JumpStart January 2026

One Day. Three Students. Zero Excuses.

Let’s talk about your 2025. Did your craps game go the way you wanted it to last year? Did you rack up those big wins you’d imagined? Did you toss the monster hands you knew were inside you? Or did something else happen?

Maybe the dice didn’t cooperate when it mattered most. Maybe your bankroll took hits you couldn’t recover from. Maybe you watched other players win while you struggled. Maybe that little voice of self-doubt got louder with every session.

Here’s the hard truth: 2026 won’t be any different unless YOU are different.

You can keep doing what you’ve been doing and hope for better results. Or you can make a decision right now to actually fix what’s broken in your game.

The JumpStart Solution

If you’re a serious craps player who lives within driving distance of Northeast Texas, I’m offering you a chance to completely overhaul your game in a single intensive day—Rescheduled to Saturday, February 7th, 2026 at the Axis Power Craps Pit at Casa Heavy.

This isn’t a crowded seminar where you’re one face in a room full of students. This is limited to just THREE players, running from 9AM to 5PM. That means you get nearly eight hours of personalized instruction, hands-on practice, and direct coaching tailored specifically to where you are in your game right now.

Whether you’re struggling with consistency, battling mental demons, or just trying to take your solid game to the next level—we’re going to address it.

What We’re Covering

* Bankroll Management & Bet Sizing – Stop playing scared or stupid with your money
* Betting Strategies That Actually Work – Not theory. Real-world plays that hold up under casino conditions
* Money Management & Discipline – The difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it
* The Mental Game – Managing the crap between your ears so it doesn’t sabotage your skills
* Dice Setting & Speed Setting – Getting your fundamentals dialed in so they work under pressure
* Hands-On Practice – We’re spending at least half our time at the table, getting your toss tuned up and working
What Makes This Different?

Because I’m teaching this in my home pit without an assistant, I can offer significant discounts off my regular weekend seminar prices:

First-Time Students: $895
DD214 Veterans (First-Time): $795 (with my personal thanks for your service)
Axis Power Craps Alumni: $695

BONUS: All first-time students receive my original Axis Power Craps Seminar on DVD before the live class.

The Heavy Dining In Experience

Since we’re going all day, I’m throwing in an East Texas BBQ lunch buffet from the Famous Heavy Kitchen (conveniently located adjacent to the craps pit). Plus a six-pack or two of my favorite kind of beer—cheap—and a couple jugs of sweet tea.

Fair warning: I’m cutting you off on the beer at 2PM. I don’t need the local County Mounty blaming me for turning you loose at 5PM to drive impaired and possibly run over one of our beloved local East Texas meth heads.

But Wait—There’s More …

If Saturday sells out and you’re kicking yourself for missing it, I’ll run the exact same class on Sunday, February 8th.
Same content. Same intensity. Same cheap beer (cut off at 2PM).

And here’s the kicker: if you take the class on Saturday as a new student and want to come back for a refresher on Sunday—maybe because you had so much fun, or maybe because you slept through half of it or just failed to take notes—you can return at the Alumni price. I’m here to fill a need.

How to Register:

Via Zelle (Preferred):
Send $395 deposit to axispowercraps@gmail.com
Pay balance ($300-$500 depending on your status) at the class in January

Via PayPal:
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/VG7V7DZL8CAEE

After registering: Email axispowercraps@gmail.com with your mailing address and cell number so I can send you pre-class materials if you are a first time student.

The Bottom Line

You can start 2026 the same way you ended 2025—hoping things will magically improve. Or you can take one day, invest in yourself, and actually fix what needs fixing.

The winning starts before you buy in. Before you walk into the casino. It starts right now, with the decision to stop settling for mediocre results.

Rescheduled Dates Due to Weather Event

Saturday, February 7th, 2026
Sunday, February 8th, 2026 (if Saturday sells out)
9AM – 5PM
Limited to 3 Students Per Day

Don’t miss this chance to jumpstart your year. The casinos will still be there in 2026. The question is: will you be ready for them?

LAST CALL. The time to get your game on is NOW.

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Make plans NOW to join us at our annual Biloxi Spring Fling and Axis Power Craps Seminar, March 20th – 23rd. We’re coming off of one of our best seminars ever in Biloxi, so we know we have a high mark to make in March. We’re shooting for the stars on this one. Biloxi is the home of some of our favorite casinos – with every casino in the market offering from 10X to 20X odds. Plenty of great tables to shoot on – from tourist favorites to the games the locals love – including a Stadium Craps game with a $3 minimum bet if that’s your game. Biloxi is also home of easy comps, friendly dealers, and some of the freshest seafood on the planet. Springtime temps range from around 50’s at night to the low 70’s in the afternoons. Ready to escape the frozen North for a long weekend? What’s not to love?

