{"id":9702,"date":"2017-11-16T17:21:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T17:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2017\/11\/16\/is-hedging-the-direct-bet-a-bad-practice\/"},"modified":"2017-11-16T17:21:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T17:21:48","slug":"is-hedging-the-direct-bet-a-bad-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2017\/11\/16\/is-hedging-the-direct-bet-a-bad-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Hedging the Direct Bet a Bad practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nIn class we are taught that trying to guarantee your point is a bad practice example $10 on the pass line and putting $2 on any craps.   I seen someone with a bunch of direct-bet vouchers and he would put the voucher on the passline and hedge it with three-way craps bet or any-craps bet and take full odds behind the voucher.  <\/p>\n<p>\tQuestion: Would you consider this also a bad GTC betting practice ?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> NofieldFive on November 16, 2017, 8:16 pm<\/p>\n<div>3 Way craps has a house edge as follows,  11.1% for the 3, and 13.9% for the 2 &amp; 12.<\/p>\n<p>\tWhy would anyone throw money away by betting into that edge?  Even if the money is a direct bet.  I would much rather put the direct bet on the passline where the edge is 1.41%.<\/p>\n<p>\tSo yes, this a bad GTC betting practice.<\/p>\n<p>\tNFF<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Dr Crapology on November 17, 2017, 12:15 pm<\/p>\n<div>Rose and Doc have discussed hedge betting many times and as NNF says it is a bad losing method of betting.  To take NFF&#8217;s comment a little further to show he is correct&#8212;why would you make 2 bets when both bets have a negative edge in favor of the casino.  The casino&#8217;s know that hedge betting will never work.  <\/p>\n<p>\tRose and Doc<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In class we are taught that trying to guarantee your point is a bad practice example $10 on the pass line and putting $2 on any craps. I seen someone with a bunch of direct-bet vouchers and he would put&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}