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Long
Tables = Po$$ibilitie$ In
1993, the American Government funded a study to see why the head of a man's penis was
larger than the shaft. After one year and $180,000.00, they concluded that the reason the
head was larger than the shaft was to give the man more pleasure during sex. After the
U.S. published the study, France decided to do their own study. After $250,000.00, and
three years of research, they concluded that the reason was to give the woman more
pleasure during sex. Afghanistans Taliban, unsatisfied with both of these findings,
conducted their own study. After 2 weeks and a cost of around $75.46, they concluded that
it was to keep a man's hand from flying off and hitting himself in the forehead. Speaking
of grips, I developed this new dice-setting grip, nicknamed, the Mad Professors
Long-Ranger. Part One and Part
Two chronicle the mechanics, my practice sessions and the initial in-casino experiments. When
I checked out of the Flamingo Hilton after five days, I headed Downtown to the Freemont
Hotel. Once again, I normally dont stay
at this Boyd property, but with the slow-down in the airline industry at that point, their
usual Hawaiian junket-trade had dried up. Thankfully,
by the end of my five-day stay there, their business had returned to a more Vegas-like 92%
occupancy level, thanks almost entirely to the return of their loyal Pacific-island
patrons. Here
are the results from my second set of experiments on LONG and Medium-Long tables in the
Downtown LV area: v
Freemont
Hotel
- The tables here are of the medium-long variety. Theyve
never posed a real problem for me, but again it provided a comparative base so that I
could weigh and evaluate my new grip against my regular pincer-grip. I played a total of fifteen sessions here. Each session contained at least three separate
hands. I had quite a few opportunities where
the tables were almost completely empty. That
gave me a chance to really bare down, and get some decent consistency going. My worst hand had just 4 rolls, and my best
contained 52 rolls. What was more surprising
was that my roll average per hand hit the 25-roll mark.
That clearly approaches my current level of 28 rolls per hand that I
currently enjoy using my short-table and medium-table/short-range pincer-grip. As
a side-note, most of you know that they have an electronic roll-count display on each
craps table. When a player exceeds 15 rolls
during one hand, they receive a voucher that can be redeemed for Freemont-logo
merchandise. Ive got a closet full of
their jackets, (most are nylon, and some are suede or leather), along with myriad t-shirts
and sweatshirts. This trip added a huge
number of tool-kits, leather stationary folders, metal/insulated coffee-travel mugs, golf
shirts, pen and pencil desk-sets, watches, ceramic cups, and desk clocks. I hand these out to as many acquaintances,
mechanics, dry-cleaners, and restaurant staff as I can when I get home. I
want to interject that I altered my betting methods quite early on in this trip. I realized that the lower roll-average meant that
I had to get an early profit locked-up sooner. In
addition, these rolls did not contain the accuracy or predictability that the pincer-grip
provides. With
that in mind, I used the $110-Inside/Regression method. That is, I started out this way: i)
Bet
the MINIMUM table limit on the Pass Line. ii)
Establish
the Point, and back it up with MAXIMUM Odds. iii)
Place
bet the 5 & 9 for $25 and the 6 & 8 for $30 each respectively. If the Point is one of those numbers, I simply dont
Place bet on that particular number. iv)
After
any of those Place bets hit, I reduced each of them down to
one unit each. That
is, $5 on the 5 & 9, and $6 each on the 6 & 8.
The easiest dealer command is to say, Reduce my Place bets to
$22-Inside, please. v)
Concurrently,
I also reduced my Pass Line Odds bet to
single odds. I
know that some of you may think that I am a heretic for reducing my Odds bet, but it makes
shrewd economic sense. Where my Pass Line and
Odds bet are $5 each, that puts me into a position of having a minimum
of a $3 profit LOCKED-IN, no matter what else happens from that point forward. Three
dollars of clear profit may not sound like much to most people, but it is a tiny step
FORWARD, and not a LOSS backwards. This small
but important principal is one of my playing principals which permit me to play this game
for a living, and not just as costly entertainment. v
Fitzgeralds
- I like this casino, and have enjoyed quite a bit of success here in the past. However, on my previous visit, I noticed that they
had changed the felt and also the underlay. I
can deal with new table-felt quite easily, but the underlay gave such a lively bounce that
it reminded me of the tables at Casino Niagara in Niagara Falls, Ontario. I played two full three-hand sessions here. Neither session produced a significant hand, but I
managed to almost break-even despite the horrific and erratic bounces that the dice were
making. My shortest hand was 3 rolls, and the
longest one was 5 rolls. v
El
Cortez
- This place was incredibly busy with its usual troop of regulars who live in
nearby shelters and rooming-houses. I did not
have an opportunity to get into a shooting position on either of their two long tables. v
Lady
Luck
-When I first walked in here, I thought that it was closed.
The place was EMPTY! Even the
slot machines were empty. The last time I saw
anything like it was at the Maxim Hotel right before the casino closed down. Even the Desert Inn was busier on the night
before it closed than Lady Luck was on a post-WTC mid-morning Tuesday. The craps dealers were surprised to see an actual
cash-player at the tables. They said that
they had dealt to less than four players over a five-hour period. I ended up playing solo until their
shift ended about one hour later. I strung
together a large number of 12 to 20 roll hands. My
dealer-tokes got pretty generous as I put them into play on 6 & 8 Place bets. They dropped more than $180 into the toke-box in
those sixty minutes. My roll average was a
very decent SRR of 17-to-1. I played 12 more
sessions here over that five-day period, and the roll average remained pretty consistent
at that level. One
thing that I did notice about this new grip and release, was that if the dice DID NOT stay
precisely side-by-side on their roll-out, they would generate more of the Inside numbers. I found that if the roll-velocity was gentle
enough, they would roll independently, but still travel and roll the same
distance. When this occurred, the 6, 8 &
9 rolled VERY consistently. A
further observation was that if the force of the throw was a little too hard, the left
dice would hit the back wall, and flop-over onto its right-side axis. This dramatically increased the number of 7-Outs. v
Golden
Gate
- When I moved on to this casino, my confidence-level in this new grip was increasing
substantially. I threw some decent hands, and
averaged 12 rolls-between-7s, with a range of 4 rolls on the low-end, and 29 rolls
on the high-end. I
played a large number of sessions at Binions Horseshoe and the Plaza on their
medium-length tables, but I stood at the farthest shooting position. My SRR average was 17. I also tried it on the shorter tables of Four
Queens and Golden Nugget, where my hands nudged the 20-roll average. Im
pretty sure that part of the success was due to my increasing comfort with the grip and
the growing sensitivity of the rolling-force that I used. I
also played the longer tables at the Castaways out on Boulder Highway, at Mahoneys
Silver Nugget and Jerrys Nugget in North LV, and The Regent out in Summerlin. Ill tell you about those houses, and have a
financial summary on all of these sessions, plus a report on the tables of Laughlin in
Part Four of this article. Good
Luck & Good Skill at the Tables
and in Life. By:
The Mad Professor
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