Pressing Your Bets in Craps

To press a bet is to put some or all of its win back on it, so the bet grows while you keep the rest. Here's what a full, half and power press mean, the dollar amounts on the 6 and 8, the patterns players use, and a free table where you can practice it.

Play money and real casino odds. The table can bet it for you each roll while you watch how it plays.

The ways to take a win

Say $12 on the 6 wins $14. Place bets on the 6 and 8 go up in $6 steps, so:

"You keep" is what comes back to your rack from that hit; a power press adds $4 of your own to reach $30. Pressing doesn't change the house edge of the bet: Place 6 and 8 keep 1.52% at any size.

Pressing patterns players use

• Collect, then press. Take the first hit on each number, press after that.
• Collect, press, collect, press. Alternate on each hit.
• Press twice, then same bet. Press the first two or three hits, then collect from then on.
• Press to a level. Press until the bet reaches a set amount, then collect.
• Regress then press. Come down after the first hit (a regression), then press later hits.

How the practice table presses

1. $12 each on the 6 and 8 once a point is set (at the $5 chip).
2. The first hit on a number is collected.
3. Each hit after that is half-pressed: half the win, in whole $6 steps and at least $6, goes back on the number; the rest is kept.
4. A seven-out ends it; the next shooter starts again at $12 each.

You can also press by hand with the table's PRESS button, which adds one chip to each of your numbers, rounded so it still pays exactly.

Try pressing the 6 and 8

In crapless craps, and on a bubble machine

Pressing works the same in crapless craps and on a bubble craps machine: you raise a bet on its number after a win. Each number has its own step, so it keeps paying exactly: $6 on the 6 and 8, $5 on the 5, 9, 4 and 10.

How to practice it here

1. Tap the button below, or at the table tap the round ♟ button at the top right and pick Press the 6 and 8.
2. Roll. The table places the 6 and 8, collects the first hit on each, half-presses every hit after that, and starts over after a seven-out.
3. The strip under the table shows the rolls, the shooters and the strategy's running total, kept apart from any bets of your own.
4. Tap Turn off any time and carry on by hand; the bets stay on the table as yours.

Questions

What does press mean in craps?

To press a bet is to add some or all of its win back onto it, so the bet grows. A full press doubles the bet; a half press adds about half the win and keeps the rest.

What is a half press in craps?

Adding about half of a win back onto the bet and keeping the rest. With $12 on the 6 winning $14, a half press takes the bet to $18 and you keep $8.

What is a power press?

Pressing by more than the win, adding some of your own chips. With $12 on the 6 winning $14, pressing to $30 means putting all $14 back plus $4 of your own.

How do you press the 6 and 8?

In $6 steps, so the bet keeps paying exactly 7 to 6. $6 becomes $12, $12 becomes $18 or $24, and so on.

What does same bet mean in craps?

Taking the whole win and leaving the bet as it is. It's also called collecting.

More craps strategies

• Craps strategies: every strategy explained, each with a free table to practice it.
• The 3-Point Molly: a Pass Line and two Come bets, all with odds.
• Place the 6 and 8: the two place bets on their own, or with a Pass Line.
• Regression: start bigger and come down after the first hit.
• Crapless craps strategy: what changes when every number is a point.
• Play Bubble Craps free

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