Method of playing craps and apparatus therefor

Abstract

An apparatus and associated method which computes a betting strategy for a craps game based solely on the total amount the craps player wagers. The device comes in both a mechanical form and an electronic form. The mechanical form is configured to appear as a notepad in all respects and allows a player to select the total wager amount and provides instructions on which bets to place at selected areas of the craps table, and the suggested amounts. The electronic form is a microprocessor driven handheld device having a keypad to allow the bettor to manually enter the total amount to be wagered. A display driven by the microprocessor will have a plurality of fields corresponding to the areas of the craps table. In response to the entry of a valid total wager amount, numeric values are assigned to the various fields thereby informing the bettor of the suggested betting strategy

I claim:  
     
         1 . An apparatus for limiting betting losses while playing craps on a standard craps table, said craps table having a plurality of areas delineated thereon and predesignated for placing bets having predetermined odds based upon a roll of a pair of dice, said apparatus comprising: 
 a simulated notepad, said notepad having a plurality of sheets, each of said sheets having rows and columns of indicia thereon;    an alignment device slidably engaged with each of said sheets and shaped to allow visual isolation of a selected row of indicia;    whereby said indicia includes information useful for implementing a risk limiting betting strategy.    
     
     
         2 . The apparatus of  claim 1  wherein each of said rows of indicia correspond to dollar amounts of bets to be placed on respective ones of said predesignated areas.  
     
     
         3 . A method for implementing a craps betting strategy on a standard craps table having predesignated areas for placing horn bets and pass/come line bets comprising: 
 determining the total amount wagered on previous pass/come line bets to compute a board bet total;    determining the total amount wagered on previous horn bets to compute a horn bet total;    adding the board bet total to the horn bet total to compute an at risk sum; and,    betting an amount on the horn bet which is greater than the at risk sum by a predetermined amount, and betting an amount the come bet which is greater than the at risk sum by a predetermined amount.