Our guest this week is Frank B on to talk in depth about dice control. This is part one, and part two will be in a few weeks.
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Show Notes
[00:00] Sound quality information for this episode
[00:40] Introduction of Frank B and the topic of dice control.
[01:12] Mattress Mack bets on the Kentucky Derby
[03:55] Did Mack’s betting affect the price of his horse?
[05:30] Frank’s background in dice control
[09:26] How did the Golden Nugget react to the dice control experiment?
[13:50] Did Frank B pay for dice control lessons?
[16:42] Inputting roll data
[18:08] How many rolls were ultimately recorded?
[21:00] Hitting the wall
[25:20] Table grading
[29:56] Evaluating the edge
[38:04] South Point Casino May Promotions – Half-Priced Gas and Goods, Memorial Day Hot Seat, and others
[39:30] BlackjackApprenticeship.com – card counting training site and community, there will be bootcamps this summer
[39:50] VideoPoker.com/gwae
[40:39] Returning to the best tables
[50:21] Mexican casinos and tax on winnings
[53:07] Recommended – Honey Salt in Summerlin, Michihito Kageyama on Youtube, Tunity app
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This brings back some memories of the BJ21 Green Chip Wong Craps Challenge of 2004.
Some of my thoughts are in the book Wong on Craps (p104 and p108)
My comments on p104 highlights the fact that the 300 roll sample was pretty meaningless.
I totally agree with Frank that the result did lead to people making all kinds of wacky claims as if this meant something.
Wong fully admitted to me it was purely for publicity for his book (to sell books) rather than some educational study.
Like many at the time I did set up a rig and did practice to see if I could see anything.
I did OK. I entered data into a lap top set by the rig.
I did try it for a while in various casinos while “waiting” for various other opportunities to open up.
I was getting the threats in 2005 from Strip casinos of backing me off for not hitting the wall.
(The mirage was particularly nasty after just one throw not hitting the wall!)
Won a little overall but not enough to convince me I personally had any kind of huge edge. (or maybe none at all?)
I admire the way you took it further and table selected which makes perfect sense.
Personally I have done pretty well over the years on half size tables but these are restricted to very small places that
often can’t stomach big bets.