Gambling Grandma Broke the Craps World Record

[cwo_ghwebb]

It sounds like a homework problem out of a high school math book: What is the probability of rolling a pair of dice 154 times continuously at a craps table, without throwing a seven?

The answer is roughly 1 in 1.56 trillion, and on May 23, Patricia Demauro, a New Jersey grandmother, beat those odds at Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa. Demauro's 154-roll lucky streak, which lasted four hours and 18 minutes, broke the world records for the longest craps roll and the most successive dice rolls without "sevening out." According to Stanford University statistics professor Thomas Cover, the chances of that happening are smaller than getting struck by lightning (one in a million), being hit by an errant ball at a baseball game (one in 1.5 million) or winning the lottery (one in 100 million, depending on the game).

Holy Craps! How a Gambling Grandma Broke the Craps World Record - TIME

Holy Craps is right!

 

[muttdog]

Man granny went 4 hours without a pee break, go granny.

 

[Larry Gude]

Holy Craps! How a Gambling Grandma Broke the Craps World Record - TIME

Holy Craps is right!

Great story!

 

[lam2]

That was a great story!

 

[belvak]

Man granny went 4 hours without a pee break, go granny.

She had her Depends on.

 

[Rommey]

Last time I went to Las Vegas, there was a guy that rolled about 35 times before hitting a 7. I thought that was incredible at the time, not to mention he made me about $1200 during those rolls. I would have liked to been at the Granny-table and seen how many of my points she would have made.

 

[Tilted]

It sounds like a homework problem out of a high school math book: What is the probability of rolling a pair of dice 154 times continuously at a craps table, without throwing a seven?

The answer is roughly 1 in 1.56 trillion, and on May 23, Patricia Demauro, a New Jersey grandmother, beat those odds at Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa. Demauro's 154-roll lucky streak, which lasted four hours and 18 minutes, broke the world records for the longest craps roll and the most successive dice rolls without "sevening out." According to Stanford University statistics professor Thomas Cover, the chances of that happening are smaller than getting struck by lightning (one in a million), being hit by an errant ball at a baseball game (one in 1.5 million) or winning the lottery (one in 100 million, depending on the game).

Holy Craps! How a Gambling Grandma Broke the Craps World Record - TIME

Holy Craps is right!

Cool! I wonder how many times they switched out the dice, or if they let her keep rolling the same ones.

He could have said the chances are smaller than getting struck by lightning AND being hit by an errant ball at a baseball game.

 

[cwo_ghwebb]

She should have made a bundle, even betting conservatively. I wonder how much the folks who knew what they were doing won that night.

 

[Larry Gude]

She should have made a bundle, even betting conservatively. I wonder how much the folks who knew what they were doing won that night.

Well, I'm no expert on the game but, I'm guessing plenty was lost on no pass bets, right? Correct me if I got it wrong, but she makes her come out roll and then she had to keep making her point, right? So, folks HAD to be betting more and more for her to crap out?

 

[Rommey]

Well, I'm no expert on the game but, I'm guessing plenty was lost on no pass bets, right? Correct me if I got it wrong, but she makes her come out roll and then she had to keep making her point, right? So, folks HAD to be betting more and more for her to crap out?

There's lots of ways to lose, even without rolling a 7. All the center field bets are either 1-roll bets or the hard way bets. On the 1-roll bets, whatever the next roll is determines if those bets win or lose. The hard ways stay up as long as the soft (4, 6, 8, or 10) doesn't hit. Of course anyone betting on the Don't Pass line had to wait a long time before getting paid off. Anytime she hit the point, they lost and everyone betting on the Pass line got paid.