In reviewing the strategies I posted, I see this:
What kills you here is an immediate out, like say 6, 7. You lose the pass line bet, the odds behind it and the don’t come. If it’s double odds on a $10 table, that’s $40 out the window in two rolls. (By contrast, the $10 Don’t strategy breaks even on an immediate out, as would the lightside version of $10 Do.)
Now that I’m thinking about it, I’d say a $10 Do would be fine. It’s basically just betting a ton of coin flips for $10 each, though you can’t predict which bets will resolve first. And it keeps you on the lightside with the table. Best of all, because you bet the come every roll, it is highly probable that you’ll win money anytime anyone else wins money, making it both safe AND social. Plus the seven out is softened by the come-out winner, which is always nice.
Interestingly, no one point can ever lose the $10 Do more than $50, since you can never have more than $70 on the table at once and a seven out returns $20. Conversely, one hot shooter hitting only numbers could theoretically bust the $10 Don’t on a single point. The rub is that casino tables as a rule usually seem to be cold-to-choppy, rarely hot. heh.