How the Three Bonus Craps Bets Work

Bonus Craps consists of three independent side bets on required dice totals before a seven: All Small covers 2–6, All Tall covers 8–12, and All Or Nothing At All covers all ten totals. Maryland Standard Rules — Craps v1.5, Paytable A is the version behind every numerical payout and house-edge calculation here. A current table may differ. The placement, settlement and payout rules come from Chapters 3, 4, 5 and 12 of the Maryland regulator’s official rules.

These are multi-roll table-game side bets, not deposit bonuses. You can place one, two or all three. Each is settled separately, although their outcomes depend on the same dice sequence—they are not statistically independent.

Which totals must appear?

Each required total must appear at least once before a seven; the order does not matter.

The sum of the two dice counts, not a particular combination of faces. A 6 counts whether rolled as 1 + 5, 2 + 4 or 3 + 3. Once 6 is marked, another 6 adds nothing.

When can you bet, and what does a seven do?

Under the selected Maryland rules, you place these wagers before a new shooter’s initial come-out roll, not midway through the sequence. A completed wager is paid immediately; any seven ends only the wagers still unfinished.

The process is:

1. Before the new shooter’s initial come-out roll, choose your wagers and stake amounts. Once placed, the wagers cannot be increased or reduced.
2. The dealer marks each new qualifying total as it appears. Repeated totals add nothing.
3. When every total required for a wager has appeared, that wager wins and is paid.
4. If a seven appears first, unfinished wagers lose and the markers are cleared.

A seven on the initial come-out roll loses all three Bonus Craps wagers before any total is marked. However, a later seven cannot take back an All Small win that has already been paid.

Making a point in the main game does not reset the Bonus Craps totals. If you need an explanation of come-out rolls and points, see the basic craps guide. The main-game wager and the side bet have separate outcomes.

What does Paytable A pay?

Maryland Paytable A pays 34 to 1 on All Small and All Tall, and 175 to 1 on All Or Nothing At All. These are profit odds: the winning stake is returned in addition.

For example, 34 to 1 does not mean a total return of USD 34 for each USD 1 staked. It means USD 34 profit plus the original USD 1 stake.

The same Maryland document also lists Paytable B, a distinct alternative paying 30 to 1 on All Small and All Tall and 150 to 1 on All Or Nothing At All. It is not used in the worked examples or house-edge calculations below. Check the paytable at the actual table before betting.

Two illustrative sequences: what is returned?

With USD 5 on each of the three wagers, completing all ten totals returns USD 1,230, for a +USD 1,215 net result. The sequence 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 returns USD 175, for a +USD 160 net result, because only All Small wins.

Both examples assume USD 15 initially staked under Paytable A, with no additional wagers. These are illustrative settlements, not an observed game or a forecast. All amounts are whole dollars, so no rounding is needed. In the diagram, All abbreviates All Or Nothing At All.

Original Bonus Craps diagram with USD 5 on each wager: all ten totals return USD 1,230 for +USD 1,215 net; 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 returns USD 175 for +USD 160 net; All means All Or Nothing At AllOriginal diagram, not a screenshot of a live table. Each wager has a USD 5 stake. All abbreviates All Or Nothing At All, the wager requiring all ten totals before a seven.

Sequence A: all ten totals appear

The sequence 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 wins all three wagers, but they are not all paid at the same time.

• After 6, All Small is complete: USD 170 profit plus the USD 5 stake returns USD 175.
• After 12, All Tall is complete and returns another USD 175.
• That same roll completes All Or Nothing At All: USD 875 profit plus the USD 5 stake returns USD 880.

The total return is USD 175 + USD 175 + USD 880 = USD 1,230. Subtracting all three initial stakes gives USD 1,230 − USD 15 = +USD 1,215 net. A subsequent seven cannot undo these paid wins.

Sequence B: All Small completes, then seven appears

The sequence 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 wins All Small and loses the other two wagers.

After 6, All Small returns USD 175: USD 170 profit plus the USD 5 stake. The next roll is 7, so the USD 5 All Tall wager and the USD 5 All Or Nothing At All wager both lose.

The total return is USD 175, and the net result is USD 175 − USD 15 = +USD 160. If you had placed only USD 5 on All Or Nothing At All, the same sequence would instead lose that USD 5 stake.

What are the win probabilities and house edges?

With two fair six-sided dice and independent rolls, each five-total wager wins about 2.6353909% of the time, while All Or Nothing At All wins about 0.5257704% of the time. At Maryland Paytable A payouts, the corresponding house edges are approximately 7.7613% and 7.4644% per initial wager.

These displayed values are rounded. The calculation tracks which required totals have appeared, using the probabilities of all 36 ordered two-dice outcomes. Repeated or irrelevant totals leave the wager unfinished; a seven ends it as a loss unless it has already won.

The house-edge formula is:

House edge = 1 − P(win) × (profit-odds multiplier + 1)

The extra 1 accounts for the returned winning stake. To reproduce the probabilities, start with the 36 equally likely ordered dice outcomes: totals 2 through 12 have weights 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. For each set of required totals already seen, the win probability is the weighted average of the probabilities after the next roll: a new required total expands the set, a repeat or irrelevant total leaves it unchanged, and 7 loses an unfinished bet. Assign probability 1 to a completed set and 0 to a loss; move unchanged-state terms to the left and solve backward from the completed set to the empty set. This gives 2.6353909249% for Small and Tall and 0.5257704096% for All. With Paytable A’s profit payouts of 34/34/175 to 1, the formula above gives house edges of 7.7613176297% for Small and Tall and 7.4644079069% for All.

House edge is the model’s average expected loss relative to the initial stake. It is not the probability of losing the next roll or a prediction for a session. One settled side wager may span many dice rolls.

What can you check in the calculator?

The ToolsGambling house-edge calculator can estimate expected loss when you already know the house edge. It does not derive Bonus Craps probabilities from the rules or validate the paytable.

For the verified All Small example:

1. Set the custom house edge to 7.76%.
2. Set the bet amount to USD 5.
3. Enter 100 in the rounds field, treating one round here as one settled All Small wager.

The result is USD 38.80 expected loss. It uses the rounded 7.76% edge, not the more precise value in the table above. This models 100 settled side wagers, not 100 dice rolls. Do not use the hourly projection for this example, and do not treat the result as a session forecast.

The standard ToolsGambling craps payout calculator has no Bonus Craps option. It cannot check these payouts or settle these sequences.

What should you check at a current table?

Check the current rules, paytable and permitted entry time before placing a wager. The dated Maryland document does not establish what any particular table currently offers.

Read the table placard and ask the dealer about:

• Which wagers are available and their exact names.
• Which paytable applies.
• The minimum stake and whether wagers can be placed again after a payout.
• When wagers are accepted and what local restrictions apply.

Some layouts call the all-ten wager Make ’em All, while the selected Maryland version uses All Or Nothing At All. Dice-Ology and Bonus Craps Progressive are separate variants; do not apply this guide’s rules or calculations to them without checking their own rules.