Winning Wednesday

On occasion some of us get together at a regional casino to engage in this thing of ours. We are all GTC alumni. The table we go to is conducive to our technique. The crew has a pretty regular group of three. They know and like us. We know and like them. They give us no grief.

We arrived shortly before the table opened last Wednesday at 7pm. “L” was at SR2. JohnC1 stepped up to SR1. “A” settled in at SL1. I finished off our quartet at SL2. (I am uncertain what handle “A” uses on the forum so I am calling him “A.” “L” said he let his forum membership lapse, but said he is going to renew.) Greetings and banter was exchanged as the box and stick counted the bank. Dice were inspected. The stick moved the plexiglass cover under the table. The box set the table to a $10 minimum. We bought in and presented our player cards. It was then time to begin.

The stick brought the dice to “L.” “L” uses a 3V/11 set on the come out instead of the traditional 3V set. With the traditional 3V set as you rotate the pair of dice you see 33-51-44-26. With the 3V/11 set you see 33-21-44-56. We all put out a Passline bet. “L” and JohnC1 add an Any Crap bet. “L” establishes a point of 9. Next roll the 9 comes right back. He next rolls an 8 on the come out. 8 comes right back the next roll. A very good start.

“L” then did what he likes to do, throw craps on the come out roll. I think he threw three in a row. I bailed on the Passline after the first one, content with my place bets. “L” continued to throw and throw and throw. He made point after point with plenty of box numbers mixed in. After the first stick change I reconstructed the number of throws based on my place bet progression. I checked with “A” for the number of horn numbers thrown. I think I shorted “L” on that. And then I kept counting his rolls.

More people came to the table. Two guys with accents set up at the left end of the table. Only one was betting. He was setting his passline bet past the corner almost in front of me. He knew what was going on. The center was getting heavy action. “L” was hitting hardways. I was even throwing out hardways bets for “L” because he was hitting my 8 place bet so often. (He threw 11 non come out 8s.) He was hitting craps on the comeouts. The dealers were taking charge chastising late betters and calling “no bet” to drive the message home.

But as always happens, the Devil finally arrived. “L” held the dice for 42 minutes and I had counted a 40 roll. There was applause and cheers. One of the dealers said “If you didn’t make money on that roll you shouldn’t be playing craps.”

As the dealers cleaned up the table someone comes over and greets “A” and myself by name. I don’t recognize him. He goes back to SR3 where he had set himself up. I turned to “A” and ask who it was. He said it was “H.” “H” is a follower. He has read many books and knows what we do. And knows many of us very well apparently. He knows Golden Touch but does not follow our particular school.

The dice then moved to JohnC1 who had a good moneymaker I estimate in the high teens. “A” had a short roll. I had a point 7 out.

The dice then move to the others at the table. Some who had seen “L” shoot passed the dice. Others took there own turn.

When the dice got to “H” he was going to shoot. As is our custom, if we are standing at SR1 or SL1 and another of our ilk is at SR2 or SL2, we stepped back from SR1 and SL1 to give the other shooter plenty of room. “H” had apparently talked with “L” and JohnC1. “H” slid over from SR3 to SR1 to shoot. I could not be certain but I think he was setting a standard 3V. When he threw the dice he had his head down by the chip rail. It was all kinda weird. “H” was about 5 or 6 rolls into his hand when the box asked him to please step back to where his Passline bet was and shoot from there. “H” still slid up to SR1. After another three rolls from SR1 the box stopped the stick from giving the dice to “H” and told “H” that he had to shoot the dice from his Passline bet. “H” stepped back to SR3. He got the dice and set them. He stood there for about a minute and then passed the dice. This caused some disruption at the table because this was in the middle of a point cycle. The box said that “L” would finish “H”’s turn with the dice and then “L” would have his own turn.

So “L” got the dice and proceeded to make money for us from the “H” hand. He then made us some money from his own hand. This kinda threw me off so I wasn’t keeping track of the number of throws but I know I made money.

JohnC1 then had another nice moneymaker. “A” rolled a hand I broke even on. I then had my best hand of the night. It was short but sweet. I established a point of 5. I then rolled 6, 8, 8, 6, 8, 6, seven out. So an 8 roll long hand but a moneymaker.

The dice make their way around the table back to “L.” I don’t remember all the details but it was quite the whirlwind. By the time the chips had settled and the Devil arrived I looked down at the chips I was using to keep track of the rolls. One green, three reds and two whites; “L” had a hand of 42.

We all stayed for 2 more full rounds. “L” next had a hand of 26. His final hand was a 13. “L” was the star that night. Two hands of 40 or more was just fantastic.

JohnC1 gets kudos also. I pretty certain I made money each of the 5 times he had the dice. I was awful. I think I had a total of one point made the 5 times I had the dice and 2 were point-sevens.

That is one of the great things about being at the table as a group. One person being zoned in can carry the table.

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