Golden Arm Craps Tournament 2019


Craps is found in all Las Vegas casinos that have more than a handful of table games. The rules are generally the same from one casino to another except for the odds permitted online bets and whether the Field pays double or triple on 12.

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Las Vegas Craps Minimum Bets

Las Vegas craps minimum bets range from $1 to $50. Here is a list of all Las Vegas casinos that spread craps with its minimum bet. These minimum bets were recorded on weekdays. Higher minimum bets may be found during peak hours.

$1 Craps
  • Club Fortune
  • Jokers Wild
$2 Craps
  • Arizona Charlie’s Boulder
  • Jerry’s Nugget
$3 Craps
  • Fiesta Rancho
  • Fremont
  • Sam’s Town
$5 Craps
  • Plaza (Crapsless and traditional game)
  • 4 Queens
  • Aliante Casino
  • Arizona Charlie’s Decatur
  • Bally’s
  • Binion’s
  • Boulder Station
  • California
  • Cannery
  • Downtown Grand
  • El Cortez
  • Ellis Island
  • Fiesta Rancho
  • Gold Coast
  • Golden Nugget
  • Green Valley Ranch
  • M Resort
  • Main Street Station
  • Orleans
  • Palace Station
  • Rampart
  • Santa Fe Station
  • Silver 7’s
  • Silverton
  • South Point
  • Suncoast
  • Texas Station
  • The D
  • Tuscany
  • Westgate
$10 Craps
  • Bellagio
  • Circus Circus
  • Encore
  • Excalibur
  • Hard Rock
  • Harrah’s
  • Red Rock
  • Park MGM Casino
  • Sahara Las Vegas
  • Treasure Island
  • Wynn

Las Vegas Craps Odds

Most craps tables on the Las Vegas Strip offer 3/4/5 times odds. This means that a player can wager three times the flat bet on a 4 and 10, four times on a five and 9, and five times on a six and eight. The maximum win with odds on any of these numbers equals six times the flat bet. A notable exception is The Cromwell, where players may take odds for up to 100 times the original wager.

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Downtown Las Vegas and the locals market tend to spread 10 times odds. There are some exceptions. Below is a list of each odds grouping with the amount permitted by each house.

100x Craps Odds
  • The Cromwell
20x Craps Odds
  • Main Street Station
  • Sam’s Town
10x Craps Odds
  • Aliante Casino
  • Arizona Charlie’s Boulder
  • Cannery
  • Boulder Station
  • Eastside Cannery
  • El Cortez
  • Ellis Island
  • Fiesta Henderson
  • Fiesta Rancho
  • Golden Gate
  • Green Valley Ranch
  • Jokers Wild
  • Palace Station
  • Plaza (craps only, not crapsless, which is 2x)
  • Rampart
  • Red Rock
  • Santa Fe Station
  • Silverton
  • Stratosphere (crapsless and traditional)
  • Suncoast
  • Texas Station
  • The D
5x Craps Odds
  • 4 Queens
  • Arizona Charlie’s Decatur
  • Binion’s
  • Downtown Grand
3-4-5x Craps Odds
  • Aria
  • Bally’s
  • Bellagio
  • Caesars Palace
  • Casino Royale
  • Club Fortune
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Encore
  • Excalibur
  • Flamingo
  • Gold Coast
  • Golden Nugget
  • Hard Rock
  • Harrah’s
  • OYO
  • Linq
  • Luxor
  • M Resort
  • Mandalay Bay
  • MGM Grand
  • Mirage
  • Park MGM Casino
  • New York New York
  • Orleans
  • O’Sheas
  • Palms
  • Paris
  • Planet Hollywood
  • Rio
  • Silver 7’s
  • Treasure Island
  • Tropicana
  • Tuscany
  • Venetian
  • Wynn
2x Craps Odds
  • Plaza (Crapsless table)
  • Railroad Pass
  • South Point

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Complete Las Vegas Craps Survey 2019

