As I promised earlier, I want to show you the best way to bet on and shoot for the Yo-11. This is not only helpful to win a free entry in the Las Vegas Hilton’s annual craps tournament (by having an active $5 bet on the 11); but it is also a very powerful C-O or stand-alone point-cycle Prop-bet as well.
We start with the Straight-Sixes (S-6) dice-set, but we permutate it (transpose) so that the top-faces are 6/5 and the near-faces are set as 5/6. This gives you two primary-face outcomes as 11 and the other two primary-face results as 3 (2/1 and 1/2).
Let me give you an assumptive example for three different levels of on-axis proficiency:
On-Axis Outcomes: 50% 55% 60%
which are comprised of…
Primary-hits: 15% 16% 19%
Double-Pitches: 10% 7% 7%
Single-Pitches in either direction: 25% 32% 34%
Off-Axis Outcomes: 50% 45% 40%
which are comprised of…
One-die off-axis 30% 34% 32%
Both Dice off-axis 20% 11% 8%
Now the first thing that I have to make clear, is that you should expect your Sevens-to-Rolls Ratio (SRR) to be absurdly low with this approach. In fact, you shouldn’t be surprised (if your on-axis proficiency mirrors any of the above examples) that your SRR will be in the 4.44 range for a 50% O/A shooter to a high of 4.76 for a 60% O/A player.
Much more important than your actual SRR though, is what you do with the actual rolls that each of these skill-levels offer. Have a look and I think you’ll immediately see what I mean:
Again, your on-axis efficiency does not even have to come close to the theoretical 100% efficiency to make a given dice-set work.
Even mediocre axial control delivers up usably bettable and tangibly profitable results.
Besides seeing the obvious reasons that I primarily use the S-6 set when I’m shooting from the Don’t, there is still a fairly strong and compelling reason to use this from the Rightside even if you aren’t trying to earn a free entry into the Hilton Craps Tournament.
¬ For the 55% O/A shooter with a 20% edge over both the 3 and 11 as well as the 2 and 12; the S-6 is a Horn-bettors delight…even during the point-cycle.
¬ On the Come-Out you could make this into a World-bet instead of the Horn since the 7 is also expected to show up 21.5% of the time. That “little” 4.83% difference-from-random for the 7 actually represents an increased expectancy-rate of 29% (28.9742% to be exact). So if you are seeing nearly 30% more 7’s (which accounts for why your actual SRR will be so low); you’ll probably want to do something about that, wagering-wise.
Still To Come
Now that we’ve covered the basics of Craps Tournament play, Part Two…Going For The Gold takes a serious look at a variety of betting-methods and game strategies that you will probably want to consider when going for the 1st place gold.
I hope you’ll join me for that.
Until then,
Good Luck & Good Skill at the Tables…and in Life.
Sincerely,
The Mad Professor
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