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Laying Odds

#1

While I greatly appreciate Bob Dancer's knowledge and expertise on
video poker, one question has been nagging at me ever since reading
of his adventures on card craps and "laying the odds". The question
is WHY?

Knowing nothing about "card" craps, I must presume that the rules and
odds are identical to regular craps, and the come out roll slightly
favors the pass side (8 rolls win, 4 lose and 24 establish a point
and are therefor neutral). Betting the "Don't", you have overcome
the negative odds and have an advantage of 6/5, 3/2 or 2/1 depending
on the number. What logical sense could it possibly make to cut your
advantage in half (or worse if laying multiple odds) by doubling your
bet to lay odds?

If purely for the "action", why not increase the action by constant
come bets?

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#2

Dennis Krum wrote:
  
Knowing
nothing about "card" craps, I must presume that the rules and

odds are identical to regular craps, and the come out roll slightly

favors the pass side (8 rolls win, 4 lose and 24 establish a point

and are therefor neutral). Betting the "Don't", you have overcome

the negative odds and have an advantage of 6/5, 3/2 or 2/1 depending

on the number. What logical sense could it possibly make to cut your

advantage in half (or worse if laying multiple odds) by doubling your

bet to lay odds?

If purely for the "action", why not increase the action by constant

come bets?

I'm going
to respond to some of these posts. Apparently my column wasn’t very clear. I
apologize for that. At the same time, I’m not interested in arguing with people
about this.

I am NOT
interested in playing any sort of craps using dice --- except under extremely
rare circumstances. I only bet when I have the advantage, and in crap games I
don’t have such an advantage. If you want to play craps, fine. But not me.

The CSM
gives the DON’T players the advantage. Playing the DON’T without laying odds
still gives the house the advantage. It’s the laying of the odds that gives you
the advantage. If you think that taking or laying odds is a 0% bet, you’re
confusing card craps with regular craps. If you could lay 20x odds in card
craps, you’d have a MUCH bigger advantage.

Read about
this game on Stephen How's site www.discountgaming.net . If you study How's analysis, you will understand how the DON'T betters have the edge.

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