Posted on 05/30/2009 6:24:20 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
Friday, May. 29, 2009 Holy Craps! How a Gambling Grandma Broke the Record By Claire Suddath
It sounds like a homework problem out of a high school math book: What is the probability of rolling a pair of dice 154 times continuously at a craps table, without throwing a seven?
The answer is roughly 1 in 1.56 trillion, and on May 23, Patricia Demauro, a New Jersey grandmother, beat those odds at Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa. Demauro's 154-roll lucky streak, which lasted four hours and 18 minutes, broke the world records for the longest craps roll and the most successive dice rolls without "sevening out." According to Stanford University statistics professor Thomas Cover, the chances of that happening are smaller than getting struck by lightning (one in a million), being hit by an errant ball at a baseball game (one in 1.5 million) or winning the lottery (one in 100 million, depending on the game). (Read "When Gambling Becomes Obsessive.")
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Seems those are better odd than us ever seeing zer0’s BC
How much did she win? Did Time even bother to find out? Does she own the casino now?
Maybe she brought her own dice.
Maybe these were affirmative action dice
I can guarantee you the casino changed dice many, many times
I just found my long lost Grandma!
Even if she didn’t report it to the press, you know the casino did (for the publicity). Journalistic negligence, in my opinion.
Smart woman.
Craziest thing I ever saw in craps was a guy shooting alone who rolled three '12s' in a row. No horn bets or hardways out on the table.
I looked at the stickman, he looked at the banker, banker looked at me, nobody looked at the shooter, and all of us around the table just shook our heads.
You won't likely be seeing something like that again soon.
“Demauro declined to reveal how much money she won, but gambling experts estimate that if she made good bets, her winnings were probably in the hundreds of thousands; expert bets would have put them in the millions.”
You actually read the article! What a concept. :)
I skimmed it, and was wondering what the number was. The casino should be broadcasting it from the rooftops.
LOL!
I had the same question. :)
I asked if Time bothered to try and find out the number.
“Demauro’s 154-roll lucky streak, which lasted four hours and 18 minutes, broke the world records for the longest craps roll and the most successive dice rolls without “sevening out.” According to Stanford University statistics professor Thomas Cover, the chances of that happening are smaller than getting struck by lightning (one in a million), being hit by an errant ball at a baseball game (one in 1.5 million) or winning the lottery (one in 100 million, depending on the game). (Read “When Gambling Becomes Obsessive.”)”
Reading the last sentence it sounds like she’s being sent to the cornfield.
I don’t blame her for declining to state her winnings.
She would have hundreds of long lost relatives who need financing for a “can’t miss” business deal.
Not sure how the pros would handle the betting, but I would siphon off 20% of winnings after each throw. You would have quite a pile when you eventually crapped out.
Simply incredible. Shooting an hour without sevening out is a milestone few ever achieve, but rolling to hit your point for over 4 hours is simply amazing. The area around the table must have been packed.
Tell her, Frank.
She didn’t win anything . . . the 155th roll did her in ; )
That’s about right. The way I play is I set a max lose and min win goal. Play til I hit either. Once I hit the min win with 50% overage, the min win goes in my pocket and I play ONLY with the overage. I then take about 20% off the table each time a point is made. Thing is, we’d both run into the table limit pretty quick. After about 20 rolls, I’d have maxed out all points (come bet), full odds, and all hardways. Wouldn’t bother with Field, yo, etc. Then just rake in cash every throw for the next 124 throws. After a bit, would get the table to push for raising the table limits. Winnings would be in the millions.
Too bad I’ll probably never see that in person. Sigh.
Odds of that are 1 in 46,656.
Just wasn’t that guys night.
Most amazing thing I ever saw at the crap table was a guy so drunk he could not stand up. He kept stumbling away from the table leaving his chips and wallet on the rail. I had to keep grabbing him and bringing him back. After about 5 minutes of this, I looked at the croupee and said, “Isn’t this about enough for him?”. Croupee called someone over and they helped him cash out and escorted him to the door. Chances of guys like this 1:5. Chances of casino stopping him playing 1:46,656.
They figured the odds based on “never rolling a 7.” They don’t understand the rules. I guarantee she rolled plenty of 7s, just at the right times...
I bet there's a pit boss out there in AC that's getting counseling for the nightmares that won't go away.
lol . . . now, that’s funny.
Do you mean changed dice during Gambling Grandma's roll? If so, how can you guarantee that? It's player's privilege to use the same die during a roll and in 13 years of playing craps, I've never seen an exception to that rule.
I hit a hard twelve with a $50.00 bet, it was just a quick hunch, it paid $1,600 IIRC...once in a life time :)
Total suckers bet though, but hey, it's a great memory
Wonder how often Grandma rolled a number on demand as the article indicates.
And finally, new favorite bet is all the hardways hopping (a one roll bet) for $1 each; costs $4 a roll but pays $30 (at most tables) - watched a guy the other night repeatedly make that hop bet at $25 each and walk with around $9k by my count. Once, after hitting, he doubled up and the next roll was a hard 8 - amazing (keep in mind: there's nothing sweeter that a repeater). I understand the hardways are widely viewed as a sucker bet, but if you're gonna' do it, why not have the courage of your convictions and bet them hopping?
It seems to me that any "expert" would need to recognize that the odds of winning anything on a roll of craps is less than one. That makes the smartest bet to not bet at all.
There are strategies for losing the least amount of money.
I saw a fella roll several seven’s in a row once and thought it was pretty amazing. I later found out they were his dice. Any bet on that table was a sucker bet.
Unless there were "don't pass" betters...hate 'em
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