craps

In Craps the optimal strategy is to be the house, because all bets have a house advantage, and a negative expected value. Failing that, the player can reduce his average hourly losses by only placing bets with the smallest house advantage. The pass/don't line, come/don't line, place 6, place 8, buy 4 and buy 10 (last two are only under the casino rules where commission is charged only on wins ) are the best bets with the lowest house edge in the casino, and all other possible bets will on average lose money between three and twelve time faster because of the different house edges.

An important alternative metric is the house advantage per roll, which may be expressed in loss per hour. The pace of rolls usually varies on the number of players, but 102 rolls per hour are optimal and is cited rate for a nearly full table. Usually only 29.6% of total rolls are come out rolls, so for this alternative metric, needing extra rolls to resolve the pass line bet, for example, is factored. This number then permits calculation of rate of loss per hour and per 4 day/ 5 hour per day gambling trip:

Even with their poor house percentage, hardways and C/E(any Craps/ Eleven) do not lose money as quickly as the pass line bet if some restraint as to frequency is used, such as limiting such bets to the come out roll as the chart shows. The $1 "yo"(eleven) bet, split with the dealers in come-out rolls by calling out "two-way yo" is one the favorite bet of many players, which do not want to spent too much on theirs gambling trips. If eleven comes out on the come out roll, the pass line win bets and the more substantial "yo" bet splits.

This metric also shows that the other betting patterns are costly, for example placing $10 on all point numbers, which has a much higher loss of $40.49 per hour or $810 per trip.