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How
to Use Dice Control to Achieve an Advantage at Casino Craps
By Jerry Patterson
Part 1 of a 5-part Series
Knowledgeable gamblers have long recognized "The Big 4" - blackjack,
poker, sports
betting and thoroughbred racing - as the standard games in which an astute
player can actually turn the odds in his favor and achieve an advantage over the
casino.
But what about craps with its 1.4% house advantage? Can an advantage actually be
achieved, the house odds overturned, at casino craps?
Yes.
In this first of a series of five articles on Dice Control, let's start by
defining just what an advantage is. If you're flat betting, i.e., betting the
same amount on even money bets on each roll of the dice or spin of the wheel or
blackjack hand, you gain an advantage over the casino by winning more bets than
you lose. If you're varying your bet size, you attain an advantage by knowing
when you enter the advantage arena and, thus, when to increase your bet size.
Put another way, if a system cannot beat the casino by flat betting on even
money bets, it is not an advantage system.
In subsequent articles in this series, I will describe how to attain an
advantage in casino craps by using dice control. I'll discuss the issues of
whether or not an advantage can actually be achieved, present some ideas for how
to prove to yourself that an advantage exists, and teach you how to attain and
exploit an advantage by using dice control.
Casino craps is an easy game to learn and the only game where you, the player, can
create your own edge over the casino and hold your winning destiny right in your
own hands.
This differs from blackjack where you have no control over the shuffle or
the order of the cards in the shoe. Your craps edge using dice control
differs from roulette where you have no control over the croupier's spin of the
wheel or the release of the ball.
In casino craps, you hold the dice and how you set them, grip them and throw
them determines the advantage you can achieve. In other words, you have
control!
Let's start with the basics. If you're not familiar with the rules of
play, 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.
Now, think of the power you would possess if you could throw the dice to avoid
the losing 7. That's what dice control is all about -- to set and throw the dice
in such a way as to avoid the losing 7 during the point cycle when your
objective is to repeat the number you threw on the first roll of this series -
called the "come out" roll.
Mastering dice control will give you to power to walk up to a craps table
knowing that you have an excellent chance of creating a hot table, that when
your turn comes to pick up the dice, you will throw number after number without
the losing seven showing, collecting profits on almost every roll of the dice.
Not every time, but often enough to collect winnings, sometimes substantial
winnings, before throwing the losing seven and handing the dice to the next
shooter for his turn.
Check back soon for the next article in this series of five.
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This article was written by Jerry Patterson. For more on dice control, or to learn
the rudiments of casino craps, pick up a copy of Jerry Patterson's best selling
gambling book - Casino Gambling: A Winner's Guide to Blackjack, Craps,
Roulette, Baccarat and Casino Poker. Casino Gambling has been
the top selling gambling book on amazon.com and bn.com since April 2000, shortly
after its publication.
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Jerry's book on this Web Site or go to his website at www.casinogamblingedge.com.
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