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How to Play Casino Craps: Come-Out Roll, Point and Basic Bets

Last checked: 5 min read By Live Table Guide Editorial Team

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Craps is played in two phases with two dice. On the first roll, the come-out, a 7 or 11 wins a Pass Line bet, a 2, 3 or 12 loses it, and any other total (4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10) becomes the point. The shooter then keeps rolling: the point again before a 7 wins the Pass Line, a 7 first loses it. Don’t Pass is the opposite bet, with a 12 on the come-out as a push. Loto-Québec’s live craps rules follow this structure and pay the odds bet at 2:1 on 4 or 10, 3:2 on 5 or 9 and 6:5 on 6 or 8, which are the true odds, so that bet carries no house edge. In our check on October 19 and 20, 2026, live craps at Loto-Québec ran from 50¢ to $5,000.

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What happens on the come-out roll?

Two dice give 36 equally likely combinations. On the come-out:

  • 7 or 11: Pass Line wins, Don’t Pass loses. A 7 comes up 6 ways and an 11 comes up 2 ways, so this happens 8 times in 36, about 22.2% of come-out rolls.
  • 2 or 3: Pass Line loses, Don’t Pass wins. That is 3 ways in 36.
  • 12: Pass Line loses, Don’t Pass pushes (the bet stays, neither won nor lost). That is 1 way in 36.
  • 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10: this total becomes the point. That is 24 ways in 36, two times out of three.

Loto-Québec’s rules describe exactly these outcomes for the Come Out phase.

What does the point do?

Once a point is set, the game moves to the Point phase. Only two totals settle the Pass Line now: the point and 7. Everything else is a roll that does not decide it. The chance of making the point before a 7 depends on how many ways each total can be rolled:

PointWays to roll itWays to roll 7Chance point comes first
4 or 10363/9, 33.3%
5 or 9464/10, 40.0%
6 or 8565/11, 45.5%

When the point is made or a 7 is rolled, the round ends and the next roll is a new come-out.

What does the Pass Line cost?

Add up the ways Pass wins. It wins 8/36 on the come-out, plus, for each point, the chance of that point times the chance of making it: 2 × (3/36 × 3/9) for 4 and 10, 2 × (4/36 × 4/10) for 5 and 9, and 2 × (5/36 × 5/11) for 6 and 8. The total comes to about 0.4929. Pass pays even money, so the house edge is 0.5071 minus 0.4929, about 1.41% of each Pass Line bet.

Don’t Pass wins on 2 and 3 and whenever a 7 beats the point, and pushes on 12. Worked the same way, it wins about 47.93% of the time, loses 49.29% and pushes 2.78%, for a house edge of about 1.36%. Barring the 12 is what keeps it from favouring the player.

What is the odds bet?

After a point is set, you can add an odds bet behind your Pass or Don’t Pass bet. It pays the true odds of the point: at Loto-Québec, 2:1 on 4 or 10, 3:2 on 5 or 9 and 6:5 on 6 or 8. Check the 4: it wins one time in three, so a $10 odds bet wins $20 once and loses $10 twice, an average of zero. The same holds for 5 (3:2 against 4/10) and 6 (6:5 against 5/11). The odds bet adds no house edge, so it lowers the average cost per dollar you put on the table. Loto-Québec’s rules give a 99.17% RTP for Don’t Pass and Don’t Come with equal odds.

What are Come and Don’t Come bets?

They work like Pass and Don’t Pass but are placed after a point is already set. The next roll acts as that bet’s own come-out: 7 or 11 wins a Come bet, 2, 3 or 12 loses it, and any other total becomes its own point. Each Come bet then follows its own number until that number or a 7 settles it.

What about the other bets on the layout?

Loto-Québec lists one-roll and multi-roll bets, and offers an Easy Mode with fewer bets for new players. The payouts on these bets vary by table, so the arithmetic matters more than the name. Take a one-roll bet on 7, which comes up 6 times in 36. If a table paid it at 4 to 1, a figure we use only for illustration, a $1 bet would win $4 one time in six and lose $1 five times: 4/6 minus 5/6 is minus 1/6, a house edge of about 16.7%. Compare any payout with the true odds of the total before betting on it.

Where did we find live craps in Canada?

Loto-Québec (lotoquebec.com). Live Craps at 50¢ to $5,000 on the public table page, with an Easy Mode.

PlayNow.com (BCLC). The live casino lobby lists Live Craps. Limits are not shown publicly.

FanDuel Casino (Ontario). The home lobby listed Craps under Tables, with Evolution as provider and a bet range of $0.20 to $500. We could not confirm whether it is a live dealer table or a computer version.

PlayOJO (Ontario). The logged-out live casino page lists Craps By Evolution, with a note that games shown there are illustrative and some may not be available after login.

BetRivers (Ontario). The live lobby has a Craps category; limits and rules open after login.

Our craps and live dealer fundamentals page keeps this list with dates.

What we could not confirm

  • Limits at PlayNow’s Live Craps and at the PlayOJO and BetRivers tables: shown only after login.
  • Whether FanDuel’s Craps table is live or computer-generated.
  • Payouts on one-roll and multi-roll bets at each table: we did not record them.

Check a craps table yourself

Open the table’s rules and find three things: what happens to Don’t Pass on a come-out 12, the payouts on the odds bet for each point, and the payout on any proposition bet you are considering. Then compare each payout with the number of ways the total can be rolled, as in the tables above. Our page on how live dealer games work explains betting windows and voided rounds, and our guide to how to play casino baccarat covers another table game decided by fixed rules.

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Sources

  1. Loto-Québec live casino: Craps rules (EN)
  2. Loto-Québec: Craps live
  3. FanDuel Casino Ontario: lobby home page
  4. PlayOJO Ontario: Live Casino

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