Added: March 19, 2015
Craps is a popular game at Australian land casinos. You will always find lots of people huddled around the craps table. One player rolls the dice, many of them place bets and the bystanders cheer everyone on. Though the online craps game is the same, the atmosphere is quite different. You are playing alone against the casino and despite some audio visual animations, the setting is much quieter. For players not familiar with the game, online craps provides an opportunity to understand the bets and to gain confidence before playing it at land casinos. All Australian online casinos offer this game.
If you are moving to craps from online roulette you have to watch out for one thing. In roulette all the different bets offer the same house edge, so in that sense they are all the same. However, in online craps the different bets have different house edges, and some of them are frighteningly high. New players get attracted to them because they are simple bets and often have attractive names. Therefore the first lesson in online craps is to know which bets to avoid.
The game is named after a bet called Craps and that makes this bet popular. The bet wins on 2, 3 or 12 and loses on all other outcomes. It has a house edge of over 11%. The bet Any 7 wins if a 7 is rolled in any manner. This bet is popular because 7 is the most frequently rolled total. However the payout is only 4 to 1 and the house edge is 16%. The Horn Bet places identical chips on 2, 3, 11 and 12. These are the four worst numbers to bet on. This bet has a house edge of over 11%.
The question then arises where you should bet in online craps. New players should make an effort to understand the Pass Line bet. This bet has to be placed before the come out roll, which is the first roll of a new session. The Pass Line bet immediately wins if the come out roll shows a 7 or an 11 and immediately loses if the come out roll shows craps. If any other number is rolled then that number is established as a point. The dice are then rolled till the bet is decided. The Pass Line bet will win if the point is rolled again before a 7 and will lose if 7 is rolled before the point. The bet pays even money and has a house edge of 1.4%, which is the lowest in online craps.
