we only use lose essentially one unit. So, the last come gets paid. So, 115. So, we lose 10

[17:27] plus 25. So, we lose 35 there. So, we lose 35 there. All right. New shooter. Here we go. Six the hard way. Six hard.

[17:52] All right, there's the five. This will travel to the five. travel to the five. We need repeating numbers. We've lost too many of them right there in that come.

[18:16] down. And we can make one more come bet.

[18:29] So, this travels to the nine. We can't make another come bet. So, dealer, pull down my six. And we got some work to do cuz we've only got about $75 in our rack. So, let's let's get the five, eight, or

[18:41] nine. It's a 12. and wins. We're just going to use that. We're going to throw the dealer $10.

[18:56] Cover that six and eight. So, we have a lot more chances to win. And then we'll make a come bet. So, we still technically only have three units at risk to the seven. Here we but we pick up 10 combos right

[19:08] Here we but we pick up 10 combos right away. the six. So, we're going to win 35. Dealer pull six. Puck's going to go off.

[19:26] some. Now, these are These are working. This is off. look for a new point. It's going to be on the 10.

[19:40] pull down that eight. So, now we're We're right at 150. We've got our money back. So, we're good here. We got to make some profit by hitting some numbers here.

[19:53] some numbers here. Yo, 11. paid. So, we're going to throw the dealer $10.

[20:06] Dealer, give me that six and eight so we can get more combos. And then add a combat. Cuz it's not really adding more risk. Well, you can still lose to the two, three, and 12.

[20:18] But, we're still maxed out at just three units of risk. dealer, we've got too many. Pull down that six and eight.

[20:35] Uh, we're actually down five bucks. Five bucks, so we're at 145. That's okay. Pretty reasonable for having $75 out here. $75 out here. All right, there's a four.

[20:51] We're just going to use it to pick up more dice combos. more dice combos. And see what happens. work out for us. We lose. We do get paid there.

[21:06] Puck's going to go off. So, where do we end up at? We're at 150. So, a little profit there. And uh there. So, a couple shooters, little profit.

[21:20] See, you're not going to move the needle. This is not a jackpot type We came in for a thousand. Like I said, you really could play this with probably 500 or five shooters just because of the hedging that happens with that combat.

[21:36] hedging that happens with that combat. Let's go 1 2 3 4 5. Let's go 1 2 3 4 5. 6 7 8 9 10. So, there's our buy-in.

[21:51] 8 9 10. So, there's our buy-in. We profit of 50. 100 $120. Came in with a thousand. We're leaving with $1,120.

[22:06] $100 color up with not a huge lot of risk. So, this is one of the few strategies that I actually play on a $25 table volatility of it. But, however you like to play, until next time, good luck on

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