- How to Achieve
an Advantage at Casino Craps
By Using Dice Control -- Part 1 of 4
By Jerry Patterson
- Part 1: Introduction
Casino craps is an
easy game to learn and is the only game where you, the player,
can create your own advantage over the casino and hold your
winning destiny right in your own hands.
To develop an advantage
at craps, you must alter the physical phenomena of the game.
To do this, you must learn how to control the dice, that is,
throw the dice in such a way as to minimize the number of losing
sevens being thrown after the point number is established. You
achieve an advantage by throwing less than one 7 for every six
rolls of the dice after the point has been established.
If you're not familiar
with the rules of play, think of craps this way for the point
cycle of the pass line bet: Holding the dice in your hand, you
throw them down the table, hit the back wall and they come to
rest.
If the dice land
on a 7 you lose; if they land on a 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, you win
if you are betting on those numbers; if they land on 2, 3, 11,
12, you neither win nor lose.
Now, think of the
power you would possess if you could throw the dice to avoid
the losing 7. That's what dice control is all about -- to set
and throw the dice in such a way as to avoid the losing 7 during
the point cycle when your objective is to repeat the number
you threw on the first roll of this series - called the "come
out" roll.
Most of the time
hot shooters and hot tables like this occur by chance. But,
experienced "rhythm rollers" can create them. And
that's what dice control is all about - developing a "rhythm
roll" that turns the tables on the casino, swings the advantage
to you the shooter, and gives you the means of creating a hot
craps table.
The idea of dice
control has been around for years. I first heard about it in
the early '80s when an elderly gentleman in one of my craps
classes demonstrated how to set and throw the cubes. But his
throw involved sliding the dice down the layout after setting
them to achieve the desired result.
He called his throw
"the old Army Blanket Roll" and it was widely used
by sharpers among the Servicemen in World War II and afterwards
on the back streets and in the illegal casinos in New York City
and elsewhere.
You could get away
with using it in the early days in Vegas, but the casino bosses
soon caught on and outlawed "the slider." This sliding
throw is the reason that the casinos string that thin piece
of wire across the center of the table - to prohibit it by stopping
the cubes on their path down the table.
I began to fool around
with dice control in the mid-90s after losing interest in blackjack.
A young engineer who called himself "Sharpshooter"
came to my attention in one of my blackjack update seminars.
He had been doing research on dice control for a number of years.
Sharpshooter and
I formed a successful partnership to continue our research,
perfect our skills, and then to organize and manage craps teams.
Much of our work is taught in a comprehensive dice control course.
So what you are reading here is not just fuzzy theory; it has
been time-tested in the fire of casino play for over five years
and taught to over 600 craps players.
In Part 2 of this
Dice Control Lesson, I will discuss how to set the dice and
how to spot other shooters who may possess the skill of setting
and controlling the dice -- shooters you may decide to bet on.
I'll be back with
more in Part 2 of this Dice Control Lesson.
Jerry
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