He who lives by the dice shall perish by the dice

TJ: wrote this a little over a week ago, just after my b-day trip to Cache Creek put me in a gambling mood. I gots another post for you, but this should tide you over until then. Hope all is well, must go talk to our IT dude and get my shitty dell unfucked.

Buy macintosh, you fuckballs...

Oh, and a special goes out to LMHBrent.

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Funny. For some reason this article never really talks about how hitting a 4 or a 10 is half as likely as hitting that 7...

from some shitty about.com article...

Pressing the 10 and 4

Place the four or ten for five dollars. If the shooter sevens out you are out $5. On the first hit you will be paid $9 Tell the dealer to Press your bet. Your pace bet will go to $10 and you will get $4. (If the shooter now sevens out you will be minus $1) On the second hit you will be paid $18. Tell the Dealer to BUY the number. The dealer will increase your bet to $25 and give you back $3. (If the Shooter now sevens out you will be plus $2) When you buy a number, you pay a 5% commission to be paid true odds on your bet. When you buy the four or ten, you will be paid 2 to 1 instead of 9 to 5 for your bet. In some casinos you will be required to give the commission for your buy bet up front. In other casinos you only pay the commission when your bet wins. On the third hit you will be paid $50 (minus $1 Commission) (IF the Shooter now sevens out you will have a profit of $51) After the third hit you have two options: 1) You can leave your buy bet up and collect $49 for each hit. 2) You can regress your bet to $5 and take back an additional $20 profit. Either way you have made some big profits with very little risk. That’s why I say “10-4” to pressing the four and ten place bets.

Basic algebra is telling me now that the 2 to 1 minus a comission is always the better bet. I'm guessing that the reason you can't just do it right off the bat might be because you might not be able to buy your point to pay at the real odds unless you purchase a minimum. Might have something to do with rounding down in the casino too. Lemme look at this a bit more.