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Craps is a popular choice with casino players globally. While traditional craps tables remain a
highlight of land-based casinos, the game has successfully transitioned into the digital space through live dealer technology.
For players who enjoy the
fast-paced excitement of dice games but prefer playing from the comfort of home, live dealer versions offer a near-identical experience. Using real-time HD
video streams and professional dealers, you can now experience live craps online —
complete with authentic layouts, real dice rolls, and interactive features that replicate the atmosphere of a physical casino. |
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| Craps |
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 This dice
game is most popular in private American gambling as featured in the thriller, The Big Town. Any
number may play. Each person in turn may, as the shooter, cast two matched dice in attempting to roll a winning combination. The casino game often mistaken as
Craps is Bank Craps which is also covered in the Casino
section.
Before his first throw the shooter puts up a stake, and the other players fade it, i.e., bet against the shooter up to the amount
of the stake. The shooter must withdraw any part of his stake that is not faded. If he wins, he may continue to shoot and bet again, as much or as little as he
wants; or he may give up the dice. If the shooter loses, the other players take away double the amount they faded. The other players also may bet among
themselves as to whether the shooter will win or lose in the next series of throws or whether certain numbers or combinations will appear. In Bank Craps
players may bet only against the house.
If the shooter throws a 7 or 11 (natural) on his first roll, he wins; if he rolls 2, 3, or 12 (craps) on the
first roll, he loses. Bets are settled; the shooter keeps the dice and puts up the next bet or, if he declines to shoot again, passes the dice to the player on
his left, and the game continues. If the shooter's first throw is 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10, that number is his point, and he continues to throw until he rolls the
same number again (makes his point) and wins or throws 7 (misses out, or craps out) and loses both his bet and the dice. Side bets may be laid with or against
the shooter, either before he has a point (coming out) or after (will or won't make his point).
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| Hazard |
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This dice game dates back at least to the 14th century and once popular and played for high stakes
in English gambling rooms. The name of the popular dice game of craps derives from the nickname crabs for the cast 1-1 in hazard. The modern rules of craps
also grew out of the old English game.
In hazard the banker, or setter, sets a stake. The player, or caster, calls a main (a number from 5 to 9,
inclusive) and then throws two dice. If he throws in, or nicks, he wins the stake. Five is nicked by 5; 6 by 6 or 12; 7 by 7 or 11; 8 by 8 or 12; 9 by 9. The
caster throws out, losing the stake, when throwing aces or deuce-ace (crabs, or craps) or when throwing 11 or 12 to a main of 5 or 9, 11 to 6 or 8, and 12 to
7. Any other throw is his chance; he keeps throwing until the chance comes up, when he wins, or until the main comes up, when he loses. When a chance is
thrown, the setter pays more than the original stake, according to specified odds. In French hazard the player throws against the house. In English, or
chicken, hazard the player throws against an opponent.
Chuck-a-Luck, a game played with three dice, is sometimes called hazard.
Hazard was the
most popular game played at Crockford's, the famous gambling club opened in 1828 in Mayfair by William
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| Sic Bo (Grand Hazard) |
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This dice game has many names but the original is Grand Hazard. The chinese call it Sic Bo
which means "Dice Bowl" in reference to the bowl that three dice and held before rolling. In America it is known as chuck-a-luck. It is not the same as
hazard.
Basic equipment includes three dice and a chute (or cage or bowl), containing a series of inclined planes that tumble the dice as they
fall. The only material difference between grand hazard and chuck-a-luck is in the layout: the grand hazard layout is more complex and provides spaces for
wagering on odd or even, high or low, triples (called raffles), and any number the dice may total, from 4 to 17. The percentage in favour of the house, when a
player bets on any particular number, varies considerably.
With three dice used there are 216 possible outcomes based upon the roll of the dice. The
most common bets in Sic Bo are called 'Big' and 'Small'. To win a Small bet the 3 dice should total between 4-10, a Big bet is won when the 3 dice total 11-17.
Both of these bets pay even money and have a low house edge. Probability of winning is 48.61%. House edge is 2.78%. Another easy Sic Bo bet is to wager whether
the dice total will be even or odd, this is also an even money bet except when the dice show up as three of a kind. Probability of winning is 48.61% and house
edge is 2.78%
While almost all Sic Bo games are identical sometimes you’ll see online casinos with different payout structures. It's important
though not to accept anything less than 180-1 on triples. Full odds table
here.
Chuck-a-luck
this uses a wire cage or cone-shaped chute. The chute, called a "horn," is made of leather or metal. The phrase
"tinhorn gambler" derived from gamblers who set up games of Chuck-a-Luck with little money and a metal chute, which was cheaper than a leather one. Other rules
are similar to those of Grand Hazard. |
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