I thought of this method of tracking my rolls to watch visually what was happening during a hand in practice. It doesn’t require moving chips properly (betting and paying out) but gives very valuable information. I ALSO TRACK IN ROLL RECORDER, but this a very visual method that barely adds time to rolling.
Below is an actual 45 roll hand I completed (after a very frustrating practice session of short rolls), and I think it shows a lot about what is going on during the hand. As much as I wanted to remove my craps shots from the picture, I kept it honest and I know they developed late in the hand and I was trying to make adjustments.

Method:
– The currently set point is below the place line, currently the green chip below the right side of the 6. Other active shots (Come / Place) are placed on the place line, Points made are moved to the top place line; inactive shots are in the middle such as a roll that wasn’t a come bet so isn’t money at risk is in the middle.
– Shots are placed left for off axis, center for on axis, right for hard ways. In the picture, for the 6, I had 2 on axis noted on the top because they were won points, 1 off axis shot (red bottom left), and 2 hard ways noted by red and green on lower right.
– C/E/7 are kept track of in the field with the 7’s kept below the 11.
White chips are used for a non-winning shot, Red chips are used for a hit, Green chips are used for $10 hits/losses such as a come out hit on an active come bet (4 shown on 4, 5, 2@6), for loss of come for a crap (shown for 1@2, 3@3, 5@12) and for come out 7’s and Yo’s, and for the final 7 (shown are 2 Yo’s, a come out 7, and a final 7 out). If I place a bet, I use an ON lammer so that I don’t count a win but would count the loss in the final tally. If I don’t have a come bet up, I’d have white chips on the C/E so I don’t account for a loss/gain.

Actual Hand highlights:
My initial come out was a 2/4=6 noted by the chip at top center of the 6. When I make the point, that white is moved to the top and the shot that hit is now a RED on the place line if I had a come bet up, or would go inside the box if not.
My next shot was a 1/3=4 with a come bet noted by the white chip left on the 4, but it was initially on the place line and moved up after I’d had a hit on it.
My overall results are obviously positive with 22 hits, 4 come out hits. But I am disappointed with the number of late craps and 18 off axis box numbers, 29 off axis in total that need to be worked on. I noted that although my 5’s were more on axis, my 9’s were more off. My 4s and 10’s were all of, but 6’s and 8’s were better. I can use Smart Craps to analyze more, but I can now take 30 seconds to analyze what’s in front of me and determine next actions.

To quickly know what my win/loss was (I play $10 pass/come at 3x4x5x odds), I first offset all of the green chips (9 losing, 8 winning so net -$10), count the come/pass line bets active (all six @ 3x4x5x) for a net -$300, and add the hits (my 3x4x5x odds play gives $70 per hit) so 22 hits = $1,540. My net for this hand was roughly $1,230 and I know this very quickly without spending the time playing out the real bets and payouts. It adds less than 2 seconds per roll from the time I pickup the dice to the next pick up of the dice.

A couple of other comments:
– I usually only keep one bet on the place line so I know what my last shot was but got lazy here and it shows multiple active shots but there is truly only one pass/come but up on any number.
– I would also keep an adjustment stack of chips to account for other things happen like a come out 7 to account for a loss of $60 come bets on the line or perhaps the $60 paid to put them back up (oops, my net was actually $1,170). If you double dip, you could keep the extra wins here as well.
– Those are my Alaskan Malamutes on the chips. They’re also in the center of the layout. 😀

Hopefully I wasn’t confusing, just trying to throw out what IMHO is a great practice accounting and analysis tool.

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