The Dice Institute: January 2007 Archives

Regression Avoids Depression: Part 1

By The Mad Professor
A "regression bet" is where you initially start with a large wager on one or more numbers and then reduce... Continue reading

Posted on January 1, 2007 12:06 AM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 1

By The Mad Professor
A gorilla escapes from the local zoo. A short time later, a man calls to report a gorilla in... Continue reading

Posted on January 1, 2007 12:18 AM

Part 9: Give That Dog A Bone

By Maddog
Well fellow crapsters, the journey goes on, one step at a time, but these articles have come to their conclusion.... Continue reading

Posted on January 1, 2007 1:18 PM

Regression Avoids Depression: Part Two

By The Mad Professor
For the longest time now, immigrants from the advantage-play blackjack community have been saying that regression-style wagering is not applicable... Continue reading

Posted on January 2, 2007 12:27 AM

Part 8: Taking a Class

By Maddog
Damn it was cold. Of course it’s always cold this time of year. The sun would be up soon and...

Posted on January 2, 2007 1:13 PM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 2

By The Mad Professor
Three successful brothers compared their wealth by the presents they had recently given to their old mother for her... Continue reading

Posted on January 2, 2007 6:14 PM

Regression Avoids Depression: Part Three

By The Mad Professor
As a dice-influencer, your task is to de-randomize the dice to a point where you have an exploitable edge over... Continue reading

Posted on January 3, 2007 2:46 AM

Part 7: Not a Puppy Anymore, the Hunt Gets Serious

By Maddog
Man that table was loud. Not loud in terms of noisy and raucous, but the layout was blaring and glaring...

Posted on January 3, 2007 1:06 PM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 3

By The Mad Professor
Two campers where hiking in the forest. All of a sudden, a bear jumps out the bushes and starts... Continue reading

Posted on January 3, 2007 6:40 PM

Regression Avoids Depression: Part Four

By The Mad Professor
Reconciling Win-Rate With Roll-Survival Rate If we look at strictly flat-betting a wager like $22-Inside, we know that it takes... Continue reading

Posted on January 4, 2007 3:47 AM

Part 6: Putting in the Practice

By Maddog
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. Thomas...

Posted on January 4, 2007 1:01 PM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 4

By The Mad Professor
A hip young guy goes out and buys one of the fastest cars available. It’s a brand new Ferrari... Continue reading

Posted on January 4, 2007 6:46 PM

Regression Avoids Depression: Part Five

By The Mad Professor
Using Different Steepness Ratios In Part Four of this series, we looked at the profitability of using a $110-Inside to... Continue reading

Posted on January 5, 2007 4:29 AM

Part 5: Learning the Game of Craps

By Maddog
Can you beat the game, if you don’t know the game? Fresh off that real butt-whipping that I received in...

Posted on January 5, 2007 12:46 PM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 5

By The Mad Professor
A typical Dad, was passing through his son's college-town late one night on a business trip. He thought that... Continue reading

Posted on January 5, 2007 7:14 PM

Part 4: The Puppy's First Hunt

By Maddog
Have you ever seen that show “COPS”. You know how it starts out with “This program contains graphic contents. Viewer...

Posted on January 6, 2007 12:35 PM

Regression Avoids Depression Part - 6

By The Mad Professor
A Word About Global Bets I refer to multi-number wagers like Inside (5, 6, 8, and 9), Across (4, 5,... Continue reading

Posted on January 6, 2007 3:09 PM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 6

By The Mad Professor
An American tourist goes on a trip to China. While in China, he is very sexually promiscuous and does... Continue reading

Posted on January 6, 2007 7:40 PM

Part 3: The Practice Rig

By Maddog
In Part 2, you’ll remember that I started practicing by tossing into a cardboard box and that the cardboard was...

Posted on January 7, 2007 12:30 PM

Regression Avoids Depression Part 7

By The Mad Professor
It doesn't matter how well you CAN play. It matters how well you DO play. Your task as an advantage-player,... Continue reading

Posted on January 7, 2007 5:52 PM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 7

By The Mad Professor
The e-mail bag contained a few negative questions and comments over the Christmas Holidays. Perhaps not everyone is... Continue reading

Posted on January 7, 2007 9:05 PM

Part 2: Learning the theory of dice influencing

By Maddog
I’m not sure when it happened really. One day I decided I needed to better understand the game of craps...

