A simple framework
Choose Pass/Come or Don’t Pass/Don’t Come, decide in advance how much odds exposure fits the bankroll, and avoid adding bets because of table energy.
Place 6 or 8 can be used when direct number control matters, but it is not automatically superior to a contract bet with odds.
Common language
Inside means 5, 6, 8, and 9; across usually includes 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10. Press increases a wager, regress reduces it, and same bet repeats the prior amount.
Off means a wager does not act for that roll. Working means it does. Proper odds describes bet sizes that pay without fractional rounding.
Systems and regression
Iron Cross, three-point Molly, power pressing, and regression systems package existing bets and stopping rules. Their expectation is the probability-weighted sum of their components.
A system may change volatility or time at the table, but it cannot remove an edge already embedded in the payouts.
Session control
Track total money risked rather than only chips bought in. Odds and pressed bets can make exposure grow faster than the original line wager suggests.
A stop-loss limits future action after a threshold; it does not alter the probability of rolls already taken.
The decision players tend to flatten
For Craps Strategy and Terminology, the table combines contract bets, one-roll propositions and optional odds, so “the craps edge” is not a single useful number.
For Craps Strategy and Terminology, judge the legal choices at the exact decision point. A correct action can lose this hand and still be the better decision.
For Craps Strategy and Terminology, compare the legal actions using only the information available at that decision. The final outcome is not evidence that the choice was sound.
What to record for Craps
- Information available
- amount already committed
- cost of the next action
If a Craps Strategy and Terminology boundary comes from a different pay table or procedure, it belongs to that model—not automatically to this one.
Craps Strategy and Terminology is reviewed against the Craps rules described above. A different pay table or procedure is a different model. Editorial review updated September 24, 2026.