All the four casino house staff coordinate with each other to check that the payouts made to the winning players are correct. If for any reason one of the base dealers have to absent himself from the game table, it means that the gamblers can only play and put bets on one half of the table that is functional.

The shooter in a craps game is required by the dealers to roll the dice using only one hand and such that the dice would bounce off the farther side of the wall surrounding the game table. This prevent cheating techniques like switching the dice or controlled rolling. If a die falls of the game table, either the shooter must select a new one from the remaining three (two out of five were originally selected) or the same die may be used in play if the boxman approves. This is done to prevent use of loaded dice.

This can be explained by an illustration of the situation. So, if a player has betted $20 as his pass line bet, then he is entitles to make a pass odds wager at $100. Now if the point he makes is 4 or 10, he will win $200, if his point turns out to be 5 or 9, then his winnings is $150 and if his point is 6 or 8, the player wins $120. So it is seen that for the player making a point of 4 or 10 is most advantageous and profitable when he is placing a wager on the pass odds. However, it must be remembered that the winnings of the player in the pass odds wager is above and beyond the pass line bet he had made on which he wins separately.

A typical game of craps played in the casino requires the involvement of more than one house staff to conduct the game from start to finish. This is significant because no participating player can take up the dual role of being a gambler and a conductor of the game and the play is supervised and run entirely by specialized personnel appointed by the casinos for this purpose. One such casino employee who is involved in the craps game is the boxman. The responsibilities of the boxman include watching over the chips and coloring out for the players, that is, exchange smaller denomination chips and handing out equivalent amount of larger value chips. The boxman is also required to perform the task of supervising the two dealers who are positioned on either side of him. Also called the base dealers, their job during the craps game is to collect all the bets made by the participating players and make payment accordingly to the winners and take away the wager made by the losing gamblers.

Once the point has been established, the casino dealers place a puck or an on button on that number so that all the participating players at the game table know it. The shooter gets the chance of rolling the dice continuously until the point or a 7 is rolled. If the shooter manages to roll out the point, anyone who made the pass line bets wins his wager while those who betted on the don’t pas line will lose. If the 7 is rolled the situation is called a ‘natural out’ and now the players with a pass line bet lose the wager which is won by them who had staked on the don’t pass line. When the 7 out situation occurs, it means that the current shooter’s play in the craps game has come to an end and the dice is passed over to the next player who wishes to act as the shooter.

The game starts when a player intends to make a point as the shooter. He is required to stake a minimum bet amount as regulated by the game table on either of the two lines – Pass or Don’t Pass. In some games of craps, these are alternatively known as the Win or Don’t Win wagers as regards to the result of the shooter’s round of play. This is followed by one of the casino house staff involved with the conduct of play and called the stickman presenting the shooter with a choice of five dice from which the player selects two. There are eleven possible counts of number that can be rolled from the coordinates of six – 2 (1-1), 3 (1-2 or 2-1), 4 (2-2, 1-3 or 3-1), 5 (1-4, 2-3, 3-2 or 4-1), 6 (3-3, 1-5, 2-4, 4-2 or 5-1), 7 (1-6, 2-5, 3-4, 4-3, 5-2 or 6-1), 8 (4-4, 2-6, 3-5, 5-3 or 6-2), 9 (3-6, 4-5, 5-4 or 6-3), 10 (5-5, 4-6 or 6-4), 11 (5-6 or 6-5) and 12 (6-6).