Thus, summing_all terms using a geometric progression leads to Pr(winning a game of
craps) of 0.4929, or a house advantage of 1.414% on pass line bets.
If the shooter rolls two, three, or 12, ("
craps") on the come-out roll, the bet is lost.
"You could tell by the way McCain played that he knows his
craps. This was a guy who wanted action on every roll," said Lane.
But Buchbinder said Weprin was an excellent gambler because "he knew how to handle money at the
craps table.
Players may wager money against each other (street
craps) or a bank (casino
craps).
According to the New Oxford America, Dictionary, the primary meaning of
crap is "something that is of extremely poor quality." This meaning is easy to recognize and well demonstrated by a conversation from the movie Ed Wood:
"And I used to make a lot of money, when I first started, just playing gap and
crap."