Rhythmic Rolling Craps
Posted : admin On 4/5/2022Craps players claim they can affect the outcome of a dice throw by a technique known as Rhythm Rolling. If you can truly perfect this technique you'll be rich beyond your wildest dreams. Read on to find. Consistently rolling the dice with the same motion time after time is a physical skill, and it's easy to fall out of rhythm if you don't keep up the homework. Though a select few players claim to be able to increase the frequency of certain numbers, the basic aim of dice control is to decrease the frequency of 7s, leading to more passes.
Rhythmic Rolling Craps Game
A Simple One-Two Craps Punch! By Frank Scoblete
Rhythmic Rolling Craps Rules
Craps is unique among casino games. It is the only game in the casino where the house gives the player the dice and says: 'Here, beat us if you can.' In blackjack, the casino doesn’t hand you the cards and say: 'Here, shuffle and deal and decide how you’ll play the house hands.' In roulette, you don’t get to pump the wheel and spin the ball and try to hit your numbers. Even in traditional baccarat, where you get to deal, you have no say in the shuffle or play of the hands – in short, your dealing is window dressing. In all other casino games, you are an onlooker to Lady Luck’s seductive dance; in craps, you’re her dance mate and her partner.
Craps can be divided into two separate games. There’s the mathematical game based on the probabilities inherent in two six-sided dice and there’s the physical game where people roll the dice. The former is the gold standard where making the best possible bets is the key element. The latter is the stock market, where millions can be won by savvy investors.
If you are a novice craps player and you look at the layout, it can be baffling – squiggles, designs, numbers, symbols. Checking out the action at a craps table can be frightening – it’s a game with its own unique and extensive language; it own rigorously imposed customs and superstitions. And a gazillion bets, mostly bad.
Yet, stripped of its makeup, language and dress, craps is plain and simple.
The shooter places a bet on the Pass Line and is given the dice; this is called the 'come-out' roll. He wants to roll a 7 or 11, instant winners; avoid the 2, 3, or 12, instant losers, or establish a 'point,' that is, one of the following numbers: 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10. If he establishes a point, he must hit that point before he rolls a 7 in order to win. If he rolls a 7 before he rolls his point, he – and everyone who bet on the Pass Line – loses. That’s the game.
Add to the Pass Line bet the Come bet, which is made after the point is established, and follows the exact same rules as the Pass Line bet, and you have the two best bets of the game.
Yes, you can complicate things by throwing in the Don’t Pass/Don’t Come options but we won’t as only a tiny minority of despised players approach the game from this angle. Suffive it to say that if you are starting to play craps for the first time, you’ll be nervous enough at the table. You won’t need the other players glaring at you which is exactly what they’ll do if you play the Don’t Pass or Don’t Come.
Pass and Come are good bets as the house has an approximately 1.4 percent edge on each. What does such an edge mean? Simply that for every $100 wagered on the Pass or Come, you long-run expectation will be a loss of $1.40. Not too bad. That edge can be further reduced by taking 'odds' on the point number. The odds is a bet that can be equal to or more than the amount you have on the Pass or Come. If you are betting $5, and the casino where you are playing allows double odds, you can place $10 in odds behind your Pass or Come bet. The house pays this bet off at 'true odds' and therefore has no edge on the bet.
Making that Pass Line and Come bets and backing them with odds gives you a solid mathematical approach. There are also some other good betting options. You can 'Place' the 6 and/or 8 in multiples of $6 and, if you win on either, you’ll get paid $7. The house edge on this is a low 1.5 percent. In Vegas and Mississippi casinos, you can 'buy' the 4 and/or 10 by paying a commission of five percent when the bet wins. The house edge on a $25 buy bet is around 1.3 percent. (This type of 'buy' is not available in Atlantic City – there you must pay the five percent commission whether the bet wins or loses, almost tripling the house’s edge.) In Tunica you can buy the 5 and 9 and only pay a $1 commission if the bet wins. That reduces the house edge to about 1 percent.
The physical game of craps contains a controversial area that is just now beginning to reach the consciousness of some craps players. When the casino hands you the dice, it has created a set of rules and a table structure intended to randomize the roll. You have to hit the back wall where foam rubber pyramids deflect the dice. The casino expects that the shooters have no real influence over the dice once they leave his hand. Most gaming writers agree that craps is random and that shooters do not have any influence. However, I think that certain shooters have, through practice and/or extensive play, refined their rolling to the point where they have enough influence over the dice to change a slightly negative game (when you make the good bets) to a slightly positive game. This concept is called 'rhythmic rolling' or 'dice control' and involves setting the dice and delivering the dice in a consistent fashion.
If I am right about rhythmic rolling then the right one-two punch of craps becomes clear.
Punch 1. Make the bets with the lowest house edges, Pass and Come
Punch 2. Learn how to deliver the dice to influence the outcome in your favor.
Do these two steps and you might just score a craps knockout!
Frank Scoblete is the #1 best-selling gaming author. His books and tapes have sold over a million copies. He is executive director of Golden Touch™ Craps dice-control seminars. His websites are www.scoblete.com and www.goldentouchcraps.com . For a free brochure or more information call: 1-800-944-0406 or write to: Paone Press, Box 610, Lynbrook, NY 11563
Testing the notion that “precision shooters” can gain an edge at the craps tables
By Frank Scoblete
So is there a way to truly test whether someone has the ability to throw the dice in a way that changes the odds of a craps game to give them the edge? The simple answer is “yes.”
