r/Craps

Went to my local Hard Rock Casino to film some content for the channel. Sessions on the crapless bubble craps machines were just okay… was down a few units and figured I’d head to the real craps tables since I always seem to have better luck there. 🎲

Bought in for 1k right when the table opened at 10am. At first it was just me and my wife at the table. I roll first and have a decent little run, hitting 3 points before giving it up. More people slowly start showing up and the guy straight out from me catches a solid roll too. He hits a bunch of numbers and just needed the 3 and 12 for the ATS, but couldn’t close it out before the 7 showed.

After a few more quick PSOs and short rolls, I’m pretty much hovering around even. Every time I’d get my 2 hits and regress… boom, seven out right after. Table started getting ice cold and nobody could get anything going.

Dice finally get back to me and I’m down to a little under $200 left. Time for full degen mode. 😅

I go 10/10/10 ATS, $100 on the outside numbers working, quarter on the pass with the rest in odds. All in. All gas, no brakes. No dice setting, no rituals… just grab the dice and fire.

I start catching numbers and pressing everything aggressively. End up hitting the Smalls and now only need the 10 for the Alls. I instantly lay the 10 for $800 protection.

Literally the VERY NEXT ROLL… hard 10. 🔥🔥🔥

ATS smacked.

Of course instead of regressing like a smart person… I keep everything up and continue pressing because apparently I never learn. Eventually the dreaded 7 shows.

Honestly should’ve colored up right there, but kept chasing a little and donated some winnings back to the casino before finally coming to my senses.

Still walked away with 2k, so turning under $200 left into a double-up session felt like a miracle. A win is a win. 🍀

I posted the first part of my trip to Vegas staying on Bellagio on Friday.

It was a rollercoaster of a ride and I ended my trip with a huge win which I will get to.

I wish I too detailed notes - but will recap. I ended up staying up til 8pm on Friday before I called it. This was about 40 hours straight of being awake for me with the time zone difference.

I’ll say most of Friday was good - until it wasn’t it. I started a around $2k to the positive in early afternoon casino walk about in which I stopped at Caesars, Harrah’s, Venetian, Linq, Flamingo, Cromwell and back to Bellagio.

By the time I got back to Bellagio, couldn’t get anything going there and didn’t feel very lucky. Tried to switch it up to blackjack - and when I say I lost every hand, it sure felt that way for multiple shoes. As soon as I would find a open table - and mind you most of the 3/2 tables were $100 a hand, someone else would sit down immediately and then another and so on by the time I was exchanging cash for chips. And guys would come in mid shoe buy in for one hand.

Finally decide to call it a night down around 75% of my starting bankroll. Brought $10k had around 2.5-3k left.

Saturday get here and decide for some light gambling after breakfast. Squeak out a win at Aria on stadium craps thanks to the A/T/S bonus - then give most of that back at the table thanks to about 5 straight shooters including myself.

Head back to Bellagio to get ready for Sick New World - get there pretty late but in time to see a few bands on the main stage. I stay for the first song Korn played then dipped out as my body was killing me.

Walked to Sahara to take the monorail back close to home base. I get off at Ballys and buy in for the walking around money I brought with me to concert - $500. Ifs only $15 minimum but I lose my buy in and decide to head back to Bellagio.

It’s around midnight - head to the room and do some final accounting. Got $6k - so not down terribly compared to earlier. Decide to play one more table before wrap the trip up.

I head to the only $50 table(They had two $50 tables, a $100 and a $300 one) that had room and buy in for $2500. Only placing the 6/8 and pass line with max odds. First shooter rolls a few numbers before he’s out and the dice get to me around 1220am.

I go 10/20/20 on the ATS. 90 on 6/8, 100 4, 75 on 5 and 9 with the first point being 10.

I’m literally just trying to not hemorrhage any more money and don’t do anything crazy my first few rolls of the dice - just collecting mostly and partial presses. Then I’m realizing I keep smacking the 6 and 10 and I was a 2 away from the smalls. I hit the smalls!

By this time the table is getting pumped and I’m starting to feel reenergized. And I’m just a 12 away from the All/Tall.

