Craps Doey-Don'ts and other Hedging Strategies ...

rongarm10 - Excellent question and hope you don't mind I started a new thread with it .... When I was living on the Strip, I actually used a very similar strategy to "rent" empty tables so that I could get in some table time to practice tossing

I also was playing next to a gent a couple of weeks ago that was using a Strategy similar to yours, but doing so with yellow chips ($1,000. at this particular Strip property) .... He mentioned to me that he liked what I was doing (I was not betting yellow chips with a very different play) and I replied to him that I actually admired his strategy and asked how he was doing with it (after I just saw him lose a few yellow chips as the Point was made immediately after being set - he was not Placing the Point as you mentioned)

The yellow chip Doey-Don't player said sometimes it worked very well but on this particular session, he said he was down $25,000.

The Point is that every strategy works sometimes ... the key is reading the table and playing what the table gives you ... you can't live by math alone on the Craps tables

 

If you could "read the table", you wouldn't have to mess around with hedges.

 

Thanks Alan for your input. Don't know how this type of system would actually work in a live casino, but it is at least something to take "look-see". i have another quick question. Let's say one tosses the dice and during the final resting spot of the dice, one di lands on top of the other di. Kind of like stacked. Is this considered a legal toss of the dice? Just sayin.

 

Alan Shank - Exactly !! ... Hedging like any insurance should only cost 2 to 3 % of what you hedging ... any more than that and you are giving away too much profit to insurance and you are better off self-insuring ..... too many hedges at the Craps table cost upwards of 20% plus

 

Hey Harley thanks for th einput. It is no wonder I couldn't find my post about MP on that other board. I wanted to see if anyone had said anything about my post concerning MP. I didn't realize that the post was deleted. I wonder why, Lol? Three guesses and the first two don't count, lol. Just sayin.

 

That's supposed to be "input", not einput. I don't want Scobe to give me a lesson on proper grammer. Just sayin.

 

rongarm10 - it depends upon state law, or most often the Stickman's interpretation of the law ... In Nevada, there are no dice laws so every Casino and every Stickman/Boxman can call a stacked dice landing anything they want - valid roll or No roll

.... most dealer schools try to teach their students to use the "melting ice" rule .... if the impeding object were to melt like ice, how would the die fall and land .... other dealer schools will say a stacked dice is "Too Tall to Call", yet on the very next roll would say a die that lands on a player's bet stacked with chips twice as Tall is valid

Some of the best state craps laws are in Indiana and there they suggest that your example is a "No Roll" by statute: