Just tossing this out for comments and opinions.

I was at a Vegas Casino yesterday and I walked up to a fairly crowded $10 minimum craps table. Mostly young players in their late 20s and early 30s but what stood out were two men who appeared to be in the 40s who were in chairs. My guess is they had been playing a while. Both were Asian but only one spoke to the dealer and he spoke to the other man using gestures and their language and I don't know which Asian language it was.

When I took my place at the table the men had about $25,000 in the rail including about 20 $1,000 chips. During the next two hours they lost more than half.

Here's how they were betting and I'd appreciate your comments.

They did not make pass or don't pass bets. But after the shooter rolled a point they would bet the following:

$350 on don't come
$300 on 5
$300 on 6
$300 on 8
$300 on 9

They would then do the following: either press the numbers that hit OR start making additional don't come bets.

Over two hours I couldn't figure out why they would press OR why they would make additional DC bets. Whatever reasoning they used to decide on the choice I could not figure out.

Another thing: sometimes they had the place bets working on a come out roll and sometimes they would turn off their place bets even as the shooter continued to make numbers.

Again I couldn't figure them out, but they did lose half of their money from the time I arrived at the table. I don't know what they started with.