I hate going to the casinos on the weekends; there’s just ‘way too many people there when I visit (usually, it’s at least 11am when I’m dragged from the house). I only go on Sat/Su when my wife has to play the slots. As today…
I’ve been lucky during the last coupla outings, throwing from the end because my cherished SR1 has always been occupied. She wanted to go play IP’s slots again. The two $5 tables were full so I hadda play for $10 units. Back in the old days, I got weak knees having to bet at the $10 table with my $300 stake. But like I said, I’ve been rather lucky from the end, so I decided to try two betting strategies—a modified “Dave’s” DON’T grind against “all comers”, and ONLY a $10 PL & $30 odds coupled with a $10 ATS bet (and no place bets) for myself.
So… SR1 has the dice. He’s the onlyest player at the $10 table. They’re paying off the point, and pointedly offer me the chance to buy in. I refuse, but the shooter says, “go ahead”. I reply, “but I’m gonna bet the DC”. He says, “I don’t care”. So we’re off…
$10 DC, (4) no lay. $10 DC (5) w/30 Lay. $10 DC (6) w/30 Lay. $10 DC (7 out). I get paid $75. Yeeha. It’s so rare that I start out a winner on the initial betted hand, I almost wanna pass the dice back to SR1. But with an ‘empty’ table, that doesn’t make ANY sense if I’m really a DI .
My dice now. 4-2-4 for the ATS, $10 PL (5) 30 odds. I generally bet more for odds, but I really don’t wanna bet more today solely for the opportunity to toss against the ATS. The short version…
20 minutes later the table was FULL. Wish there was a Fire Bet, too. I hit the All Small pretty quickly; maybe 12 rolls, leaving the 9 and 11 outstanding. Still rolling crossed 6’s, I can’t BUY an eleven… but I’m bangin’ t’hell out of the 4-6 = “ten” rolls. They even look like prime rolls, not both off-axis. Fortunately, I’d hit 2 consecutive points very early, and used the odds payoff to go $54 across almost immediately. (That earlier DC payoff left me in good conscience—chickenshit that I am; the All Small payoff alleviated the knock-knees, too.) The place ten for $10 went from 10 to 30 to 90 to 200 and died there when I rolled a both off-axis 4-3. A shame; I’d planned to reduce the place ten to a $10 bet if it paid that $360 on the next ten.
But I ain’t unhappy. Bought in with $300, and excepting the 7-out that ended my roll, I lost only two bets in total—the fourth $10 bet on the DC against the SR1 shooter, and a come-out $10 PL bet when I rolled the ‘2’ to pay off the All Smalls.
I wish every day was like this! J DAMN!! $1129 for an initial $100 risked on the DC hand, and it snowballed from there. It’s so rare I win on the initial hand I bet I just hadda say something.
