What is “card craps?”
Card craps (sometimes called “craps with cards”) is a table game designed to simulate the action of traditional craps, only it uses playing cards instead of dice. The layout looks like the regular dice game, but the randomness comes from drawing cards rather than rolling bones.
The cards are used as a legal workaround in jurisdictions where dice games are restricted.
From the player’s perspective, it plays almost exactly like regular craps. The numerical values of the cards are added together to produce a total from 2 to 12, just like dice.
On the come-out, the dealer draws two cards. Again, just like regular craps, totals of 7 or 11 are wins for the pass line; 2 or 3 are wins on the don't pass; 12 is a push; and any other total (4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10) becomes the point.
Once the point is established, cards continue to be drawn. Point wins, 7 loses. Place and field bets, hardways, etc. all resolve exactly as they do in dice craps — just triggered by card totals instead of dice.
Anyone who knows how to play traditional craps can play card craps, pretending that the card draw is the dice roll.