Posted on January 8, 2007 12:24 PM

Regression Avoids Depression - Part 8

By The Mad Professor
When compared to flat-betting, the use of an Initial Steep Regression (ISR) provides a superior return-on-investment that is just too... Continue reading

Posted on January 8, 2007 7:56 PM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 8

By The Mad Professor
A mailman worked the same route for thirty years. Upon his impending retirement, the Post Office sends out notices... Continue reading

Posted on January 8, 2007 10:00 PM

Current Practice…Future Profit - Part 8

By The Mad Professor
No Practice…No Edge Let’s face it. Even a pro needs to practice. Whether you are talking about golf, baseball,... Continue reading

Posted on January 8, 2007 11:36 PM

Mad Professor’s Mini-Table Craps Tour with the Vegas Ghost - Part 8

By The Mad Professor
As we turned north on Las Vegas Boulevard, and drove away from Circus Circus we passed the Sahara Hotel.... Continue reading

Posted on January 8, 2007 11:37 PM

Regression Avoids Depression - Part 9

By The Mad Professor
I Shouldn't Be Surprised, but I'm Still Amazed I'll tell you quite frankly, I find it funny when a player... Continue reading

Posted on January 9, 2007 3:29 AM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 9

By The Mad Professor
A macho kind of guy married a good-looking lady. After the wedding, he laid down the following rules:... Continue reading

Posted on January 9, 2007 12:17 PM

Part 1: On the trail of dice setting success

By Maddog
Like most boys, I had a dog when I was younger. He was a great dog. The kind any young...

Posted on January 9, 2007 12:20 PM

Regression Avoids Depression - Part 10

By The Mad Professor
Why ISR's Offer More Profit Predictability The intelligent use of Initial Steep Regressions (ISR's) is the closest a player can... Continue reading

Posted on January 10, 2007 3:30 AM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 10

By The Mad Professor
A guy goes to a bar and sees a big jar filled with $5-bills. He asks the bartender, "What’s... Continue reading

Posted on January 10, 2007 6:38 PM

Regression Avoids Depression - Part 11

By The Mad Professor
The use of Initial Steep Regressions control and regulate the amount of negative volatility that your bankroll will have to... Continue reading

Posted on January 11, 2007 3:33 AM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 11

By The Mad Professor
Q: Why are you so against having a beer while playing craps? I usually have six or seven free... Continue reading

Posted on January 11, 2007 7:09 PM

The Match-Play Coupon Circuit - Part 2

By The Mad Professor
Just a quick note before we jump into this new subject. I originally wrote this article in 2002. Some... Continue reading

Posted on January 12, 2007 1:21 AM

Mad Professor's Mini-Table Craps Tour with the Vegas Ghost - Part 12

By The Mad Professor
Mel and I had two objectives as we headed towards the banks of our Colorado River destination in Laughlin….... Continue reading

Posted on January 12, 2007 12:10 PM

Mad Professor's Mini-Table Craps Tour with the Vegas Ghost - Part 14

By The Mad Professor
I love the outdoor balconies in the low-rise Mardi Gras tower rooms at the Colorado Belle Hotel-Casino. Although they’ve... Continue reading

Posted on January 12, 2007 1:11 PM

Long Tables = Po$$ibilitie$ - Part 3

By The Mad Professor
Speaking of grips, I developed this new dice-setting grip, nicknamed, the Mad Professor’s “Long-Ranger.” Part One and Part Two... Continue reading

Posted on January 12, 2007 2:57 PM

Regression Avoids Depression - Part 12

By The Mad Professor
With the use of Initial Steep Regressions, a novice dice-influencer can reap larger and much more consistent monetary rewards from... Continue reading

Posted on January 13, 2007 3:35 AM

Mad Professor's Mini-Table Craps Tour with the Vegas Ghost - Part 15

By The Mad Professor
Spending some quality dice-time profitably playing an early morning session on the Colorado River at the Edgewater Hotel seemed... Continue reading

Posted on January 13, 2007 1:35 PM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 12

By The Mad Professor
A man brought a very limp dog into the veterinary clinic. As he laid the dog on the table,... Continue reading

Posted on January 13, 2007 7:35 PM

Current Practice…Future Profitability - Part 7

By The Mad Professor
I had a ton of help from our friend HSC III in preparing this article. In actual fact, he... Continue reading

Posted on January 13, 2007 11:23 PM

Regression Avoids Depression - Part 14

By The Mad Professor
No matter how good your dice-influencing skills are, you will generally have more short (1 to 8 roll) point-cycle hands... Continue reading

Posted on January 14, 2007 3:38 AM

FAQ’s About The Choppy-Table/Short-Leash - Part 1

By The Mad Professor
We first discussed the Choppy-Table/Short-Leash Method in my Dodging Bullets As A Darksider article. To my surprise, it generated... Continue reading