This weekend we’ll be offering a limited number of Basic and Advanced Bonetracker training sessions on Friday. The Basic BoneTracker sessions will be limited to a total of eight students. They will cover the fundamentals of BoneTracker. How to set up the program, enter your rolls, and a review of the various tabs and how to interpret the data on them. Armed with this info, the player should be able to correctly track his own rolls in BoneTracker and perform basic analysis of his own rolls, determining his on/off axis percentages, discovering any flaws in his grip or toss from this information, and reverse engineering his dice sets into sets that will work best with his specific toss. The cost of this session is $199 per person. The sessions will be held on Friday morning, so make your travel plans appropriately. Four students will attend per session with the first session beginning at 9AM and wrapping up at 10:30AM. The second session will begin at 10:40AM and wrapping up at 12:10PM. If practical, students should bring their laptops to the session. To register for this session via Zelle send your payment of $199 to axispowercraps@gmail.com. Be sure to follow up all Zelle payments with an email to the same address explaining what you are signing up for, giving your name, mailing address, and cell phone number for future contact. If you do not have Zelle through your bank, please reach out to Heavy at axispowercraps@gmail.com to make other payment arrangements. If you do not have a copy of BoneTracker 5.8 you will be provided one at that time.

Friday we will be offering one Advanced BoneTracker Training Session to a maximum of four students. This session will consist of a personalized individual analysis of each attendee’s personal roll file along with recommendations for future practice and play based on those results. In order to take this class, the student MUST SUBMIT a book of 560 to 720 of their latest good rolls (every roll that stays on the practice table counts) to the coaching staff 30 days prior to the class (by February 20th). This gives the coaches time to analyze the students results and prepare the analysis and report for the class. This is a very detailed analysis and requires many hours to complete. The cost of the analysis is $399 per person. To register for this session via Zelle send your payment of $399 to axispowercraps@gmail.com. Be sure to follow up all Zelle payments with an email to the same address explaining what you are signing up for, giving your name, mailing address, and cell phone number for future contact. If you do not have Zelle through your bank, please reach out to Heavy at axispowercraps@gmail.com to make other payment arrangements.  If you do not have a copy of BoneTracker 5.8 you will be provided one at that time.

On Friday night, we kick things off with the “official” Meet and Greet get together. Everyone is welcome to bring a spouse, friend, or significant other. This is “no host” event, so everyone is on their own for food and beverages. We’ll give you a heads up on the location in advance, so if you get in a little play that afternoon – odds are you’ll have some comps to cover your drinks. This is an opportunity for players and coaches to get acquainted or reacquainted, swap a few war stories, and perhaps make plans for dinner, drinks, or an evening at the tables. If you hit the tables, enjoy yourselves, play conservatively but don’t be out too late, because we’ll have a full day of training slated for Saturday.

Saturday’s class will be at a local casino dealer school, beginning at 9AM and running through approximately 5:30PM. First time students – you will receive a copy of the original Axis Power Craps Seminar on video prior to the live seminar and you are expected to watch this video as pre-class homework. There is material on the video that will not be covered in class unless you ask specific questions about it. However, this material IS important and every student should watch and understand it prior to attending the class. Why? Because there’s more to being a winning player than just shooting the dice!

The class begins with about a 45-minute discussion on a few craps basics. Then we get right down to working on our tosses. This will be a full day of dice control training, focusing on the mechanics of the grip and toss, including set, grip, aim, focus, breath control, visualization, landing zone, execution, and follow through. There will be roughly a 45-minute break for lunch around mid-day at a local sandwich shop a block down the street from the school. After lunch we will continue to work on our tosses. We’ll teach you how to read the dice and how they interact with the layout – and how to interpret that interaction and make adjustments to your grip and toss to correct any errors. We’ll practice shooting from alternate positions – Stick Left, Stick Right, and Straight Out. And, given time, we will play a mock session using casino chips and incorporate some Basic DI Betting Strategies into your play. All that and more on Day One.

Saturday night you’re on your own to hook up with your fellow students and coaches for live play, dinner, entertainment, or just to hang out and chill. But again, I don’t recommend staying out too late. Typically, Saturday nights are what I call “amateur nights” at the casino. Too many drunks and rookies and randies at the tables. It’s always better to get to bed early, then get up early (while it’s still dark) and play a “coffee run” session under better conditions. Up at 4AM. Play from 4:30 until 6:30. Grab a comp for breakfast. Be at the dealer school around 8:45 with an extra few Benjamins in the bankroll.

Sunday morning’s Advanced Betting Strategy Session will begin at 9AM and will wrap up no later than 1PM. We’ll start out the morning with Right-Side betting strategies. We’ll cover reading a table, presses, power presses, regressions, etc., then move on to Hybrid strategies. From there we’ll transition right into Dark Side Plays and how to implement them into your game and use them as a springboard back to the right side when the heat turns back on. Just about every strategy we discuss will have a specific live-session example associated with it that we can discuss – and examples where the play in question has worked far beyond expectations (or failed miserably). This session will definitely put some tools in your craps tool box.

We will wrap up the session at 1PM with plans to reconvene at one of the local casinos later in the afternoon for live play with your Axis Power Craps coaches. Location and exact time to be announced at the seminar itself. Play is planned to last roughly three hours, depending on table conditions. At the end of the live sessions the seminar weekend will “officially” be over. However, don’t forget – Axis Power Craps is the only outfit that offers a free Hookup Day called Hangover Monday.

