The $18 Six and Eight Progression redux

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In Dice Coach's newsletter this month a student mentioned playing my $18 Six and Eight progression. He mentioned that he had difficulty in recalling all of the moves so I thought I'd toss it out there again for anyone who is not familiar with it. There are a lot of different options off this play. This is one of them:

The play starts with an $18 six and eight.

The first hit on either pays $21. Drop $3 on top of the payout and tell the dealer to press the six and eight to $30 each.

The second hit on either pays $35. Drop $1 on top of the payout and tell the dealer to press the six and eight to $48 each.

The third hit on either pays $56. Drop $4 on top of the payout and tell the dealer to press the six and eight to $78 each.

The fourth hit on either pays $91. Pick up the $91 and tell the dealer to make your six and eight look like $18 each.

You are right back where you started from with $18 each on the six and eight - but you've added $211 to the rack.

Now, this is a very aggressive play. On a decent hand you may be able to run it two to three times. If you want to be more conservative in your approach - after the first press when you collect $35 you could lock that up and say "same bet" and proceed with only $4 of sevens exposure. You could stop after the third his - which pays $56 - and bring down the $96 in action you have. That's a $106 net win if my math is right. So you have a lot of options. Including dropping $5 on that $91 pay out and pressing the six and eight from $78 each to $126 each. Of course, a lot of these are non-standard press moves that may give your dealer pause. No problem. They'll figure it out. But if you have a break-in dealer who gets stuck just tell them to "pick up all of the chips including the bet, hand them to the box to verify and set up the bet." Their dealer school training should kick in then and you'll be good to go.

[Bankerdude80]

I like it. It offers a lot of flexibility. I may give it a try (or a hybrid of it) on some of our DI's this upcoming weekend.