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A craps shooter picks his 2 dice and faces his first come out roll what roll (from 2 to 2,000,000,000,000) is the most likely roll to 7 out on? craps players say the skill of the shooter determines the answer, but that is not true, imo, as each roll is an independent event some also say to 7out on roll 2 is a rare event. John Patrick’s Advanced Craps. John Patrick’s Advanced Craps was written by John Patrick.
Strategy 2 The $15-$6
Over the long haul in craps (do the math or check with a casino) 30% of craps games are decided on the come-out roll (fact). How? Simply, the shooter rolls a 7 or 11 or a craps number 2, 3, or 12. So keep that in mind. Over the long haul a 7 makes an appearance once every 6 rolls so it is quite possible that a shooter can string 2 or 3 7’s together on the come-out roll. Game won, Next Game another 7, Game won and we are into the third come out roll of the shooter who has yet to roll a point. After all there are more ways to roll a seven than any other number. Check the Chart:
Left Die Right Die
5 2
2 5
3 4
4 3
6 1
1 6
There are 6 ways that the dice can land and show a “7.” No other number has so many ways to roll.
Betting this way always win on the come-out, but for a price one would think. So starting a new game with come-out roll with $15 on the pass line and $6 on 3-way craps is how 15-6 begins. One may think that my net gain would be only $27 after a come-out roll of 7 three times in a row because I would lose the $6 three-way craps bet 3 time for a loss of -$18. Hey, I would have won $45 if I had only bet the pass line. But that’s not the way $15-6 works. Here’s why you will win more than $45, just a little more than your friends who are just playing $15 on the pass line. Here is how that happens: It’s all in the details:
After the first come-out roll of 7, I bet $3 on hop the 7’s, which is also called “hop the reds” because many players do not like to hear the word for 7. Nonetheless, on the second come out 7, I won $13 from my $3 hop bet. Why $13? The hop the 7 bet pays 15 to 1 on a 7, there are 3 types of 7’s: a 6-1, 5-2, 4-3. The game only considers that there are 3 ways to roll a 7 (4-3, 5-2, 6-1 and ignores what each die is doing ), paying $15 for any $1 on the 7 that comes out. Yet I lost the dollars on the other two ways to make a $7. So say the second come-out roll of a 7 was a 5-2, that means I lost the $1 bet on the 6-1 and the 5-2. So that’s $13 more to add to my winnings from the pass line bet of 15 minus the loss of the 3 way craps bet that I make on every come-out roll.
So after the second roll of a 7 on the come-out, I am pressing the hop bet by $3 again to a $6 hop bet. That third come-out roll, a 6-1 gave me $26. After 3 Come-Out Rolls of 7, I won:
a. I won $9 from the pass line bet of $15 [ $15-$6] on the first Come-Out roll that I bet 15-6.
b. I won $13 on the “Hop the 7’s” bet on the second Come-Out roll
c. I won $26 on the “Hop the 7’s” bet on the third Come-Out roll
** Don’t forget that you collected $18 from the pass line on come-out rolls two and three ($30-$12).
So my total win is more than $48 ($9+$13+26 and $18)- no, it’s more than that: $66 Here’s why. If I had been playing $15 pass line bets and nothing else, I would have won only $45. My friend looks at me and says, “You won $21 more than I did on the 3 consecutive 7’s even with the three-way craps bet. How did that happen?” One more time, don’t forget to add in the $9 that I won twice on the second and third roll from the pass line (total of $18), I conclude the three come-out 7’s with $66 ($48+$18). I counted the first $9 on the first come-out. $66 on 3-come-out 7’s even though I lost the three-way craps bets (wow)!
So what do I do with the hop the 7 bet after the 3 come-out rolls that began and ended with a 7 on the come-out. Remember that I made the hop bet that hit twice on the 2nd and third come-out rolls. We agreed, 3 consecutive 7’s on the come-out is really not that unusual. So if you are thinking I press the Hop the 7 Bet again on the 4th come-out , you are correct.
And that is the first part of playing $15-6, by an example of 3 come-out 7’s on the pass line. In less than probably 5 minutes, I won $66 on three come-out 7’s in a row. “Not much of a difference from $45,” you say. Keep reading. It is a significant difference (admit it) and there’s more good news to come.
