Craps: Coming Out

Video Transcript

"So if you're playing craps in a casino, every turn starts usually with people placing bets on what's called the pass line and there's a new shooter and the person tending the craps table for the casino says, "new shooter coming out, it's a coming out roll." Well let's talk about a coming out roll, what is that? In the at home version, it's simply you take the two dice, it's the first roll of your turn and you're trying to establish a point or get a seven or eleven. You get a six, that's your point. That's a coming out roll. So what's good on a coming out roll are the following: seven, which can be made a number of different ways, such as six plus one, so that's a seven. It's also good if you get eleven. So at the at home version, score yourself a point if you get eleven, or point if you get seven. It's also good to get six, four, five, eight, nine or ten, it's bad. Give yourself a minus one point if you get a three, a twelve or snake eyes, that's what's in play for come out roll."