Craps Different Language Part 2

Boxcars are the two six-spot dice. While a boxman is the person who sits in the middle of the table and oversees that the game is handled properly by the dealers who run the game. Little Joe is a hard four (poor guy) while Ada from Decatur is a hard eight and snake eyes are the two one-spot dice.

A proposition at craps is not an indecent proposal but one of the bets in the middle of the layout that has a high house edge which, translated, means how much money the casino takes from you when you win a bet. Vig or vigorish is another term for the house edge not some type of wiggly candy. The field is not a place where one dreams of playing baseball with Shoeless Joe, but it is an area on the layout where you can wager that one of the following numbers will hit on the very next roll: 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, or 12. To make your point is not to win an argument but to hit the number you must hit before the seven shows in order to be a winner! A hop bet is not made on one foot but is a bet that the dice faces you pick will appear on the very next roll. ["Give me five-three on the hop!"] A hot shooter [listen you, watch that mind of yours!] is someone who's making money for the table by rolling numbers and points. The horn bet is not a wager as to whom will get more excited at one of Vegas' sexy shows, but it is a one roll bet that the 2, 3, 11, or 12 will be rolled. A place bet is one that is made directly on the box numbers at the top of the layout. A crazy crapper is not an insane person in the bathroom but a person who makes insanely poor bets with high house edges at craps, such as the hardways, the hops, the any craps and so on. And a buck is that black and white disk that lets you know which number is the point, not a young man on the prowl.

Of course, knowing the language is important but you must know comportment as well. Never dangle your hands over the edge of the table when the shooter is shooting because, if the dice hit your hands, someone very big and very angry just might hit your nose! Never throw your money or chips down in front of the dice as they are rolling. Again, if the dice hit bills or chips, you might find yourself with dental bills for fixing the chips in your teeth after they met that large fist. Never say the word "seven" at a craps table. It's bad luck. Never talk to a shooter when he is about to roll because if he sevens out everyone at the table will want to skin you alive until you're dead. The only people who might like you are the one or two wrong bettors at the table, but they'll like you in a quiet way so as not to be killed.

There's more, much more, but this primer should get you started. Before you know it, you'll be able to fit right in at a craps game, be a citizen of Crapsylvania. You'll be able to simultaneously smoke a cigar, talk in a gravelly voice, and curse the fates (men, you'll be able to do this too!).

Good Casinos Home