Shreveport Craps

Last October I went with 4 friends to El Dorado in Shreveport. None of them are big gamblers not than I bet a ton but usually $44 inside with min passline and 10x odds behind. Well we are at this $5 table having a pretty good run (I had turned 200 into about 500) and all my buddies up money. Well they change game to $10 so my buddies leave but I decide to ride it out. 5 minutes later 2 different guys buy 5k markers. One guy rolls for an hour. Next thing I know I have 5k with hundreds on the board. We have 5 suits watching us!! It was awesome  the 2 guys with markers left with 82k and 87k.  Crazy money. Whats great about this story is that 2 weeks ago I am back at same casino and am down about 500 and goin to bed and see these same 2 walk in. We were bullshitting and they said come lets go! Its 1 a.m. at this point but figured what the hell. Well bought in for 300 and left at 5 am in 3k. The other 2 5k markers left with 52k and 67k.  The best part was I was the one doing the rolling this time. It was a blast  everyone hollering and getting excited.

Wow people dream of that type session and just to do it once let alone twice..I swear I've never seen anyone (at a table I'm on -hold the dice for more than 30 minutes? or so) Good job man.

Nice! I seem to be a cooler at any table I play at. Been years since my last good table

I used to go to downtown and play craps at Main Street Station or The California Hotel. Lots of good throwersfo there  and one time  back in 2002 I made $6 k there on one guys hot hot roll He threw the dice for about 75 minutes before he sevened out. I just kept pressing collecting,pressing unitl you couldn't see the felt anymore.

NoWorries21, neat story.

Max Demon,

I was on the crew at the Cal where the Hawaiian guy rolled for over three hours. This was on a Memorial Day weekend.

The guy gets the dice and rolls and rolls and rolls. The whole table was Hawaiians, which can really slow a game down. They tend to play kind of funny, Every come out they throw in "Aloha bets" - if I remember right it's a Horn and a High / Lo.

They also make "Hawaiian come bets" - they have to see that a number is on the dice and gets rolled, then they place it. Like I said, slows the game down.

We had at least 10 players on each end.

Now it gets brutal......the guy had been rolling for almost two hours at this point and graveyard comes in. We're thinking thank goodness, get us out of here. Nope. They put the graveyard crew on a dead game and leave us in there. We were exhausted already at that point.

Now they start calling the big bosses in from home. More fun (heat).

As the game goes on they had security buying chips from players with cash so they could pay other players. They bought $20K off of one guy and he saw the cash and said, "What's that?" They said, "It's yours, winnings." He said, "I don't play like that" and the shift boss said, "You did tonight" and they guy started shaking and almost fainted.

All in all the game lost $750,000. It should have been a lot more than that. When word got around town some of the old timers at Binions said the Cal should have called Good Morning America or some program but we guesses they didn't want that kind of publicity.

This happened on a Saturday night / Sunday morning.

Monday night we had people from Miami asking us which was the table the guy had the roll on.

I don't know if it's still there but for a long time there was a plaque on the wall of the crap pit with the guy's name and date.

Like I said, this was Memorial Day. By Labor Day the two guys that were the biggest winners that night had blown it back and were taking out markers.

The guy who rolled the dice was getting death threats when he got back to Hawaii. They'd heard about the roll, thought he'd won $1M AND THEY WANTED IT.

PS,

When Main Street first opened it was called the Park. Hilarious - guys were bringing gym bags and sweats to work and telling their wives they were going to 'the park' after work.

Good story Coin Toss..How much you think the table won when the lady at the Borgata AC rolled all night?

jamesxnj,

Don't know about that one. Short of someone actually being there the amount probably gets bigger with each telling of the story.