You are watching a
craps game in action. Shooter A is on the come-out
roll. Everyone places his or her Pass Line bets
except for one weaselly-looking guy who’s betting
on the Don’t Pass. Then Shooter A picks up
two dice and flings them unceremoniously down the
table where they hop, skip, jump and careen all
over the layout until finally coming to rest several
feet from each other. He establishes his point.
Let us say it is a 6.
He
immediately calls over the cocktail waitress and orders
another seven-and-seven, guffawing as he does so: “Heavy
on the Seagram, honey, and light on the Up, ha! ha!
ha!” Shooter A then throws out some chips and says:
“Oh, give me like all the hardways and, uhm, I
don’t know, all the numbers I don’t have and,
uhm, ah, a yo-eleven and, uh um, boxcars.” The
stickman now passes Shooter A the dice and he grabs
and fires them down the table again.
Here’s a question
for you: Would you bet on Shooter A?
If you said: “Yes,
of course, craps is a random game and this guy has
as good a chance as anyone else to make me money,”
then you are a typical craps player. If you bet
Shooter A by making the Pass and/or Come with Odds
then you are a typical good craps player as you
have made the mathematically best bets at the game.
But you aren’t a Cutthroat Craps player. If
you just went berserk and started betting hardways,
hops, yo’s, boxcars, snake eyes and Big Reds
then you aren’t a good craps player or a Cutthroat
Craps player -- you are just a dumb craps player.
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