Crapless Craps Odds: What 'Never Lose the Come-Out' Really Costs
Last reviewed: August 2026
Crapless craps makes the friendliest offer on the casino floor: your pass line bet can never lose on the come-out roll. No 2, no 3, no 12 can hurt you. The offer is real, and accepting it takes the pass line from a 1.41% house edge to 5.38%, the biggest markup on any “improved” rule we’ve measured. The trick is that the rule you notice isn’t the rule that costs you.
The trade, stated honestly
At a regular craps table, the come-out roll has three outcomes for the pass line:
- 7 or 11: instant win (8 ways out of 36)
- 2, 3, or 12: instant loss (4 ways out of 36)
- Anything else: that number becomes the point
Crapless craps changes two of the three. The craps numbers no longer lose: 2, 3, and 12 become points instead. But the 11 no longer wins, it becomes a point too. Only the 7 still pays instantly.
So the honest accounting is: you were spared 4 ways to lose, and you gave up 2 ways to win. That sounds like a good deal until you look at what each side is worth.
Why the 11 was worth more than the craps numbers
The 2, 3, and 12 you’re “saved” from don’t turn into wins, they turn into points you’ll usually fail to make. A point of 2 has one way to roll against six ways to seven-out: you’ll make it just 1 time in 7. The 3 and 11 are 1 in 4. These are the worst points in the game, and the rule funnels you onto them.
The 11 you gave up, meanwhile, was a guaranteed instant win 2 rolls in 36. Trading a sure thing for a 25% chance at the same money is the whole con, run in plain sight.
Our solver computes the exact figure: the crapless pass line wins 6557 times in 13,860: a house edge of 373/6930, or 5.38% per bet. The regular pass line is 7/495, or 1.41%. Same chips, same felt, same “pass line” printed in the corner, 3.8× the price.
The full point-by-point picture
| Point | Ways to make it | Chance of making it |
|---|---|---|
| 2 or 12 | 1 vs 6 | 14.3% |
| 3 or 11 | 2 vs 6 | 25% |
| 4 or 10 | 3 vs 6 | 33.3% |
| 5 or 9 | 4 vs 6 | 40% |
| 6 or 8 | 5 vs 6 | 45.5% |
Regular craps only ever gives you the bottom three rows. Crapless adds the top two, and every trip to those rows is money leaking out of your come-out.
Does anything about crapless cost less?
The rest of the table is untouched. Place bets on 6 and 8 still run 1.52%, the field is still 5.56%, and free odds are still exactly 0%: crapless even quotes fair odds on the new points (6:1 on the 2 and 12, 3:1 on the 3 and 11). That leads to the strange inversion we cover in the best-bets guide: in crapless craps, the pass line isn’t even close to the best bet on its own layout.
The verdict
Crapless craps is a well-made product. It removes the single worst feeling in craps, losing your bet to a one-roll 2 before anything even happened, and charges you for the therapy through a number most players never think about. If you play it, play it knowing the price: 5.38% on the line, and every dollar of free odds you can afford behind it (the ladder helps a lot).
Figures computed by our exact crapless craps solver (closed-form rational arithmetic, independently reviewed) and cross-checked against published values. The rule set matches the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood table we photographed in August 2026. See our methodology.