Frank Scoblete just published an excellent article discussing something we discussed before here: passline bets vs placing 6,8 and passline flat bets vs. passline bets with odds.

Frank goes through the numbers.

Here's a link:

http://scoblete.casinocitytimes.com/...tter-bet-63670

He makes it clear that the best strategy is the pass line flat bet with odds and discusses the disadvantage of skipping the passline and betting directly on the place 6 and place 8.