What is the best bet in craps?

Free odds behind the pass or don't-pass line — it carries a 0% house edge and is never printed on the layout. Among printed bets, don't pass (1.36%) and pass line (1.41%) are best, followed by placing the 6 or 8 (1.52%).

What is the worst bet in craps?

Any seven, at a 16.67% house edge — the worst standard bet on the table. The prop box in general (hardways, any craps) runs 9-11%, and Big 6/8 pays worse than an identical place bet.

No. It is a free educational drill with no money and no wagering — you practice identifying the lowest-house-edge bet and the coach grades it with published figures.

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Craps Bet Trainer — Learn the Best & Worst Bets

Free practice, no money — three bets light up, tap the lowest house edge. Every bet's real number is in the table below the felt.

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Practice mode — no money, no betting, no stakes. Craps has the best odds in the casino and the worst, six inches apart on the same felt. Every edge used here is the standard published house-edge figure — the same math as our craps odds page. The dice animation is pure flavor: no roll changes any bet's long-run edge.

Every common craps bet, ranked by house edge

This is the whole game in one table: stay in the top rows, load up on free odds, and treat everything from the field down as the price of entertainment.

Bet	House edge	The honest read
Free odds (behind pass/come)	0.00%	The best bet in the casino — and it isn't printed on the layout.
Don't pass / don't come	1.36%	The best line bet on the felt.
Pass line / come	1.41%	The classic — nearly optimal.
Place 6 or 8	1.52%	Best place bet; pays 7:6.
Field (12 pays triple)	2.78%	Downtown rules; still a grind.
Place 5 or 9	4.00%	Middle of the pack.
Buy 4 or 10	~4.76%	Better than placing them, worse than skipping them.
Field (12 pays double)	5.56%	The standard Strip field.
Place 4 or 10	6.67%	Buy instead, or don't.
Big 6 / Big 8	9.09%	Identical dice to place 6/8 at worse pay. Never.
Hard 6 / Hard 8	9.09%	Prop-box bait.
Hard 4 / Hard 10	11.11%	More prop-box bait.
Any craps	11.11%	One roll, big house cut.
Any seven	16.67%	The worst standard bet on the table.

Play it smart. Gambling is entertainment, not income — the house keeps a long-run edge on every game and no system beats it. If gambling stops being fun, call or text 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537), available 24/7.

This trainer is an educational drill with no wagering. Even the best craps bets are negative expected value; free odds merely dilute the line bet's edge, never erase it. Every texture and sound on this page is generated procedurally in your browser — no images, no audio files.