At a $5 table, can you place a $1 hop bet with a $5 pass/don't bet, or does each hop bet need to be $5? I'm considering combining the two as a sort of doey/don't strategy - bet a minimum bet on the hop-sevens but only on the come-out roll. I still have a good time and win a bit once in a while.
Like any other plan for the craps table, it's a proven loser. It's not a spectacularly busy play - I can sometimes sit there for more than a few rolls while a point resolves itself - but it works for me. At a $5 table, I'll lay DP odds of $18 on the 6 & 8, $30 (max odds) on 4/5/9/10. My basic play at the craps table is to play table minimum with 3/4/3 odds. If you could manage a higher rate of sevens, well.
With a $10 bet, that's $30/roll and if you hit a seven within five rolls ($150 total bet) you win $150 + your original $10. He was looking for suggestions and I offered the suggestion of playing all three hop bets (6-1, 5-2, 4-3). Our resident Genious posted something a while back about a plan for winning big by rolling a seven 1:5 rolls.