I continue rolling and start increasing my bets - at one point I have $250 on 4/10, 300 4/9 and 600 on the 6/8. Once I smacked a few of those I pressed my 6 up to $900 while the point was 8 with $250 odds behind the passline. I’m rolling so many 6s I get it up to $2100 on the place bet by the time I hit the point.

Next come out roll point becomes 6 I move my place bet money from the 6 to the 8 and reduce it to $600. And of course I made the 6 again with only $250 in odds.

Next come out roll - I roll a 12 for the ALL and the table erupts, dealers erupt, guys at the table over come looking.

I had so many chips in my rack - green, black, purple, yellow. My previous accounting midway through had me around 10k in chips. By the time it was all said and done - I cashed out for $19,740 off the $2500 buy in. I was tipping during roll with a passline bet for dealers and odds for them as well as giving them chips to bet out for themselves. Tipped an additional $240 before taking my chips back to the room to snag a photo.

This is by far my BIGGEST single win ever. I didnt quite know how to process it after my roll was done but I got off the table at around 1am - quasi math I held the dice for around 50 minutes. This also included multiple stickmen changes and two casino fills to replenish chips.

Just had 8 hours left in Vegas until flight - decided to cash the chips in at the high limit slot room cashier cage and inquired about a check. Took the check to lock it in.

Not quite sure when I’ll get back out to Vegas, but I’m a semi regular in Cincinnati where I’m sure I’ll be back sooner rather than later back to my original lower buy ins $4-800.

This trip concluded a multiple week winning session locally that allowed me to player higher than I usually do.

See you all at the tables.

Mother’s Day heater at the craps table last night.

Buddy and I bought in for $2k each at a $50 minimum table, 3/4/5x odds. Started hot and got up to around $4k each pretty quick… then got smacked with a few PSOs and had to rebuy another $1k each. Total in: $3k each.

At that point we said screw it and started going full pressure.

Then the dark side player decides to switch to Pass Line and shoot. Some players left because they didn't want to put money on the dark side shooter.

Dude proceeds to roll for what had to be 40 rolls. Absolute insanity.

Our racks were basically empty because everything was pressed and spread across the numbers. We started with:

• $50 come bets + max odds
• then bumped to $100 comes
• eventually had $200 comes with max odds working across all numbers

Every hit was paying around $1,400 and the table was going nuts.

My buddy was also firing $100-$200 hardways and crushed those for another ~$8k on top.

I actually took my odds down a few rolls too early because the roll just would NOT end. Funny enough, it ended up about even with my friend because he gave a little back right before the inevitable 7-out happened maybe 4-5 rolls later.

Final cash out:

• In for $3k each
• Out for $42,700

Before leaving we put the dealers up for $250 across and let them press with us during the roll. Colored up and left another $300 tip because they were awesome all night.

Went over to blackjack after and ran it up even more.

Craziest part? By the end of the night basically everyone that was playing with us was still at the table but had given back their profit and then some. Tons of spectators, random hot shooters asking for tips, whole pit watching the action.

Casino even had security walk us to the car because apparently there was some incident with high rollers the week before.

Took my wife and mother-in-law to Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sacramento at Fire Mountain for an early Mother’s Day trip. Both wanted to play some craps… and who am I to deny that? 😂

Bought in for $1,500 and noticed the table was completely empty. Never a great sign. My buddy u/mastaballah was there too, ready for some degen activity.

I get the dice first and have an okay roll, but 7 out in under 10 rolls. My wife and mother-in-law both roll after me and couldn’t really get anything going either. Table starts off ice cold as the dice move to the other side.

Then things finally wake up.

Dice get to SR2 and he goes on a solid 32-roll heater. Hits one of the side bonuses, but no full ATS. Next shooter at SR1 keeps the momentum going and rolls the Talls, only needing the 3 for the ATS… but ends up sevening out before he could hit it. Still some really solid rolls, and at this point I’ve battled all the way back plus some profit.

Dice get back to me and I somehow turn a bad roll into 16 rolls before finally sevening out. Stayed for one more shooter to my left and he ends up tossing a clean 24-roller. No bonus hits, but another strong hand.

Colored up for $2.5k.

