Frank Scoblete - Cutting Edge Craps: Advanced Strategies for Serious Players

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In Memoriam

The Captain

Contents

Acknowledgments

D ominator and I must thank Jerry Stickman and John Skinny for their amazing help in writing this book. Stickman did countless computer simulations over hundreds of hours, along with mathematical analysis, in order to prove our radical new betting theories. Skinny helped me phrase and analyze the revelatory sections on dice flipping. Not only are these two men magnificent controlled dice shooters, but they are also good friends and deserve applause for contributing their genius to this book. Thank you guys for everything that you have done!

Please note: While this book is a collaborative effort between Frank Scoblete and Dominator, the voice will be Frank Scobletes.

1. The Worrywart

I m worried about this book. It is designed for serious craps players and for those shooters who have developed a controlled throw and/or are looking to advance their game considerably. This book concentrates on advantage playin short, play that allows players to get the edge over the house. You want to become a real threat to the casinos? Then this book is for you. In it, you can go from being a savvy, smart craps player or an advantage player with a slight edge over the house to being a dynamo that will be the casinos worst nightmare.

This is definitely not a primer book on betting systems for the millions of craps players laboring under the superstition that they can find some magic betting formula to beat the random game of craps, and it doesnt explain how the game is played for those of you who are novices. You should know the game of craps before you read this book. You should be good at it, comfortable playing it. In fact, I hope you are great at it. If you want to get the full background to proper craps play, I refer you to Casino Craps: Shoot to Win! (Triumph Books), which teaches everything you need to know about the game and also how to control the dice. That book is also accompanied by a DVD that shows you how to make controlled shots.

My major worry is that the truly advanced concepts in this book will be used by the wrong playersthe novice dice controllers and, sadly, those unadvanced players known pejoratively as gamblers . Golden Touch Craps, the premier dice-control school in the country, teaches a strict form of dice control based on techniques first formulated by the Captain, the greatest craps expert who ever lived and a man who once rolled 147 numbers before he sevened outand these techniques actually work in the casinos, as our students have discovered.

Just as important as a controlled throw, advantage craps players need a very strict betting style to be successful. They must make the lowest-house-edge bets that fit into their mathematical edge as determined by their SRR (seven-to-rolls ratio) and also upon an on-axis analysis given by the software program SmartCraps.

Players who have an SRR that shows a change from randomness know they are changing the nature of the game. Players who have a greater-than-random on-axis control are also changing the nature of the game in radical ways. With an edge shown by your SRR and/or an edge established by SmartCraps, you know you can beat the game of craps if you bet properlyand betting properly might just be different depending on how you are analyzing your edge over the house.

Are SRR and axis control the alpha and omega of dice control? Noand yes. The SRR is a decent indicator of control; it tells you that you have the goods to change the probabilities of the game, while the SmartCraps program is a much stronger indicator because it establishes that you have on-axis control. A low SRR with a high on-axis control is better than a high SRR with no on-axis control. Still, a good SRR of 1:6.5 or higher means the game of craps can be yours. But these indicatorsstrong or weakare just indicators. You actually have to go into the casino and play the game. Ultimately, over a sufficiently long period of time, you should have more money in your pocket or purse than when you started. As we say in Golden Touch Craps (hereafter referred to as GTC ), Winning is the most fun!

In the short run of any game you will have losses; unfortunately that is inevitable. But to be an advantage craps player you must show that you can actually beat the casinos. You must show you can bring home the money; otherwise you are conning yourself into believing you are good at advantage play when you are really not. However, there is an interesting subset to beating the house. Many readers and viewers of our GTC materials just dont practice enough to develop a controlled throw that beats the game. Yet, they nevertheless have improved their game immensely by simply following our strong betting strategies, which include the 5-Count and proper low-house-edge wagers. Thats good not great, but good is far better than bad.

Indeed, in this book, for the first time in print, we will show how the 5-Count actually can change the nature of craps into a positive expectation at certain times. Even non-controlled shooters can take advantage of this element in the GTC advanced betting arsenal. The 5-Count is a revolution that keeps on giving. Once again, thank you, Captain, for discovering the amazing 5-Count. In the Appendix of this book you will find the 5-Count section originally printed in Casino Craps: Shoot to Win!

Are most of the ideas in this book advanced? Yes. Should they be played against random shooters who just wing the dice down the table? No. In fact, if you can avoid betting on all random shooters, the better off you will be.

We also have some strategies that are radical highly radicalthat might blow the lid off advanced craps betting. Did I just write might? Sorry, these radical bets will definitely blow the lid off advanced craps betting. These radical methods will include a new and brilliant method of betting for those who show truly superior on-axis control, a method the great dice controller Dominator and many other elite (I repeat, elite ) GTC bettors have been using with great success for a few years.

Some of you who have seen Dominator use these methods have said to me, But you teach this thing in class, but he is doing that . What gives? I usually skirt this issue by saying that Dominator has too much of the gambler still in him, so he sometimes goes a little overboard in his betting style. In truth, this is not entirely accurate because some of his methods actually bring home more money than the regular GTC betting methods wouldbut these methods are only for truly advanced on-axis-controlled players. If you dont have that elite level of on-axis control, youll be putting your head in the guillotine using our radical methods.

Sadly too many decent dice controllers are of the opinion that they are great dice controllers. That assumption can be fraught with danger for such dice controllers bankrolls. If you attempt to use our new and radical methods of betting and you arent at the necessary level of skill, your bankroll will be creamed along with your ego. So I caution everyone reading this: When in doubt, figure you arent as good a shooter in the casinos as you are at home. And, just to be cautious, figure you arent as good a shooter as you think you are, period. Take yourself down a peg, and if you still see that you have the ability to play the radical way, then go for itat least for a long enough period of time to actually see if you are pulling off these radical betting methods.

Next, part of being a skilled dice controller includes your mental state while playing. If youve ever been an athlete, you know how important your mind is for success. You can have all the physical skill in the world, but if your mind is not properly trained your body will probably not do what you have conditioned it to do. With that in mind (pun intended) I have written a chapter that will teach you both visualization and meditation techniques. These are designed to give you the mental edge to go along with your physical edge. Indeed, even if you arent an advantage player, these techniques are in and of themselves good to learn because a trained mind is important in every aspect of life.