I was ahead $200K - kinda

I was playing the Wiz' craps game and got on quite a roll:
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Kinda impressive considering it starts you with $1K and limits bets to $1K.

My next roll was a 7 out. (Not knowing when it would end, I hit the screen shot key almost every roll!)

Next I rolled a number, clicked thirty-six times to reset all those bets, and hit a 7 out immediately. And did the same thing twice more. So I gave up trying to crack $200K.

One reason I did so well was, not only that I got on a great roll, but I was really maximixing my bets. Max PL and Come with max odds, as well as $1K place AND buy on all six numbers.

Man this would have been easier if it wasn't programmed to pay "and down", and/or if there were higher value chips!

...now if you could only do that well in the casino!

I am wondering how long it took you to do that. I tried and got to $35K. How many times did you roll your dice to get to $198K? The wizard should consider adding a counter.

I am very impressed! Now take that luck to a real casino!

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I am wondering how long it took you to do that.

About half an hour. I was on a VERY lucky streak. I only had a 7-out a few times, and even those were after I had at least broken even. It was immediately after taking that screen shot that it all went to the dumper.

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Now take that luck to a real casino!

I thought about that. But there are three problems:

1 - In the past few weeks, there were many times where I busted out before getting even close to $2K, let alone $200K!

2 - Luck like that doesn't exist in the real world.

3 - They'd send the coolers over before it got close!

Quote: DJTeddyBear

I thought about that. But there are three problems:

1 - In the past few weeks, there were many times where I busted out before getting even close to $2K, let alone $200K!

2 - Luck like that doesn't exist in the real world.

3 - They'd send the coolers over before it got close!

#1 I buy

#2 is not the case. Random dice and a RNG have the same chances for luck. Though I will buy that you don't have to tip the computer along the way.

3. Play at the right place. A guy was on a roll so good at the Horseshoe that Benny Binion himself had to ask to "borrow" some $5,000 chips because the guy had every last one at the casino and there was another high-roller around. Eventually the guy dropped it all back.

>there were many times where I busted out before getting even close to $2K, let alone $200K!
But the thread is about the 200K... all gamblers remember that one, just as all fishermen remember about that really large fish and forget all the others. I wonder if you had added up all those times when you reached Gambler's Ruin whether your net situation would have been in the plus column or not. I once got up to 7,500 dollars on that online game of Pai Gow Tiles...and I don't even know how to play the game!

>Luck like that doesn't exist in the real world.
Actually it does. Consider the recent history making roll at the Borgata. Someone fresh from a newbie craps class. And the whole darned table never pressed a bet during it! The casino was lucky that day!
Oh...by the way: if you don't pay for that wincraps shareware program it skews your luck by slowly increasing the number of Sevens that will roll.

>They'd send the coolers over before it got close!
I don't know if coolers actually exist. The house will switch the dice perhaps, but that is about it.
Ofcourse at my level of play, the house would not need a cooler!

Yeah, there were MANY times that I busted out the $1000. Probably over 200 times. Or close to it.

No luck? That was kinda an inside joke since this site is more about probability and statistics than luck.

Coolers? I threw that in only because of the recent coolers thread. I don't believe in coolers.


By the way, if you're interested in my strategy, here goes:

Establish a point, then place $500 each on the 6/8. If either hits, put $500 on the 5. If any hit, put $500 on the 9. If any hit, regress down to $1,200 across (i.e. $200 buy 4, 10, $200 place 5, 6, 8, 9). Let them hit a couple times, then press $25 across every other hit.

While I often bust out, I also frequently do OK with this. Like going to $5K or more before it turns around.

I simply got real lucky, as well as playing stupid agressive, when I hit that $198K.


To try something similar in the real world, I'd start with a smaller bankroll, and I'd need a casino that allows for fractional betting units. I.E. bet/press in multiples of $1.25 and $1.50.

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Oh...by the way: if you don't pay for that wincraps shareware program it skews your luck by slowly increasing the number of Sevens that will roll.

Um... What?