SECOND BEST WAY is to do that same thing with DON'T PASS and DC and take the max odds. The VERY BEST way to play craps is to take max odds on the pass line, and make only COME bets while also taking max odds on those. The truth is, to win the most money you must be prepared to avoid hedges at all costs. That can happen quite frequently or you can lose all your money before it happens, but it's a great example of how people who play craps are always playing their own 'variant' of the game. With any luck you can create that scenario within 6 rolls, so if the point is a 6 or an 8, you must get lucky enough to have the 21/36 safe numbers hit several times in a row. Once that happens, then you are truly earning money every single roll. You want both your don't pass money (including what it would pay if a 7 came) AND your 5 money + 8 money to both grow to more than what you invested into the roll. Your best bet would be to press that 5 or 8 more. Suppose the roll continued by hitting an 8 or a field number instead of the 6. This would be a fairly common example of how building the board can leave you with a majority of your starting money even after suffering a big loss. You still got to keep the $10 on your 5 and the $12 on your 8. So you just lost your $5 don't pass and $18 you placed on the don't odds, as well as the field.

Roll 3: Press your 5 and add $6 to your Don't odds.

Roll 2: $12 on Don't odds and $5 on 5, $6 on 8, and $5 on field rolls a 10 If you're doing regular iron cross, once you've grown your money enough on the board, the fear of impending doom will cause you to stop max-pressing your bet.Įxample: Start with $100 on $5 table (there aren't any 5 dollar tables anywhere now really is there?) The huge benefit to this is that once you either lose your lay bet or all your money on the board, you'll have a decent amount left-over because its impossible to lose everything in 1 roll. This technique is somewhat risky in that you have a 10/36 to 13/36 chance of hitting either the point or 7, but as long as the roll avoid both those numbers, you can continue to invest your winnings into both sides.

You can 'extra-lay' the point since you will likely max out your dont-pass point odds if you are lucky enough to get a decent roll. I like to qualify a dont pass bet then set up an iron cross (i call it satanic cross) so that I can begin to build 2 sides of the bet. Hedge bets are really good when you have a limited amount of money to spend for the day and an open amount of time to play.

Craps strategy with don't come bet