Blackjack Rules

a. Early Surrender: allows you to give up or surrender one half of your bet before the dealer looks at his hole card and you’ve taken a hit. Good for situations like your 15 or 16 versus the dealer’s exposed 10.’
b. Late Surrender: a variation of the above. Allows you to surrender one-half of your bet after the you have taken one card or more, prior to the dealer exposing his/her hole card.
c. Blackjack paid at 2-1: reduces the casino’s edge by 2.2%. Not commonly found.
d. Double after split (DAS): commonly applied rule variation that is very helpful to players.
e. Dealer stands on soft 17: only a .2% help for the player, but good nonetheless.
f. Resplit of Aces: allows you to save a split ace hand by splitting again. This same applies to other splits as well.

Craps Rules

Pass Line
A pass line bet is a bet placed before the come out roll (i.e. the first roll of the dice in a new craps round). A wager on the pass line wins immediately if the come out roll is 7 or 11 (naturals), and loses if the come out roll is 2, 3, or 12 (craps numbers). If any other number (4,5, 6, 8, 9, or 10) is rolled, that number becomes "the point." If the shooter rolls the point again before rolling a 7, your pass line bet wins. If the shooter rolls a 7 before rolling the point again, your pass line bet loses.

Don’t Pass Line
A don’t pass line bet is essentially the reverse of a pass line bet, and is also placed before the come out roll. If the shooter rolls 3 or 12 on the come out roll, a don’t pas line bet wins immediately. If, however, the come out roll is 7 or 11, don’t pass line bets lose. If the come out roll is 2, a don’t pass line bet is returned to the player in a push. If the come out roll is 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10, that number becomes the point. Once the point has been established, don’t pass line bets win if the shooter rolls a 7 before rolling the point again. If the shooter rolls the point again before rolling a 7, don’t pass line bets lose.

Come
A come bet is placed before any roll of the dice, once a point has been established by the come out roll. Come bets win immediately if the shooter’s next roll is 7 or 11, and lose if the roll is 2, 3, or 12. If the shooter rolls 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10, that number becomes "the come point." If the shooter rolls the come point again before rolling a 7, the come bet wins.

Don’t Come
A don’t come bet is essentially the opposite of a come bet. Don’t come bets win immediately when the shooter’s next roll is 3 or 12, and lose if the roll is 7 or 11. If the shooter rolls a 2, the bet will be returned to the player in a push. After the come point is established, don’t come bets win if 7 is rolled and lose if the come point is rolled.

Odds
An odds bet is a "back up" bet on an original pass line, don’t pass line, come, or don’t come bet. Gold Club allows odds bets of three times your original bets.

Field
A field bet is a bet that the next roll of the dice will be either 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, or 12.

Big Six and Big Eight
A big six bet is a bet that 6 will be rolled before 7. Likewise, a big eight bet is a bet that 8 will be rolled before 7.

Place Win
A place win bet is a bet that either 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 will be rolled before a seven.

Place Lose
A place lose bet is a bet that 7 will be rolled before either 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10.

Buy
A buy bet is a bet that either 4, 6, 8, 9, or 10 will be rolled before 7. A vigorish (vig.) of 5% is charged when placing the buy bet.

Lay
A lay bet is a bet that 7 will be rolled before 4, 6, 8, 9, or 10. A 5% vig. is charged when placing the lay bet.

Any 7
An "any 7" bet is a bet that the next roll of the dice will be 7.

Any 11
An "any 11" bet is a bet that the next roll of the dice will be 11.

Any Craps
An "any craps" bet is a bet that the next roll of the dice will be 2, 3, or 12.

Horn
A horn bet is a bet that the next roll of the dice will be either 2, 3, 11, or 12.

Hardway
A hardway bet is a bet that the shooter will roll either a 4, 6, 8, or 10 as doubles (2+2, 3+3, 4+4, or 5+5) before rolling a 7. Rolling a number by doubles is said to be rolling the number "the hard way."