egas4Vegas Fever by Bill Collins

Surprise! Vegas Fever has a new chapter added!

People kept asking me: "How can I win at craps without becoming an expert dice influencer?" ...which is hard to do and takes a lot of effort and practice.

I got to thinking about it, and, darned if I didn't come up with an answer that I included in a new two-page how-to chapter at the end of Vegas Fever.

I've tested it out on four short casino trips that all won small on $5 bets, to where I'm now up $227.90. Even though I'm testing it with the minimum bet amount, it is totally scalable to bigger bets and winnings as your gambling bankroll increases.

I'll continue to test it, but I believe it is what craps players are looking for...a way to be a consistent long-term winner, with only a low risk involved.

Click link below to get you copy of Vegas Fever! Still only $2.99, or free with Kindle Unlimited—it's a no-brainer, as well as an interesting read and a fascinating story.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018ODEE60

I've read the book, including the chapter on the strict bankroll management style of play.

The story is short and is more of a personalized instruction to advantage play of craps. It's not a bad read and certainly a little more entertaining than most craps instructionals.

I took a little different approach to advantage play than the story. I went to Beau Parker (aka 'the dice coach') in Las Vegas for in depth instruction on dice setting and precision throwing. With a lot of practice, and I do mean A LOT, it does make a difference. I have twice had the privilege to play with other precision shooters and on both occasions through several casinos each time. I made a lot of money both times.

I have done a tremendous amount of trial and error work on betting styles with random rolls, pitting different "systems" against each other on the same random roll of the dice. And of course, I have taken to the casino tables for trial by fire.

What have I learned? For one thing, "qualifying" a table is next to worthless. An epic roll can happen at anytime, hot or cold.
Win-loss stops, especially loss stops, are very effective at saving a bankroll. The trick....Stay disciplined.
Progressive, parley, Martingale and other styles can vary greatly with the amount bet. Simply increasing or decreasing bet sizes does not give corresponding results.

The style I am currently playing is my own tweak on "Take and Parley" (similar to the Martingale progression of the story). I have found by extensive home testing that the $25 green chip unit gives the best result losses vs. wins. Red chips are OK but not as good on the ratio even considering the increased risk. Start at the $100 black chip then? Nope, that level has a horrible win-loss ratio. The mathematicians can tell you why, I just know what I see on the side by side comparisons.

I'm glad you've read Vegas Fever. Have you read the new chapter I added as a final chapter of the book just today, that this post is about? Since you've read Vegas Fever, I'd be glad to email you a copy of the new chapter I added today to get your feedback on it.

The only thing I use qualifying a table for is to try to make sure I don't try to win on a cold or choppy table with my new betting method for non-dice setters to try.

Thanks for replying to my post. I took Jerry Patterson's dice setting class in Vegas in about 2005...and I think I remember "the dice coach" as being one of my instructors. My hero's dice shooting experiences in the book are those I encountered over the years in Vegas—well, I may have embellished some of the winning amounts for the story's sake, as it is published as fiction. I was known there as "the ice man". Jerry Patterson named me that because I used my own modified version of the ice-tong grip from straight out at tables end. He said the name was appropriate because I was so cool under pressure.

Bill

$227.90 or just 4 short trips? Well that proves it works. They didn't try to ban you, did they? You ought to talk to Anthony Curtis about publishing this 'can't miss' system. What do you calculate the player's edge to be?

Yup, breaking the bank! Haven't been banned yet, ha, ha. Point taken.

My new betting method is thrown in as a free bonus on a well-written, entertaining book. Vegas Fever sells for only $2.99 (over 60K words long, a full-length novel) or as a free read with Kindle Unlimited. My betting method for random rollers is what it is—offered as a try-it-yourself-if-it-makes-sense-to-you-basis betting method that makes the most sense to me for random rollers to try that I came up with after years of shooting craps and watching others do the same. But I don't need or use it for my own rolls, as I have the dice-setting down pat and bet totally different on myself, as explained in the book.

For years I only bet on my own tosses. Here recently, after people started asking me the same question all the time, I started trying this new betting method on other shooters and kept track of the results just those bets produced. I will continue testing it, but so far I sure like the short term small-sampling results I'm seeing. I believe it would be a great way for a beginner to steadily build their bankroll with low risk of ruin.

