Craps is without a doubt the casino game where most people have the most fun. If you hear a hubbub in a casino, it may be because a slot jackpot has been hit, but day in and day out the noisiest, most lively area of a casino is the craps pit. Thrills, excitement, fun... as usual, where there is fun for the average person, there is a parallel lack of skill.

There are however a large number of bets available at a craps table, and some are much worse than others. Obviously it is pure skill to not bet the worst bets available. Betting the pass line with odds is the best craps bet you can get, with a house edge under 1%. Basically you get the right to make an even money bet by making a parallel negative expectation bet. Oh, joy. But compare that to betting "any seven": the house edge is 16.67% (odds are 5 to 1, but the house only pays 4 to 1) and now the pass line with odds looks like a blue chip stock.

Craps is a gambler's game. There are a lot of ways to bet. You can even simultaneously make contradictory "hedge" bets, apparently thinking that making two bad bets that are opposite is somehow a good thing. In the end that is all the game is: a fun way to give a casino some monetary expectation.