Dice Setter wants to know...
"Have you played craps in a
casino and felt that the dice used in the game were altered or
otherwise not fair dice?
Do you think casinos cheat
at the dice table?"
In February, 2010, we emailed this question to over 5,000 current Dice
Setter Newsletter subscribers.
All email replies were all read and then sorted into categories on the basis
of the expressed opinion. Some replies were short and to the point,
while others were quite detailed. We selected a sampling of
the replies submitted that best represented the broad range of each
category. You may now read for yourself, the
collection of the selected responses from the readers of the Dice Setter Newsletter
Survey.
Editor's note: Although some editing did take place, it is not the
intention to correct every detail of a submitted reply. In some cases,
word choice was unclear so, it was decided to leave most of the
submissions "as is". The editing that was complete mostly dealt with
punctuation, capitalization and most of the spelling errors. Correct
grammar was not addressed. Stuff it, Ms. Betz!
(my old English teacher still reads my writing)
Using the statistics gathered from our Aweber data base, we were able to
ascertain that
52.3% of entire list polled did not
open the email survey that was sent in February 2010.
47.7% of the Dice Setter Newsletter
Subscribers replied to the survey question.
53.7% say Fair Dice
31.5% say Suspicious Dice
14.8% Say Other
As a result of the survey replies, we created the three categories to
catalog responses.
Fair Dice:
This category contains responses indicating that the writer trusts
casinos to use fair dice. Further, they believe that casinos do not cheat, would not
cheat, and that in all their playing time, have never experience cheating
or had a reason to believe cheating might have occurred while they were
playing craps.
Suspicious Dice:
This category contains the responses
from readers who indicated that they distrusted casinos, and that
casinos use altered dice or other methods to have a greater advantage
over the players. Furthermore,
some implied that they are sure casinos cheat using alter dice or other methods, and
during one or more sessions have been exposed to cheating and
have reasons to support why they believe cheating was, in fact, going on by the casino.
Table Conditions and Other Replies: This category contains
responses that did not pertain to our direct questions about fair dice
and cheating. The writers' responses, though not on topic, are published
here as we
felt a need to represent all the actual survey data.
Dice Setter's response is published in the web page, "If They Are
Cheating, Why Play?" It is our intention to be accurate as well as
informative while allow for the reading to make up their own mind about
the survey. While you gather information about biased dice and if
casinos cheat, please consider the following.
1. The casino odds favor the casino not the player.
2. This means you are suppose to lose and not win.
3. This is not considered to be cheating, but is casually
accepted as part of the game.
4. This means when you
do win, you have defied the the odds.
