Keeping track of rolls with paper and pencil

[nccarl01]

Saw a gentleman at Cherokee recently called "The Professor" jotting down each roll in a small notebook. He seemed to use this information to make bets. Was wondering if anyone else has done this or has seen someone do this at the table. Do you think this can help in betting...
Thanks in advance for any responses / advice.

Carl M.

[220Inside]

I tried it for a brief period, but found it to be too distracting both in terms of logging everything as well as the focus required to try and discern trends and patterns in all of that minutiae.

[nccarl01]

Thank you 220Inside.

[heavy]

I used to chart tables all the time back in the day. Now I do it in my head. You can also do it with chips in your chip rack. Just take six white chips and lay them flat in the back rack. From left to right they represent the 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10. When a number rolls, tip the appropriate chip forward. If it repeats, place another white chip on top of it. If another number rolls, do the same thing. Continue to do this throughout the hand. Obviously we're tracking point numbers only, not horn numbers or sevens. When you get five white chips piled up on a number substitute a red chip for the five white ones and continue stacking white chips on to of it (you'd better have about a hundred bucks or more on that point at that time or your inner Heavy will be pissed off at you). Tracking this way shows you graphically which numbers are hot on that shooter and which are not. If you're spreading 66 inside and only the 4, 6, and 9 are rolling, might as well take that $18 off the 8 and spread it around on the numbers that are rolling. The 8 isn't paying its rent - so it gets evicted.