Wager Large and Win Small playing Craps
by Ali on Tuesday, March 24th, 2026
If you commit to using this scheme you must have a sizable amount of money and amazing fortitude to walk away when you generate a small win. For the benefit of this essay, an example buy in of $2,000 is used.
The Horn Bet numbers are certainly not deemed the "successful way to compete" and the horn bet itself carries a casino advantage well over 12 %.
All you are gambling is five dollars on the pass line and a single number from the horn. It doesn’t matter whether it is a "craps" or "yo" as long as you wager it constantly. The Yo is more popular with players using this scheme for clear reasons.
Buy in for two thousand dollars when you sit down at the table but only put five dollars on the passline and one dollar on one of the 2, 3, eleven, or twelve. If it wins, great, if it loses press to $2. If it loses again, press to four dollars and continue on to $8, then to $16 and after that add a one dollar each subsequent bet. Each time you do not win, bet the last wager plus one more dollar.
Adopting this approach, if for instance after fifteen rolls, the number you wagered on (11) has not been tosses, you without doubt should go away. Although, this is what might happen.
On the 10th toss, you have a sum of one hundred and twenty six dollars in the game and the YO finally hits, you win three hundred and fifteen dollars with a take of one hundred and eighty nine dollars. Now is a perfect time to march away as it is higher than what you joined the game with.
If the YO does not hit until the twentieth toss, you will have a complete investment of $391 and because your current action is at $31, you win $465 with your gain of $74.
As you can see, adopting this approach with only a $1.00 "press," your gain becomes tinier the longer you play on without winning. That is why you should leave away once you have won or you have to bet a "full press" once more and then continue on with the $1.00 increase with each roll.
Carefully go over the data before you try this so you are very accomplished at when this scheme becomes a losing proposition instead of a winning one.
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