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James Hill calls it monostrum (great name for it, he has DETAILED instructions and exercises in "Ukulele X"), Dobro players call it raking, Lou Barlow of Dinosair Jr. (and avant garde solo ukulele player) has an entire bass guitar style based around it.

Strum all or almost all strings hard but mute in such a way that only a single open string or fretted note sounds (you'll be using all the muting techniques you know in both hands). Try simple melodies, try scales, try adding riffs to, from, and into chords...

Once you get it down you end up with a way to get fluid melodic lines that stand out with percussive grit.

Lost with his gibberish strategy then put his own money in with the camera off, cut back to how he ran up....

Revisted $1 heads up solo after a few months of thinking I preferred hybrid. Today just didn't feel like the slowish speed and dealing with other craps players...

Decided to test my theory that bubble likely isn't rigged in NV and that people are just imagining it is because of the extreme speed, our pattern seeking monkey brains, and the nature of craps that by a wide margin a point will be established and missed most of the time, but other things can and do happen.

Bet method:

$1 DP flat, if natural is rolled on come out for a loss, switched to $1 pass flat until point was made or missed.

Once point was made, hand was "qualified" and betting becomes $1 pass with single odds, $1 buys on 10/4 & 5/9 $1 place 6/8 ($7 total action versus $1 action pre-qualification). 4 & 10 full press on all hits, all other numbers as close to 50% press as possible (with $1 chips 1rst press is 100%). Regress to base bets if craps or 6/8 on come out. Passline wins press $1 on each win (natural or point).

Speed can't be underestimated, wacking the side button like a rat at the feeder bar until the machine responds. Easily getting 3+ rolls and payouts in the time it took the nearby live table to have dice hit the back wall and the result called. Earned over 500 players club points at $12 bet for every point in a bit under 2 hours. Never was down more than $32 and spent alot of time hovering between $90 and $130. Saw all sorts of "rare" things, hit the all once (no bet) and was 1 away a few times, never hit the small or tall independent of hitting the all but was often 1 away. 125 rolls no hard 6 followed by four hard sixes within 6 rolls. Several groups of 3 front line winner seven, and a 4, 5, and 6 natural winner streak. At least twice of two identical craps #s in a row and three 3s in a row. The winning long roll took my $1 pass to $11 with most of those wins being points adding $1 each time. Some of my box #s got pressed to $18+ regressed to $1 and pressed to $18+ again. I knew by street smarts and feel that was the monster roll of this session and walked.

I feel like I saw what you tend to see if you spend 10+ hours at a live table in less than 2 hours. Often having only $1 flat in action allowed me to fade all the meh rolls to get to the one true heater. Remember after the come out roll where a DP flat bet is at a strong disadvantage (gotta dodge the 7/11) you become a favorite to win your bet and those $1 wins add up to ammo to not lose quickly and exploit the hot roll. When you have $1 pass flat you are at an advantage anytime the puck is off, those $1 naturals add up and if you make the point you're already in place for the next point to have single odds paid for by the win.

Didn't seem rigged at all just beyond blindingly fast and condensed, much faster than I would have guessed.

Bet smaller and bet less often at bubble, speed kills if you let it. Make smart bets, don't be tempted by the illusion of patterns in the long shot bets, speed will bleed you. Yeah I could of won on the all but I doubt it would have paid for all the misses.

Eta: just to clarify, continously drumming the side shoot button with the occasional pause to place bets with the other hand. Betting strategy and press amounts decided days before with no deviation, so never stopping to think or ponder just getting as many decisions as quickly as possible, like drinking iced coffee by leaning into the straw no hands levels of fast. Like practiced VP players that look like they are speed typing

Always have messed around a bit with slide ukulele as slide guitar (standard tuning) was the first instrument I felt comfortable and confident with.

Woodshedding to refine basics and learn new things and I have some observations that might be useful.

Slide on middle or ring finger, gives you enough of the correct fingers free to play chords, while giving you enough control to keep your slide straight (or your slant accurate) and not fret out. Plus at least 1 damping finger behind.

You only need 4 shapes and focus on where you can play a full chord, triad, or diad with the slide. All 4 strings straight are a 6th which can be a bit much but it sounds Hawaiian-y.

D (A baritone) shape: strings 2-4 are your full major chord rooted on the 3rd string, you can slide from two frets back or three frets in front as a leading tone.

Bb (F baritone) shape: tasty straight bar diad on strings 1 and 2, you can also slant to catch x21x or 32xx diads.

G (D baritone) and G7 shapes: straight bar strings 1 and 3 together or alternated give a sound you'll instantly recognize. XX32 Major and xx12 7th slants. X23X major and x21x 7th slants.

Am (Em baritone) strings 1 thru 3 are a full minor chord rooted on the first string. Two frets up 4th string can be a leading tone.

A good first taste is play D (baritone A) shapes on the 9th fret, see how you can slide into it from a fret or two back (especially 2nd string). Once comfy try the same ideas on second and fourth frets.

Bridge to slide guitar/lap steel.

On standard tuning slide guitar strings 1 to 4 are great to focus on anyways so it's an instant conversion from these ideas if you stay away from 5 and 6 mostly.

If you tune DGDGBE (open G6) your first four strings remain the same, any ideas from the D and G translate to the low D and G. Lowest 4 strings are a huge ambiguous power chord. All 6 strings are a 6th chord (Hawaiian flavor).

If you tune EBDGBE (open Em7) same deal first 4 strings are familiar. Low two = power chord. All 6 = m7.

Just some random ramblings but I think ukulele can help make slide a second instrument.