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Okay…Maybe
the Sky Really ISN’T Falling
An
Announcement Over the last number of months, Stanford Wong has been seeking my permission to edit and publish some of my previously-posted dice-influencing material into a book. After carefully (and exhaustively) verifying for myself that indeed the dice-influencing sky really isn’t falling down all around us; I gave him the go-ahead. Why
Stanford? If
you’ve had a chance to read my various posts in response to some of his ideas, it's
clear that Stanford and I still disagree about a few deeply entrenched (and
diametrically-opposed) game-approaches. On
the other hand, he and I do agree on a whole range of things that the rest of the
dice-influencing community is just coming to realize the importance of. To that end, we share much common ground as well
as having quite similar advantage-play goals. I
can also tell you this... Wong
has contributed more critical thought along with more sane and rational
methodology to the DI community in just ONE book than Frank Scoblete has done
in more than half-a-dozen books of his own. I’m
all for that! That
is also the kind of person that I would want as my publisher. The
Research As
tempting as Stanford’s publishing deal always was, and as much as I knew that my
book-revenue could benefit Ms. MP’s favorite charity; I wanted to be absolutely sure
that its release wouldn’t harm any in-casino revenue prospects for current or future
dice-influencers…including myself. For
years now, Heavy has been telling us that all the publicity about dicesetting would not
harm our profit-making endeavors. In fact, he
was (and still is) convinced that our money-making opportunities will actually increase because the depth and breadth of
the market will continue to substantially expand because of all the
publicity. I’ll
readily admit that when Wong On Dice first came out, I was still highly
skeptical that casino-executives were that naïve. I
felt quite sure that they would finally wise up to our exploits and thereafter make all
sorts of silly changes to the game just as they did with blackjack.
After
all, in the gaming industry…
When
Scoblete speaks...they laugh.
When
Wong speaks...they listen. So
I did my own informal survey of all the casino-execs that I know personally…and there
are a LOT of them. The consensus was that the
“fresh meat” (new players) that Wong’s book and the high-profile TV
appearances of other dice-personalities are drawing to the table, is more than offset any
slim advantage (if indeed a true Precision-Shooting advantage really could be gained). Their sense of it was that the whole
dice-influencing publicity thing is a net-positive contributor to the casinos
bottom-line…and naiveté had nothing to do with it. Further
though, many guys reported a marked increase in the amount of derision, ridicule, disdain,
and sometimes outright mockery of players who appeared to be mimicking and imitating what
they saw on shows like A & E’s “Take This Job…” and the
History Channel’s “Dice Dominator”.
At
first blush that would seem like a bad thing.
However,
on clear-headed reflection, the fact that most casino personnel still consider us to be
nothing more than a bunch of misguided gambling degenerates who have bought into a series
of false-hope notions and outright chicanery; is great news for us and an excellent
thing as far as our money-making dice-influencing longevity is concerned. In
other words, casino-management considers dice-influencers to be ideal customers. Of course, it is always wise not to overstay your
welcome and to be ever vigilant of each casinos individual win-threshold and
loss-tolerance…and to NOT exceed it nor to rub their noses in it. Hell,
that’s what Heavy has been telling us for the past seven years, but I still
didn’t take that as absolute proof-positive that I’d still be as free to weave
my dice-influencing magic in the future as I have been for the past ~fifteen years. After
all, we were still getting increasing reports of pit-heat.
I took those reports seriously, although I personally failed to elicit any
hint of heat in any of those very same places that apparently treated other advantage-play
shooters like inmates at Abu Ghraib prison. I
definitely know that my heat-evasion and avoidance isn’t because of my obscenely
handsome good-looks or due to my charmingly ingratiating Dale Carnegie-like
personality…that just does not describe me. Heck,
in university I was voted “Most Likely to be caught playing golf with Satan”, so
my heat-dodging proficiency is not because I’m a lovable, huggable teddy-bear. I can also tell you that most of the dice-shooting
pro’s who ply their trade in those very same houses continually fail to elicit
anything that could even remotely be perceived or construed as heat either. Still
though, I wasn’t convinced that those TV shows and particularly that book of
Wong’s hadn’t done some kind of permanent damage and wouldn’t have some
sort of deleterious effect on the game that I love…the game by the way that I still
earn my primary income from…and the one that I intend to continue earning a
substantial income from; so I REALLY wanted to be sure before I made any sort of
book-publishing decision. So
I enlisted the help of my old friend "Mel, the Vegas Ghost" who was
already interested in completing a semi-formal gaming-industry survey of senior and
mid-level casino executives on this exact subject for his own particular reasons. If you
aren’t familiar with Mel, he’s a casino-exec who has been heavily involved with
the Las Vegas scene for the last four and-a-half decades.
Our joint exploits and antics are detailed in the six-part “Walking With A
Vegas Ghost” series as well as the fifteen-part “Mini-Tub Craps
Tour”. I
will say that his initial survey findings surprised me even more than my own
circle-of-management-acquaintances inquisition did, and the final survey results bore that
fact out even further. It
turns out that casino-management’s deeply-entrenched belief that the dice CANNOT be
de-randomized in any meaningful way for any meaningful duration and exploited with any
meaningful consistency is STILL as fervent and intense as ever. You would have thought that there would be at
least a few of them who took note of Stanford Wong’s extremely-respected reputation
as perhaps the world’s most widely known advantage-player, and therefore taken a
deeper unbiased review of his findings. Much
to my surprise, that was not the case. There
are a few management-types who DO believe that dice-influencing does work, but
they, like Mel, have started using that knowledge and their newly-learned dice-influencing
skills as a source of additional income and not as a motivator to hassle fellow
dicesetters. To them, Precision-Shooting is
more like self-administered unemployment insurance and a retirement-fund augmenter. They too see no need to convince fellow executives
that the earth is anything other than flat. The
Book That
brings us to the subject of The Mad Professor’s Shooting Bible. That’s
the working title of my book that Wong is currently editing. It is composed of some of the material that I
have previously posted on Irishsetter’s dicesetter.com, and of course there will be
significant new material stuff in there as well. The
Content
The
first thing I’ll say is that the biggest complaint I get about having so many
articles on the Irishsetter’s dicesetter.com is the fact that it’s hard for some
people to find everything I’ve written on one particular subject. That is, there is just so much material that
I’ve written over the last six or seven years and there’s so many hidden nuggets
of useful information buried in the most unlikely of places that many players simply give
up looking for them, or worse still, some people never knew they were there in the first
place. With
Stanford’s skillful editing and indexing, this book solves that “how can I
find it” problem. It’s
organized and codified and thankfully it’s been edited to take out the overlapping
redundancies, out-of-date information, and most of all; my best, most up-to-date
advantage-play methods are assembled in one concise package. I
think you’ll enjoy reading it, but moreover, I think you’ll be able to transfer
quite a few of my skill-development and profit-improvement methods right off of the pages
and directly into your game. The Mad Professor
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