Well I finally had a chance to check out the new craps table at Brantford Casino. I have to agree with all of the preliminary reports on this one...it is very playable.
I arrived a little early to ensure that I'd get a good spot when it opened. As it turned out, there were only three other guys as table-mates for the first 2.5 hours. That was a good surprise.
The second good surprise was that the table rolled even truer and more neutral than I expected. The backwall actually deadens your rebounds to a minimum as long as you keep your initial toss-energy down to a reasonable minimum. There were a couple of time when I actually had to remind myself to increase my throwing-force in order to get any sort of a rebound action at all. On the soft tosses, it was like throwing into a catcher's mitt.
I started with $25 line-bets and backed them with 5x-Odds, and used a modified variant of Irishsetter's Place-to-Come-to-Place approach (by using continuous Come-bets w/max-Odds which replaced a couple of initial Place-bets).
Before long (I think it was on either my fourth or fifth hand) I doubled my base bets along with upping their corresponding Odds. Pit-attention did not rise one bit when I did that.
I also raised the sperm-count on my tokes when I ratcheted up my bet-values. Since nobody else was toking, I said to the crew, "With time we can educate everyone about toking". They got a kick out of that, especially when two of the other players got into a nice little toking rhythm when I chided them that, "The good times usually continue to roll if you get the dealers really INTO the game".
When my good hands continued after that, I'd say something along the lines of, "See that, the dealers are in the game, and the hand goes long...when you leave them out, luck leaves the hand". The other guys had been rolling lousy during most of their turns and were not toking when they shot. I figured, hey, why not use everyone's own superstitions to further ingratiate myself to the crew...I'll be back and I want them to treat me like the prodigal son when I do.
Two-and-a-half hours of play...a ton of shooting opportunities...and much more profit than I ever expected from a first time casino visit/recon trip.
I like the 5x-Odds, and I love the neutrality of the table. Actually I want to ammend that. I think the table is heavily on the nearly dead end of the layout-liveliness scale; and as such it plays like a couple of my favorite LV-Mirage tables.
In the future, if I set it up so that I'm once again there (mid-week) a little before the table opens; I'm thinking that Brantford can be added as a permanent occasional stop on my gaming itinerary. I haven't told any of the other D-I pro's and semi-pro's on the Northern Circuit about this off-prime opportunity; but I'm sure they'll find out about it soon enough.
Good Luck and Good Skill at the Tables…and in Life.
The Mad Professor
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