that this bet will
save their pass line bet from the dreaded craps
numbers 2, 3, and 12 and enhance their ability to
beat the game. It will and it won’t of course.
Certainly, you will not lose when those numbers
appear - and they will appear four times on average
in 36 come-out rolls - and you’ll get a seven
to one payout when they do. So, if you are “protecting”
your $10 pass line bet by betting two dollars on
Any Craps, you will win $14 if they appear, lose
your pass line bet of $10 and be four dollars ahead
of the game - for that one roll. Overall, you “win”
$56 on the Any Craps wager in 36 rolls. But you
will lose $48 when any of the point numbers are
established (because there are 24 ways to make 4,
5, 6, 8, 9, and 10) and you lose $16 the eight times
the 7 or 11 is rolled. You lose $64 overall but
you win only $56 for a net loss of eight dollars.
Your Any Craps bet is not protecting anything but
the casino’s bottom line!
Other players insist
on making those hardways bets, again thinking that
they will be going “with it” when they’ll
usually only be going down the tubes. Each of those
bets comes with a heavy house edge. For every $100
you bet on the hard six or eight, you can expect
to lose nine dollars. For every $100 you bet on
the hard four or 10, you can expect to lose $11.
That’s not good. True, when a table is hot
and a shooter is rolling like a forest fire in California,
then even bad bets are good - for that particular
stretch of time. But no one can predict when that
stretch of time will arrive and when it will leave
- yet, players make those bad bets all the time
regardless. Perhaps, they are wishing that a hot
roll will take place and are betting according to
their wishes. Perhaps, they have never considered
the heavy toll such betting takes on their bankrolls.
Perhaps, they are just Crazy Crappers, people who
delight in throwing chips on the table and shouting:
“Give me a yo! Give me a Big Red! Give me a
loan because my bankroll’s dead!”
Grafstein had a little
formula for going “with it” that makes
much more sense than always betting those Crazy
Crapper high-house-edge bets. “When you’ve
won a good amount of money, then you can throw a
little on the long shots and see what happens. You
can try to make the big score after you’ve
made a score.” Frankly speaking, a steady diet
of going “with it” will leave you without
it -- “it” being the money, that is.
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