Craps is a great dice game for action or social gambling.Learn the rules of craps and how to play craps in this section.

1 - Craps is played at a table with more than one player. 

2 - Craps employs three dealers at a time. Two stand behind the table to accept the bets or to pay the winners or take from the losers. The other is there to handle the dice with the use of a long rake.

3 - On the first roll of the dice, otherwise known as the "comeout roll", the stickman will slide five dice to the first player (shooter), the shooter then chooses two of these dice.

4 - The shooter now throws these two dice two the other end of the table. The dice must hit the wall at the other end of the table to count.

5 - The shooter tries to establish a number 4,5,6,8,9 or 10 after which point, the dealer will take a "puck" that says "off" on one side and "on" on the other. He places this puck on the number rolled "on" side up. It is always "off" ont he comeout roll.

6 - The shooter then tries to roll that number agin before he rolls  a seven. That is the entire point of the game.

7 - As a punter who is not the shooter, you have the chance to bet on the shooter or to back the dealer and the fact that the shooter will roll a seven before his number.

Many players favour the shooter, hoping for a hot streak of dice. Betting on the shooter is betting on the "do's, you are backing the shooter. When you bet on the "don'ts" you are betting against the dealer.

8 - If the shooter throws a 7 or 11 on the comeout roll, he wins immediately. The dealer will then pay the do's and take the money from the dont's.

9 - If the shooter rolls a 2,3 or 12 on the comeout roll, he loses and the players are paid or taken from accordingly.

10 - If the shooter "craps out" and rolls his number, then a 7, the dice is passed to the next person to become the shooter.