CasinoGameMin BetMax Bet# of TablesOddsField 12Video
PlazaCrapless Craps5100012 xTripleNo
StratosphereCrapless Craps102000110 xDoubleNo
StratosphereCraps102000210 xDoubleNo
4 QueensCraps550025 xDoubleNo
Aliante CasinoCraps51000310 xTripleNo
AriaCraps25500083-4-5 xTripleYes
Arizona Charlie’s BoulderCraps21000110 xTripleNo
Arizona Charlie’s DecaturCraps550015 xTripleNo
Bally’sCraps5300043-4-5 xDoubleYes
Bally’sCraps15500013-4-5 xDoubleNo
BellagioCraps10500013-4-5 xTripleYes
BellagioCraps25500083-4-5 xTripleYes
Binion’sCraps550035 xDoubleNo
Binion’sCraps320012 xDoubleYes
Boulder StationCraps52000310 xDoubleNo
Caesars PalaceCraps25500013-4-5 xTripleNo
Caesars PalaceCraps50500053-4-5 xTripleYes
Caesars PalaceCraps200500013-4-5 xTripleNo
CaliforniaCraps5100042 xTripleNo
CanneryCraps51000210 xTripleNo
Casino RoyaleCraps10100013-4-5 xDoubleNo
Circus CircusCraps10100022 xTripleNo
Club FortuneCraps110013-4-5 xTripleNo
CosmopolitanCraps25500063-4-5 xTripleNo
CosmopolitanCraps15500013-4-5 xTripleYes
CromwellCraps2550004100 xDoubleYes
Downtown GrandCraps5100025 xTripleNo
Eastside CanneryCraps3500110 xTripleNo
El CortezCraps51000210 xTripleNo
Ellis IslandCraps5300110 xDoubleNo
EncoreCraps10500053-4-5 xTripleNo
ExcaliburCraps10300043-4-5 xTripleYes
Fiesta RanchoCraps3500110 xDoubleNo
Fiesta RanchoCraps5500110 xDoubleNo
Fiesta HendersonCraps31000110 xDoubleNo
FlamingoCraps15500013-4-5 xDoubleNo
FlamingoCraps25500043-4-5 xDoubleYes
FlamingoCraps100500013-4-5 xDoubleYes
FremontCraps5100042 xTripleNo
FremontCraps5300012 xTripleNo
Gold CoastCraps5100033-4-5 xTripleNo
Golden GateCraps52500210 xTripleNo
Golden NuggetCraps5500053-4-5 xTripleNo
Golden Nugget (Pool)Craps10500012 xDoubleYes
Green Valley RanchCraps55000410 xDoubleNo
Hard RockCraps10300043-4-5 xDoubleNo
Hard RockCraps15300013-4-5 xDoubleNo
Harrah’sCraps15500033-4-5 xDoubleYes
Harrah’sCraps25500043-4-5 xDoubleNo
OYOCraps10100013-4-5 xDoubleYes
Joker’s WildCraps1500110 xTripleNo
LinqCraps15500063-4-5 xDoubleYes
LuxorCraps15300053-4-5 xTripleNo
M ResortCraps5300035 xDouble/TripleNo
Main Street StationCraps51000320 xTripleNo
Mandalay BayCraps15500073-4-5 xTripleNo
Mandalay BayCraps25500013-4-5 xTripleNo
MGM GrandCraps10500013-4-5 xTripleNo
MGM GrandCraps25500063-4-5 xTripleYes
MGM GrandCraps50500013-4-5 xTripleNo
MirageCraps25500063-4-5 xTripleYes
NYNYCraps15300033-4-5 xTripleNo
NYNYCraps25300013-4-5 xTripleYes
OrleansCraps5200063-4-5 xTripleNo
O’SheasCraps15500013-4-5 xDoubleNo
Palace StationCraps53000310 xDoubleNo
PalazzoCraps25500052 xTripleNo
PalazzoCraps50500032 xTripleNo
PalmsCraps10500033-4-5 xDoubleYes
ParisCraps15500063-4-5 xDoubleYes
Park MGM CasinoCraps10300053-4-5 xTripleNo
Planet HollywoodCraps10500063-4-5 xDoubleYes
PlazaCraps51000210 xTripleNo
Railroad PassCraps350013-4-5 xTripleNo
RampartCraps51000210 xDoubleNo
Red RockCraps105000510 xDoubleNo
RioCraps10500043-4-5 xDoubleYes
Sam’s TownCraps31000420 xTripleNo
Santa Fe StationCraps51000310 xDoubleNo
Silver 7’sCraps550013-4-5 xDoubleNo
SilvertonCraps51000210 xTripleYes
Sahara Las VegasCraps10300033-4-5 xDoubleNo
South PointCraps5200022 xTripleNo
South PointCraps10200022 xTripleNo
South PointCraps15200012 xTripleNo
South PointCraps25200012 xTripleNo
StratosphereCraps51000210 xDoubleNo
SuncoastCraps52000310 xTripleNo
Texas StationCraps51000310 xDoubleNo
The DCraps55000210 xTripleNo
Treasure IslandCraps10200043-4-5 xTripleNo
Treasure IslandCraps110012 xDoubleYes
TropicanaCraps15300023-4-5 xDoubleNo
TuscanyCraps550013-4-5 xDoubleNo
VenetianCraps25500052 xTripleYes
VenetianCraps50500032 xTripleYes
WestgateCraps5200033-4-5 xDoubleNo
WynnCraps10500073-4-5 xTripleNo
WynnCraps25500013-4-5 xTripleNo
WynnCraps1001000013-4-5 xTripleNo
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If you consider yourself to be a serious craps player, you probably know the details on your personal record for longest consecutive roll.

