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Did you hear about the rookie craps-throwing grandma who held the dice for 4 hours and 18 minutes this last weekend at the Borgata? According to this story it was 154 rolls without hitting a 7 (at the wrong time). Remember in craps there are times, when there is no point, that a 7 is actually a winner so I am sure she threw many sevens in her roll - just all when there was no point.

Over 4 hours!

I can’t tell you how much money I would have won on that roll. When I first starting playing craps in Vegas I had no idea what I was doing, although I did know that full odds was a good thing because the odds bet is the only even money bet in the casino. But I hadn’t learned about pressing bets yet. I was playing craps with friends from a bachelor party where two of us had back to back 90 minute rolls. We were happy to take $10,000 off the table but the dealers actually scolded us telling us we should have won $100,000.

Now that I know how to press, I would say they may have been right. Certainly would be right if that was one long roll without busting.

And 4 hours 18 minutes? On one of my hottest craps nights ever I turned $500 into $5,000 before giving a little bit back. As I wrote in the craps trip report I posted after that night we had THREE monster rolls in 3 hours, and each one was obviously less than an hour each - probably more like 30 minutes. I’ve never seen another 90 minute roll since that one amazing night.

I was in Vegas last week and took part in one hot roll where I turned $200 into $1,200 in about an hour, and I think that roll was maybe 45 minutes.

What do I mean by pressing?

I start with a $5 bet with $5 odds, both on the pass line then on as many come bets in succession as I can get. As I hit winners I press them up until I eventually get to full odds. At this point I’ve made a little bit. Then I start ramping up the presses going to $10 with full odds, to $15, to $25, to $50 and on this night, to $100. I had two points with $100 base bet with anywhere between $300 and $500 odds behind. I’ve gotten up to $200 base bet with full odds before.

When this happens I’ve already locked up a big win but I have a LOT of money on the table. Takes money to win money. Keep on pressing, and hope that you get some odds money back if the shooter hits a 7 when there isn’t a point.

4 hours? I’m guessing I would be pressed to the table maximum after a little more than 2 hours. And then, boy would the money get raked in. Hard to even fathom. The previous record (I didn’t know they had records for craps, honestly) was 3 hours and 6 minutes. So she bested the world record by 39%. She didn’t just beat the world craps record she obliterated it.

Damn, nothing better than a hot craps table. That one was smoking hot.

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