Posted on January 14, 2007 8:21 PM

FAQ’s About The Choppy-Table/Short-Leash Method - Part 2

By The Mad Professor
As promised, here’s a few more composite questions that I frequently receive about this betting method that was first... Continue reading

Posted on January 14, 2007 9:12 PM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 14

By The Mad Professor
Q: MP, why so much info on Vegas? I’ve never been there and I’m perfectly satisfied with playing in... Continue reading

Posted on January 14, 2007 9:35 PM

FAQ’s About The Choppy-Table/Short-Leash Method - Part 3

By The Mad Professor
"Sometimes the blindingly obvious is still difficult for some people to see."... Continue reading

Posted on January 14, 2007 11:45 PM

Regression Avoids Depression - Part 15

By The Mad Professor
The main reason I wanted to share the mathematically-based efficacy of Steep Regression exploitability in this series, is so that... Continue reading

Posted on January 15, 2007 3:40 AM

The Match-Play Coupon Circuit - Part 3

By The Mad Professor
Let me start by saying that when I embarked upon this Match-Play Circuit it was totally new territory for... Continue reading

Posted on January 15, 2007 7:14 PM

The Match-Play Coupon Circuit - Part 4

By The Mad Professor
I’ve received a surprising amount of e-mail from readers regarding this series of articles. Two themes stand out in... Continue reading

Posted on January 15, 2007 8:53 PM

The Match-Play Coupon Circuit - Part 5

By The Mad Professor
Some of the match-plays mentioned in this article may no longer be offered or as widely available as they... Continue reading

Posted on January 15, 2007 9:19 PM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 15

By The Mad Professor
Q: I’ve been to Vegas three times in the past six months. My Precision-Shooting has improved to the point... Continue reading

Posted on January 15, 2007 10:08 PM

The Match-Play Coupon Circuit - Part 6

By The Mad Professor
So at 4 in the morning I’m reclining in the Jacuzzi of my demi-suite at NYNY......... Continue reading

Posted on January 15, 2007 10:31 PM

The Match-Play Coupon Circuit - Part 7

By The Mad Professor
When I awoke on the morning of Day Five, the HardRock’s legendary pool area was more than half full,... Continue reading

Posted on January 15, 2007 11:31 PM

The Match-Play Coupon Circuit - Part 8

By The Mad Professor
This is the final installment in my ongoing “seven days of living low on the Coupon Circuit hog” series.... Continue reading

Posted on January 16, 2007 12:55 AM

Regression Avoids Depression Part 16

By The Mad Professor
Today we are taking a behind-the-scenes look at the process by which Steep Regressions work so well for advantage-players.... Continue reading

Posted on January 16, 2007 3:44 AM

Walking with a Vegas Ghost - Part 1

By The Mad Professor
Sometimes it's nice to reminisce. It might be my way of ensuring that dementia or Alzheimer's Disease hasn't set... Continue reading

Posted on January 16, 2007 7:05 PM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 16

By The Mad Professor
Q:MP, I love your stuff and always look forward to each new article. I’ve always wondered why you write... Continue reading

Posted on January 16, 2007 10:51 PM

Walking with a Vegas Ghost - Part 3

By The Mad Professor
True to his word, on his next day off from the rigors of being a highly-placed, highly-paid and highly-respected... Continue reading

Posted on January 17, 2007 12:48 AM

Walking with a Vegas Ghost - Part 4

By The Mad Professor
After cashing out our winnings from Caesars Palace, Mel wanted to take a circuitous route out of there. We... Continue reading

Posted on January 17, 2007 1:35 AM

Regression Avoids Depression Part 17

By The Mad Professor
Today we are heading into an advantage-play area that will allow you to extract not only more profit from the... Continue reading

Posted on January 17, 2007 3:47 AM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 17

By The Mad Professor
I really appreciate everyone’s E-mail and Instant Messages, and not just the complimentary ones either.... Continue reading

Posted on January 17, 2007 1:30 PM

Walking with a Vegas Ghost - Part 5

By The Mad Professor
“When are we gonna get together to do that one-craps-hand-per-casino thing again?... Continue reading

Posted on January 17, 2007 9:19 PM

Walking with a Vegas Ghost - Part 6

By The Mad Professor
The profit that I earned at the Horseshoe was limited, but I was still gratified nonetheless. After staging a... Continue reading

Posted on January 17, 2007 10:44 PM

Regression Avoids Depression Part 18

By The Mad Professor
The number of dice-influencers who THROW with an edge over the house is quite large, but the number of dice-influencers... Continue reading

