Over your craps-playing life, you will certainly have more losing periods than successful times. Accept it. You must discover how to compete in the real world, not in fantasy land. Craps is constructed for the gambler to not win.
Say, after 2 hours, the ivories have brought your bankroll down to twenty dollars. You haven’t seen a hot toss in ages. Even though not winning is as much a part of the game as winning, you can not end up but feel crappy. You begin to think about why you even bothered heading to las vegas to begin with. You were patient for two hours, but it didn’t work. You are looking to succeed so badly that you are deprived of control of your clear-headedness. You are down to your very last $20 for the game and you have absolutely no oomph left. Stop!
You can never capitulate, never bow out, never consider, "This blows, I’m going to put the remainder on the Hard 4 and, if I am defeated, then I will walk away. But should I succeed, I will be right back where I began." That’s the stupidest action you can perform at the conclusion of a non-winning game.
If you cannot acknowledge not winning, you have no reason to be gambling. If you can’t stomach not winning a given game, then walk away from that game and call it a night. Do not piss your money away on a horrible wager hoping to hit it large and get your $$$$ back in one wager.
If it’s a horrible session and you lose a lot quickly, then acknowledge defeat and take your money with the 10 dollars, fifteen dollars, or 20 dollars that you have remaining. Use that remaining 20 dollars, go have a BEvERage in the cocktail lounge, listen to the band. Play the money in a 5 cent video poker machine and perhaps hit a 1,000-coin win for $50. Place it in your pocket, find your lady, and spend some time with her. Do not give up. Do something other than piss your cash away on a losing proposition bet. Do not throw in the towel.
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