Tips for Hosting Home Craps Games

Posted on October 30, 2008
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by Matthew Sagehouse

Perhaps, the most exhilarating table in a casino is the craps table. This high energy game of dice rolling and betting is enjoyed by many in casinos. Are you one of those? If so, you should know that there is an entire line of craps tables and supplies that can provide everything you need to have casino style craps games in your very own home.

The luxurious and fancy casino style craps table should be hard to duplicate, with the smooth shiny felt, fancy mirrors, and stylish pyramid rubber bumpers. These special features combined with the elegant wood work and padded rails make the task difficult but not impossible, since there are several options available with all of these features.

If you need something that is easier to store when you are finished with it, then you should consider purchasing a craps felt layout. These layouts are made of felt and have printed on them, a craps game layout. You can spread them out on your kitchen or dining room table and when you are finished, they can be folded up to be easily put away.

Many would say craps is all about the dice. With several options available for casino dice, you can purchases simple play dice with Las Vegas wording on them or opt for precision dice. The precision dice have sharp crisp edges for proper balance, are generally serialized, are available in four different colors, and come in packs of five.

Before you can begin your game, you will still need some additional accessories. A dice stick, made from rattan, so it is strong yet flexible, is needed for the dealer to retrieve dice during play. A dice boat is useful for holding the dice at various times during the game. There are also various buttons that are crucial to the play of the game of craps.

The on/off button for craps is available in a small 1.25 inch wafer style button that is about 1/8 of an inch thick. This button is used to indicate the intentions of individual players. With it the player can call off his or her table bets in an ongoing craps game. There is also much larger on/off puck that is 3 inches in diameter, over ? inch thick, and has two rubber o-ring bumpers. This is typically used by the dealer to indicate the point number, which was rolled in the come-out round.
If it is “Off” then the game is in the come-out round.

If a player wishes to place a bet that a particular point, other than the current point, will be rolled before a 7 is rolled, then the buy bet is placed. This bet is marked by using the Buy side of the Buy/Lay button. To mark a bet with opposite intentions, that is; the 7 will be rolled before a particular point, the Lay side will be used to mark the respective point. This is called a lay bet. The Buy/Lay button is a very important part of the game of craps.

About the Author:
Knowledge of the game of craps helps with purchasing supplies, but some basic necessities are a craps on off chip button and a set of A grade serialized casino dice.

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