During your craps-playing life, you will likely have more non-winning sessions than winners. Accept it. You must learn to play in reality, not in fantasy land. Craps is designed for the participant to not win.
Let us say, after two hours, the ivories have eaten away at your chip stack down to 20 dollars. You have not seen a smokin toss in forever. Even though squandering is as much a part of the game as acquiring a win, you can’t help but feel awful. You wonder why you even thought about heading to Vegas to start with. You were a rock for 2 hours, but it didn’t work. You need to succeed so badly that you fritter away control of your common sense. You are down to your final twenty dollars for the day and you have little oomph remaining. Stop!
You must never capitulate, never surrender, never think, "This blows, I’m going to place the rest on the Hard 4 and, if I lose, then I will call it quits. However should I succeed, I will be right back where I started." That is the most brainless action you can perform at the end of a losing day.
If you can not accept not winning, you have no business placing wagers. If you can not stomach not winning a distinct session, then quit that game and take your money. Do not toss your money away on a appalling wager wishing to hit it big and get your money back in one bet.
If it is a horrible session and you are deprived of a lot rapidly, then accept defeat and take your money with the $10, 15 dollars, or twenty dollars that you have remaining. Take that left over twenty dollars, have a beverage in the lounge, enjoy the live music. Put it in a five cent video poker machine and perhaps hit a one thousand-coin jackpot for fifty dollars. Place it in your wallet, locate your spouse, and spend some time with her. Do not relent. Do something besides piss your cash away on a losing proposition wager. Do not toss in the towel.
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