Match play Advice

Second this.    I thought it was intimidating at first too....but there's really only one bet you need to learn to start and then you can go from there and just learn a little as you go.     

Craps is the only table game I dont fall asleep at.    I find everything else in the pit to be boring.    Blackjack, Roulette, 3 Card Poker.....snore.    

I tried craps on a LVA coupon once with a friend at Silver Sevens (Terrible's). Not a nice experience. To each their own. Craps usually has people screaming and yelling. Fun for many. Not for me.

Since a Pass Line bet is pretty much a coin flip, I don't really understand all the apoplectic fits at the table. You win one bet, you lose another. No point in having a loud public orgasm when the former happens and rending your garments and gnashing your teeth when the latter occurs.

But as you say, the histrionics are the whole point for many people. Craps is one of the many activities, like college football games and outdoor hot springs, that are not made more enjoyable by the presence of lots of people.

the game of craps creates the illusion that you have the luck in your own hand, unlike the other games. Nobody else but the shooter can be blamed when you lose your bet. And that guy is the super hero when the point comes in and you win your money. That's probably the reason why the players need to scream like idiots when they just won 5 dollars. 

If you ever saw the movie "California Split," Elliott Gould is having a monster roll at the craps table and everyone is having a screaming fit, when a LOL makes her way to the rail and puts down a dollar on "any seven." The entire table falls silent, Gould pauses for a moment, sighs, and then rolls the dice. Seven-out, of course.

I have two memories from Caesars Palace back in the day. One, we were having a hot roll, the table was partying, everyone was winning, when up to the table walked Diana Ross. She sweetly smiled and greeted everyone and said she just wanted to check out all the fun everyone was having. The shooter immediately sevened out, and so did the next three shooters. Diana smiled and said goodbye.

The next memory was, at the time, the Lakers played some of their home games in Vegas, at the UNLV stadium. That night, Kareem Abdul-Jabbat broke the all-time NBA scoring record. He, Magic Johnson, and James Worthy went out on the town to celebrate. They came to our table. I was the shooter. Worthy laughed and tossed a handful of green chips to the stickman and said to bet it on eleven.

I then rolled three elevens in a row.

The three of them walked away, clutching handfuls of $500 chips and laughing. We all stared after them, not sure what we had just seen.