So for me, I am the most secure player at the table on the come-out roll. Not fool proof at all, but this sequence occurs much more than you think. A Come-Out shooter rolling a few 7’s in a row happens almost every time that I play. Of course, winning $66 instead of $45 because of three 7’s in a row on the come-out roll is nice, but watch what happens if 3 craps numbers occur on 3 come-out rolls. Now we start to talk about much bigger money! THIS IS THE BIG PAYOFF FOR BETTING $15-$6 ON THE COME-OUT ROLL!
3 Come-out rolls in a row with craps numbers while playing $15-$6
1. a 12 is rolled. You win $60 from 3-way craps but subtract $19, the pass line and the $2 on the 3 and 2 for a total win of $41. Press 3-way craps by $6
2. a 3 is rolled on the next come-out. You win $60 with $4 on the 3 but subtract the pass line and $8 from the other craps winners for a total win of $37. Press 3-way craps by $3 after a win on a “3” .. commonly called “ace-deuce.”
3. Now you have $5 on all three craps numbers and to your luck, a “2” is rolled (snake eyes). You win $150 minus the pass line, minus the $10 bet on the other two craps numbers for a total win of $125.
Here were your 3 craps wins in a row
1. Net $41 on the come-out 12 after a $6 3-way craps bet
2. Net $37 on the come-out 3 after a $12 3-way craps bet
3. Net $125 on the come out 2 after a $15 3-way craps bet
Total win of $203 by playing 15-6 on three come-outs and 3 craps numbers are thrown: 12-3-2. Your friends playing just the pass line for $15 LOST $45 ON THESE 3 ROLLS! Winning $203 instead of losing $45, I bet that is a “significant difference” that we all can agree on…
Strategy 3 SUPER HEDGE
1. If one is considering playing the super hedge system, then you should agree that winning a little money is much better than losing a lot of money. Winning a little is better than losing a lot. Agree at times? Of course.
2. Super Hedge becomes obvious to most Don’t Pass players, but most will not use it because it limits the amount of money that one can win on a cold table. Here is the first example of Super Hedge:
a. The player has $6 on the Don’t Pass line and the point rolled is a 4 or a 10. To Super Hedge the player places the 10 or the 4 for $5. So either the player will win $1 on a 7-out or the player will win $3 if a 4 or 10 is rolled. If a 7 is rolled, the $5 on the point is subtracted from the $6 on the Don’t Pass. If the point is made, the 4 or the 10 in this example, subtract the loss of the Don’t Pass Bet, $6, from the win $9 for a net win of $3.
See, the player cannot lose. Now let’s up the betting.
b. With $11 on the Don’t Pass line- if the point number rolled is a 10 or 4, place the 4 or 10 for $10. So the player will win $1 on a 7-out or $8 on the point number being rolled. Do you see how the Super Hedge ensures a win for the player either way. So let’s consider other point numbers, the 5 or 9.
c. $6 on the Don’t Pass line, place the 5 or 9 for $5. 7-Out gives a $1 win, 5 or 9 rolled creates a $1 win.
d. $6 on the Don’t Pass line, place the 6 or 8 for $6. Either the player breaks even on a 7-out or wins $1 if the point is made as a 6 or 8 pays $7 if it hits.
So you now understand that the Super Hedge just wins a little but does not lose for the player. So when would I play it.
I play it for two reasons. Let’s say I won $450 playing craps numbers. i want to stay at the table but I do not want to put money at risk. I play Super Hedge. My second reason is cold and I have been playing the pass line and losing. I may go to Super Hedge until a hot shooter starts making points, then I will go back to “smart craps.”
These are the main reasons for Super Hedge. Since I play craps at least twice weekly, I cannot afford to lost several hundred dollars every time that I go to a casino. This protects me. Either I will come home just a few dollars up or I play at a hot table and win bigger money playing smart craps.
Can I hedge the come-out playing Super Hedge. Sure. Just hop the 7’s for $3 and a $1 yo and a $1 12. if I was doing this, I would play at least $11 on the Don’t Pass if not a little more.
If you do hedge the come-out the way that I suggested, here is what will happen. Remember that the Don’t Pass line wins on the come-out roll of 2 or 3 and pushes on a 12. So if you bet $1 on a 12. You are winning $30 if it hits on the one roll come-out.
