Originally Posted by
Alan Mendelson
I can't answer for Rob, but you asked me about craps, and I can respond:
I am a green chip player, so I bet the passline with $25 and FULL odds. At Caesars, that's 3x 4x 5x odds. These have the lowest house advantage -- but not necessarily the best chance to win. And there is a difference. With full odds on the 4 or ten you have the lowest house advantage, but the chance of winning is slimmer than if the "point" is the six or eight.
You ask about the horn and other high house-edge bets. No, not my style. I do make a $5 horn-high-ace-deuce bet on the come-out roll to "insure" my $25 pass line bet in case there is a craps rolled. And I sometimes will bet $5 on the horn high-yo on the "second roll" out of a craps superstition about the "second roll yo," but I am a conservative bettor who bets the numbers, avoids the fields, the hardways, and the "middle bets." And when I press, I press the numbers from the inside moving out.
I do make the firebet when available -- because that is, at most casinos, the only "jackpot bonus" bet available for craps. Otherwise in craps you have to bet big to win big. It is much different from VP where a $5 bet can win a $4,000 royal.