Re: How do you win at craps?


This is anecdotal alan.  The results could've just as
easily been reversed.

Why do you press your bets?


alan wrote: 
Jeff, several years ago I made a post which I called "power of the
press."  It was Oct. 2002.

Im pasting the post here:

My son and I both played at Caesar's the other night.  Both of us at
the same
table, both of us had a buy-in of $300, and both of us played the same
amount
of time -- BUT our betting was different.


My son limited his place bets to 5, 6, 8, 9 but never had more than two
place
bets working.  He bet the pass line with $10 and when the point was 6
or 8 he
backed up the pass line with $10 odds.  He bet horn high ace deuce on
his come
out rolls for $5 and sometimes pressed to $10 if the horn bet hit.
Sometimes
he would add $1 to the high and low bet.  HE NEVER pressed his bets
when they
won.  He always played the hardways for at least a buck, and bet $5 or
$10 on
hard 6 and hard 8 when he was rolling.  He often hits hard 6 and hard 8
and
sometimes has some nice returns on this.


My strategy: I placed $10 on pass line and backed up points 6 and 8
with $25
odds and usually $20 odds on 4, 5, 9, 10.  I always bet all the place
numbers
so either $52 or $54 across.  I rarely bet the hardways and if I did it
was for
a buck, and I always bet $5 on the horn high ace deuce not only on come
out
rolls, but after a shooter throws a craps (I believe they come in
pairs).   My
big difference in play was that I always pressed my place numbers when
they
hit.  For example, when the 4 or 10 hits I go to $25, when the 5 or 9
hits I
throw in a buck and go to $25 as well.  When 6 or 8 hits I split the
payoff on
the 6 and 8.  Once I have green chips all across, I stop pressing
(usually the
shooter sevens out by then anyway).  But sometimes the chips keep
coming into
my rack.  One shooter had 6 fours in his hand -- and I kept adding $50
to my
rack after the second hit.  Another shooter (my son) had four 9's in
one of his
hands so I got a couple of nice payoffs on that.


Okay the results:


I finished the play time with a PROFIT of $320. My son finished with a
loss of
$240. I attribute the better results for me to the "press" of the
place bets and the avoidance of the hardways. 


cheers, alan

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