PokerStars Betting

Players place bets with one another. (In a gambling-house game, all beta must be placed with the house; that method of betting will be described later.) There are many bets in addition to the bets in the center between the shooter and the players who fade him. Some of these bets are as follows:

Come Bets.

On any roll, one player may bet with any other pokerstars player that the shooter

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That is, that he will win in a series of rolls beginning with the next, as though the next roll were the first. The player who takes this bet is betting that. The shooter don't come. The former, who is betting that the shooter will win, is said to bet right, the other player is betting wrong.

Side Bets.

Once the shooter has thrown a point, he and other players may bet that he will (or will not) make his point. If his point is six or eight, the odds are 6-to-S that he will not make it; if his point is five or nine, the odds are 8- to-2 that he will not make it, if his point is four or ten, the odds are 2-to-i that he will not make it. Bets on five, nine, four and ten are usually placed at the correct odds, but bets on six or eight are usually placed at even money, so that anyone betting that the shooter will not make hIs point has a considerable advantage. Hard-way Bets. If the shooter's point is four or ten the oddsare 8-to-1 that he will not make it by throwing 2-2 or 5-5 respectively. If his point is six or eight the pokerstars odds are i-to-j that he will not make it with 3-3 or 4-4 respectively. If he sevens or makes his point any other way, he loses his hard- way (or gag) bet.

Proposition Bets

There are innumerable other methods of betting on what number or combination of numbers will or will not appear on the next roll or in the next two or three rolls; many if not most of these are hustler's bets, offered by someone who knows he has the best of it mathematically if his bet is accepted.

Irregularities.

If either die is resting against any object which causes any uncertainty as to which face is upward, it is cocked dice and the throw is void. If either die rolls outside the playing surface in such a way that it cannot clearly be seen, the throw is void. If a player picks up one of the dice while it is rolling and before either die has stopped rolling, the throw is void. In case there is disagreement as to which player has faded all or any portion of the shooter's bet, precedence is given to

(a)

the player who has faded the last entire bet;

(b)

if it is the shooter's first roll, to the player who last lost the dice;

(c)

if it is not the shooter's first roll, to the player who faded the largest portion of the shooter's previous bet. The shooter may withdraw any unfaded portion of his bet at any time, but may not withdraw any portion of his bet after it has been faded unless, before his first roll of the series, he withdraws his entire bet and passes the dice.

Strategy

Skillful play at Craps consists solely of knowing the proper odds and not making or accepting any bets which are mathematically unsound. A table of the proper odds in the most common cases is given later.