Honestly thought I had way more after all those good rolls, but I must’ve been buried more at the beginning than I realized. Either way… a win is a win, and I’ll gladly take it. 🎲🔥

Made it Vegas for my birthday. The table minimum was $15 at 10 pm, I was quite surprised! I'm a small fry when it comes to gambling and bought in for $200. It turned out to be a good night with the entire win coming from one shooter! Additionally the make 'em all bonus hit. Unfortunately I didn't have any money on it but by sheer luck I put $5 on 12 for the last point to hit and it did! Aside from that I typically only play pass line with full odds. Tipped both the table and the shooter $ 25 each then got out of there as quickly as I could!

$11425 out.

Brought 1 orange chip to the table leftover from a blackjack table. Exchanged chips midroll on another shooter and did $440 inside. 7 out. That’s what I get.

Lay down $3900 to get some more chips. Played for about 2 hours. Mostly uneventful and got down to about $2000 until 1 shooter threw a ton of 4s. Started with $50 on it and pressed to $400 collecting on the way.

My third roll - hit the smalls and pressed my 8 all the way to $1800. Started it with $90. Partial presses along the way. $300-$450$600-$900 1200 to $1500 and $1800.

Strange enough I was a 9 away from the tall and all. Hit the 12 3-4 x during my roll. This was a crapless table

Started the evening playing MTG with some of the boys. Didn’t finish until almost 11.
So by the time I made it out to Sky River it was 11:45pm.

All the tables are packed and at $25.
Walk to the only 4 bubble machines in the back and they are also packed with people waiting to play standing behind.

Wander back to the “small table” find a spot and buy in for $300. At $25 I usually start with 6,8,9 first hit add the 5. Same bet twice and then I either start adding 4 and ,10 after that
or if they’re just hitting inside numbers I’ll press 2 units on the number that hits.
As long as they hit 3 numbers I’m only in $15 a shooter playing at $110 inside.

It’s choppy and going downhill, just enough hits to stay playing. I roll a few numbers but just collected 3 hits before 7 came. Tables bleeding and clearing out. At 12:25am it’s just me and guy in SL1 who was grandfathered in at $15 so he’s probably been playing since like 7-8pm. Floor announces tables closing at 12:30 so after he shoots we can move to other tables, and he took that as a challenge.

I was down to all in on him at $110 inside no bonus.
8 is point he hits 8. Then 7 out on the come out I add 5,0,5 on the ATS.
He starts going on a little roll. Smashes a few points I’m just adding numbers and pressing. Eventually I’m pressed to $320 across so I regress half and add dealers across.
20 mins in he hits the 10 for the Talls. It’s going good! But too much excitement people start peaking over.

I’m adding Dealers on hardways and horns so they and box help as much as they can by turning a few people away saying tables closing after this roll go to other tables but a few rolls later and just the 2 was needed for ATS.
And the hardheaded people around just started throwing money on horn bets and placing numbers and the box had to take the bets.

We got close but couldn’t hit the 2. Too many people tried to get in at the very last second and greed got us all. Table closed at 12:55.

Colored up $600
Cage line was long so threw a $20 in a slot waiting for it to die down took out $90.

I ran it back.

A couple small differences but it was a copy, paste of the night before.
I got there a bit earlier around 8:20 last night and was the very last buy in at $10 before they bumped it to $15 and an hour after that it was bumped to $25.

$300 buy in and it was choppy at first. 5,0,5 ATS $44 inside 3 hits to regress back to $44 on house money. But we were only getting two hits. Around hour in I’m on my last $50ish so this would be all in last shooter or buy in again.

And he went on a roll. Blasting numbers. Hammering the 5. Very quickly only needing the 12 and 3 for the ATS. We try coaxing it out but it takes a while. He’s smashing numbers and the 3 finally shows out.
Rolled a bit more but 7 came before 12.

An older uncle shot next and hit about 6 numbers so kept it going slightly. I rolled after that and same. Hit about 6-7 numbers including some nice hardways for a little bit back but 7 out and I color it up at that.

In $300 out $624 minus dealer bets as I leave.

They need more bubble craps machines. Only 4 and theres always people hovering around waiting on a seat. Left after scoping out how long the wait for bubbles was.