Lowering the Edge in Craps

If you want to win money playing online craps then you have to be smart. You need to avoid making bad bets and take advantage of the good bets. Let’s take a look at some of the bets you must avoid and also look at how you can lower the house edge in craps.

There are five bets in craps that you simply don’t want to make because the house edge is too high. They are Any 7 which has a house edge of almost 17%, Craps 2 and Craps 12 which have house edges of almost 14%, Horn which has a house edge of over 12%, Big 6 and Big 8 which have house edges of just over 9% and The Field which has a house edge of more than 5%.

The only four bets you should be making are Pass, Don’t Pass, Come and Don’t Come. There are no other bets that should be getting your money. The house edge on each of these bets is less than 2% and you can lower that percentage if you take odds. The Odds Bet is another bet you can make after the point has been set. You can take odds up to however high the casino allows. It might be 2X or it may go all the way up to 10X. If you take 2X odds behind your bet the house edge drops to just over a half a percent. If you could get 10X odds then the house edge would drop to just 0.18% which is almost nothing. Always remember to take full odds when you play online craps.