Take One Leave One Craps
The come bet works much like the pass line bet and it is one of the most popular wagers on the table with some of the best odds and lowest house edge. The only difference between the come bet and the pass line bet is that you are wagering on the come bet only after a point has been established. Take One Leave One Lyrics: Let the tree fall without / The rest will stand erect / Take one leave one go ahead dear / Bless their heart / They do not know / Exactly what to say / Some will go. Betting in craps comes in different forms and there are different types of wagers you can make. When it’s your turn, you become the shooter. This means you’re the one rolling the dice and you are required to make a Pass Line bet or a Don’t Pass Line bet. This is a fundamental craps bet because it signifies a wager for the shooter to win.
The penny jar philosophy of convenience store checkout counters everywhere inspired Larry Littrell to stick a few flies to a gas pump in Oak Hill, FL. A tattered scrap of double-sided foam tape that once displayed a long-lost advertisement acted as a perfect makeshift fly patch. He didn’t expect that this one random gesture of angling camaraderie would grow into something huge.
“Lo and behold, I came back a few days later and the flies were gone,” Littrell says, “and somebody’d left new ones.”
Without even trying, Littrell, host of the Tailer Trash podcast, had just started The Flybrary Project. Now, there are thousands of Flybrary locations at boat ramps and trailheads from New Zealand to Alaska, not to mention a website, a large social media following, and an online map on which Littrell tries to keep the locations up to date.
“It creates a spot at the put-in or the take-out, or where you walk in and park, where people get to bump into each other, and hopefully it creates that little piece of brotherhood,” Littrell says. “The concept behind it is to share. If you have a pattern that was working, hang it on the Flybrary.”
Photo: Courtesy The Flybrary Project
Littrell’s goals for the project are to have fun, create a sense of community, and share knowledge. He loves hearing from people who’ve found a Flybrary while traveling and have gleaned insight on a new fishery by seeing the flies people have shared. He enjoys seeing the inherent goodness in anglers who are willing to share and who get out there to put up a new patch when one gets vandalized or destroyed.
Evolving beyond the initial foam scraps, Littrell teamed up with Castaway Customs to create sharp-looking SeaDek foam patches that they sent for free to anyone who requested them. 3,000 patches later, they now charge $5 a piece to cover costs.
Take One Leave One Craps Machine
“We’re certainly stoked when someone gets one of the SeaDek pads,” he says, “but we honestly get the most joy out of seeing people that create their own Flybraries. My favorite one I’ve ever seen—somebody found a flip flop on the river, wrote Flybrary on it in metallic Sharpie, screwed it to a tree, and stuck some flies on it.”
Photo: Courtesy The Flybrary Project
Running the Flybrary Project Instagram (@flybraryproject) account has given Littrell some of the best interactions he’s had since starting the project, and many of them come from people who aren’t even fly anglers.
“My favorite part is when it transcends,” he says. “When people outside of flyfishing see it. They see that we have a community. They recognize that. And that’s been the coolest thing.”
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Craps seems like a complicated game because there are so many terms and slang for different bets. Learning the lingo can help you understand the game.
Take One Leave One Craps Game
- 2-Way: Player betting one roll wager for himself AND the dealers.
- 3-Way Craps: A bet made in units of 3 with one unit on 2, one unit on 3, and one unit on 12.
- Aces: Betting that the next roll will be the total sum of 2. Also called Snake Eyes.
- Any Craps: A bet that the next roll will be 2, 3, or 12.
- Any Seven: A bet that the next roll will be 7.
- Big Red: Another word for seven. Players will not use the world seven at the table.
- Black: Dealer slang for $100 gaming chips which in most casinos are black.
- Bones: Another name for dice.
- Boxcars: Slang for the 12. Also called midnight.
- Boxman: Table supervisor who sits between the dealers and opposite the stickman.
- Box Numbers: These are the place bet numbers; 4-5-6-8-9-10.
