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Come
On Shooter, We Need a Hard-Eight! As
a fairly skilled Precision-Shooter, have you ever had this situation happen to you?
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You
are usually the only player at the table that tips the dealers with any level of
consistency.
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Many
times there are one or more players at your table who are betting much larger than you
are.
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When
the dice come to you and your hand begins, you are the only one with either a line-bet for
the dealers or any other dealer-bets for that matter.
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Your
shooting starts to get into a nice winning groove. Your
bets start to pay off, and the net-profit slowly racks up.
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You
proceed to make two or three PL-Points in a row along with a crateful of Box-numbers.
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During
your roll, you hit quite a few Hardways where you have straight up, piggybacked or
shared bets for the boys. You use
part of your Prop revenue to pump up the volume (press) whatever particular Hardways hit,
while a portion of it goes into the dealers toke-box, and the balance goes into your
rail-space.
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Other
players are whooping it up as your hand progresses and the good times continue to roll. Everything is going great; everyone is making
money; and the dealers are servicing the hell out of each player. They are pleasant, efficient, and they are keeping
the game moving at a decent pace, as well as cheering on your fine efforts.
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At
this point, your dealer-bets are still the only ones out there. You continue to divide
your Hardway wins with the crew in the same Press/Share/Rack manner.
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One
of the big fish (high-roller) players starts calling out a particular bet that he wants
you to hit. He has money on it, and as your
hand progresses, his enthusiasm increases while his patience wanes.
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Hell
say something like, Come on Shooter, we need a Hard-Eight. At first he may say it in an encouraging way, but
by the time it flows out of his mouth for the umpteenth time, his persistent exhortations
start to become downright irritating, if not somewhat hostile.
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As
that player continues his loud encouragement, he also continues to work the
dealers to death with his various and sundry betting moves. Okay,
now that Ive explained the situation at the table, let me ask you this:
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How
many times have you turned and said, Ill tell you what. Put the dealers up on that Hard-Eight for some
decent money and Ill try to hit it for you?
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Have
you ever thought of saying, Well if you put me and the dealers up on the
Hard-Eight for 5 or 10 bucks, Ill see what I can do? The
reason I ask you all of this, is because a friend of mine does that toke hustle
nearly every time that he hears someone direct those multiple hit my number
requests at him. He
explained to me that he hears those requests, and responds with those make a bet
for the dealers, or make a bet for me and the crew replies
when he is shooting especially well. Fortunately
for him, he shoots VERY well MOST of the time.
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I
never cease to be amazed at how often the big player will respond quite
positively to his bet-for-us suggestion.
Obviously this has the effect of returning incredible amounts of respect,
admiration, gratitude and Precision-Shooting LATITUDE from the crew towards the
shooter.
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Even
if the Come on shooter
loudmouth doesnt throw in some money
on those suggested bets, the crew still shows their appreciation and latitude for
the effort that Buddy puts forth on their behalf.
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Conversely,
it also has the effect of usually shutting the requesters mouth, if he chooses
not to make a bet on behalf of the dealers.
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In
any event, this bet-for-us effort brings in a fairly steady income for
the dealers, as well as the guy doing the actual Precision-Shooting. Another
situation where this applies is where this skillful thrower is tossing lots of Prop-number
outcomes and most of the players are cashing-in on them. Hell say semi-loudly to no
one in particular, The dealers are working their tails off, lets all throw
a buck each in for them on the Hardways. Hell
then toss in a buck to prime the pump. Again,
it is amazing at the resultant rainfall of chips that come in after such an invitation. On
the other hand, if his request fails to elicit a positive response (by way of any
additional bets for the crew), hell sometimes look around the table; then with a
disgusted shake of his head, hell LOUDLY call all his bets off
(including his own dealer bets).
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Concurrently,
hell pick up all of his PL-Odds, and say something to the nearest dealer to the
effect of, I guess these guys dont want to win anymore. They dont seem to appreciate what it is you
guys do for them. Oh well, Im glad my
bets are Off.
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Then,
almost as if on cue, hell set the dice and throw a 7-Out.
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Thereupon,
as the dealers are clearing away the piles and piles of lost bets, this guy will call for
all of his bets to be returned to him (which the dealers gladly do).
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If
any of the players say anything to him about being an asshole, hell respond by
saying that he gave them fair warning and an ample opportunity to make a bet for
the crew, which they obviously didnt heed.
Then hell add,
besides, the dice have a mind of their
own, but I think they sense when the dealers arent being taken care of
kind of
like karma. Now,
heres the question: Does
this type of behavior have any room at the craps table? To
my mind, I think it does. Although Id
have to temper that answer with a caveat, and that is, you can use humor to prompt a
little action for the boys, and you can use a little dig to get the
high-rolling cheapskates to toss in a little action to go along with their own Prop bets;
but out and out hustling on your own behalf (by asking for 2-way action for you AND the
dealers) may be a little bit beyond the line. Ill
tell you this. The
dealers sure love to see him coming, and they sure get giddy if his shooting is up to par,
because they know that their toke-rate usually increases dramatically when
Buddy is in the house. I
can also tell you that he adds about $100 (from this method) to his own Precision-Shooting
profits nearly every time hes in the casino. I
would roughly guesstimate that it brings in about three or four times as much in actual
dealer-bet wins. Ive
been encouraging dealer-bets for YEARS, and Ive started to employ some of his
toke encouraging remarks into my game. On
the other hand, I never solicit a toke on my behalf. My sense of it, is that promoting tips for the
dealers is a good thing, but hustling bets on your own behalf is a little bit
whorish. Good
Luck & Good Skill at the Tables
and in Life. Sincerely, The
Mad Professor
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