Internet Craps: A Tutorial
The online casino world bustles with traffic. Home-screens flash, jackpots sound and mouse sweeps soar from table, to slot, to wheel.
Through this bustle, through this digital crowd of slot-machine hopefuls and card-playing wannabes, strides, like a gunslinger of the old, the internet craps player. His eyes settle transiently on what's on offer as the digital crowd parts and he glides toward the tables. Then, steely, as if fixed on prey, his eyes settle on the craps game.
The objective is sought and the online atmosphere becomes a tangible thing.
Every purveyor of internet craps can be described in the same manner. The game is brutal in its uncertainty, but beautiful in its simplicity. These 'gunslingers' flit the line between glory and disaster with each role of that virtual dice and push the borders of chance with each bet cast; as they engage in constant battle with the outlaw that is the concept of luck.
Most rookies of online casino craps are struck with awe at just how difficult it is to maintain a winning streak and stay on the positive side of luck's heady gaze. But seasoned veterans of the game know the only way is not to conquer the beast, but to simply stay clear of its jagged teeth and swishing tail, and, in the process, keep watch for its weaknesses and softer spots. This may very well mean that you could suffer a blow or a cut in the process; getting too brave or cocky tends to bring you closer to those gnashing teeth and you will inevitable suffer losses at some point in the game. The trick - and weathered 'gunslingers' all say the same - is to cut those losses, make peace with them, and keep searching for the weaker spots.
How to Play Craps:
For most players, an introduction to craps always begins with the 'Pass Line Bet.' This is the simplest and most effective way to start playing the game, and, in fact, is the only way some players bet, never progressing to other, more complicated versions. The Pass Line Bet shows the game at its most fundamental of levels, and most players never need, or indeed, never want to, progress beyond it.
Every first roll in the game of craps is called the 'come out' roll. Your come out roll determines every other bet, and roll, after and lays the foundation to your confidence within each bet.
Every natural rolled, automatically wins the round. Natural numbers are 7 and 11 and rolling these stops proceedings and puts the win in your favour.
Antagonist to a natural number's protagonist; is a 'craps' number. Numbers 2, 3 and 12 are craps numbers and in opposite to those natural numbers, will lose you the bet every time.
It may seem, then, that the nature of craps demands the total submission of the player to the hand of fate and that the chances of rolling natural numbers pale in comparison to the all too likely chance of rolling a craps number. This may be true, but the game also offers a very interesting feature in the form of the 'Point' numbers.
These are lifelines in the form of 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10. Rolling a point number gives you another roll, another shot at getting the result you want. But beware, rolling a point number once again with a result before 7, may set you on track to taking the jackpot, but, roll a seven before your point number, and the beast that is craps with turn on you, yellow eyes burning, mouth agape to reveal a terrible fate.
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