CRAPS GLOSSARY OF TERMS

Any craps: a bet that the next roll will be 2, 3, or 12.

Any seven: a bet that the next roll will be 7.

Backline: Another term for the Don't Pass Line

Big 6 and Big 8: a bet that a 6 or an 8 will be rolled before a 7 comes up.

Boxman: The supervisor at the center of the craps table.

Cold Table: A loosing table.

Come bet: A bet made after the come out bet that the dice will repeat an established number after betting in the Come Box.

Come out: Rolls of the dice before a point has been established.

Craps: When the numbers 2,3 and 12 are rolled.

Crap Out: When the first roll is a 2,3 or 12.

Dealer: is responsible for all the bets made on his half of the table.

Don't come: A bet made after the come out roll, a bet made against a number.

Don't pass: A bet that the dice will not repeat the point number before a 7. This bet can be placed only immediately before a "come out" roll.

Field bet: a bet that the next roll would be 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, or 12.

Floorman: Someone who supervises a part of the pit

Hard way Bet: a bet on 4, 6, 8, or 10 that wins only if the dice show 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, or 5-5.

Hop bet: A one roll bet on any number.

Horn bet: A bet that the next roll will be 2, 3, 11, or 12.

Hot Table: A winning table Lay bet: A bet that a particular number will not be rolled before a 7

Lay the odds: A bet placed on a number after the point has been established before a 7 is rolled.

Line bet: The initial bet (at the beginning of the game), placed either on the pass line or the don't pass line.

One roll bets: Bets determined by the dice roll.

Pass: Establishment of the point number

Pass bet: A bet that the dice will match the point number before a 7

Place bets: A bet that a particular number (4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10) will be rolled before a 7 comes up

Point numbers: If a 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 is rolled on the come out roll, then this number becomes the "point".

Push: A tie

Right bettor: a player who bets that the dice against the 7.

Seven out: If the 7 is rolled after the point has been established. All bets are lost.

Shooter: the player who is rolling the dice

Stickman: the casino employee who calls out the dice rolls and returns the dice to the shooter.

Vigorish, Vig: A term for the house edge.

Wager: A bet

Working: A verbal call that bets are live.

Whirl bet: a bet that the next roll will be 2, 3, 7, 11, or 12, made in multiples of 5, with one unit on each of the numbers.

Wrong bettor: A player who bets that the dice will roll 7 before the point.



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