How the Come Bet Works in Craps

Come Bet in Craps lets you start a Pass Line-style wager after the shooter has already established the table point. The bet can win immediately, lose immediately, or move to its own number, where the next contest becomes simple: That number must appear again before 7.

Come Bet in Craps: Core Rules

The Come bet becomes useful once a craps round is already moving. Suppose the shooter has established 9 as the table point. You do not need to wait for that 9 to resolve before making another structured wager. A Come bet creates a separate sequence beginning with the next roll.

Place the wager in the Come area. That next throw effectively acts as a private come-out roll for your bet.

The result is straightforward:

• 7 or 11: The Come bet wins immediately.
• 2, 3, or 12: The Come bet loses immediately.
• 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10: That number becomes the Come point.

The important detail is separation. The shooter may be trying to make a table point of 9 while your Come bet establishes 6. Both numbers now matter, but for different reasons.

A Come bet follows its own sequence. Do not treat its Come point as a replacement for the main table point.

The First Roll

Imagine you place ₱500 in the Come area while the table point is 9.

If the next roll is 11, the wager wins ₱500 at even money. If the roll is 3, the ₱500 is lost. If a 6 appears, the bet does not win or lose yet. Instead, 6 becomes its Come point.

That is where the wager changes character. The opening 7 is good for a Come bet, but after a Come point has been established, 7 becomes the number you do not want to see.

How a Come Point Is Settled

Once a number becomes the Come point, the original wager is associated with that number. From there, the bet waits for one of two decisive outcomes.

• The Come point repeats before 7: The bet wins.
• 7 appears first: The bet loses.

Other rolls normally leave that particular wager untouched.

A Full Roll Sequence

Consider this hand:

1. Table point is 9.
2. You place ₱500 on Come.
3. The shooter rolls 6.
4. Your Come point becomes 6.
5. The next roll is 5. Nothing happens to the Come bet.
6. The shooter rolls 8. Again, no decision.
7. A 6 appears. Your Come bet wins.

The original point of 9 could still be active throughout that entire sequence. This is one reason the Come area can initially feel confusing: Several separate betting stories may be happening during the same hand.

Come Bet Payouts and Odds

The basic Come wager pays 1:1.

A winning ₱500 flat Come bet therefore produces ₱500 in profit, with the original ₱500 stake also returned.

The more interesting part begins when a Come point has already been established. At many craps tables, you can add an Odds wager behind the flat Come bet. That extra wager uses true odds rather than the fixed 1:1 payout of the original bet.

True Odds by Come Point

Come Point 4 or 10

Odds pay 2:1.

A ₱500 Odds wager therefore wins ₱1,000 if 4 or 10 repeats before 7.

Come Point 5 or 9

Odds pay 3:2.

A ₱500 Odds wager would return ₱750 in profit.

Come Point 6 or 8

Odds pay 6:5.

A ₱500 Odds bet on 6 or 8 wins ₱600.

These payout differences are not arbitrary. They reflect how many dice combinations can produce each number before the seven-out condition ends the wager.

If ratios such as 2:1, 3:2, or 6:5 are unfamiliar, converting odds into one consistent format makes the returns easier to compare. 

Flat Bet and Odds Are Separate

Suppose you have:

• ₱500 flat Come bet
• Come point of 6
• ₱500 additional Odds

If 6 arrives before 7:

• Flat Come profit: ₱500
• Odds profit: ₱600
• Total profit: ₱1,100

The two wagers should always be calculated separately. The flat portion pays 1:1, while the Odds payment depends on the Come point.

Tables may also limit how much Odds can be added. A 2x, 3x, 5x or other limit changes the amount you can place behind the wager, not the underlying payout ratio for the number.

House Edge on the Come Bet

The standard Come bet carries a house edge of about 1.41%, the same mathematical structure as the Pass Line. 

That number is best understood as a long-run cost built into the flat wager. It does not mean you will lose 1.41% during a single session, nor does it predict the next roll.

