How to Achieve an
Advantage at Casino Craps
By Using Dice Control -- Part 2 of 4
By Jerry Patterson
Part 2: Setting The Dice and Evaluating Other Shooters Who
May Have Dice Control Skills
Is it possible to get
an edge over the casino - an actual measurable statistical advantage?
That's what this Lesson on Dice Control is all about -- achieving
an advantage over the casino.
But before we start,
a quick review on how to play (Ref: Casino Gambling, Chapter 9).
For the time being,
think of craps this way: Holding the dice in your hand, you throw
them down the table, hit the back wall and they come to rest.
If they 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.
Get out a pair of dice
and hold them in your hands. Do that now and then come back here
and continue reading (if you don't have a pair, I suggest picking
one up from the drugstore or casino next time you go). Put the
two fives on top with the 1s pointing to the left. Now look on
the inside faces - open up the two fives. What do you see? A six
on the left die and a one on the right die - the seven.
Now look at the two
outside faces - the left face and the right face. You see the
other 1 and the other six - another seven. In setting the dice
in this way, we are putting two of the sevens out of the way --
one on the inside and one on the outside. I know, I know, they
may not stay there as the dice fly through the air, but as you
learn to control the dice and keep them more or less together
through their orbit, the chances of these two sevens coming up
are minimized. Not eliminated, minimized.
In Chapter 11 of Casino
Gambling we developed the calculations for
deriving the player advantage. And we showed that just one controlled
throw out of of every 43 rolls of the dice would eliminate the
house edge and yield a break-even game. So, it's not that difficult
to attain an advantage.
The set I showed you
above we call the hard way set because the pairs show on all four
sides: 5,5; 4,4; 3,3; and 2,2. This is a good set to use to get
some experience in executing the controlled throw, but not when
you are firststarting out as a rhythm roller. Use the Quick Set
shown on page 130.
Here is what to remember
about the Quick Set: the dealer will never push the dice back
to you with a seven on top - this is considered extremely impolite
and is just never done. But the dice may come back to you with
a seven on the side. Notice this when the stick man pushes the
dice back to you prior to your throw. If you see the seven on
the side, simply rotate either die a quarter turn to take off
the seven. That's all.
Try it now with your
two die - set a one and six on the side with a
3 and 2 on top. Rotate the right die a quarter turn to take off
the seven. What do you see? You should see a 3, 1 on top and a
1, 2 facing you -- the seven is gone and the chances of throwing
a losing seven thereby minimized.
To summarize, the first
lesson in advantage craps is setting the dice.
Or at least understanding how the set affects the outcome. Do
you
need to set the dice to gain an advantage? No you don't. But setting
will achieve the highest advantage possible.
Many readers write
to me about their experiences in using the data in
**Casino Gambling** to find other rhythm rollers. One example
featured on my Web Site turned a 20-unit buy-in into 340 units
in 36 minutes.
How did he do it? By
using the techniques described in **Casino Gambling** and scouting
for other rhythm rollers.
Here are the questions
to ask yourself as you observe other shooters at the craps table:
Question 1: Does the
shooter set the dice?
Question 2: Does the
shooter shake the dice in his hand before throwing?
Question 3: Does the
shooter throw the dice the same way each time;
i.e., is his form the same, or nearly the same, on each throw?
Notice the rhythm of
the throw.
For Question 1, you
would like to see the set, but this isn't mandatory.
For Question 2, if
the shooter shakes the dice, his throw will probably be random;
watch his form carefully and you will know.
For Question 3, if
the shooter throws the dice with no apparent form, it is obviously
a random throw.
You want to see the
same release, and you want to see some elevation on the launch
-- not too much, visualize about 45 degrees and you will have
it.
After the launch as
the dice come down out of orbit, you want to see
the dice landing approximately the same distance before the back
wall each time. If the dice are skipping down the table or if
the shooter is "feeding the chickens" as we call it,
you are looking at a random throw (visualize a farmer's wife with
a box of feed in her left hand and her right hand reaching in
and scattering feed in a repetitive movement - that's "feeding
the chickens" - a random throw).
Make it a habit of
studying the other shooters and you will find one that delivers
an advantage.
I'll be back with more
in Part 3 of this Dice Control Lesson.
Jerry
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