Anthony Curtis received his own copy of Vegas Fever a couple of weeks ago, along with Michael Shackleford, who is The Wizard of Odds, and Heavy Halton, who back in about 2004 taught me the betting progression I use on my own tosses. I'm obviously hoping they help get the word out about Vegas Fever to other crapscentric people.

I spent over 1,000 hours writing and polishing Vegas Fever, as I felt I had a story that had to be told. I paid to have it professionally edited, too, because I wanted it to be the absolute best possible reading experience I could offer my reader. Victorine Lieske, a New York Times Best-Selling Author of "Not What She Seems"—a murder mystery that has sold over 100,000 copies and is still selling well, had me hire her own book editor for the job. Victorine also critiqued several chapters of the book and voluntarily designed Vegas Fever's cover for me for free. Quite a lady!

With the time and money I've invested in Vegas Fever, and the royalty I receive from each sale, I think I'd have to sell 5,000 copies to earn a minimum wage from having written it. Making money was not the reason i wrote. It was a labor of love. Writing it and knowing others were reading it was its own reward.

Here is Vegas Fever's Synopsis:
4.3 stars out of a possible 5 stars on 7 bloggers' reviews (Fiction Published Feb. 1, 2016)

Wild Las Vegas Craps-Shooting Vacation Adventure That Becomes A Love Story

At nineteen, Ray Hitchcock refuses to let his life be ruled by anything so arbitrary and fickle as "destiny" or "luck". He dreams his newest compulsive addiction will let him create his own magic. To try to control his own future, he tackles the art of making dice fall as he chooses.

On his twenty-first birthday, Ray rushes to Las Vegas for a week long cherry-busting craps shooting adventure. He hopes to keep the bank from repossessing their family's Iowa farm. Little does he know he's about to ambushed by love.

But in Vegas, the casinos always want to win. They chew up and spit out guys like Ray on a daily basis. Can Ray flip the odds in Vegas or are the dice there loaded against this dreamer?

I bought the book a little less than a month ago. I read everything I can find on craps.
I had already removed the book from my phone after reading it. When I saw your post yesterday I re-downloaded it back through my Kindle/Amazon app and the new chapter was included.

After reading the chapter a second time I will say that the 'system' will fail in the long run. Of course, all systems fail in the long run. All of them.
Saying you will quit and never play when you lose your original bankroll....Well, where's the fun in that? Fun is the realistic goal.

It is an OK read. Way better than most books on the subject, fact or fiction. For $2.99 it is an absolute must have for any craps enthusiast. At that price I would think this forum is the perfect target demographic.

I'm kind of a weird duck. If I can't win, I'm not interested in gambling...unless I decide to set aside the cost of an evening out and use that amount to play the slots just for fun, not expecting to win, figuring it is the price of entertainment for the evening. This is what my hero in the book calls "slot therapy" and I do that once in a while with the wife.

When I first went to Vegas in 2004, I took my $3,000 dedicated craps bankroll I'd saved up to try out my dice-setting skills, just like in Vegas Fever. I never lost any of it either, just like in the book. I only opened the first day's $400 envelope and managed to triple it the first evening at Green Valley Ranch in Henderson in front of all my fellow (Jerry Patterson's dice-setting-seminar) students, then never looked back again. 30K+ practice rolls at home to hone my skills as a dice setter before ever stepping up to try it for real paid off. Dice setting made it possible for me to have a very comfortable retirement and I'm grateful for that. No brag, just fact. Vegas Fever is quite a story and all the craps session parts wrote themselves (war stories), because of me having played them in real life.

Vegas Fever is only being advertised on Amazon as a Fiction Novel, not a craps or dice-setting tutorial. I'm hoping word-of-mouth spreads the word to the craps players out there that it serves that dual purpose, too. I didn't hold back any personal trade secrets in writing it, trying to make to so that if someone wanted to try to duplicate how I did what I did, they'd have all the info they needed to give it a shot. I even told how I modified the ice-tong grip so that it works 100 times better when shooting from straight out at the end of the table. The normal, unmodified ice-tong grip simply doesn't work from there.

At least I know what Jerry Patterson is up to after his last blackjack system was exposed for the fraud it is. Mr P. Wrote a couple of outstanding books on blackjack, but then came up with a non-math based system that heavily relied on dirty ashtrays and empty glasses to identify hot tables.