Bet Big and Gain Small in Craps
Posted in Craps on 04/17/2026 01:25 pm by Donovan
If you consider using this scheme you want to have a very large amount of money and remarkable fortitude to leave when you accrue a small win. For the purposes of this material, a sample buy in of $2,000 is used.
The Horn Bet numbers are certainly not judged the "successful way to compete" and the horn bet itself carries a casino edge well over twelve percent.
All you are playing is five dollars on the pass line and a single number from the horn. It doesn’t matter whether it is a "craps" or "yo" as long as you gamble it routinely. The Yo is more established with players using this approach for obvious reasons.
Buy in for two thousand dollars when you join the table but put only $5.00 on the passline and $1 on either the 2, three, 11, or twelve. If it wins, beautiful, if it does not win press to two dollars. If it does not win again, press to four dollars and then to $8, then to $16 and after that add a $1.00 each time. Each instance you don’t win, bet the previous bet plus a further dollar.
Adopting this approach, if for example after fifteen tosses, the number you wagered on (11) hasn’t been thrown, you probably should march away. Although, this is what possibly could happen.
On the tenth toss, you have a total of $126 in the game and the YO finally hits, you gain three hundred and fifteen dollars with a take of $189. Now is a perfect time to march away as it’s more than what you joined the game with.
If the YO doesn’t hit until the twentieth roll, you will have a total bet of $391 and seeing as current bet is at $31, you gain $465 with your profit of $74.
As you can see, adopting this system with only a one dollar "press," your gain becomes smaller the more you bet on without succeeding. That is why you have to walk away once you have won or you should bet a "full press" once again and then carry on with the one dollar increase with each hand.
Carefully go over the data before you attempt this so you are very familiar at when this approach becomes a losing affair rather than a winning one.