You’re in the casino with your last $100 and you want to play a classic table game. You’re tired of blackjack and poker is not for you. It’s down to craps vs. roulette. Which one should you play? Assuming you know how to play both games, there are a few considerations to keep in mind to help you decide which game is for you.

Craps vs. Roulette: Odds
If getting the best odds is your goal, craps is your game. While the odds on roulette are not bad relative to some casino games, providing that you are playing with a single zero wheel, they can’t beat the odds you can get playing craps. This is not true for all craps bets. Some of the craps bets are the worst in the casino. However, if you stick to playing Pass/Don’t Pass and Come/Don’t Come, with as much in true odds as the casino will allow, as well as occasionally buying or placing individual numbers, you are giving yourself a much better chance against the House edge than roulette offers.

Craps vs. Roulette: Game Speed
Both games move fast, but craps at a live casino moves much faster. In addition, you may find yourself making more bets than you expected, since during a hot roll you will probably be covering a lot of numbers, and it all may come to a grinding halt when the player sevens out. Roulette action is a little less crazy, and you’ll probably feel more in control over your bets and the fluctuations in your bankroll.

Craps vs. Roulette: Action
Craps is famously a high action game. While a packed roulette table can offer a lot of excitement as well, nothing in the gambling world compares to a crowded craps table, with chips flying through the air in every conceivable direction, players screaming, begging, praying and cajoling with every roll of the dice, and with the shooter being a superhero one second and a huge goat the next. If high octane action is your thing, you’ll definitely want to shoot for craps. If you’ve never played one of these games, you should give both a shot at least once. But if you’re on your last stack of chips, this should give you a better idea of where you will want to risk it.

It’s the ultimate question: Should you head down to your local casino or simply flip on the laptop when you want to get in some great gambling action. Of course, you can evenly divide your time (and your bankroll) between live casino gambling and online play, but most people have a preference for one or the other. Here are some of the reasons why.

Advantages to Online Gambling Over Live Casino Gambling
The most obvious advantage to online gambling is convenience. When you’re ready to gamble, you can get started in minutes just by clicking on your laptop and navigating to your favorite online casino site. You don’t have to get your money and car keys together, you don’t even need to get dressed! You can just roll out of bed and be in a game in no time flat.

Another big advantage to online gambling over the live version is that there are no hidden costs. When you gamble online, the only money you can lose is the money you bet with. You don’t have to pay for gas, for food outside the home or for parking. You don’t have to tip cocktail waitresses or dealers. All your money goes into the game.

A third big advantage comes with promotions. Live casinos will usually comp you a meal at the casino. Online casinos give you cold hard cash, cash that you can use to give yourself the ability to build your bankroll.

Advantages to Live Casino Gambling Over Online Gambling
So with all these advantages, why gamble live? There are some advantages to this as well. For some people there is no substitute for the feel, sights, sounds, and smells of a live casino. There is something about the air in a casino, full of people, drama and possibility. Some people feel that it is impossible to get an edge over an online game, but that they can devise a way to beat a live casino table.

Live gaming is also better for people who have trouble quitting. When you play online, you can stay plugged in until every dime you have is gone. At a live casino, external factors, such as hunger or the lateness of the day, force you to recognize that it may be time to take a break.

Finally, some people prefer the opportunity to earn a free meal, tickets to a show, or even a hotel stay, promotions you cannot earn online.

The number of table games available at your local live or online casino has expanded considerably over the last few decades. The old days of just blackjack, craps or roulette are long gone. Now, the floor features any number of games, some lasting only a short time and then disappearing, others enduring for years. One game that seems to be standing the test of time is Let It Ride.

How to Play Let It Ride
Let It Ride is a simple game that can be played by anyone who knows the rules of poker. Each player puts up three identical wagers (plus a one dollar bonus wager if they desire) and receives three cards. The goal is to make your best five card poker hand with those three plus the dealer’s two cards, which are unrevealed. Once the player sees his three cards, he can pull back one of his bets if he chooses. After he pulls the bet back (or doesn’t), the dealer turns over one of his cards. Now that the player knows four-fifths of his hand, he can pull back another bet if he chooses. Once he makes his decision, the last card is turned over, and bets are paid off. If a player is dealt a winning hand in his three cards (meaning a pair of tens or better or three of a kind), he should choose to “Let It Ride,” placing his cards underneath the last bet, signaling to the dealer that all three bets will play no matter what.

Let It Ride Strategy
Let It Ride is all about survival. You want your bankroll to last long enough so that you will still be playing when you are dealt a big money hand like a full house or four of a kind. To increase the likelihood of this survival, you want to resist the urge to leave bets up when you don’t have a winner in hand. If you have three to a flush or open-ended straight, your odds are much better if you pull back the first bet, and then leave the second bet up if your hand is still live after the dealer turns a card over. The only exceptions might be if you have three to a royal flush in hand, or even just three cards ten or above, because you can win not only with a straight (or flush or straight flush if you have suited cards) but by pairing just one of your cards.