In a highly volatile game of chance like craps – which affords the average shooter just 8.5 rolls before they “seven out” to end the table’s fun – going on an extended streak of success as the shooter can be an unforgettable experience.

There you are playing baccarat, taking center stage while an entire looks on with bated breath as you prepare to roll. You’ve already hit a few point numbers to cash in Pass Line bets for your fellow players, so excitement is in the air. The dice keep tumbling and dodging the dreaded 7 with a point number set, landing on every alternative number a time or two to produce winners for the exotic bettors.

The clock keeps ticking and you keep rolling winners, and before you know it, you’ve just set a new highwater mark for your longest stretch as a shooter without sevening out. Eventually, the party ends when the dice show 4-3 on a 9 point, but no bother – you nearly managed to eclipse the one-hour plateau with a 53-minute roll.

In most Las Vegas casinos, a roll like that would cause an immediate buzz across the gaming floor, both among players and dealers alike. And for good reason, as the average craps roll tends to last for just about 20 minutes.

So what if I told you a tourist from Honolulu, Hawaii once held the dice in hand for three hours and six minutes without ever sevening out?

That incredible craps session lasting 118 straight seven-less rolls might sound like one of Sin City’s infamous myths, like pure oxygen pumped into the air supply to keep losing gamblers blissfully unaware. But if you pay a visit to the classic California casino in Downtown Las Vegas, you can still find a full-fledged shrine to the original “Golden Arm” himself – the late Stanley Fujitake.

Fujitake Sets a World Record for Longest Consecutive Craps Roll

Back on May 28, 1989, Fujitake and his wife Satsuko took advantage of a Hawaii-focused travel promotion offered by the California Hotel & Casino to make one of their regular visits to Las Vegas.

An avid craps enthusiast herself, Satsuko Fujitake taught her husband the game during their courtship. As she told Hawaii News Now in 2009, shortly after Fujitake’s record finally fell (more on this to come), Satsuko soon suspected her husband had been bitten hard by the craps bug:

“Mom, where is Dad going out all the time? I said, ‘Well, he must have trouble with his stomach, he’s going to the bathroom.’

I didn’t believe that, I knew what he was doing – he was on the table every time he went out.”

So it was that Satsuko woke up one morning to find her husband’s side of the bed hadn’t even been slept in. That’s because Fujitake has spent the night putting on one of the greatest gambling shows Las Vegas has ever witnessed.

The action started around midnight when Fujitake – a mild-mannered man of diminutive stature who looked every part the average Las Vegas tourist – placed a simple $5 bet on the Pass Line.

Over the next 3+ hours, Fujitake could do no wrong with the dice, rolling over and over again without sevening out. As the epic rolling session progressed, onlookers crowded the table and wagered everything they had to get in on Fujitake’s good fortune.

Guido Metzger – who worked as a dealer at the California back then before rising to become director of casino operations for parent company Boyd Gaming – recalled the frantic crush of bettors surrounding Fujitake in an interview with Boyd’s Buzz:

“They had trouble keeping up with the chip payouts that night.

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My table was empty. But there were at least 30 to 40 people trying to place bets at his table.

They couldn’t get fills to the table fast enough and had to start issuing scrip [casino credit] because not enough people were going to the cage and cashing in their chips.”

With winners coming on every roll, the California’s coffers were soon being drained for six-figure sums. The outlays became so onerous that John Repetti, casino manager for the California at the time, was called in from home to supervise the situation.

