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I hope you all can believe this. During the 90s I use to play craps from 5 to 7 days a week on various boats in IL, In, and Ia. And I did very well for about 10 years. Sometimes I had to play $10 minimum tables. But mostly $5 minimum. I quit around 2000. Then I started playing again a little about 2 years ago. I hit hardway parlays about 100 to 150 times. Once at the Silver Eagle in Galena I started with a $3 hard 6 or 8. I parlayed the $30. When that hit I was only permitted to go to $150 instead of $300. The smaller boats had $500 maximums then. And you could only win twice the table maximum on any bet. On boats with $500 maximums you could only collect $1500 for any bet. I hit the parlay for the $150 and collected the 1350 and left 150 up. Then it lost. A few shooters later a player threw a hard 6 or hard 8 on the comeout. When I bet the other number the standing boss got very mad at me. He started yelling why aren't you betting 150 now. etc. I quit the game after that shooter. When the cruise ended my wife wanted to stay another cruise. So I played some $5 bj. I lost my limit, $100. So I went back by the dice and watched for a while. That boss wasn't around and the table was warm. So I got back in the game. And for the first and only time ever, I hit another hardway parlay. Twice in the same day. The boss that got mad before was back. And he immediately went beserk. Yelling that I could only bet hardways for $150 now and not a penny less. He came around the table and security was all over the place. Some bigger boss relieved him. Everyone was explaining what happened. The bigger boss apoligized. I was shaking. I quit and we didn't go back to the Silver Eagle after that.

Here's how I use to use parlays in my old days of playing. This is how I built up my bankroll. I would parlay all natural comeout winning 7s or 11s. For example if a shooter threw a 7 or 11 I would parlay from 5 to 10. If he threw another one I would parlay to 20 and on up etc. Now if he would come out with a number before throwing a craps I would have a parlayed bet going. And I would need him to make or complete this number to win. Then I would leave the same amount on the pass line. And if he came out with more 7s or 11s I would continue parlaying the passline bet. At $500 maximums I hit the $500 about 10 times. At $1000 maximums I hit the maximum about 5 times. And once I went with some friends on a bus load outing the boats use to do about once a month or two. And they only had $25 minimum tables. And a bunch of the guys wanted me to shoot. So I did. I started with $25 on the passline. I parlayed it to 50, to 100, to 200, to 400, to 800, to 1600. The stick man looked right at me and said: aren't you going to bet any craps. I went nuts. I said stuff like are you crazy? I would quit before I ever bet against myself. He started apologizing. The boxman did also. Finally I picked up the dice to shoot. But then I put them down and said I quit. I picked up the 1600 from the line. Everyone wanted me to keep shooting. So I put $25 on the passline. I threw a craps. And everyone thought I was going to get mad and start up trouble. But I just laughed. I didn't say a word. I put down another 25. I threw a point and then 7 out.

Whenever anyone would throw a hard 6 or hard 8 on a comeout roll for a number, I would bet the other number and try to parlay it 3 times. In the beginning I would start out with $3 and parlay it to 30, then 300 or lower if the limit was lower. Boats with 500 maximums would only let me go to 150. I would guess I hit for 1500 about 50 to 75 times. Boats with 1000 maximums would let me go to 300. I hit for 3000 about 50 times. And later the boats went to 2000 maximums. And I would start with $5 or $6 if I was having a winning session. And I hit for 5000 about 10 times. And I hit for 6000 twice. I still can't believe how lucky I was. There isn't any skill involved in winnig a parlay. All luck.

And my third type of parlay was to parlay the 10 whenever I shot the dice. In the beginning I would place a $5 ten every time I shot. I would drop $1 and go to 15. Then buy it for 40, then for 120, then for 360. Back then 500 was the maximum. If I hit for 360 I would take it down and start over at $5 again. For some unknown reason for several years I would get lucky starting before Thanksgiving and lasting until a week or two after New Years. Later maximum limits changed and my backroll was built up bigger. I started using $10 as my starting bet. Then $15. Later $20. And for about 2 years $25. At 25 I would go to 75, to 225, to 675 and when it hit I would take it down and start over. Then I switched. when 675 hit I would go to the 2000 maximum. And if it hit I would start over. Then later I started leaving the 2000 up if it hit. My biggest win was at the Empress with a 2500 maximum. I went from 25 to 75, to 225, to 675, to 2000. When I hit for 2000 I went to the maximum 2500. Then I threw 10 for a comeout point. continued.