Have you ever wanted to know
how to play craps?

A busy casino is the worst place to figure out craps. The dice roll fast and your money might be gone before you even grasp the basics.

Imagine if you could have a craps expert all to yourself for a little while...then you could find out how to play craps and how much fun this grandest of casino games can be.

Get Dicey: Play Craps and Have Fun is your chance to discover the fun and excitement of craps.

Written by Tracy Michigan, who has thousands of hours of live game experience as a Las Vegas craps dealer, Get Dicey will take you through every bet on the craps table.

>> Start by downloading the free how to play craps guide based on the craps book Get Dicey: Play Craps and Have Fun. <<

Craps has well over 30 different bets. They're all interesting, but you definitely should not play them all.

Take a look at the range of house advantages for a sampling of craps bets.

• Pass line with double odds: 0.61%

• Don't pass with double odds: 0.45%

• Place bet on 6 or 8: 1.52%

• Field bet (pays double on 2 or 12): 5.56%

• Hard 4 or 10: 11.11%

• Horn bet: 16.67%

Along with the technical aspects of knowing the good bets from the bad bets, craps includes a lot of jargon and game etiquette. Yes, I said etiquette. That's hard to imagine when you consider the stereotypical cigar-chomping cussing craps player, but all kinds of people play craps from business people to college students, and craps encompasses various gambler superstitions and codes of behavior.

In fact, the chapter on game etiquette in Get Dicey is so interesting, the magazine Midwest Gaming & Travel featured an excerpt.

So far, with Get Dicey you'll find out which bets to play and which to avoid and how to be cool on the game.

What else do you get from this
craps book?

Everything your craps dealer either doesn't have time to tell you...or can't tell you.

Get Dicey is your chance to find out everything you need to know about craps at the casino.

• You'll find out all the proper betting units so the casino does not round down your payoffs.

• You'll see important information about craps betting limits that can make a difference to how much you win.

• You'll get detailed guides to common and advanced power pressing strategies so you can win the most money possible when the dice get hot!

All right, enough of telling you about Get Dicey, let's see inside this no-nonsense craps book.

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Excerpt from Get Dicey:

Buy Bets

Although playing the six and eight is fun, and probably the best course, the higher payoffs associated with the four and ten are very tempting.  As you remember, place bets on the four and ten pay 9 to 5.  However, place bets on the four and ten usually become buy bets after you bet more than $10 or $20.

“Wait a minute.  Now I have to buy a bet?” you ask.  Sure you do when you are place betting on the four and ten.  Many people enjoy the pride of ownership, but if you buy a bet do not expect to have time to go to the title company and sign papers.  Like all things in craps, it will tend to be a brief verbal transaction.

When you buy a bet, it means you agree to pay a vigorish, or commission, that will entitle your place bet to earn true odds, which are the same odds used for pass line and come bets.  After buying the upgrade on your bet, your bet on the four or ten will pay 2 to 1 instead of 9 to 5.  The dealer will also visually embellished your bet by setting a little colored button on top of the checks that says “buy.” The vigorish is a 5 percent fee applied to your bet.  Players generally refer to it as “the vig” instead of actually saying vigorish, which might be pretentious.  You can also call it juice.  Either way, if you are talking about vigs or juice, you will be considered a dice player. 

An example of a vig fee is $1 for a $20 bet, which equals 5 percent of the bet.  Depending on the casino, you may not have to pay your first vig until the buy bet wins.  However, some casinos will insist on up-front payment of the fee, but do not think that you have to do this everywhere.  To find out the vigorish payment rules for a particular casino, ask your dealer, boxperson, or floorperson.

Your $20 buy bet will win $40, which represents 2 to 1 odds, minus $1, which is 5 percent of $20, and therefore you will be paid $39.  Without the buy, the regular place bet on the four or ten would have earned a 9 to 5 payoff of $36.  

Depending on the casino, you may not be able to buy a number and receive true odds with a bet less than $20.  On a lower limit game, you can usually buy a number with a $10 bet. 

You should also be aware that charging $1 for a $25 buy bet is often allowed as a customer courtesy.  Although the correct 5 percent vig would be $1.25, many houses excuse the $0.25 in favor of encouraging play at a $25 level. 

Remember, if you are going to play at a $20 level and above, buy the four and ten when you choose to play those numbers.  If the outside numbers are rolling, they are one of the best ways to make money on the craps game.  Some players are even committed to buying the four and ten as their basic game strategy.  They disdain the low rent crowd on the six and eight.

If the shooter has a point of four or ten, you can also make your buy bet on the pass line.  This should definitely be communicated to the dealer, who will, if time allows, put the buy button on your bet. 

Although, technically, any number can be bought, some casinos do restrict buying to the four and ten.  If you have the opportunity and desire to buy other numbers, then the odds pay 3 to 2 on the five and nine and 6 to 5 on six and eight.

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Before your next trip to a casino, read Get Dicey: Play Craps and Have Fun. Then you won't have to wander by the craps table and wonder how to play. You'll be able to join that hot craps game where everyone is cheering and get into the action.

Get Dicey is available worldwide in trade paperback and instant download ebook.

With a 128 information-packed pages, Get Dicey includes a glossary, index, and 17 tables that make the craps rules easy to learn.

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