Recognizing a hot hand is the next step in your continuing search for a well rounded advantage in dice setting.
It’s like looking for where lightning will strike next. Weather a random roller or you have the dice, it takes experience and sometimes just being in sync with the game at hand to become successful.
Being in sync with the game is making the right moves at the right time. For instance, you walk up to the table and buy in and a Randy throws four for the point. You place the eight and on the next roll or two he throws an eight. Then he throws a five and you make a Field bet. He throws a twelve and you get paid triple and rack the winnings. Mr. Randy then throws another eight, so you place the six. If he throws another five, six or eight on the next toss, you jump back on the field (one unit). He throws an eleven and you hear the thunder overhead.
You are now set to take that Field money and press the six and eight or expand to the five and nine. That’s being in sync with the game at hand, no matter who has the dice. You have at least five units in the rack and ready for lightning to strike. From this point on I would press one unit on each hit. As soon as I had three or four units on the five, six and eight, I would set up the iron cross (a one unit Field bet)
Would I take my bets down or regress at any point? No. We skimped and scraped to get this far and are set up to shake the money tree.
Being out of sync is when you watch the next Randy throw three sevens on the come-out and you are standing their with your chips in your hand. Then you watch him throw two six’s and an eight, so you place the six and eight. Randy then seven’s out on the next toss. You are out of sync. Call it luck or bad luck; it’s still a guessing game with the Randy’s.
Now when the dice setter has the dice, it’s a new ball game of expectation. How do you know when you’re in that hot hand? Don’t worry, you will know. After seven or eight rolls you will gain more and more confidence. Confidence and concentration takes over and you only think about the next toss.
That’s why I don’t watch the clock or count tosses when I have the dice. After I place my bets, I’m only interested in how the stick person is presenting me with the dice. Next I concentrate on the set and then the toss. The last thing I do before the toss is to glance at the dice alignment with the back wall.
How you set the dice is determine by what is working for you at that particular table. In my recent trip to Vegas, I set the 3-V 90% of the time. During the three one hour plus rolls, I got the feeling that I would never throw a seven. There is no better feeling than to have the dice in a monster roll with the whole table yelling and screaming for that hard eight and you throw it.
Having the crew on your side also helps. It also helps when two of the stick persons set the dice for you. They were not only giving me the dice with the three’s on top, but had the six and two facing me the way I wanted it. One dealer coming back from break said, “Does he still have the dice”?
When it was all over the Floor Manager said, “Nice hand, congratulations”. I should mention that tipping is a must. That brings the crew into the game.
Discipline is the name of the game. If you have to play a Randy, make sure you play the minimum on the numbers that gives you the best random expectation of winning.
Charlie009
