• Better Odds Craps Or Roulette
• Better Odds Of Winning Craps Or Blackjack
• Best Odds Craps Or Blackjack
• Which Has Better Odds Craps Or Blackjack

The question “Does craps or blackjack offer better odds” was posed to me at breakfast this morning with Ryan.

Better Odds Craps Or Roulette

I said “Blackjack”.

Ryan replied, “I’ll make you a $10 bet that Craps has better odds than Blackjack”.

I took that bet.

The average blackjack player gives the house 2% odds, a good blackjack player only gives the house a 0.5% advantage, and a card counting player actually has a positive 1% advantage for himself.

Better Odds Of Winning Craps Or Blackjack

Instead, craps players who faithfully place odds bets as their bread and butter, will find their success consistent enough to give them earnings to stay at the table. Strengths and Weaknesses of Craps and Blackjack. Frankly, most players are going to lose more money than they win at both the craps and blackjack tables. The other most basic bet in craps is the come bet. This is just the pass line bet again, but it treats one of the rolls subsequent to the original come out roll as a new come out roll. It has the same 1.41% house edge as the pass line bet. The only other bet you need to concern yourself with is the free odds bet. For example, the odds of a full house are the same regardless of denomination. But a dollar machine might pay you 9 times your bet for a full house, while a nickel machine might pay you only 7 times your bet. It's similar to 3-2 Blackjack vs. The odds of a Blackjack are the same, but 3-2 pays more per Blackjack than 6-5.

The problem with this bet is a common one in business… it’s a very poorly defined contract. We did not write it down. We didn’t define a number of key terms. We didn’t say which situation this should apply to.

Here is some of the issues:

Best Odds Craps Or Blackjack

• Real life or hypothetical? Hypothetically, Craps could approach nearly 49.999% odds of winning for the player if the player only played the pass line bet than went 1,000 time higher on the Odds bet. In real life, the very best deal we could find was a casino in Vegas offering 100 to 1 on the odds bet. Hypothetically, a perfect Blackjack player could count cards and have somewhere around a 51.5% chance of winning. Which leads to the next point…
• Is this just a one time bet or over the course of an entire day of playing the game? I was thinking it was over the course of time… no one just plays one hand of Blackjack, you sit down and play for awhile. Ryan thought it was just one individual bet inside of one single toss of the dice for Craps.
• I also simply have never played Craps and had to have him explain the structure to me. Ryan seemed more knowledgeable in Craps, but not an expert. He did not seem to know much about Blackjack, and I know just enough to be mildly dangerous.
• In a casino or at home? I think we both meant in a casino, but this was not defined.
• Bad players vs good players vs optimal players vs superhuman players? Most people who play both craps and poker are not good players and lose significant money at both. This article from UNLV analyzes this a bit… a craps player playing pass / come gives the house a 1.4% advantage, but a player playing craps with pass/come with double odds only gives the house a 0.6% advantage. The average blackjack player gives the house 2% odds, a good blackjack player only gives the house a 0.5% advantage, and a card counting player actually has a positive 1% advantage for himself. Ryan tried to counter the card counting player by saying theoretically a superhuman craps player could control how to roll the dice like a bowler bowls, but there is no real life examples of this.

Which Has Better Odds Craps Or Blackjack

I argued vociferously that most people can be trained to do a basic card counting system, therefore blackjack is the best game in a casino for the optimal player. I also said that an average player will do better with blackjack by just following the dealer’s advice and only give the house a 1% advantage, whereas the average craps player usually does lots of weird bets that make the game more fun but give the house a 10-20% advantage.

Ryan argued equally strongly that card counting is not allowed by casinos and we should only look at a single portion of a single bet (the 50-50 ratio of the Odds bet in craps) vs a single hand of blackjack.

I think the real lesson here is the vital importance of only making agreements that both parties have a much stronger understanding of than what Ryan and I had here. It was fun though to debate and learn more about each game though.