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Ask the Mad Professor A guy goes to a bar
and sees a big jar filled with $5-bills. He asks the bartender, "Whats with the
money?" The bartender replies,
"We're having a contest. You have to put
$5 in the jar; then you have to complete three tasks.
If you complete them all; then you get all the money in the jar." "Ah, lets give
it a try," says the man, as he puts $5 in the jar.
"First" says the bartender, "you have to drink 4 oz. of
tequila without making a face. Second, there
is a vicious rottweiller outside with a sore tooth, and you have to pull it out. Third, upstairs there is an old woman who has
never had sex in her life, and you have to have sex with her, okay?" "Fine" says the man, as he downs the 4
oz. of tequila without making a face. Now
drunk, he goes outside, as the bartender starts to hear a lot of yelling, barking,
snarling, screaming and yelping. When the
man comes back in, his clothes are all torn, and his arms, legs and face are all shredded
and bloody. He says, "Okay,
wheres the old woman with the sore tooth?" Sometimes even the easiest of directions arent always followed.
Fontana Lounge at
Bellagio. It features Jimmy Hopper on piano,
ultra-premium drinks and prices to match. Bellagio
is fairly central to everything; and this lounge is relaxing; but once I am relaxing in
one of their deeply-padded chairs, I dont want to get up for at least forty minutes
or so. BIG martinis are
found in Red Square at Mandalay Bay. The
ice-surfaced bar, fashionable surroundings and some unique Russian-appetizers, are what we
like about this place. The craps tables here
are frequently sparsely-populated during the day, so Ill arrange to meet friends
here for a post-session celebration. The Sky-View Lounge
at Polo Towers is a neat hideaway that has an excellent view of the Strip. Recently it has been discovered by a
growing number of people. As such, it has
lost a lot of its exclusivity, but the view remains good. The Voodoo Lounge
at the Rio, and, The Sky Bar at the
Palms, and, The House of
Blues Foundation Room, all provide top-of-Vegas views and outdoor patios, which make
them excellent spots to entertain new-to-Vegas friends.
All three of these places have a get-away-from-it-all feel to them. The first two have a low-threshold dress-code
during the day, but they raise the fashion-bar around 9:00 pm. The H.o.Bs Foundation Room requires a
membership, but if you are a frequent Mandalay/Luxor/Excalibur/Circus Circus rated-player,
they may comp the $2000 membership fee. The
Stratospheres Top of The World Lounge provides an excellent view. This is an easy drinks-only comp if
you are a $5 player who is not wearing jeans or running-shoes. Just ask a Pit Boss for a comped Tower Pass and
Lounge comp. The sunset view is sensational,
and they sometimes have live entertainment.
When I repeat my
Point, I stop the roll count, and start a fresh Come-out count again. When I establish a new Point number, I restart the
roll count from where I left off. I
continue that until I 7-Out, and I do not count the final 7-Out roll. Let me tell you why
I do it that way, and what the drawbacks are. I do it because I
use the Come-Out roll as a mini-game within my much larger (hopefully, much longer) main
hand. I treat the C-O as it's own individual
profit opportunity. I figure that if I'm not
making a profit on five C-O rolls; then I'm doing something seriously wrong. Yes, the major
drawback, is that it keeps my roll-count at an artificially low number. Now keep in mind that that is all relative. Yes, my roll-count is fairly good, but if I added
my C-O rolls to it, then the number would be quite a bit higher. So, why go to all
the trouble? Well, I keep the roll stats for
my own benefit, and to track my progress. It's
not done to impress or bedazzle others. Its
not a matter of whipping out your dick to see whos is the biggest. I simply want to increase my craps-profit,
without increasing my risk. Longer hands
SHOULD be more profitable, but if your betting methods don't coincide with the numbers
being thrown; then it is all for naught. You could count
your number of rolls from the first toss of the dice and continue counting until you
7-Out. That gives you your average roll-length. This number would include all of the
Come-Out 7-winners that you throw. Yes, the number would be higher than your SRR, but it
gives you a better handle on your per-roll-profitability. "Per-Roll-Profitability" is
determined by taking the total NET profit derived from one complete hand, and then
dividing that net profit by the TOTAL number of rolls.
