Because gambling and especially craps is so popular many people love to play it. Instead of being one of those people who are always watching shouldn't you be one of the people who are playing and winning while having a great time doing it. Last time we went over the very basics of craps and the shooter.  This time we can expand a little more and go over some more aspects of the basics of craps.

 

So we had left off with the basics of rolling the pair of dice and what the outcome would be when certain numbers are rolled.  First of all there are a few ways to place a bet in craps.  You can place a bet about what the out come of the round will be.  That means that you can place a bet on whether or not the "point" will come up again or the shooter will get a seven.  You can also make a bet on whether or not a certain total will come up or a certain total will come up before a seven does.  You make these bets by placing a certain amount of chips down on the table.

 

Now moving onto all of the people who will work the craps game.  Craps is unlike any other casino game in the fact that there are many people who have to work the table in order for the game to function correctly.  There are four people who work the craps table in a casino.  They are called a stickman, a boxman and there are two base dealers.  A stickman is the person who stands at one end of the craps table across from the boxman and his or her job is to yell out the outcome of each roll.  After that they are responsible for collecting the die with a long stick.  Hence the stickman name.   The stickman is also in charge of any bets that are placed at the far end of the craps table. The boxman is the person who is in charge of the chips, both guarding them and handing them out.  The boxman is also in charge of supervising the dealers.  Now the two base dealers are in charge of collecting the chips and also handing out the chips for the previous bets.

 

There are certain rules that the casino employees who are in charge of the craps game will fill you in on.  First there will be the fact that when there is a new shooter the stickman will show the person five dice. Of those five dice the new shooter will pick two of them.  This is meant to prevent any kind of cheating.  Also the shooter will be informed to make sure that when he or she throws the two dice that they must hit a part of the wall that is surrounding the table and bounce back.  If one of the die goes off the table a new one will be picked out from the remaining three that are left.  If for any reason the shooter insists on using the one that flew off the table they may as long as the dice passes an inspection by the boxman.  All of these rules are again used to make sure that there is no cheating in craps.  People love to cheat the casinos and they will use every effort to make sure that there is absolutely no kind of cheating going on.  The casino employees always want to make sure that there are no loaded dice being used and that no shooter is trying to make a controlled throw.  But mostly they are there to play the game with you and give you a big stack of chips if needed.