Let's Talk Craps

This website works best when its participants advocate techniques that have some basis in reality.

And it's easy to prove that dice control doesn't work. I'll start with the hundreds of craps tables currently operating in Las Vegas, waiting patiently for the next deluded dice control believer to mosey over, cash in hand.

Here is my favorite dice setting play.......
I put a minimum bet on the table, say $5 on the 'dont' pass. I "set" the dice with the 5's on top of both dice and 6's facing me. I tend to throw outside numbers with this set which is perfect from the dont side.
If I throw a 4 or 10, I will put as much odds as my bankroll can afford, say $50. If its a 5 or 9 I will put a much lower amount, say $15, if its a 6 or 8 I will put down no more than $12.
Lets say I got lucky and threw the hard 10 on the come out and put $50 odds down. I would then set the dice withe the 5/2 up and 4/3 facing me, which means anyway you look at those dice, they add up to 7.
So, I have $55 at risk to win $30 at this point BUT the seven (which I need to win) has the highest percentage of coming out anyway, and here is the kicker ....I am helping that high percentage seven along by using the any seven set and trying to keep them on axis.
I am not qutting my day job mind you, but I have had some success doing this play.

weggie

Chilcoot, I'm sorry that you've apparently had a traumatic experience with dice somewhere along the way. For me, the camaraderie of a craps table (whether hot or cold), the thrill of a good shoot (whether it's mine or someone else's) and the knowledge that just one (good or lucky) shooter has the ability to change the game instantaneously makes this the most fun I'm going to have in a casino..happy shooting, y'all !!

Nope, no traumatic experiences with dice at any time along the way. Still my favorite casino game.

Just a strong distaste for perpetuating bogus gambling theories. And a desire to help others avoid traumatic experiences with dice.

Dice setting works. Period. The object of dice setting is to delay the 7 being thrown. I make money every time I come to Vegas and play craps. The only "bogus gambling theory" here is the one stated by Chilcoot.

Blackjack is beatable. Mathematics professor Edward O. Thorp, PhD, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California proved it decades ago.

Many subsequent brilliant people expanded on Thorp's work, showing how a player could gain an advantage at blackjack by strategically applying the rules of the game as offered:

Peter Griffin, Mathematician
John Ferguson ("Stanford Wong"), PhD
Julian Braun, Programmer
James Grosjean, Mathematician
Olaf Vacura, PhD

Craps has no one like that. Instead, it has hucksters like Beau Parker, a construction contractor, who realize there's far more money to be made conning gullible people into buying ridiculous classes and videos than in putting their own supposed "dice-setting" skills to work at actual craps tables.

You know what casinos do when they see Beau Parker come in? They make plenty of room for him at the craps table.

I understand that people want to believe dice setting works. Well, children enjoy believing in the tooth fairy. For pretty much the same reason.

And for his next fable, Chilcoot will supply charts and graphs proving the Earth is flat.

If it's a choice of believing in the tooth fairy or spending countless hours patting myself on the back for being so "smart" I'll choose the former <shrug>

... and a pitcher throwing a curveball is an "optical illusion"

Unless he is lying, Parker has admitted (at least check out the Gambling Podcasts link on the American Casino Guide website) to have been barred in some Nevada casinos and in all of the Mississippi Casinos for Dice Setting.

RecVPPlayer