One for the Money

[heavy]

While betting strategies don’t give the player an advantage over the game, they can be a lot of fun to play around with – particularly when they work. Here’s a strategy you can test out for as little as $26. Let’s play it out at my favorite locale – Heavy’s Perfect World Casino. There you’ll find a $5 game with 100x odds and everything always works out the way you planned.

First off, let’s by-pass the come-out roll and wait for a point to be established. In this case, we’ll say the point is six. Since we are going to focus on scoring a win on the play side number with this strategy, we will direct all of our press moves toward the eight.

Start out by placing $26 across – do not place the six. You’ll have $5 each on the 4, 5, 9, and 10, and $6 on the eight. Now the shooter has the dice and he rolls a five. The dealer cuts out $7 and asks if you want the same bet. You tell him to bring the five down, then stack your $7 win on top of the $5 he hands you and tell him to press it all on the eight. Your eight now looks like $18.

The ten rolls next and the dealer pays you $9, and then asks if you want the same bet. This time you’ll come down off the 10, lock up $2, stack $7 of the $9 win on top of the $5 he hands you and tell him once again to press it all on the eight. The eight now looks like $30.

Since we’re down at the Perfect World Casino, Dame Fortune smiles on you and the shooter tosses the eight next. The dealer cuts out $35, shoots you a look and asks if you want to press it again? No, you say. “Same bet. I only press off the outside numbers.”

At this point you have locked up $37 off an initial $26 investment – an $11 profit for the series should the seven show next. Meanwhile, you still have $30 action on the eight, $5 on the four, and $5 on the nine. You could take it all down and run with almost triple your initial bankroll, but you hang in and as luck would have it, the nine rolls next and you repeat the play side press move, coming down off the nine and pressing the eight, making it look like $42.

Then fortune smiles again as the eight repeats. You drop a dollar on the table and tell the dealer “Fifty for one.” Your profit for the series is now $60, even if the devil jumps up. In addition, you have a $42 eight working and you still have $5 on the four – which just happens to roll next. Bring the four down, drop $3 on the layout with the payoff and initial bet and power press the eight to $54. You still have $57 profit in the rack and the $54 eight is essentially a free bet. Just kick back and wait for another eight. Next hit – $63 and down. $174 in the rack for a $26 investment – net $148. Not too shabby.

Of course, there are all sorts of options you can bake in. For example, instead of that last press move you might consider a regression on the eight, taking it to $30 and placing the point. Then again, you might want to go ahead and take it all down – locking up a guaranteed win and a pleasant trip to the cage. The main thing about this play is that you have many options – all of which can easily lead to a win.

[London Shooter]

Heavy, does this play focus on the sister number of the point each time? ie if point 4 then press up the 10, if point is nine then press up the 5? What do you do if a point hits and a new point is established - just stay with the 8 as the "one for the money" in the example above?

Anyway, I like reading about these plays. One of these days I would set aside some money and give myself say 10 shots at getting a nice hit.

10 x green chips in my rack plus some change. Stick with the plan, have a couple of Sam Adams and see what happens. Once nice hand from the 10 and you could walk with a decent profit.

[Iceman95]

Would you do this strategy on a choppy table?

[heavy]

To answer the firsts question - yes, when I play this strategy I press off what I consider to be the "weaker" numbers onto the "sister" number, regardless of what the sister number is. If the point were nine then I would press to the five. If it were four I'd press to the ten. My focus is on pressing just ONE number.

On a choppy table I'd probably limit it to five or six decisions - then turn the action off or take it down. If a hand continued to develop I'd probably do a regression, taking down a profit and running the entire thing again.

[Iceman95]

I have not been to the local establishments in a while. But last time I was there, not to many shooters got past 5 rolls without the seven showing. I was thinking of some sort of regression or two hits take me down.

[heavy]

Taking money off the table to lock up a profit is always a smart move in my book.

[spiker]

I played this for awhile at my local joint up here in the PNW last night..it was pretty fun and has potential. It would be more fun to hit it when the sister point is nearly full pressed haha..every time i had it lookin big it wouldn't hit. . I was shooting decent and used it on myself and a couple other people at the table that shot ok usally. If a point was hit midway through id reset to 26$ ac again and start over..any hit on the sister as it was building id just collect same bet..so at least i was bringing a lil back to the rack waiting for the big hit. ..went up and down for awile probably bout an hour and ended up like 20$ playing that way..i was already down 100$ from other random betting. Decided to just leave, i was trying to chase that 100$ back and got about 80$ back but didn't leave so just left with 20$ of it back since i noticed my disciple was out the window haha..fun play though..just need to hit that sister and you're golden

[heavy]

I run an outside in progression sometimes that's fun. Starting with $64 across. If the nine hits it pays $14. Take down the $10 nine and add it to the $14 pay off and press it all onto the next inside number - the eight in this case. So the eight looks like $36. If the eight rolls next you look like a genius. If the nine repeats you turn your bets off and make a bathroom run. LOL. If the ten rolls it pays $18. Lock up $3. Take down the $10 ten and add it to the remaining $15 and place the nine for $25. Boom. You're back on the nine. Now if the ten rolls . . . well, you get the drift. But if the nine rolls it pays $35. You take that and the $25 bet and press $60 onto the eight and now you have a BIG DOG bet. Same thing transpires on the downtown numbers. You're always working off your weaker numbers onto your power numbers. All you need is for that power number to roll at the right time. Of course, I refer to all these sorts of plays as "entertainment" bets. However, I prefer to focus on pressing just one number these days, and I prefer to press the sister. It's just worked well for me.

[spiker]

I'm still having a lot of fun with this 26-27 across version...its quite entertaining..