- Boys or The Boys: Slang for the Dealers.
- Cold Dice: Expression used to describe the table when no one is making their point.
- Color In: What you say when cashing out smaller valued chips for larger valued chips when leaving the craps table.
- Come bet: A bet made after the point is established. It is exactly like a pass line bet.
- Come out roll: The first roll of the dice to establish a point.
- Comp: Complimentary or freebies provided to players based on their action.
- Crap Numbers: The numbers 2,3 and 12.
- Craps Check: Betting on any craps during the come out roll to hedge your pass line bet.
- Don't Come bet: A don't pass bet made after the point is established.
- Don't Pass bet: A bet that the shooter will not make his point.
- Double odds: An odds bet that is twice the size of the original pass/come bet. Some casinos offer higher odds.
- Eye in the Sky: Surveillance department or the cameras in the ceiling to watch the players and dealers.
- Front Line: Another name for a pass line bet.
- Garden: Slang for the field bet.
- George: A player who is a good tipper.
- Green: Dealer slang for $25 gaming chips which in most casinos are green.
- Hard Way: A bet on 4, 6, 8, or 10 that wins only if the dice roll as pairs; 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, 5-5.
- Hi-Lo: A one roll bet on 2 & 12
- Hi-Lo-Yo: A one roll bet on 2,12 & 11.
- Hop bet: A bet that the next roll will result in one particular combination of the dice, such as; 3-5. 2-2, 3-3, 4-4 etc.
- Horn bet: A bet that the next roll will be 2, 3, 11, or 12, made in multiples of 4, with one unit on each of the numbers.
- Horn High bet: A bet made in multiples of 5 with one unit on 3 of the horn numbers, and two units on the 'high' number (number 12).
- Hot Dice or Hot Table: When players are winning or a player is rolling a lot of numbers.
- Inside Numbers: Place bets on the numbers 5-6 -8-9
- Lay bet: A bet that a 7 will be rolled before the number you are placing (4,5,6,8,9, or 10) comes up.
- Lay-Out: The printed area on the felt where wagers can be placed.
- Lay Odds: After a point has been established an additional odds bet can be made that will win if the original don't pass bet wins.
- Little Joe: Slang for a pair of twos or Hard 4.
- Marker: The plastic disk used to mark the point. One side is printed “on” and the other “off”.
- Mark the Point: The dealer puts the Puck on the layout to indicate the point number.
- Midnight: Slang for the 12. Also called box cars.
- Natural: A seven or 11 thrown on the come out roll for a winning bet.
- One Roll Bet: A bet in craps that is one or lost in a single roll.
- Odds Bet: An additional wager made in addition to the pass line bet.
- Off: What you say to indicate that they are not active on the next roll of the dice.
- Off and On: Refers to the way that Dealers pays off COME BETS when a new come bet is the same number as one already established.
- On: This means that your bets are working or in action.
- Outside Numbers: Place bets on the 4-10 –5-9.
- Parlay: Adding your winnings to an original bet and wagering it all.
- Pass Line Bet: A wager made on the come out roll in which you are betting that the shooter will make the point.
- Place bet: A bet that a particular number (4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10) will be rolled before a 7 is rolled.
- Point: The number established by the come out roll.
- Proposition Bet: A wager on one of the bets in the center of the layout.
- Right Better: A player with a bet on the pass line.
- Rack: The grooved rail where you keep your chips.
- Seven Out: Expression when a shooter rolls a seven before making their point thus losing the pass line bet.
- Shooter: The player rolling the dice.
- Snake Eyes: Slang for the number 2. Also called aces.
- Stickman: The dealer with the stick that pushed the dice to the shooter and calls the rolls.
- Toke: Another word for a tip.
- World Bet: A bet on the horn numbers along with any seven. (2-3-11-12)
- Wrong Bettor: A player betting against the shooter.
- Yo or Yo-leven: The word used for rolling an eleven so as to not confuse it with “seven.”