BBMF ...... is that "meditation" or "medication"
Dice has forced me into both ... I
meditate before I throw the dice to help me get that Tiger-like focus ...... and after I stink up the joint with several bad tosses, I will
medicate
my apologies as I have just finished another weekend Dice course learning more about the art of Dice throwing ........ in addition to reading about 4 books on Craps, I have now spent over $1,800 in dice courses in the past year ........ or about as much training as a Masseuse takes to get certified
so for the last 2 weeks I have been practicing and charting my tosses more than I have been playing in the casinos ........ just like the football players do -- practice leads to better play ..... and this is in addition to "batting practice" every day before I head to the casinos with real $$$ on the line
I built a practice rig resembling the playing conditions of a casino Craps table, only smaller mainly because a real craps table costs about 2x a nice pool table and takes up more room than a pool table .... but most serious Dice gamers have their own Craps table ......... maybe someday I will
So every day I take "batting practice" just like your professional baseball players do ...... at home I will throw about 20 to 80 tosses before I head to the casino .... and if I am staying in a casino, I will step back about 12 feet from the corner of the bed where I have set up the pillows to catch my dice as I try to get my hand-eye coordination down .......... dayyyyyummm those guys & gals that can just walk up to a table and toss all day without practice :com: but that is what is so beautiful about craps .... anyone can play & hit a homerun at any time
TRENDS:
Today I experienced something at the tables I have never done before ..... I had a dice on 2 separate throws hit the table and die -- as in stick flat on the surface without moving as if I had hit a long golf ball into a very soft rain soaked green
I had been throwing on the only open table at the local casino and was not doing worth crap and had lost about $60. when I said enough was enough -- I was convinced after watching my toss do nothing as well as every player at the table have bad throws that the current trend of those Dice at that table was BAD ...... I asked the dealers when their other table was going to open and they said in about an hour so a buddy and I went to breakfast and came back in time just as they were opening the table .....
they handed brand new frosty dice to me with sharp edges and I begin tossing the dice with my knuckleball toss instead of my back spin toss ...... now it is an official Gaming law in Las Vegas that both dice must hit the back wall but 1 of my dice died as it hit the surface ......... I was ready for the crew to yell at me ....... but they were kind to me and said nothing since they know I usually have no problem hitting the back wall with both dice
I tossed again and the dice went normally - rolling to the back wall of "rubber diamonds" ...... then my 3rd toss again had 1 dice just die in the middle of the table about 15 inches from the back wall .... I was shocked and apologized to the crew ....... I continued on the best hand I had all day -- only about 16 rolls, but still MUCH better than I had had at the other table earlier ........ I tracked my tosses and noticed I had hit all the Box numbers except the 9 --- this was a key TREND to be at this table with these dice
the table filled quickly with 14 to 15 players and I studied the dice as each player tossed them ... and I started to notice that several players with long tosses would either have the 9 or it's sister the 5 not be hit at all ......... so the dice came back around to me and again the way that I threw the dice no 9 was made ........ about the 3rd player down from me was on a hand of about 10 rolls and again he was hitting every number except the 5 so based on this TREND, I tossed out a $100 black chip and told the dealer to quietly Lay the 5 ...... a few more rolls and the player never hit the 5 before the Devil came up .... nice win into my rack
for the next 2 hours I did the same Lay betting on either the 5 or 9 ....... I won every time and as I got a little more gutsier, I started betting more $$ on the Lay 5 or 9 in addition to my regular inside Box number bets ..... the dealers were trying to explain my irregular bets to the other players as they had noticed I had started winning every time I made that bet ........ these Dice were not landing on either the 5 or 9 ... very peculiar TREND for a set of dice, but then again almost every set of dice will have 1 kind of trend or another and if you can spot that TREND & capitalize on it you will be a happy camper :00hour
well evidently the Eye-in-the-Sky also noticed me capitalizing on this TREND because they changed the dice just a little over 2 hours after the previous dice change :scared they did not change the dice at the other table which is routine ...... also routine is that dice in Vegas are changed every 8 hours on every table usually when the shift changes ..... but not this time !!!! ..... as the new dice came to me after a few players had zero luck tossing them, I decided I would not try to overcome this casino countermeasure and I decided to color up with a nice profit instead of gambling a few of my gains back to the casino .......
