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Long
Tables = Po$$ibilitie$ Some
friends of mine were out birthday-gift shopping for their daughter who desperately wanted
a Barbie-doll set. At the toy-store they
asked how much they were. "It depends on
which one, they're all different. For
example, that one there is the Skiing-Barbie which comes complete with skis, boots and
poles for $50.00" said the assistant. "What's that one?" asked my friends
lovely wife. "That's Cycling-Barbie, and
she comes complete with a bicycle and helmet for $56.00", offered the store clerk. Moving down the aisle, she pointed to
another and said, "This one is Cooking-Barbie, and it comes with a stove and a
miniature set of pots and pans for $70.00". Near
the end of the shelf, my friend spotted one that looked like his daughter might like it. "How much is that one there?", he
asked. "Well, that's Divorced-Barbie and
its a special set that we sell for $300", came the reply. "How come that ones $300, when all the
others are around $50 to $70!?". Demurely,
the clerk shrugged her answer, "It's a special set, Divorced-Barbie comes complete
with Ken's Car, Ken's House, Ken's Business and all of Ken's other stuff!!" This
past Sunday afternoon, I had a chance to sit down with a few of my buddies who range in
age from their early 30s to their late 50s.
Some are well on their way to ascending the corporate ladder, while a few
others are thinking seriously about retirement. We
were watching the Buffalo Bills prove to the rest of the world just how wise they were to
dump a quarterback like Doug Flutie in favor of the human-pylon named Rob Johnson. Now with Johnson playing, heres a team who dumps a bucket of Gatorade over the
head-coach
whenever they manage to get a first
down! The Bills souvenir shop has a sign
out front that say, "We accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express and
abandon hope all ye who enter here!" Anyway,
our conversation somehow turned to the subject of retirement. One friend said he planned to stop getting
speeding tickets in Connecticut, and start getting speeding tickets in Nevada. He added that if he couldnt perfect his
dice-setting and rhythmic-rolling by the time he retired, then his money-making plans
included either biding his time 'til hes 90; and then attempting to marry Anna
Nicole Smith. If that didnt work, he
would try out for, and lead the Buffalo Bills to a string of last-place finishes, or go
around helping Ed McMahon deliver those giant checks.
Another one of the retirement in the next-decade guys said that
he would try to get a job as Caddy for O.J. Simpson, and then take his old Spiderman suit
out of mothballs; do his damndest to catch the real killer.
Obviously, we had consumed WAY too many beers to play craps that night! A
lot of people have looked at the game of craps, and concluded that there is no way you can
make money from it. People usually reach a
conclusion at the place where they got tired of thinking. With Precision-Shooting,
this game can be VERY profitable. I think
its most difficult to convince those craps-players who have been gambling for the
longest time, simply because they are locked into playing a certain way. Even when they see it happening, most assign it to
the dumb-luck category. In one
way, Im glad that most of them think that way, because that is precisely how most
box-men, Pit Bosses, and other casino pit personnel look at it too. In my
The World Is NOT Flat
..& You Can Bet On THAT! article, I talked about how up until the late
50s, people said that no human could run the mile faster than the four-minute
barrier. Oh, they had all kinds of interesting theories that ranged from limited
lung-capacity to wind-resistance to Gods will. They were great reasons why it couldnt be
done, but when Rodger Bannister broke that time-barrier, WHY did so many other runners
quickly follow suit? It
took almost 40 years for Mark McGuire to beat Babe Ruths home-run hitting record. Most people thought Babes record could
NEVER be beaten. If that is the case, why is
it that some one else
Barry Bonds
, came along so quickly and set a NEW record
this year? In the months following
Bannisters triumph, no less than 18 runners BEAT
his record. Do you think that they suddenly
SHORTENED the one-mile distance? NO, simply,
people SAW that it COULD be done, and then they went out with the belief that
they too could do it.
