advice
Re: Craps. It is a simple game. VERY much so. You can have a seat at Borders or Barnes & Nobles and thumb through the books, or just do a google search. Forget about precision / controlled dice rolling. It takes an enormous amount of practice.
The numerous sucker bets with revoltingly bad e.v. e.g. "hard ways", "hop bets", etc. you would avoid. entirely "Buying" and "Placing" numbers you will not do. The Craps Crew will suggest them ad infinitum.
You will ONLY be making bets on the PASS line (or DON'T PASS) and taking the free odds. Boring ,but you will stand a decent chance of making money or losing only a trivial sum.
I shoot craps for cover/comps myself.
I like Stratosphere, Boulder Station, Eldorado, Jokers Wild, Sante Fe as they have 10 X odds. Sam's Club will give you 20 X 1 odds.
Warning: At the Start' do not even go near the "Crapless Craps" - a complete carnival game.
NOTE: Your Odds bet are NOT used in figuring your rating.
If you bet $25 on the pass line and $100 in odds it works to reduce your disadvantage on the sum BUT it increases your variance. That is why casinos allow it. Their pockets are infinitely deeper than yours are. The increase in variance is almost never mentioned by anyone. Also, the free odds indeed reduce your disadvantage ONLY if it means that you are betting far smaller on the pass and/or don't pass lines than you would with little or NO odds taken. So ... If you want to have an average of about $100 in action and instead of putting $100 on the line you bet $25 and take $75 in odds, then YES, you can view that as an improved e.v. as the -1.4% that you are bucking only applies to the $25.