Who writes craps.us
Three people write the guides here, and all three publish under pen names. The names are consistent, so you can follow one writer’s work across the site, but they are not the writers’ legal names. We say that plainly because a byline should not pretend to be something it is not.
- Walt Ferrante writes about odds and math: house edges, probabilities, the odds bet, and the calculations behind every table on the site. His work starts at his author page.
- June Okafor covers online casinos and state law: which operators hold licenses in New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, what the regulators require, and how responsible-gambling tools work.
- Dale Rourke covers table games and the casino floor: etiquette, layouts, dealers, variants such as bubble craps, and the practical side of standing at a real rail.
Each page names the writer responsible for it. When a page changes in a way that matters, that writer checks it again.
What each writer checks
Walt owns the numbers. Every house edge, payout and probability passes through him before a page goes up, and each one comes out of the same calculation module instead of a copied table. When a page quotes a simulation, it states how many shooters or sessions were dealt, so anyone can repeat the run and land on the same result.
June owns the licensing claims. An operator appears on the site only after she has found it on the regulator’s own list of approved operators, and that list is the only proof of a license that counts. Her pages link to the regulator wherever a reader might want to verify a statement, so nothing about who may operate rests on our word.
Dale owns the casino directory. A casino is added when its own website or its state gaming regulator confirms that it runs a craps table, and each entry carries the date it was checked. He goes back over the list on a schedule and whenever a reader reports a change, and a casino that closes its pit is updated the same day.
What the site covers
The guides run from the basics of the come-out roll to the full list of bets, betting systems, craps variants and free practice tools. The online section covers licensed real-money craps only, in the seven states that license online casinos, for adults 21 and over who are physically inside the state. There is also a directory of land-based casinos that spread craps tables.
Every online operator named here appears on a state regulator’s license list. That is the entry ticket, and it is checked before anything else.
How the site is funded
craps.us earns money through affiliate commissions. When you follow a link from this site to a licensed operator and open an account or make a deposit, that operator may pay us a commission. It costs you nothing extra. The full wording is on the affiliate disclosure page.
A commission is paid for a referral, never for a verdict. The guides describe what each game pays, and the operator gets the same description whether it pays us or not.
Why the math stays independent
A house edge is a fact about the dice, not an opinion about a casino. Every probability, payout and edge on the site comes from one calculation module that works from the 36 possible dice outcomes, and no commercial relationship can change what that module returns. If an operator’s game pays less than the standard table, we say so, partner or not.
You can check the working yourself on the open math page, and the way we assess operators and casinos is laid out on how we test.
Spotted a mistake?
Numbers get retyped, casinos close tables, and rules change. If something on a page looks wrong, write to us through the contact page with the page address and what you saw. A correction that holds up gets fixed and the page is re-checked by its writer. Which figure would you check first?