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| Craps |
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 This dice game is most popular in private American gambling as
featured in the thriller,
The Big Town. Any
number may play. Each person in turn may, as the shooter, cast two matched dice
in attempting to roll a winning combination. The casino game often mistaken as
Craps is Bank Craps which is also
covered in the Casino
section.
Before his first throw the shooter puts up a stake, and the
other players fade it, i.e., bet against the shooter up to the
amount of the stake. The shooter must withdraw any part of his stake that is
not faded. If he wins, he may continue to shoot and bet again, as much or as
little as he wants; or he may give up the dice. If the shooter loses, the other
players take away double the amount they faded. The other players also may bet
among themselves as to whether the shooter will win or lose in the next series
of throws or whether certain numbers or combinations will appear. In Bank Craps
players may bet only against the house.
If the shooter throws a 7 or 11
(natural) on his first roll, he wins; if he rolls 2, 3, or 12 (craps) on the
first roll, he loses. Bets are settled; the shooter keeps the dice and puts up
the next bet or, if he declines to shoot again, passes the dice to the player
on his left, and the game continues. If the shooter's first throw is 4, 5, 6,
8, 9, or 10, that number is his point, and he continues to throw until he rolls
the same number again (makes his point) and wins or throws 7 (misses out, or
craps out) and loses both his bet and the dice. Side bets may be laid with or
against the shooter, either before he has a point (coming out) or after (will
or won't make his point).
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| Hazard |
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This dice game dates
back at least to the 14th century and once popular and played for high stakes
in English gambling rooms. The name of the popular dice game of craps derives
from the nickname crabs for the cast 1-1 in hazard. The modern rules of craps
also grew out of the old English game.
In hazard the banker, or setter,
sets a stake. The player, or caster, calls a main (a number from 5 to 9,
inclusive) and then throws two dice. If he throws in, or nicks, he wins the
stake. Five is nicked by 5; 6 by 6 or 12; 7 by 7 or 11; 8 by 8 or 12; 9 by 9.
The caster throws out, losing the stake, when throwing aces or deuce-ace
(crabs, or craps) or when throwing 11 or 12 to a main of 5 or 9, 11 to 6 or 8,
and 12 to 7. Any other throw is his chance; he keeps throwing until the chance
comes up, when he wins, or until the main comes up, when he loses. When a
chance is thrown, the setter pays more than the original stake, according to
specified odds. In French hazard the player throws against the house. In
English, or chicken, hazard the player throws against an opponent.
Chuck-a-Luck, a game played with three dice, is sometimes called
hazard.
Hazard was the most popular game played at Crockford's, the
famous gambling club opened in 1828 in Mayfair by
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| Sic Bo (Grand Hazard) |
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This dice game has
many names but the original is Grand Hazard. The chinese call it Sic Bo
which means "Dice Bowl" in reference to the bowl that three dice and held
before rolling. In America it is known as chuck-a-luck. It is not the
same as hazard.
Basic equipment includes three dice and a chute
(or cage or bowl), containing a series of inclined planes that tumble the dice
as they fall. The only material difference between grand hazard and
chuck-a-luck is in the layout: the grand hazard layout is more complex and
provides spaces for wagering on odd or even, high or low, triples (called
raffles), and any number the dice may total, from 4 to 17. The percentage in
favour of the house, when a player bets on any particular number, varies
considerably.
With three dice used there are 216 possible outcomes
based upon the roll of the dice. The most common bets in Sic Bo are called
'Big' and 'Small'. To win a Small bet the 3 dice should total between 4-10, a
Big bet is won when the 3 dice total 11-17. Both of these bets pay even money
and have a low house edge. Probability of winning is 48.61%. House edge is
2.78%. Another easy Sic Bo bet is to wager whether the dice total will be even
or odd, this is also an even money bet except when the dice show up as three of
a kind. Probability of winning is 48.61% and house edge is 2.78%
While
almost all Sic Bo games are identical sometimes you’ll see online casinos
with different payout structures. It's important though not to accept anything
less than 180-1 on triples. Full odds table
here.
Chuck-a-luck
this uses a wire cage or cone-shaped
chute. The chute, called a "horn," is made of leather or metal. The phrase
"tinhorn gambler" derived from gamblers who set up games of Chuck-a-Luck with
little money and a metal chute, which was cheaper than a leather one. Other
rules are similar to those of Grand Hazard. |
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