Glossary of Terms: Craps
If you will visit any online casino, you will notice that new games are cropping up along with the old games. However, almost all traditional casino games are still offered by online casinos, so you will find poker, blackjack, roulette, and of course, craps.
Craps is basically a table game where players use dice to get the combinations required to win. Although it is seemingly a game of chance, there are strategies that players use in order to win the game. In fact, craps is like any other typical game of wits.
In a game of dice, the shooter or the person throwing the dice wins if he gets a 7 or 11. On the other hand, if he gets a 2, 3 or 12, he loses his wager. Other players who are merely observing can also join the game by placing their wagers in favor or against the shooter.
You'd often hear terminologies like shooter, arm, and advantage, but do you understand these terminologies? Can you differentiate one from another? To help you familiarize yourself with the craps language. Here are some of the basic terms used in the game of craps:
Aces. A wager placed in favor of a result of 2.
Advantage. This is commonly known as the casino's advantage or the house edge over the player.
Any craps. A roll of 2, 3, or 12. This is regarded as the losing roll.
Arm. A player with a winning streak and getting successive winning rolls.
Betting Right. This is one of the typical bets that are placed on the come bets and pass line. This bet is placed in favor of the shooter.
Betting Six. A bet placed where the players expect that a roll of 6 will come out before the shooter gets a 7.
Betting Wrong. A bet placed against the shooter. The wager expects that the shooter will lose in his attempt to get a winning roll.
Big Fight. A bet placed where the players expect that the shooter will get an 8 before a 7 roll.
Capped dice. Special dice that are not commonly used in craps game.
C and E Bet. A wager that favors a roll between the numbers 2, 3, 11, and 12.
Color In. The house cashing out the smaller chips in exchange for the larger ones when a player leaves the game.
Color Out. The player cashing in the smaller chips in favor of larger chips when he or she leaves the table.
Come Out Roll. This refers to bets that are made after the house signals for the come out roll.
Craps. The losing numbers 2, 3 and 12.
Crap Out. The initial roll where the player gets craps.
Dices in the Middle. The house places the dice in the middle of the table until all the players have placed their wagers.
Don't Pass Line. A bet placed against the shooter.
Drop. The wager on the table.
Even Money. The state where the player ends up playing with the same amount of chips he started out with.
Field Bets. Bets placed on the numbers 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 or 12.
Hardway. A roll which has the 4, 6, 8 or 10 outcome before the winning 7 results.
Hawk the Dice. This occurs when the stickman takes back the dice after the roll.
Hi-Lo Bet. A bet that is placed on 2 or 12.
Horn Bet. The wager placed on a combination of four numbers - the 2, 3, 11 and 12.
Inside Bet. The wager that is placed on the numbers 5, 6, 8 and 9.
Key. A formula that the casino dealers used to calculate payouts.
Late Bet. Also known as No Bet, a bet that is placed only after the dice rolled.
Lay Bet. A wager that the numbers 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10 will go out before the winning 7 roll will result.
Midnight. A wager that a 12 will come out next.
Mop Dealer. A stickman after he moves the dice on the table.
Natural. The natural 7 outcome of the roll.
Odds Bet. A wager placed in favor of real odds when there is no House edge.
One Roll Bet. A wager placed before and on the next die roll.
Pass Bet. Bet made that the shooter will roll a natural.
Play the Field. A wager on the numbers 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 or 12 as the next roll result.
Point. The shooter must once again roll the same result which could be 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10.
Seven Out. A 7 result comes out before the shooter rolls a point.
Shooter. The player throwing the dice.
Take the Odds. A bet that takes in free odds and is assumed to be a good bet.
Three Way Craps. Placing a wager on multiple (3) numbers.
Working Bet. The live wager.
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