From time to time I talk about the struggles craps players face when dealing with casino math. Essentially we players come from three different schools. First off there are advantage players who base 100% of their play on mathematical decisions. It doesn’t matter to these guys if the four…

Let’s face it. It happens to all of us. For one reason or another, skills we’ve developed at home don’t make the transition to the casino. Blame it on variance, bad luck, or something you ate for dinner – sometimes the correct craps play is no craps play. So…

Articles Quick, without thinking – what is the best bet on the layout on the come out roll? The Pass Line bet, right? There are eight ways to win on the seven or eleven versus four ways to lose on the craps numbers. If any other number shows it…

I have always been interested in culture, society, and philosophy. Since both of my children are active in the martial arts, I am particularly interested in Eastern philosophy. A few years ago I took some of that philosophy, applied it to the game of craps, and published the article…

Craps wouldn’t be a game of chance if you knew the outcome of the roll in advance. Why? By definition, the outcome of any game of chance must be uncertain. The branch of mathematics that deals with this uncertainty is called Probability.
The science of Probability was born in the…

Ignoring the obvious, one is a card game and one is a dice game, there are a lot of differences in craps and – just as there are a lot of similarities. But there’s one major difference. A skilled dice influencer with a long-run SRR of 1:7 has an…

Dice. Craps. Betting Strategies. Big wins. Heartbreaking losses. The glory of days gone by – and days to come. Some of us live this stuff 24/7. But do you really have to live and breathe craps to be successful at it?
I sat down to write this article, initially thinking…

Those of you familiar with Superheroes and villains are no doubt familiar with Magneto of the X-Men comic series. Magneto, born Erik Magnus Lensherr, is a member of the Brotherhood of Evil and is a mutant who can create and control electromagnetic fields. He has this nifty helmet he…

You hear it all the time. “Bob was just born lucky”. . . or “Jane is wealthy because her business was lucky enough to have the right product at the right time.” Is it luck? Are some people just ‘more fortunate’ than others? Or is it possible to make…

Is there a difference in craps strategies and craps systems? Yes and no. To my way of thinking a strategy is simply a method of play. You may have learned it from a book or a friend. You may have developed it yourself and tested it out on the…

A lot of experienced gamblers play craps because of the house’s relatively low edge over the players. By limiting their bets to Pass and Come or Don’t Pass and Don’t Come, then taking or laying Free Odds, these craps players cut the house edge to well below one percent….

From time to time I’ll get an e-mail from a member of my craps forum asking about a new angle they’ve seen on craps. The one I hear about most often is Crapless Craps – currently experiencing a revival under the name Never Ever Craps.

This game is nothing…

You’d think that breathing easy would come naturally to everyone. After all, we start breathing on our own from the moment the doctor slaps us on our newborn bottoms. But the fact is, most of us do not breathe efficiently. That means your blood is never fully oxygenated, and…

The Sunday buffet brunch has become a bit of a tradition when the family joins me on one of my Las Vegas outings. It is a meal that “fits” my family for many reasons. Breakfast is my wife’s favorite meal, and since the Sunday brunch includes a variety of…

On November 15, 1993, Dr. Tom Amberry made 2,750 consecutive free throws and stopped without a miss. He tossed baskets for twelve straight hours. He was seventy-two years old at the time and had only been practicing for a year and a half. Later, he appeared on the David…