If an 11 is rolled, you would lose the $11 on the Don’t Pass line, but win $15 on the one roll 11. So you have a net win of $4. If a 7 is rolled, you lose the $11 on the Don’t Pass line, but win $13 on the Hop the 7’s hit for a net win of $2 ($13 gross win). If a 2 or 3 hits, the Don’t Pass line wins $11 but loses the $5 in hedge bets for a net win of $5. Not so bad, is it?
World Record Craps Roll
If you consider yourself to be a serious craps player, you probably know the details on your personal record for longest consecutive roll.
In a highly volatile game of chance like craps – which affords the average shooter just 8.5 rolls before they “seven out” to end the table’s fun – going on an extended streak of success as the shooter can be an unforgettable experience.
There you are playing baccarat, taking center stage while an entire looks on with bated breath as you prepare to roll. You’ve already hit a few point numbers to cash in Pass Line bets for your fellow players, so excitement is in the air. The dice keep tumbling and dodging the dreaded 7 with a point number set, landing on every alternative number a time or two to produce winners for the exotic bettors.
The clock keeps ticking and you keep rolling winners, and before you know it, you’ve just set a new highwater mark for your longest stretch as a shooter without sevening out. Eventually, the party ends when the dice show 4-3 on a 9 point, but no bother – you nearly managed to eclipse the one-hour plateau with a 53-minute roll.
In most Las Vegas casinos, a roll like that would cause an immediate buzz across the gaming floor, both among players and dealers alike. And for good reason, as the average craps roll tends to last for just about 20 minutes.
So what if I told you a tourist from Honolulu, Hawaii once held the dice in hand for three hours and six minutes without ever sevening out?
That incredible craps session lasting 118 straight seven-less rolls might sound like one of Sin City’s infamous myths, like pure oxygen pumped into the air supply to keep losing gamblers blissfully unaware. But if you pay a visit to the classic California casino in Downtown Las Vegas, you can still find a full-fledged shrine to the original “Golden Arm” himself – the late Stanley Fujitake.
Fujitake Sets a World Record for Longest Consecutive Craps Roll
Back on May 28, 1989, Fujitake and his wife Satsuko took advantage of a Hawaii-focused travel promotion offered by the California Hotel & Casino to make one of their regular visits to Las Vegas.
An avid craps enthusiast herself, Satsuko Fujitake taught her husband the game during their courtship. As she told Hawaii News Now in 2009, shortly after Fujitake’s record finally fell (more on this to come), Satsuko soon suspected her husband had been bitten hard by the craps bug:
“Mom, where is Dad going out all the time? I said, ‘Well, he must have trouble with his stomach, he’s going to the bathroom.’
I didn’t believe that, I knew what he was doing – he was on the table every time he went out.”
So it was that Satsuko woke up one morning to find her husband’s side of the bed hadn’t even been slept in. That’s because Fujitake has spent the night putting on one of the greatest gambling shows Las Vegas has ever witnessed.
The action started around midnight when Fujitake – a mild-mannered man of diminutive stature who looked every part the average Las Vegas tourist – placed a simple $5 bet on the Pass Line.
Over the next 3+ hours, Fujitake could do no wrong with the dice, rolling over and over again without sevening out. As the epic rolling session progressed, onlookers crowded the table and wagered everything they had to get in on Fujitake’s good fortune.
Guido Metzger – who worked as a dealer at the California back then before rising to become director of casino operations for parent company Boyd Gaming – recalled the frantic crush of bettors surrounding Fujitake in an interview with Boyd’s Buzz:
“They had trouble keeping up with the chip payouts that night.
My table was empty. But there were at least 30 to 40 people trying to place bets at his table.
They couldn’t get fills to the table fast enough and had to start issuing scrip [casino credit] because not enough people were going to the cage and cashing in their chips.”
With winners coming on every roll, the California’s coffers were soon being drained for six-figure sums. The outlays became so onerous that John Repetti, casino manager for the California at the time, was called in from home to supervise the situation.
