Craps is the game we always see in a film where someone is rolling the dice to the end of the table and throws a winning number where everyone wins and jumps up with excitement.

To be able to roll the dice the shooter must make a line bet (pass or don’t pass bet). The payout is even money. The shooter’s first roll is known as the ‘come out roll’.

If the come-out roll is a 7 or 11 the pass line wins and the don’t pass loses. If the come-out roll is a 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10 then that number is known as the shooter's‘ point’.

The shooter will keep rolling until one of two things happen – if they roll the number that they had to set the point the pass line bets win and the don’t pass bets lose. If a 7 is rolled before the point number the pass line loses and the don’t pass wins. Either way, the round is over. A new round always begins with the same shooter until he ‘sevens out’.