Craps for poker players

15 September, 2007 (14:23) | i like gambling, i like poker, i hate everything

I play a lot of craps. If I start playing craps and I’m winning (or within a reasonable amount of losses) I’d rather keep playing than change games to get some poker in.

The Borgata is currently holding a big poker tournament (WPT Poker Open). To catch some of the action walking out of the poker room, the forward-thinking staff at the Borgata added an extra craps table in the secret smoke-free craps table spot outside the poker room.

That would be fine, I like to play poker, so having more poker players at my table shouldn’t be an issue, right? Wrong. I hate most poker players, and I didn’t even realize it. But it is definitely clear to me now

Craps rules for poker players

  1. No one wants to hear your bad beat stories. Most of the time they aren’t even bad beats. Some guy calling your all-in with a set of aces against your inside straight draw isn’t a bad beat, no matter where you are in the casino.
  2. Stop using “I don’t know how to play this game, I’m a poker player!” as your excuse for fucking up over and over again. You may think you are insulting craps for being -EV, but what you are really doing is making poker players look like jackasses to people that don’t play poker. Making a mistake is acceptable, consistently making a mistake is jackassery.
  3. Don’t talk about what constitutes a loss while the game is going on. To put it in poker terms, it’s like shouting for an ace when your friend is all-in with a pair of queens against AK. Craps is a superstitious game and we don’t need your retarded attitude fucking up the table mojo.
  4. Don’t argue with the dealers. Just like with every other game in the casino (including poker, fuck-o) dealers have no incentive to make you lose. In fact, they’re all hoping you win because that’s generally the only way you’ll tip them.
  5. Tip your dealers! Especially if you are too fucked up to understand how the game works, these people are helping you more than the waitress is. I’m not saying you have to tip a lot, but at a minimum, throw them a couple bucks when you cash out.
  6. Don’t walk away with an active bet on the table. I’m not sure why this happens all the time, because it seems like it should be common knowledge. 
  7. Color up when you leave the table. you’ll notice there are no chip racks at the craps table. When you are finished playing, tell the dealer you want to “color up”, he will instruct you to set your money down, the boxman will count it and give you larger denomination chips so you don’t have to walk around with 100 $5 chips.  This is true for almost every table game in the casino.

That’s it.  Good luck and I’ll see you at the tables (but if I do, please follow these rules or kill yourself, either is acceptable for me).