I've been lurking but not posting much recently. Kind of taking a break from throwing da bones too.
Yesterday I was in Oklahoma on business and on my way back to the Big D, I stopped at Choctow and tried their craps table. Instead of dice they use 12 playing cards (6 red and 6 blue). I had heard and read about this, but never witnessed/played it. The shooter gets to pick a number between 1 and 6. The 'dealer' then removes the number of cards selected and turns over the next cards of different color.
At first it was weird. After a while it kind of grew on me... I played for an hour, lost $30 and finished my trip home.
In that hour I probably saw 20ish 'come out rolls'. We passed on 5-7 points out of the twenty. Saw just about everything you'd normally see in a choppy everyday dice game except one thing... NO PSO's. NONE. ZERO. ZIP. NADDA.
I can't remember the last time that happened in one hour at a table with dice. A short lived start high and regress Iron Cross (IC) would have cleaned up. Like a $410 IC on the first roll after point is set ($70 minimum win), regress to $82 on the 2cd ($14 min. win) and settle in at the $41 IC for the 3rd roll.
The logic side of my gray matter says all the probabilities are the same. But when was the last time you saw ZERO PSO's after 1 hour on your std choppy table with 5 - 10 random shooters?
Tex
Now THAT was funny! 