February 14th, 2010 | 
Author: Suppose you have 9-10-J-K and the flop is Q-Q-J. This is a situation in which you're looking to win the pot with one bet on the flop. With a pair on the board in 08B I'm not looking to invest any money drawing to a straight when my opponent may well have a full house already! It's much more likely in Omaha than in a two-card game like Hold'em that someone has at least trip queens and is drawing to a full house. Worse yet—and here the hand illustrates an important way for you to start looking at the game and seeing how you can read your opponents—the cards that you need for your straight (ace, king, ten, nine) are cards that someone would probably be holding in his hand if his hand contained a queen. So even when he has only trips, when you make your straight you are in grave danger of his filling up (making a full house) at the same time. When your opponents all hold four cards instead of just two, pairs on the board become much more dangerous.
When the flop is bad for your hand, most of the time you will need to fold your hand right away. This can be a bit frustrating when, for example, you finally pick up A-2-3-10 and the flop comes down Q-Q-K! You've been waiting and watching everyone else win big pots with A-2-3-X, and now you lose with your A-2-3-X. Just remember that playing poker well includes folding your strong preflop hands when they miss. Don't chase after bad boards just because your starting hand was strong!
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The Captain: I would say a hundred units would give a player staying power. Of course, there aren't that many video-craps machines in a single casino so if things were going bad, you wouldn't have many options, such as switching machines. Some casinos only have one machine—if they have any. But a hundred units would give you enough to take a good shot.
Frank: Since the Field bet is such a much better bet on many video-craps machines with its three to one payoff of the 12, would you recommend this bet?
The Captain: Obviously, in the short run, you could see the Field numbers coming up at a pleasant rate. But what makes the bet a mathematically better bet than it's table-game counterpart is a single shift on the 12, paying that three to one instead of two to one—but the 12 is a 35 to one shot. So it's not as great a giveaway in the short run as it seems. That 12 might not show often in the short run—it might not show at all. The slight mathematical reduction of the house's odds on this bet isn't great enough to make the Field a worthwhile bet. So I'd stick with the bets discussed and use that variation of the 5-Count. I would recommend playing real craps but I realize that many people play the machines because the machines are more affordable. Even low-limit craps games are expensive.
A hundred dollars on a quarter video-craps machine will go a lot farther than that same hundred dollars on a five dollar minimum table. So video craps is an excellent option for the low stakes player. For the traditional slot-machine player, it would be a fabulous game because of the liberal payback. Those Pass and Come bets are a lot better than most paybacks on the slots—especially outside of Las Vegas where slot machines tend to be much tighter.
If you are playing video craps in a casino that has a slot club make sure that the machine is either linked to the central computer system or that a slot host is informed of your play. Often the novelty machines such as video craps are not considered a part of the casino's normal comping protocol. However, you deserve to get afredit for your play, just as any other slot player or video-poker player, and sometimes this means simply asking a slot host to drop by and observe you every so often. Played correctly and with a full range of comps, you could conceivably play even or almost even with the house.
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