Hangover Monday is that Monday after the seminar weekend when the coaches and many of the students like to “hang over” for another day to get in some additional play before heading home. So, we book our rooms for Monday with a Tuesday departure so we can have the casino to ourselves for the day. Typically, there are fewer players, more open spots at the tables, often lower limits, and the pressure to perform is off so frequently the hands are longer and the money won is bigger. Best of all, it doesn’t cost you a dime more to hang over and hook up with us (unless you’re having to pay extra for the room or you drop a few bucks at the tables) so why not? I will definitely be there.

Our First Time Student tuition is $1295 for BOTH the Saturday Dice Control Class and the Sunday Advanced Betting Strategy Class. Register via the Zelle app and we offer a $65 discount to $1230. Register via Zelle by sending your payment to axispowercraps@gmail.com. If you prefer, you can send a $430 deposit via Zelle and pay the $800 balance in cash at the Friday night Meet and Greet or at the seminar itself before class starts on Saturday morning. If you do not have Zelle, you can learn more about it at www.zellepay.com . Contact your bank to see if they participate in Zelle and get their assistance in activating Zelle on your account. Download the Zelle app from your Play store on your phone. Link the app to your checking account and send payment to axispowercraps@gmail.com. Once you receive confirmation from Zelle that your payment was sent, follow up with an email to axispowercraps@gmail.com providing me with your contact information – name, mailing address for class pre-work, casino handle if you have one, email address and cell number. I will send a confirmation email back to you with additional information on the class itself.

First Time Students paying via PayPal – your tuition is $1395. That includes a $100 convenience fee for using PayPal due to the fees they charge us for processing payments. You can pay via the following link:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=LW64YMYVDLMFG

Once you make payment I will reach out to you via email to the address linked to your PayPal account with additional information. If you use a different email address with your PayPal account than you usually use for day-to-day email, please email me at axispowercraps@gmail.com and advise me of that OR include that email address in comments when making your payment. I will be mailing pre-class material to you so it is important that I have your correct snail mail address and cell number.

DD214 Veterans and First Responders. As a “Thank You for your Service,” we’re offering an additional $100 discount off your tuition. If you pay via the Zell app your tuition you save an additional $50. Pay by Zelle and your tuition is just is just $1145. If you prefer, you can send a $545 deposit and pay the $600 balance in cash at the class itself. Or send the entire $1145 now via Zelle to axispowercraps@gmail.com. Don’t forget to follow up with an email to axispowercraps@gmail.com with your full name, address, and cell number so we can contact you with additional details.

If you prefer to pay via PayPay your tuition will be $1295. That includes a $100 convenience fee for using PayPal due to the fees they charge us for processing payments. Veterans and First Responders can register via PayPal at the following link for $1295: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=8Q9VMQAGVJEWW

Again, be sure to include your cell number for future contact.

Alumni – Refresher Student Tuition is $895 – That also includes both Saturday Dice Control and Sunday Advanced Betting Strategy Class. We reduce that tuition to $845 if you pay via the Zelle app. Pay via the Zelle app now by sending payment to axispowercraps@gmail.com. If you with you can pay as little as $345 deposit now and pay the $500 balance at the class itself.

Alumni Students paying via PayPal – your tuition is $995. That includes a $100 convenience fee for using PayPal due to the fees they charge us for processing payments. You can pay your tuition via PayPal at the following link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=W9D4YMC42RM5Y

If you prefer, you can pay a deposit of $495 via PayPal and pay the $500 balance in cash at the class. Pay a deposit of $495 via PayPal at the following link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=P4AGQDE34YE66

DD-214 Veteran/First Responder Alumni Students – you also get a $100 discount as a salute to your service. Your total tuition if $845 if you pay via the Zelle app. Make your payment to axispowercraps@gmail.com and follow up with an email to axispowercraps@gmail.com with your contact information, including your cell number. If you wish, you can pay a $345 deposit and pay the $500 balance in cash at the class in March.

If you prefer to pay via PayPal, DD-214 Alumni Students can enroll for $945. That includes a $100 convenience fee for using PayPal due to the fees they charge us for processing payments. Register via PayPal at the following link:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=8TZMAGG2EKCJL

If you wish you can pay a deposit of $445 and pay the $500 balance in cash at the Friday meet and greet get together or at the class on Saturday morning. That price includes a $100 convenience fee for using PayPal due to the fees they chare us for processing payments. Register via PayPal at the following link:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=93S49UV3ZL59E

Be sure when paying via PayPal to include your cell phone number in the comments. If there is no space to include that, email axispowercraps@gmail.com after making payment with your full name, casino handle if you use one, cell phone number, and which property you’ll be staying at while in Biloxi if you know it yet. This info is for the class roster.

Enrollment fees cover the cost of training and handout material only. Students are on their own for transportation, meals and lodging.

Enroll early. This class will sell out!

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