In the off-season, when Barry Bonds is learning the names of his fellow team-mates,
perhaps hell try shooting craps. I
just hope no one tells him the fact
that its an unbeatable game. If
you dont believe that Precision-Shooting will improve your dice-playing, then I have
to wonder just what you are doing here.
If unconditional love is what you're looking for, buy a dog and pet it. If,
on the other hand you do think that carefully setting, gripping, releasing, and targeting
the dice will provide some benefit, then read on. I
mention all of this because there is a cost to trying new methods in a casino. Even if you practice at home, there is a point
when you will eventually have to try it out in a real-life gaming palace. Hopefully by the time you get there, your worst
rolling experiences will be left behind on your practice layout at home. However, that does not guarantee instant an
irreversible success and bankable-profit. When
a lot of people see me shoot, they say it looks SO easy.
Like virtually everything else, it does look easy when it is done well. When they try to replicate it during their turn
with the dice, it sometimes works and sometimes its dismal. Its NOT as easy as it looks, but by adopting
your own comfortable grip and shooting style, it should make it a LOT easier. In developing your Precision-Shooting skills, you will ALWAYS run into some bad sessions. I still have them, too. Thankfully they are a LOT LESS frequent than they were even four or five years ago. In developing and trying-out a new throwing method, there is some inherent risk. Before I even set foot into a casino several weeks ago, I knew that my rolling average would drop. My
Sevens-to-Roll-Ratio using my normal Pincer-Grip from short distances is currently about
28 to 1. The MPs Long-Ranger started
out in the 8-1 range and progressed to 12-1 before I even thought about returning to the
casino after 9-11-01. My first five days of
real-life play on the LV Strip showed an SRR of 13.7:1.
A further five days of play in Downtown LV saw it improve to 17.4:1. Another six days of play in North Las Vegas,
Laughlin and Mesquite saw an increase of 18.25 rolls between 7-Outs. I
considered that a decent level of improvement. However,
not everything was wine, roses and heart-stopping profit.
There were a few sessions where I just couldnt get into a groove, and
my bankroll showed the cost of trying something new. Let
me interject a clarification about this grip. Arrange
the dice in the correct set on the table. When
you are about to pick them, use the lowest joint-crease on your two middle fingers to grip
the forward edge of the dice. This gives you
the proper length rolling-ramp on your finger tips. The crease in your fingers, acts to
anchor the forward-leading edge of the dice with just the right amount of
angle for the proper release. This
give the dice a nice, steady launching and rolling platform from which to be lofted. Ive had four of my football-as-a
religion friends try it out BEFORE any beer was consumed, and they ALL had varying
levels of success with it. Obviously,
thats not a scientific survey, but I wanted a rough idea of how difficult it was for
other people to pick up the concept. Heres
MY results from using the MPs Long-Ranger grip and release: ü I
spent sixteen (16) days of actual in-casino play. ü I
threw a total of 483 hands in those 16 days. ü I used the $110 Inside/Regression Method as set out in Part III ü My
worst hand contained a total of just two (2) throws. ü I
threw a total of 47 of those two-roll money-losing
hands. ü Those
47 hands, plus a number of other non-paying Place-bet hands cost a
loss
of $9,400! ü My
longest hand contained a total of fifty (50) throws. ü My
most profitable hand contained forty-one (41) rolls. ü My
most profitable hand generated a profit of $1,470. I
will readily admit that those losses offset a lot of the winning hands that I had. There were some occasions when I was actually in a
negative-bankroll position for quite a while. It
took a fair bit of solid play to make a comeback, and a couple of times, just as I was
back to my starting bankroll, I hit a quick 7-Out loss again. As
my comfort with this new dice-grip increased, so did my shooting confidence. As the SRR improved, so did the profit picture. I ended with a substantial profit that was big
enough to convince me that L-O-N-G Tables really do present profit po$$ibilitie$. Good
Luck & Good Skill at the Tables
and in Life. By:
The Mad Professor
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