The concept of dice control at the craps tables—also known as precision shooting or rhythmic rolling—is perhaps the game’s most controversial topic. Can a shooter actually change the odds of a craps game with his throwing technique?
This practice was introduced to the modern casino world by the late, legendary Captain from Atlantic City, who believed that certain shooters, the special few he called “rhythmic rollers,” could change the nature of the game from random to controlled. When I met him in the late 1980s, he had developed a complete concept of a controlled shot’s nature.
The controlled shooters he was interested in set the dice a certain way (please note: simply setting the dice is not dice control), gripped the dice a certain way, and threw the dice in a soft arc with backspin. He felt these shooters changed the odds of the game to favor the players on certain bets. This would classify them as “advantage players”—similar to card counters at the blackjack tables—because they possess an advantage over the house.
While the Captain was a superb shooter, perhaps the greatest controlled shooter I ever saw was a woman known as “The Arm.” I was fortunate to play alongside both of them for over a decade.
Still, many traditional gambling writers, players and casino executives claim there is no such thing as a controlled shooter. Indeed, when Golden Touch shooters (www.goldentouchcraps.com) come to a table, some box personnel and/or floor people will make it a point to tell such shooters, “You know, that thing (or dice control) doesn’t work. You can’t win that way.”
This is in itself a strange statement, since you will never hear casino personnel say such things to random rollers; those who throw, wing, loft, fling, heave or bounce the dice down the table. Obviously, random rollers have no edge over the house—so why don’t the casino folks tell these shooters that what they are doing will not work?
So is there a way to truly test whether someone has the ability to throw the dice in a way that changes the odds of a craps game to give them the edge? The simple answer is “yes.”
Every single player who has read one of my books on dice control and/or taken one of the Golden Touch dice control classes knows that incontrovertible proof for dice control exists.
There are two methods by which dice controllers (or would-be dice controllers) can prove whether they have an actual edge over the house. The first method is to keep a record of one’s SRR, which is the shooter’s seven-to-rolls ratio. In a random game of craps the SRR is 1:6; that is, over many decisions, the seven will come up once every six rolls on average.
Over many rolls, if the shooter has an SRR over 1:6, he or she can be confident that they have control. The better the SRR, the more control. Shooters will throw 10 to 20 thousand rolls before they can say with confidence that they are indeed changing the nature of the game. Some of these elite shooters actually have regulation craps tables in their homes, which they practice on.
So what kind of SRR would a student need, as a minimum, to have an edge? If you have an SRR of 1:6.3, you can overcome the house edge on certain bets. Shooters without axis-control must use the Hardways set, where the dice show hardways all around – 2:2, 3:3, 4:4 and 5:5, with the 1 and 6 being on the left and right sides, respectively.
The second method for proving you have dice control skill is to pass the SmartCraps tests. SmartCraps is a software program that analyzes throws to determine if the shooter has axis control. The SRR does not in and of itself measure axis control; in short, you do not need axis control to have an edge at the game. When you use the Hardways set, if the 1 or 6 spot shows, that is an off-axis result for that die—but one such result cannot end in a seven out.
With axis control you are shooting for certain specific numbers. For example, the use of the 3V dice set looks to hit sixes and eights. A shooter could have an SRR of 1:6, but if this shooter is hitting an inordinate percentage of sixes and/or eights despite such a low SRR, he indeed has control. My new book Cutting Edge Craps: Advanced Strategies for Serious Players explores axis control in depth—who has it, and what to do when you do have it.
The passing of either or both of these tests is flat-out verification that the shooter does have the ability to change the game. You can’t fool yourself into thinking you control the dice when your SRR shows you aren’t, or when your SmartCraps tests show you don’t have enough axis control to use sets other than the Hardway set, even if your SRR is decent.
Our Golden Touch students can test themselves. Again, you can’t con the SRR or the SmartCraps tests. Dice control is firmly proven by the players who are passing these criteria. There’s no nonsense here. You think you can control the dice? Great—test yourself and see if it’s true.
The SRR and SmartCraps tests are the be-all and end-all of proof. As for the critics, let them carp and moan and try to sell their ideas to the public. The casinos realize that this works. That’s why they tell you it doesn’t work. Thankfully, so many dice setters (as opposed to controlled shooters) exist that the casinos find it hard to see who does and who doesn’t actually have the skill to beat them.
Can dice control be proven? Certainly. In the next issue of Casino Player, I’ll discuss the real nature of the back wall pyramids and how dice really react when they bounce on the table.
Frank Scoblete’s newest books are Slots Conquest: How to Beat the Slot Machines, whichfeatures advantage-play slots; Casino Craps: Shoot to Win, which comes with a DVD showing controlled throws. Cutting Edge Craps: Advanced Strategies for Serious Players and Beat Blackjack Now are available from Amazon.com, at your favorite bookstore, or by mail order by calling 1-866-SET-DICE. You can also call that number for a free brochure.