The Best Bets in Crapless Craps (It Isn't the Pass Line)
Last reviewed: August 2026
Every craps guide ever written says the same thing: stick to the line bets. Crapless craps breaks that advice. Its pass line runs 5.38%, so expensive that two ordinary place bets beat it outright, and the usual hierarchy of the table turns upside down. Here is every bet on the crapless layout, priced by our solver, best to worst.
The full ranking
| Bet | Pays | House edge |
|---|---|---|
| Free odds (behind the line) | true odds | 0% |
| Place 6 or 8 | 7:6 | 1.52% |
| Place 5 or 9 | 7:5 | 4.00% |
| Pass line / come | 1:1 | 5.38% |
| Field | 1:1, 2&12 double | 5.56% |
| Place 3 or 11 | 11:4 | 6.25% |
| Place 4 or 10 | 9:5 | 6.67% |
| Place 2 or 12 | 11:2 | 7.14% |
| Hard 6 / hard 8 | 9:1 | 9.09% |
| Hard 4 / hard 10 | 7:1 | 11.11% |
| Any craps | 7:1 | 11.11% |
| Ace-deuce / yo (horn 3, 11) | 15:1 | 11.11% |
| Aces / boxcars (horn 2, 12) | 30:1 | 13.89% |
The inversion nobody expects
In regular craps, the pass line (1.41%) comfortably beats every place bet, and guides rightly steer beginners to it. In crapless, the come-out trade quadruples the line’s price while leaving place bets untouched, so place 6 and place 8, at 1.52%, are now the cheapest way to get money on this table without a line bet to hang odds behind.
If you want the simplest defensible session at a crapless table: place the 6 and 8 and stop. That’s it. You give up the come-out entirely, which, at this table, is doing you a favor.
If you want the traditional line-and-odds game, it’s still playable: minimum on the line, full ladder odds behind it, and the blended cost lands at 1.33% of total action, right between the two strategies above.
The new place bets are priced like souvenirs
Crapless lets you place the 2, 3, 11, and 12, bets that don’t exist at a regular table. The payouts look generous (11:2 on the 2!) and run 6.25% to 7.14%. They’re the same trap as the pass line’s new points wearing different clothes: the house knows you’ll make the 2 one time in seven, and 11:2 is comfortably short of the 6:1 that would be fair. If you like those numbers, the free odds versions of them (6:1 and 3:1, exactly fair) are sitting right behind your line bet.
The props: same felt, same advice
The center of the table is identical to regular craps, and so is the advice. Hardways run 9–11%, the horn numbers 11–14%. The 30:1 on aces is the single worst bet on the layout at 13.89%, you’re paid 30 for a 35-to-1 shot. One roll of fun, priced like five place bets. The Hard Rock table also carries crapless-specific bonus bets (Little Ones, Big Ones, Boom or Bust); we haven’t verified their math yet, so we’ll only say they live in the center of the table, and the center of the table has never once been where the good bets are.
Every figure above is computed by our exact crapless solver, the same engine that settles bets in the free simulator, and was independently reviewed before publication. Payouts match the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood layout we photographed in August 2026. Methodology.