Wager Large and Gain Small in Craps
Posted in Craps on 04/15/2026 03:25 pm by Donovan
If you commit to using this approach you need to have a sizable bankroll and awesome fortitude to march away when you acquire a small win. For the benefit of this essay, an example buy in of two thousand dollars is used.
The Horn Bet numbers are certainly not seen as the "winning way to play" and the horn bet itself carries a house edge of over twelve percent.
All you are wagering is $5 on the pass line and ONE number from the horn. It doesn’t matter if it’s a "craps" or "yo" as long as you play it constantly. The Yo is more prominent with players using this scheme for apparent reasons.
Buy in for two thousand dollars when you approach the table however put only five dollars on the passline and $1 on one of the 2, three, 11, or 12. If it wins, beautiful, if it does not win press to two dollars. If it does not win again, press to $4 and continue on to $8, then to $16 and after that add a $1.00 each time. Every instance you do not win, bet the previous value plus another dollar.
Adopting this scheme, if for instance after 15 rolls, the number you wagered on (11) hasn’t been thrown, you surely should go away. Although, this is what could develop.
On the tenth roll, you have a total of one hundred and twenty six dollars on the table and the YO finally hits, you amass $315 with a gain of one hundred and eighty nine dollars. Now is an excellent time to walk away as it’s more than what you joined the table with.
If the YO does not hit until the twentieth roll, you will have a complete wager of $391 and because your current wager is at $31, you amass $465 with your profit of $74.
As you can see, using this system with only a $1.00 "press," your take becomes tinier the longer you bet on without attaining a win. That is why you should walk away once you have won or you must wager a "full press" once again and then advance on with the $1.00 increase with each hand.
Carefully go over the numbers before you try this so you are very accomplished at when this approach becomes a non-winning adventure rather than a winning one.