Welcome to our introduction to the Online Craps page. We should start with some first steps of the game to explain how your first bet would be made.

‘Pass line bet’: You have to place your chips in the band that goes around the outside of the craps’ table with the word Pass written in it. This 'Pass line bet' is placed before the ‘come out roll´, that is the first roll of a play. Since there’s nobody playing with you when you’re online, it might be hard to tell if the play has already started. Nevertheless, there is one certain way to determine if the play has begun, otherwise you’d be on the `come out roll’.

Playing online as in land-based Craps games, you’ll find on the table, what is called a ‘puck’. On one side of the ‘puck’, you’ll find the word ‘OFF’ and the word ‘ON’ on the other one. If you are on the ‘come out roll’, so the play hasn’t started yet, the puck will be ‘OFF’ side up.

The biggest premiss of Craps games focuses on the two states that the game could be in. Which would be these states? When the puck is on the table setting to ON (session has started) or it’s off the table setting to OFF (session isn’t started). So as we said, when the session hasn’t started yet, there’s were you place your pass line bet.

Now the pass line bet has been placed, so the come out roll is throw. If, after thrown, the total of the two dices adds up to 2, 3 or 12, every pass line bet loses and the plays starts again. Even so, if the total of the dices is a 7 or an 11, the play also resets but all pass line bets win. If a different number is thrown, the play has started and that total gets the name of ‘point number’ for the rest of the session.

Maybe, visualizing this might help you to understand… take a look to the following session diagram.

If a point number is thrown, pass line bets just stay in place, and their fortune would be decided later in the play.

Here at this point of the session, the pass line is usually backed up with an odds bet. Generally called 'placing odds', this kind of bet is specially to craps, and what you are doing is backing up a bet set before with more money. You are allowed to back up with odds just a couple of bets, and normally one of them is the pass line bet.

'Shooting for the point now': It is the way the session progresses. Imagine that on the come out roll you rolled a six, then the point number would be now six. To win your pass line bet, you’d need to roll a six before a seven is rolled. The play is finished when the shooter hits their point, or a seven, and it continues to throw the dices until they hit either one of those numbers . While those numbers don’t come up, any other number could. So if that happens, you can place all kind of bets on these rolls.
If the point number is hit the pass line bets win, on the other hand if a seven is thrown that makes all pass line bets lose.

Well, after all these explanation you should know how to place a pass line bet or what a session/play is, so you are now able to play a basic craps’ game. About the other bets available, you’ll learn meanwhile you’re playing and you can read about craps’ rules too. Try our free version of the craps game and discover everything about it.