Some players refer to themselves as "five-dollar" players (or "only a five dollar player") when in fact there is probably no such thing as a five dollar GTC player at craps. If you are the typical GTC dice controller and you make two or three bets when you roll, then your $5 Pass Line with odds and your one or two Come bets with odds will make you a far higher player.

For example at a five-dollar minimum table with 3X-4X-5X odds a $5 GTC dice controller could actually be betting between $40 and $85 when his bets are on the numbers. At a 5X odds table the total bet could be between $60 and $100. That is a far cry from being a five-dollar player.

Even if you use one Come bet with odds when you are shooting; or place the 6 and/or 8, you are going over the $5 level.

I think most of our "five-dollar" players are not aware that they are decidedly not at the five-dollar level. I know of no GTC dice controllers who only bet a single $5 bet on themselves and do not take odds when doing so.

In point of fact, I do not count bets on random rollers. They should be the table minimum and only one bet so it is possible that we could have the $5 player in such a case — if said player does not take the odds.

I think our thinking falls into traps (often laid by the casinos) to make us think we are not betting at high levels. You five-dollar players are not in fact five-dollar players.

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