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Craps
How you can make more money using progression systems!
| by Larry Edell, published on Saturday,
September 28 2002 |
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| If you utilize progressions in your play, you can
recoup small losses and hopefully get ahead if you have sufficient
bankroll and, plan your bets in advance. Even in progressions, however,
the key thing to remember is to increase your bets only when winning. If
you are in a catch up mode, you need to use decreased bets until you are
even, and then increase your bets. Remember, you have just one goal in
playing craps - to make money! You probably know that there are a lot of
different progressive systems out there. You also probably know that
most of them are difficult to remember and challenging to implement. So,
let’s look at something easy to use. The simplest way to play is just to
use a one unit progression - up one unit when you are winning and down
one unit when you are losing. Let’s say you are a very conservative $5
unit player and only play the pass line with double odds. You buy in
with $500 and have a $225 win and loss limit. Your first bet is for five
units ($25) and you take double odds. You win, so your next flat bet is
for $30 (six units), also with double odds. Now you lose, so you go down
to $25 (five units plus odds). If you win again, you go back up to a $30
flat bet (six units with odds). Remember, up one unit on both the flat
bet and odds when you are winning, and down one unit on both the flat
bet and odds when you are losing. There are four main advantages to this
method over just betting the exact same amount each time - 1. You are
betting more when winning and less when losing, so you can make more
money! 2. You will be able to take advantage of a hot streak when it
comes along, so you make more money! 3. Your bankroll will last longer,
allowing you to recoup your losses, so you can make more money! 4. It is
twice as easy (on the average) to make your win goal than your loss
limit, so you can make more money! Let’s look at this last point for a
minute, and say you have $25 plus 2X odds on two successive 5 or 9
points. You would win $100 ($25 flat + $75 odds payoff) for the first,
and $120 ($30 flat + $90 odds payoff) for the second. This is a total of
$220, which is close enough to your win goal of $225 so you stop
playing. Now, let’s say you bet on three successive 5 or 9 points, and
you lose all three wagers. You’d lose $75 ($25 flat + $50 odds) for the
first, $60 ($20 flat + $40 odds) for the second, and $45 ($15 flat + $30
odds) for the third - a total of only $180 for three plays - well within
your loss limit. You can still bet at least two extra times in an effort
to catch up ($10 flat + $20 odds and $5 flat + $10 odds), so you don’t
lose five consecutive points. But how many times will five shooters in a
row not make any of their points? In this case (5 or 9 points) you can
have up to five losses before you hit your loss limit, but you need only
two wins to hit your win goal. You will win slightly more for 4 or 10
points, and slightly less for 6 or 8 points. But no matter what the
point, you will be more profitable with this system than just making the
same bet every time. Give this method a try the next time you play - so
you can make more money! And, as always, good luck at the tables!
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