Musical Dice -- My Craps Blog

     This was the first time in two months that my wife and I went out to Lake Charles. We were hoping for a great new beginning to the new year, and especially since we once again have three casinos to choose from (instead of two, the way it's been since Hurricane Laura destroyed the Isle Of Capri casino in the summer of 2020). Unfortunately, things pretty much were the same as how things ended last year.

     Things started out okay, with my winning $50 at a blackjack table at L'Auberge, then winning another $50 at another blackjack table at Golden Nugget, plus an additional $68 playing poker afterwards, still at Golden Nugget. Two casino session wins in a row, and I was up $168.

     However, it was strictly downhill from there.

     Just before dinner, I played blackjack again (didn't have time to play craps), and I lost $500 there.

     After dinner, we decided to go to the Horseshoe casino, the casino that replaced the old Isle Of Capri casino. It was there that we decided to play craps. But that was a disaster. The dealers were going too fast, my dice shooting didn't go too good, and my wife was trying to follow my lead with the betting. Now I really wanted to try a riskier progressive Come bet strategy there, but I didn't because I knew my wife didn't have as big of a bankroll as I did, so I couldn't do that, and nothing went right. I lost $459 at that table. And I lost an additional $500 playing poker there. It was then that I remembered that my win percentage at Isle of Capri was lower than the other two Lake Charles casinos. Nothing's changed, huh?

     The next day, I started out winning $50 at a blackjack table at L'Auberge. Then I played some craps, where I got off to a rocky start with a five-roll only, using the Hardway dice set from SL1. Fortunately, the first three rolls were seven-winners, but then, I PSO'ed. Fortunately, I was able to use the progressive Come betting strategy, and I only had to go to two levels (this will be the subject of a future craps article). I felt like playing over at Golden Nugget again, and I wanted to make sure I felt like a winner again. For that reason, I was happy to leave the craps table $12 ahead, and $62 ahead for the session.

     However, that would be the last winning session I'd have on the trip.

     Things started off good at Golden Nugget. I won $75 at the blackjack table, then I won $37 at craps, doing the progressive Come betting strategy (after shooting a 6 and a 9, not quite breaking even because I'd bet on other shooters). Fortunately, that got my money back. But losing $513 at the poker table, turned this session into a $401 loss.

     My wife and I went back to the Horseshoe, and I played craps, playing my progressive Come betting strategy there at a $15 table. Now, I'd bought in for $1000, but in order to do this strategy correctly, I'd need $1800 for a buy-in, plus I needed nerves of steel, which I didn't have, as I was only able to place four levels of Come bets (15, 45, 105, and 225), and I think I needed at least six levels to pull this off successfully, given how the shooter's roll went. After losing those bets, I tried a 110 inside on my shoot, but I PSO'ed. I left the table $600 down, determined to try poker again. But after two hours, and being $290 down there, I decided to just stop the bleeding right then and there. I took the $890 loss for the session, and declared myself all gambled out for the trip, down $2520 total for the trip.

     Obviously, I was very disappointed, regarding my gambling results. Maybe I need to lay off of poker, and focus on craps and blackjack. More practice on my gripping and throwing the dice, is in order, plus I want to make sure that the next time I do this progressive Come betting strategy, I'm doing it on either a $5 or a $10 table. I wish I had better results to report to you, but the facts are what they are. Until next time...