Another great article buy Don Catlin. What's news to me is that there are some video poker games that actually have a negative adavantage to the house. And he describes a black jack game that is better than placing a Pass Line bet with odds.
January 08, 2006 in Craps | Permalink | Comments (1)
Alan Krigman over at Casino City Times posted a great article on hedging. He ran 10,000 simulated session of 100 rolls of the dice and determined that non-hedging players would do better than hedging players 2 out of three times.
Of course he simulated the simplest of hedges: betting $10 on the Pass Line and $1 on the Any Craps. I love the mathematical approach to craps. The trouble is you soon realize that it is crazy to play craps long term.
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With one exception. If you believe that you can reduce the number of sevens you roll by controlling the dice you can improve the odds to better than even. Then you have a reason to play. See below.
December 20, 2005 in Craps | Permalink | Comments (0)
This is a good series on beginner's craps. I particularly like the final advice given. While it sounds great to be able to reduce the house edge to .099% like every book on craps describes it means you are betting a lot of money and you still have worse than even odds! Even at even odds most of us have limit as to what we think is a reasonable bet.
Say I am playing you against a coin toss. Will you bet $100? $1,000? I am sure you would stop at $10,000. I know *I* won't take that bet. The risk is too high.
So the advice to stick to 2X odds on the Pass Line and Come is great advice to get started with.
December 18, 2005 in Craps | Permalink | Comments (0)
Having disk and data storage problems? I am not sure what Typepad's financial structure or health looks like but it sounds like they could use some help. What must be millions of blogs were down on Friday (yesterday). Maybe they should look at this company for an upgrade in technology. LeftHand Networks does some cool stuff with iSCSI.
Sorry, there I go again talking about geek stuff when I should be talking about dice sets. If you are new to my blog and just looking for answers to "How to play craps?" you have actually made a good start. Page down to see some of my postings on the best and simplest methods. It does not hurt to get a book and read it on the plane to Vegas. That's what I did the first time and it launched my craps career! (such as it is :-)
DD
December 17, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
I am revealing my geek nature when I post this picture of the world's smallest RC (Remote Control) helicopter. You can try to go to the website of the creator of this amazing engineering feat. But, you probably not get there because this guy was mentioned on BoingBoing today and his server (Microsoft IIS of course) is bogged down. But here for your viewing pleasure is the link to the movie! That is easier to download.
Now if the *hamster* were flying the helicopter. That would be cool.
December 14, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Whew! have you tried Sudoku yet? My wife and I have been having contests. We both go to www.websudoku.com and on separate computers try to solve the same puzzle. Here is an example. The idea is simple. Fill in the blanks such that no number is repeated in a row, column or 3x3 square. There are over 8 billion games at this site!
The cool thing is that the young man who programmed this site is into math and he plots the times people take to solve the puzzles. You have to be pretty sharp to beat the average! My son and I worked together on the "evil" level and it took us 64 minutes to solve!
There *is* more to life than craps. :-)
December 12, 2005 in Games | Permalink | Comments (0)
Another great article here. It is all about setting the dice when the stickman delivers them to you.
December 04, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)
I just saw this press release announcing the availability of Frank Scoblete's latest book:
Golden Touch Dice Control Revolution. Trust me to buy this one and get a review up here as soon as I can.
-DD
BTW, no one has commented below on what I should do with my $5 Tropicana Lucky Chip!
December 03, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (4)
So my story is not about some amazing roll. It is not about joining this club of people who have rolled over 50. By comparison my story is very modest. But it has a twist. It is the Story of the Lucky $5 Chip.
I had been hanging out in Vegas for a couple of days attending a technology conference. Ever hear of the Consumer Electronics Show, or CES? That was the show. I actually get numb to seeing flat panel TV’s and multi-gigabyte USB devices so I was wandering around resisting the urge to play craps. I had promised my wife that I would not gamble on this trip because it is just not fun without her. But, it was getting close to 11:00 PM, I was wide awake, and the charms of Vegas were working on me. So I headed over to the Tropicana and scoped out the action at the tables there. It looked good. Five or six people at each table, people were not too loud and the dealers seemed bored.
I stopped at one of the ATM machines that are ever so conveniently positioned in the Casinos and took out $100. My plan was to quit if I lost $50.
I mosied up to the craps table, set my $100 in the Come area of the felt and gathered up the chips the dealer shoved over to me. 20 $5 chips.
The dice had just passed me by and the guy to my left was coming out. I proceeded to play the Pass Line and Come with 2x odds, my usual play. I had never heard of the five count but I had been learning that some rollers are just bad and to avoid them. In this case the first guy did OK. He rolled a few sevens, then made his point right away. I was up a little when he finally sevened out.
The next guy was across from me and he got on a good roll. Hitting his numbers and rolling a lot of 6’s and 8’s the hard way. He must have rolled a 9 six or eight times while I had money on it. Luckily I kept playing the Come so I was on every number in the field. Everyone else at the table was playing very conservatively, just a Pass Line and odds and they began to make comments about how I was raking it in on every roll.
The second shooter sevened out and the dice were passed across the box man to a new guy at the other end of the table. This guy’s buddy said “OK, folks stand back Jack here is a craps virgin!” Even in my novice stage as a craps player I know enough not to bet when a complete newbie is throwing. But in this case I could see that I was ahead so I let my Pass Line bet stay on the table. His first three rolls were sevens! They did not even make it all the way to the end of the table. The dealer admonished him until he started to get it right but that did not stop him from making good numbers. He too got me up on all the numbers and once again I was raking in the chips on every roll.
When Jack the Virgin finally sevened out I decided to do something I had never done before. I quit while I was ahead. I began stuffing my chips into the pockets of my sports jacket when the dealer barked “hold on there pilgrim, you have to turn those in here”. I sheepishly pushed then over and I guess the did what is called “coloring out”. In other words they took all my $5’s and $1’s and gave me black’s and change. Total: $265.
Big deal you say? Until you have played craps you have no idea how good it feels to walk away with more than twice what you started with. It was grand walking to the cashier’s cage and getting a couple of $100 bills to take home. My best roll ever I did not even take a turn as a shooter!
But, the story does not stop there. This is were it gets interesting. The next day I headed to the airport. Waiting for my flight I decided to try my hand at one of those machines that takes your money and lets you push buttons and watch whirling images never line up. I put $5 into a slot machine and right before my last possible chance it started to clang and jangle as it spit out $75 in quarters. I can tell you I felt pretty smug leaving Vegas that day!
But wait. There is more. I landed in
Don’t go away, there is more. That evening my wife and I have just picked up our youngest daughter from a dance lesson and we decide to stop and feed everybody (three kids and us) somewhere on the way back home. We pull into a Red Robbin we know of wander into the restaurant. We were sort of oblivious to our surroundings because everyone wanted to get Dad’s attention because they had not seen him for several days and they were talking over each other. I know I had a vague feeling of a party atmosphere with boisterous people standing in the doorway and super cheerful wait staff.
We were seated before we figured it out. Our waiter announced that the meal *and* drinks were on the house tonight because it was a VIP grand opening that we had accidentally crashed!
I was shaking my head over this string of good luck that evening as we were getting ready for bed. Imagine what went through my head as I emptied the pockets of my sport coat and found a $5 chip from the Tropicana. Is *that* why I was so lucky? When I stuffed all those chips in my pocket I must not have take it out to turn back to the dealers.
Question. Should I hold on to that chip for my next trip to the casino? Should I buy a lottery ticket? Should I auction it off on eBay? You help me decide! I will take the best suggestion. Submit a comment.
December 02, 2005 in Craps | Permalink | Comments (0)