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Great craps video and my thoughts on how best to play.

I watched a great video on YouTube about craps. Click here to watch it for yourself, which you should do before reading the rest of my post.

The name of the strategy is the 6-8 come again. I don't dislike the strategy, it's pretty close to the way I play all the time, I just disagree with a couple of things. Number one he doesn't have a pass line bet ever with the strategy, and when you're the shooter you have to have a pass line bet. It's required by the house to shoot the dice. Plus, having a pass line bet, enables you to take odds on that bet.

My main problem with the strategy is that he doesn't take odds on his come bet right away. Instead he waits for his 6 and 8 place bets and/or other come bets  made, to recoup his initial investment. Only then does he starts taking odds on whatever numbers the come bet goes to.

Those of you who are experienced craps players will see the problem with a strategy right away. The odds bet, on either a come bet or a pass line bet, are paid at true odds. So there is no house advantage to whatever amount of money you bet as odds. There isn't any other bet in the casino that you can say this about. This is what makes craps such a great game to play.

I feel like you are wasting an opportunity if you don't take full odds on every pass line or come bet that you make. I know that this strategy is trying to only risk $30 total per shooter. And that's fine if you have a limited bankroll and/or you're trying to play it safe.

However, you really should have enough of a bankroll to be able to place the 6 and 8, for either $6 or $12 each, and then also make one pass line bet with full odds in one other come bet with full odds. On a$5 table, that means risking somewhere around $50 to $60 on any one shooter. the nice thing about true odds is that around half of what you have at risk is getting paid off with no house advantage over you. And in the long run that can make quite a difference to your bank roll.

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