As he told the Los Angeles Times in a 2017 retrospective on Fujitake’s record-setting roll. Repetti was literally roused from his slumber in order to personally monitor the increasingly expensive craps game:
“The first call came and he’d been shooting for an hour, and we were losing a couple hundred thousand dollars at the time. I said if he continued, to call me at every $100,000 loss interval.
Well, the calls kept coming every 15 minutes. Another $100,000. And another $100,000.
After the fourth call and fifth call, I decided I’d better get some clothes on and get downtown.”
A seasoned veteran of the casino gambling industry, Repetti knew instantly that he was witnessing a historic run of good luck, as he told News at the Cal a few months afterward:
“Half an hour is average, over an hour is amazing, but more than three hours is totally astounding.”
In the end, Fujitake held the dice for 118 consecutive rolls without sevening out, a feat which earned him $30,000 in winnings.
But according to David Strow, who serves as vice president of corporate communications for Boyd Gaming, Fujitake was hardly the biggest winner to benefit from the legendary roll. As Strow remembered it in a 2017 interview with PokerNews, Fujitake’s fellow players placed larger bets along the way and wound up winning upwards of $1 million:
Greatest Craps Roll Ever Roll
“That was one of the ironic things about his roll – the other players at the table ended up winning a lot more money than Stanley did!”
Wife Remembers the Late Legend and Love of Her Life
Stanley Fujitake passed away in 2000 at the age of 77, but he was survived by his wife Satsuko and their sons Dennis, Lester, and Kevin.
And while the children may have wondered where Dad was during those late nights at the California’s craps tables, Satsusko told Hawaii News Now that she is glad Stanley was able to enjoy the game he loved so dearly:
“It was a miracle, because it’s impossible to hold the dice.
It doesn’t happen all the time, maybe it’s only once in a lifetime deal.”
Satsuko was there that night, but after wandering the casino floor for a while, she couldn’t find the small of stature Stanley amidst the crowd. Later on, as she played video poker in another area of the casino, Satsuko found herself surrounded by well-wishers celebrating her husband’s new crown as the King of Craps:
“People came up to congratulate me and I thought, geez, I didn’t do anything, I didn’t even hit a royal, why are they congratulating me?
Then I realized, he was the one with the dice.”
Fujitake’s Record Gets Smashed in the Garden State
For 20 years following his world record roll, nobody could top Fujitake’s mark of three hours and six minutes without turning over the dice.
Greatest Craps Roll Ever Seen
The record stood until 2009, when a craps rookie named Patricia Demauro visited the Borgata casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey on a whim. Bored with the penny slots, her pal invited her to take a crack at craps, leading to one of the more improbable feats in gambling history.
DeMauro rolled 154 times consecutively without sevening out, a session which lasted four hours and 18 minutes altogether – or a full hour longer than Fujitake’s previous record.
When asked about her late husband’s historic feat falling into second place, Satsuko Fujitake told Hawaii News Now that Stanley’s record run will always be number one in her heart:
“As my husband of 54 years, in my heart, he is still the champ to me and will be forever.”
The “Golden Arm” Club Carries on Fujitake’s Legacy in Fine Fashion
In 1992, the California Hotel & Casino commemorated Fujitake’s record roll by creating the “Golden Arm” award.
Ever since then, any craps player at the California who can roll for one hour or more without sevening out earns entrance to the Golden Arm club. Admission comes with a plaque memorializing the date and length of session, while members are given a snazzy blue shirt proclaiming them to be Golden Arms.
The name comes straight from Fujitake himself, after the proud craps player told Repetti that “this arm is golden” upon receiving a check for $30,000. Fujitake went on to top the 60-minute mark without sevening out on three other occasions, proving that his proficiency with the dice was no fluke.
You can learn more about the Golden Arm club – and the California’s annual craps tournament held in Fujitake’s honor – in this profile by the L.A. Times.
Conclusion
Longest Craps Roll
Managing to beat the average of 8.5 rolls without sevening out is enough to get most craps players’ heart’s pumping, so just imagine what Fujitake was feeling as the hours passed by. Runs like that are the stuff of gambling lore, but for one unforgettable night back in 1989, a tourist in Sin City simply refused to lose. The next time you’re in Downtown Las Vegas, make sure to pay homage to Fujitake and his record-setting roll by visiting the California and its Golden Arm “wall of fame.”
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