Adding Odds

The Odds portion is different. Because 4/10 pay 2:1, 5/9 pay 3:2 and 6/8 pay 6:5, the Odds bet is paid according to the true probability of the result. In mathematical terms, that portion has no built-in house edge.

There is an important distinction here: Taking Odds does not make your Come point more likely to hit.

If 6 is your Come point, the dice probabilities remain exactly the same whether you add ₱100, ₱500 or nothing behind the wager. Odds simply let more of your total stake sit at a fair payout.

More Odds therefore reduce the effective house-edge percentage across the combined amount wagered, but they also increase the amount of money exposed when 7 arrives first.

Come Bet vs Place Bet

Come and Place bets can both end up attached to 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10, yet the way they reach those numbers is completely different.

Feature	Come Bet	Place Bet
Number selection	Determined by the dice	Selected by the bettor
Opening 7	Wins	No equivalent opening stage
Opening 11	Wins	No special effect
Opening 2, 3, 12	Loses	No equivalent opening stage
Flat payout	1:1	Depends on selected number
Additional true Odds	Usually available after a Come point	Not used in the same way

Place bets give you control. If you specifically want action on 6, you can place 6 directly.

A Come bet makes you earn that numbered position through an opening roll first. You accept the initial 7/11 win condition and the 2/3/12 losing condition, then let the dice decide whether your wager moves to 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10.

Neither structure should be treated as interchangeable simply because money eventually appears beside the same box number.

Multiple Come Bets During One Hand

One of the most interesting uses of the Come bet appears when you place another one after the first has already moved to a number.

Suppose the table point is 5:

1. Your first Come bet moves to 8.
2. You place another Come wager.
3. That wager moves to 6.
4. You place a third wager in the Come area.

You may now have separate exposure to the table point, Come point 8, Come point 6 and a fresh Come wager all at once.

The Seven-Out Interaction

A 7 can produce an unusual combination of results.

Imagine you already have Come bets sitting on 6 and 8, then place another wager in the Come area. The shooter rolls 7.

Your fresh Come bet wins because 7 is an immediate winner on its opening roll. At the same time, the older Come bets on 6 and 8 lose because their points failed to repeat before 7.

The same dice result can therefore win one Come wager while losing two others.

That is not a contradiction. Each bet is simply at a different stage of its own sequence.

Come Bets on Online Craps Tables

Online craps removes the physical chips, but the betting logic stays the same. The useful habit is to separate three things visually: Money still sitting in Come, money that has moved to a Come point and any Odds added behind that point.

When using a craps game through PHJOY, check the individual table rules before adding Odds. Limits can differ between game versions, so the maximum extra stake should come from the rules displayed for the selected table rather than from a general craps assumption.

Keep Each Wager Easy to Read

When several Come bets are active, track them individually:

• Which wager is still on its opening Come roll?
• Which number belongs to each established Come point?
• How much flat money is attached to it?
• Has an Odds wager been added?

That small habit prevents most payout confusion.

Common Come Bet Mistakes

Mixing Up the Two Points

The table point belongs to the shooter’s main Pass Line sequence. A Come point belongs to an individual Come wager.

If the table point is 9 and your Come point is 6, rolling 6 settles your Come wager even though the shooter still has not made 9.

Treating Come Like a Place Bet

You cannot place a standard Come bet and simply choose 6 as its number. The first roll decides whether it wins, loses or travels to a numbered point.

Forgetting That Seven Changes Meaning

Before a Come point exists, 7 wins.

After your wager moves to 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10, 7 loses it.

That change is the heart of the wager.

Combining Flat and Odds Payouts

A winning Come wager pays even money. Optional Odds follow 2:1, 3:2 or 6:5 according to the number. Keeping those two calculations separate makes the result much easier to verify.

Assuming Bigger Odds Improve the Dice

They do not. More Odds improve the pricing of the additional money being wagered, not the chance that your Come point will appear.

That distinction is what makes the Come Bet in Craps easier to understand once the chips start moving: The rules never become complicated. Several simple wagers are merely running at different stages at the same time.