For example, a total NET profit of $90 from one complete hand which
contained, let's say 18 rolls, would equate to a per-roll-profitability of $5.00. This does not mean that you have to make a
profit off of each roll of the dice. Rather, it is a way of measuring the increasing
profitability of your Precision-Throwing. When you look at per-roll-profitability, it
forces you to look at the types of bets you are making.
It also forces you to determine if your bets are generally profitable or
not. It compels you to focus primarily on YOUR Signature Numbers which provide the
bread-and-butter basis of your profit. Let me give you
another example. Take that same 18-roll hand
that we just mentioned. Lets say that
you used the All-7 set on the Come-Out roll WITH THE INTENTION of throwing
winner-7s. You proceed to do well with
that set, and bang out four winner-7s. Thats
a good start isnt it! Okay, you carry
on to throw fourteen more numbers, and several of them are Place bet repeaters that also
generate some good profit for you. When you
finally 7-Out on the 19th throw of the dice (we dont count the final
throw), you look at your SRR. Lo and behold
it is a paltry 4.5:1. What is wrong with this
picture? Nothing is wrong with the math, but
the logic is all screwed up. Sometimes we have
to use common-sense. I know
common-sense
aint so common, but lets use some of it right here. If we are TRYING to throw the winner-7; then that
effort shouldnt be used AGAINST our SRR. To
do so would be using tainted logic! To my mind,
heres how it should work. When we are setting
the dice FOR the 7; then those statistics should be logged separately. For this exercise, you WANT the lowest SRR as
possible. Using the All-7 set on the Come-Out
Roll, I currently generate a SRR of 3.5:1. That
means that I throw 3.5 Sevens for every 1.0 non-7. Okay, when we are
setting FOR the Point; then those roll-statistics should be calculated towards our SRR. If you take the 18-roll example that we used
above; then we know that there were 14-rolls that followed our four C-O winner-7s. Once we establish the Point, we are now trying to
AVOID the 7, so we switch dice-sets to one of our 7-Avoidance sets, such as 3-V, Crossed
6s, Flying-2s, etc. Including the
establishing of the Point, we know that we had 14-rolls before we 7d-Out. That gives us an SRR of 14:1 for that hand. Now purists would
say that because of all of the winner-7s, that the SRR should still be 4.5:1,
because you threw four 7s during your 18-roll hand, but like I said, lets use
some common-sense. Further to that,
while we are in the casino, it may be beneficial to keep track of the TOTAL number of
rolls from start to finish from one hand. This
goes back to the Per-Roll-Profitability issue, and the fact that we should be eliminating
the non-paying bets, and focusing in on the consistent money-makers. While we all want
to work against quantifiable benchmarks upon which to gauge our improvement, we
shouldnt get bogged down with analysis paralysis with these numbers. My best advice is to track your rolls in a way
that benefits your own profitability. Like
Ive said before
you can make good sustainable profit in dice hands that are as
short as two or three rolls.
For approximately
$130 you get a tent with baby crib (if necessary), TV, fridge, four extra-cushy lounges,
two floats, a fruit plate, a six-pack of soda, a curtained dressing room, table, four more
chairs and the option of ordering off the room-service menu. Plus, you get your own
cabana boy. If you and your
family plan to spend the day at the pool this gives you a central place to gather, as well
as some diversions if necessary. A few other
major hotels have cabanas, and you can charge them to your room-account. Yes, the charges are compable
depending on your level of play. If both you
and your husband give The Mirage ANY gaming action, then you would want your comp-accounts
to be joint, and have your total play considered by your casino host at the end of the
trip. Thanks again for all the great questions. Until next time, Good Luck & Good Skill at the Tables
and in
Life. The Mad Professor
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