Entertainment Bets
Posted: Sat May 06, 2017 3:28 pm
I've mentioned in the past that I set aside a percentage of my session bankroll for what I refer to as "entertainment" bets. Normally I stick with the lowest vig bets and attempt to maximize profit from them. But there are times when I want to have a little additional fun while not going overboard on risk. A good example is my $5 World plus $2 high low on the Come Out. I set the dice for the horn numbers and try to toss a 2 or 12. When successful, it pays $55. I typically press those bets on a win and should I be lucky enough to toss another 2 or 12 it pays $110. If the best I can master is a 3 craps or 11 then it pays $18. If the seven shows it's a push, but I win my Pass Line bet and often I'll just use it to press my World. I shooting for a string of five or six Come Out horn numbers to lock up a significant . . . and by significant I mean hitting my session win goal . . . win on the Come Out. It's not unusual for me to get a couple of hits. On one occasion I tossed aces four times back to back. On another I tossed six twelves back to back. One night in Shreveport I tossed eight eight elevens in a row. Eight, by the way, is the largest number of consecutive horn numbers I've thrown. Years ago, in a game at the Golden Nugget, a gal in our group tossed something like 13 consecutive horn numbers on the Come Out. That was insane.
Another "bored" play I'll make sometimes is my "squeeze box" play. I've been toying around with it of late and I think I'm going to combine it with a $15 Don't Pass play as a partial hedge going forward. But here's the play. Once the point is established you bet $32 across. That's one unit on every number on a $5 game. Now, whenever a number is rolled you take that wager down, combine it with the winnings from that decision, and press the next inside number. The ten goes to the nine. The nine goes to the eight. The four goes to the five. The five goes to the six. In the end you'll have only the six and eight up. The only time you add any money to any of the bets is when the four or ten hit. They pay $9 to $5 so you have to drop $1 to get $15 to move to the five or nine. Let's run through an example:
$32 across
9 rolls - pays $7 - take down the $5 bet and combine it with the payoff to get $12. Press the 8 by $12, making it look like $18.
4 rolls - pays $9 - drop $1 on the pay off and take down the place bet - then press the 5 to $20
6 rolls - pays $7 - same bet
8 rolls - pays $21 - same bet
10 rolls - pays $9 - drop $1 on the payoff and take down the place bet - then place the 9 for $15 (remember, the 9 hit earlier and we took down that place bet and moved it to the 8.
9 rolls -pays $21 - take down the $15 bet and add it to the $21 payoff - press the 8 by $36 - up to $54.
Okay, you see where this is going. Once you get all of you bets moved inside to the six and eight you'll have $54 each on them. My play in the past has been to collect $63 on the next hit - then regress everything to $32 across and start over. Looking at it today - I'd probably get serious about this whole play at that point, decide what the one dominant number was in addition to the six and eight and I'd regress to $85 in and go from there. But I'm getting in left brain mode now.
Anyway, now we get down to the question. Do you have "entertainment" bets you play other than the serious "money making" bets? Hardways? Hop Bets? Some other strategy like Al's Army March? Let's hear about it.
Another "bored" play I'll make sometimes is my "squeeze box" play. I've been toying around with it of late and I think I'm going to combine it with a $15 Don't Pass play as a partial hedge going forward. But here's the play. Once the point is established you bet $32 across. That's one unit on every number on a $5 game. Now, whenever a number is rolled you take that wager down, combine it with the winnings from that decision, and press the next inside number. The ten goes to the nine. The nine goes to the eight. The four goes to the five. The five goes to the six. In the end you'll have only the six and eight up. The only time you add any money to any of the bets is when the four or ten hit. They pay $9 to $5 so you have to drop $1 to get $15 to move to the five or nine. Let's run through an example:
$32 across
9 rolls - pays $7 - take down the $5 bet and combine it with the payoff to get $12. Press the 8 by $12, making it look like $18.
4 rolls - pays $9 - drop $1 on the pay off and take down the place bet - then press the 5 to $20
6 rolls - pays $7 - same bet
8 rolls - pays $21 - same bet
10 rolls - pays $9 - drop $1 on the payoff and take down the place bet - then place the 9 for $15 (remember, the 9 hit earlier and we took down that place bet and moved it to the 8.
9 rolls -pays $21 - take down the $15 bet and add it to the $21 payoff - press the 8 by $36 - up to $54.
Okay, you see where this is going. Once you get all of you bets moved inside to the six and eight you'll have $54 each on them. My play in the past has been to collect $63 on the next hit - then regress everything to $32 across and start over. Looking at it today - I'd probably get serious about this whole play at that point, decide what the one dominant number was in addition to the six and eight and I'd regress to $85 in and go from there. But I'm getting in left brain mode now.
Anyway, now we get down to the question. Do you have "entertainment" bets you play other than the serious "money making" bets? Hardways? Hop Bets? Some other strategy like Al's Army March? Let's hear about it.