As he told the Los Angeles Times in a 2017 retrospective on Fujitake’s record-setting roll. Repetti was literally roused from his slumber in order to personally monitor the increasingly expensive craps game:

“The first call came and he’d been shooting for an hour, and we were losing a couple hundred thousand dollars at the time. I said if he continued, to call me at every $100,000 loss interval.

Well, the calls kept coming every 15 minutes. Another $100,000. And another $100,000.

After the fourth call and fifth call, I decided I’d better get some clothes on and get downtown.”

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A seasoned veteran of the casino gambling industry, Repetti knew instantly that he was witnessing a historic run of good luck, as he told News at the Cal a few months afterward:

“Half an hour is average, over an hour is amazing, but more than three hours is totally astounding.”

In the end, Fujitake held the dice for 118 consecutive rolls without sevening out, a feat which earned him $30,000 in winnings.

But according to David Strow, who serves as vice president of corporate communications for Boyd Gaming, Fujitake was hardly the biggest winner to benefit from the legendary roll. As Strow remembered it in a 2017 interview with PokerNews, Fujitake’s fellow players placed larger bets along the way and wound up winning upwards of $1 million:

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“That was one of the ironic things about his roll – the other players at the table ended up winning a lot more money than Stanley did!”

Wife Remembers the Late Legend and Love of Her Life

Stanley Fujitake passed away in 2000 at the age of 77, but he was survived by his wife Satsuko and their sons Dennis, Lester, and Kevin.

And while the children may have wondered where Dad was during those late nights at the California’s craps tables, Satsusko told Hawaii News Now that she is glad Stanley was able to enjoy the game he loved so dearly:

“It was a miracle, because it’s impossible to hold the dice.

It doesn’t happen all the time, maybe it’s only once in a lifetime deal.”

Satsuko was there that night, but after wandering the casino floor for a while, she couldn’t find the small of stature Stanley amidst the crowd. Later on, as she played video poker in another area of the casino, Satsuko found herself surrounded by well-wishers celebrating her husband’s new crown as the King of Craps:

“People came up to congratulate me and I thought, geez, I didn’t do anything, I didn’t even hit a royal, why are they congratulating me?

Then I realized, he was the one with the dice.”

Fujitake’s Record Gets Smashed in the Garden State

For 20 years following his world record roll, nobody could top Fujitake’s mark of three hours and six minutes without turning over the dice.

The record stood until 2009, when a craps rookie named Patricia Demauro visited the Borgata casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey on a whim. Bored with the penny slots, her pal invited her to take a crack at craps, leading to one of the more improbable feats in gambling history.

DeMauro rolled 154 times consecutively without sevening out, a session which lasted four hours and 18 minutes altogether – or a full hour longer than Fujitake’s previous record.

When asked about her late husband’s historic feat falling into second place, Satsuko Fujitake told Hawaii News Now that Stanley’s record run will always be number one in her heart:

“As my husband of 54 years, in my heart, he is still the champ to me and will be forever.”

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The “Golden Arm” Club Carries on Fujitake’s Legacy in Fine Fashion

In 1992, the California Hotel & Casino commemorated Fujitake’s record roll by creating the “Golden Arm” award.

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Ever since then, any craps player at the California who can roll for one hour or more without sevening out earns entrance to the Golden Arm club. Admission comes with a plaque memorializing the date and length of session, while members are given a snazzy blue shirt proclaiming them to be Golden Arms.

The name comes straight from Fujitake himself, after the proud craps player told Repetti that “this arm is golden” upon receiving a check for $30,000. Fujitake went on to top the 60-minute mark without sevening out on three other occasions, proving that his proficiency with the dice was no fluke.

You can learn more about the Golden Arm club – and the California’s annual craps tournament held in Fujitake’s honor – in this profile by the L.A. Times.

Conclusion

Managing to beat the average of 8.5 rolls without sevening out is enough to get most craps players’ heart’s pumping, so just imagine what Fujitake was feeling as the hours passed by. Runs like that are the stuff of gambling lore, but for one unforgettable night back in 1989, a tourist in Sin City simply refused to lose. The next time you’re in Downtown Las Vegas, make sure to pay homage to Fujitake and his record-setting roll by visiting the California and its Golden Arm “wall of fame.”

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