T doubt if many casino gamblers would dis-X agree with the following statement: craps is the single most exciting table game in the casinos. Some writers have compared it to the gambling equivalent of hitting a home run in the World Series—when you're winning.
It can be exhilarating and exhausting. When you are losing it can be the gambling equivalent of the myth of Sisyphus, whose torment for all eternity was to roll a large boulder up a mountain and then, just as he got it to the top, see it roll all the way back down, where he had to start all over again. In a word, craps can be the ultimate in frustration." So I wrote in the opening of my chapter on craps in my book Guerrilla Gambling: How to Beat the Casinos at Their Own Games!
The video versions of craps are no less frustrating though somewhat less compelling and certainly less exciting to play. Gone is the sense of communion with the other players, and the shared, almost tribal, camaraderie of the "right" bettors as they root for their numbers to appear while simultaneously praying that that dreaded seven won't make its devastating appearance.
Like its table-game cousin, video craps is a game with a cornucopia of betting opportunities, most of them carrying an extremely large house edge. Just take a look at the craps layout on the screen and you can see that video craps is a bettor's paradise or hell. The craps layout has scared many a would-be player. Fortunately, for the astute craps player, there are only a few bets that are worth making. Unfortunately, for the video-craps player, several of these bets have been eliminated from the video version of the game including: the odds bets on Pass Line and Come wagers and place bets paying off at the house odds.
Still video-craps has a supermarket of betting options and this might lead some aficionados of the video scene to shy away from it. Don't. Video craps only looks complicated because of that host of essentially irrelevant bets marked on the screen. These bets take up most of the screen's space and are the junk food of video gambling. The Captain, the world's greatest craps player (see my book Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos: How to Play Craps and Win!), calls these bets Crazy Crapper bets because essentially you have to be crazy to make them. That's how high the house edge is on them. Indeed, some of the Crazy Crapper bets make some low-paying slot machines look overly generous!
With the exception of the bets mentioned previously and the inclusion of a better Field bet, the video version of craps has the same payouts, playing procedure and odds as its table-game namesake. Thus, an analysis of video-craps parallels an analysis of the table game version. (If the machine isn't rigged.)
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