Posted by Dillan | Posted in Craps | Posted on 26-01-2010
Over your craps-betting experience, you’ll likely have more non-winning encounters than successful times. Accept it. You have to discover how to bet in the real world, not in dream land. Craps is constructed for the player to not win.
Say, after two hours, the ivories have eaten away at your bankroll down to $20. You haven’t witnessed a smokin’ hot toss in a long time. Even though losing is as much a part of the game as acquiring a win, you cannot help but feel awful. You begin to wonder why you even bothered heading to sin city to start with. You were a rock for 2 hours, but it didn’t work. You need to win so much that you are deprived of control of your clear thinking. You are down to your final 20 dollars for the game and you have little fight left. Call it a day!
You can never capitulate, never bow out, never think, "This sucks, I’m going to lay the remainder on the Hard 4 and, if I am defeated, then I will call it quits. On the other hand should I succeed, I will be back where I started." That’s the dumbest action you can perform at the end of a losing night.
If you cannot acknowledge not winning, you have no business gambling. If you can’t bear not winning a given game, then bow out of that session and take your money. Don’t piss your $$$$ away on a terrible bet praying to make it huge and get your $$$$ back in one great go.
If it is an awful day and you lose a lot rapidly, then acknowledge defeat and cash out with the ten dollars, $15, or 20 dollars that you have left. Take that remaining 20 dollars, go have a beer in the cocktail lounge, listen to the live music. Put the money in a 5 cent electronic poker machine and maybe get a one thousand-coin win for 50 dollars. Place it in your wallet, find your partner, and spend some time with them. Don’t give up. Do something besides piss your $$$$ away on a losing proposition wager. Don’t toss in the towel.