Patent ID: 7568697

Claim:
A method of offering new place bets on a craps game playing surface, comprising: a.) making an individual wager on the playing surface that a designated count from a first set of counts including the numbers 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10 will occur before the occurrence of any one of a second set of counts including the numbers 2, 3 and 12; b.) generating a count on the playing surface; and c.) determining if the wager has been satisfied by the count, wherein: i) the placed wager is won if the designated count from the first set of counts occurs on the playing surface; ii) the placed wager is lost if any one of the second set of counts occurs on the playing surface; and iii) the placed wager is neither won nor lost if neither the designated count from the first set of counts or any one of the second set of counts occurs on the playing surface.