BetMGM Online Casino Craps Review: Three Ways to Roll the Dice

Most legal online casinos treat craps as a box to check. They license the standard Evolution package, drop it in the table games tab and move on. BetMGM went further. Alongside the Evolution live and first-person games you will find at every competitor, it carries Craps the Matrix, a Win Studios creation you will only find on MGM-family platforms like BetMGM, Borgata and Party Casino. That gives BetMGM three distinct craps experiences under one roof, each with its own personality, its own limits and its own reason to exist. Add in the fact that every dollar you wager at the virtual tables feeds the same MGM Rewards account that comps rooms and dinners in Las Vegas, and you have a casino app that thinks about dice players in a way most of the industry does not.

Rather than rank them, we will tell you who each game is for, because after weeks of play we are convinced each one serves a different player.

BetMGM publishes the RTP range on its craps games as 83.33 to 99.17 percent, and that spread tells you everything about how to play. The bottom of the range belongs to the sucker bets in the middle of the layout, while the top belongs to the line bets, and free odds behind them pay at true odds with zero house advantage. Nothing about the dice changes when they go digital. A pass line wager still loses about $1.41 of every $100 over the long run, the don't side runs a hair cheaper, and a one-roll bet on any 7 remains the worst wager on the felt no matter how nice the studio lighting is.

The take odds and lay odds wagers at BetMGM pay true odds of 2 to 1, 3 to 2 and 6 to 5 depending on the point, exactly as they should. Our standing advice applies here as everywhere: keep the bulk of your action on the line with odds behind it, sprinkle the 6 and 8 when you want more numbers working, and let the props be a tip you occasionally leave the table for fun. Our craps odds and house edge guide has the full breakdown.

BetMGM's welcome package is a two-part offer: a no-deposit credit of around $25 just for registering, plus a 100 percent deposit match that runs up to $1,000 in most states and climbs to $2,500 with bonus spins for players in West Virginia. The sign-up credit is the easy part, carrying a light playthrough that gets it into your pocket fast. The deposit match is where craps players need to slow down and read. The match carries a 15x wagering requirement, and BetMGM's published game contribution table counts craps at just 20 percent toward that requirement. In plain English, only $20 of every $100 you bet at the craps table moves the playthrough meter, which means clearing a meaningful match through dice alone requires a mountain of wagering.

To BetMGM's credit, craps is at least eligible, which beats the casinos that exclude it outright, and grinding line bets with odds is mathematically one of the cheapest ways to chew through any requirement. But we will be straight with you: if your plan is to deposit big, claim the full match and clear it exclusively at the craps table, the math is working against the clock. Take the no-deposit credit, size your deposit honestly and treat any bonus you clear as gravy. BetMGM also runs a steady rotation of weekly promos, leaderboards and bet-and-get offers for existing players, and table game players get included in those more often than at most rivals. See our craps bonuses guide for more.

This is BetMGM's ace, and no competitor can copy it. Every real-money wager you make in the app earns BetMGM Rewards Points and MGM Rewards Tier Credits, and those tier credits roll into the same MGM Rewards account that governs your status at more than 20 MGM Resorts properties, from the Bellagio and ARIA in Las Vegas to the Borgata in Atlantic City. Live table games including craps earn up to four points per $100 wagered, which is a slower earn rate than slots get, but the points are not really the prize. The prize is tier status. Climb from Sapphire toward Gold and beyond and you unlock waived resort fees, room upgrades, late checkout and access to tier events at the very properties where you would want to play craps in person.

Points themselves can be redeemed for online bonus credits or converted to MGM Rewards Points and spent on hotels and dining. For a craps player who makes even one Vegas trip a year, this changes the value calculation entirely. The dice you roll on your phone in New Jersey in February can quietly pay for part of the room you shoot dice from in Las Vegas in June. Nobody else in the legal US market offers anything close.

All three craps games run in the BetMGM Casino app on iOS and Android as well as in a mobile browser, and the experience held up well in our testing. The live stream stayed stable on LTE, the betting layout scales sensibly on a phone screen with tap targets that respect the fact that a craps layout is crowded real estate, and Craps the Matrix in particular feels built for mobile with its bold, neon-styled grid. The app itself is bigger and busier than FanDuel's, reflecting BetMGM's enormous overall game library, so expect to use the search bar; typing craps into it is the fastest route to all three games rather than scrolling the table games shelf. Account features like deposits, withdrawals and the rewards dashboard all live one menu away, and we had no crashes or disconnects during live rolls, which is the test that actually matters. For more, see our mobile craps guide.

BetMGM Casino holds licenses in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, regulated respectively by the Michigan Gaming Control Board, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board and the West Virginia Lottery. You must be 21 and physically inside one of those states to wager, verified by geolocation. Regulated status means tested RNGs, segregated player funds and a regulator with actual enforcement power behind your account, none of which exists at the offshore sites that advertise aggressively to craps players.

On the responsible gambling front, BetMGM provides deposit, spend and time limits, cool-off periods and self-exclusion through its GameSense program, accessible right in account settings. Craps moves fast and a stacked rail of come bets can put more money in action than you realize, so set a session budget before the come-out roll, not after the seven-out. Anyone who needs support can reach 1-800-GAMBLER any time.

BetMGM Casino is the variety pick and the Vegas-lover's pick. Three genuinely different craps games, dime minimums that welcome any bankroll, a $2,500 ceiling that satisfies heavy hitters, and the only loyalty program in the industry where online dice play converts into real-world comps at the most famous casino properties in America. The honest knocks are two: the 15x playthrough with a 20 percent craps contribution makes the big deposit match a poor fit for dice-first players, and the app's sheer size means craps shares shelf space with several thousand slots. We score it 4.5 out of 5 for craps players overall.

Choose BetMGM if you want the widest selection of craps games, if Craps the Matrix sounds like your kind of fun, or if you ever set foot in an MGM property and want your online play working toward that trip. If maximizing bonus value at the craps table is your single biggest priority, FanDuel may suit you better. Compare your options on our real money online craps page, or browse our main legal online craps guide.