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The Real Money Odds
The problem with craps is that the odds are very much in favor of the house. Although this is probably true of moat gambling games, there are usually also ways of defeating those odds using all sorts of strategies. Craps is designed as a purely random game where the statistics are very straight forward and leave little room for clever mathematical ideas.
Weighing the Odds
In roulette games, it has been discovered that occasionally roulette wheels develop flaws that make the results less random if such a tendency is discovered by players before the house repairs its wheel, this could be costly for the house. Craps dice are far more easily inspected and replaced when necessary making this method invalid in craps. Thus, it might seem that all that is left for players to do when playing craps for real money is to pray and place the bets with the best odds. Yet, there is an element of craps that is not random nor is it controlled by the house…
The Player Element
One of the most popular and perhaps most studied methods of craps is the dice setting technique. This technique (which is also called by several other names) involves a great measure of skill on the part of the craps player. There are some who claim that this skill can be taught. The idea is, that if the player learns a precisely fixed method of rolling the dice he might sufficiently limit the randomness of the role that a statistical advantage could be gained. The idea is not to ensure that the same numbers come up each time, only to alter the dry statistics of a completely random role. Casinos try to limit this effect by requiring the dice to bounce of the wall of the craps table thus increasing the randomness but even so, skill can still triumph. The gambling odds are based on the random division of completely random rolls and the player who manages to roll as identically as possible might be able to limit such randomness in his favor. This technique cannot be used in online craps, of course.
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