Posted on January 18, 2007 3:49 AM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 18

By The Mad Professor
Q: What is the longest time you’ve ever played non-stop at one table?... Continue reading

Posted on January 18, 2007 1:49 PM

Walking with a Vegas Ghost - Part 2

By The Mad Professor
After a great dinner at Paco’s Hideaway, courtesy of the pit-folks at the Sahara, we needed to walk-off the... Continue reading

Posted on January 18, 2007 11:52 PM

Regression Avoids Depression Part 19

By The Mad Professor
My over-riding passion in writing all of these articles, and frankly in ultimately allowing Stanford Wong to publish my book;... Continue reading

Posted on January 19, 2007 3:51 AM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 19

By The Mad Professor
Q: I'm going to Laughlin, and staying at the River Palms. I will take your advice and play at... Continue reading

Posted on January 19, 2007 11:29 PM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 20

By The Mad Professor
Q: MP, I love your articles and appreciate all that you’ve done for us beginner and intermediate dicesetters. I... Continue reading

Posted on January 20, 2007 1:32 AM

Regression Avoids Depression Part 20

By The Mad Professor
Today we are going to dive into the whole how-much-money-do-I-REALLY-need-to-properly-exploit-my-edge question in extraordinary detail.... Continue reading

Posted on January 20, 2007 3:53 AM

Ask the Mad Professor - Part 21

By The Mad Professor
Warming-Up In The Casino  When you walk into the casino, how do you approach an empty but open table?... Continue reading

Posted on January 21, 2007 12:16 AM

About Our Member's Forum and Message Board

By DeadCat
If you are serious about developing the skills and knowledge it takes to gain a fair advantage over the casinos... Continue reading

Posted on January 21, 2007 11:53 AM

Contact Us

By DeadCat
If you have any questions about this site, or want to contact any of us for whatever reason, all of...

Posted on January 21, 2007 12:12 PM

What is the Dice Institute?

By DeadCat
Along with its sister site, the “Dice Institute Member’s Forum” The Dice Institute intends to be the best single resource... Continue reading

Posted on January 21, 2007 5:27 PM

Legal Disclaimer

By Charlie009
All materials in this website are copyright-protected under U.S. and international law. Reproduction or use without specific permission of Dice...

Posted on January 21, 2007 5:54 PM

Useful Sites

By DeadCat
Heavy's Craps Boards, Not limited to Advantage Play Craps: Axis Power Craps Axis Power Craps Forum Heavy's Wrong Way...

Posted on January 21, 2007 6:11 PM

Craps Table Layout

By Charlie009
Above is a diagram of the grid on a craps table. Each section within the grid is labled to denote...

Posted on January 22, 2007 4:25 AM

Book sorts out craps game for new players

By Charlie009
Gus Rose, Casinolook Gus Rose is a gaming writer for the Daily Southtown and Star Newspapers There’s no question craps...

Posted on January 22, 2007 6:28 AM

Taking complications out of craps (Book Review)

By Charlie009
November 30, 2006, Gus Rose Gus Rose is a gaming writer for the Southtown Economist and StarNewspapers Casino games come...

Posted on January 22, 2007 6:59 AM

The Primary Dice Sets

By Charlie009
The Flying V-3 Set The best set for tossing inside numbers (5, 6, 8, 9). Good set when the...

Posted on January 22, 2007 7:09 AM

Freshmen Craps 101 for Beginners

By Charlie009
Craps is the most fascinating casino game out there. Why is it, that most people are intimidated by it...

Posted on January 22, 2007 10:49 AM

How I Grip The Dice: The Evolution

By IrishSetter
The Grip: This is a picture of my original grip, the 3 fingered front grip. Once I had the dice... Continue reading

Posted on January 22, 2007 6:59 PM

BoneTracker Quick Start Guide

By Maddog
Download BoneTracker™ You will be downloading a Zip file--save it to your desktop. Zip files are compressed and requires a... Continue reading

Posted on January 23, 2007 1:44 PM

Watching money fly .. BYE-BYE

By Tinhorn Gambler
When flying into McCarran International Airport - Las Vegas, you hardly notice the slot machines and video poker on your... Continue reading

Posted on January 23, 2007 7:50 PM

Shuffle Master Video Table Games … coming to casino near you.

By Tinhorn Gambler
I remember several years back when I first encountered a Video Monster at the Tropicana, Las Vegas. It was a... Continue reading

Posted on January 23, 2007 8:04 PM

Dice Setting, Rhythm Rolling, Precision Shooting…..What’s The Difference?

By IrishSetter
“You say po-TAY-toe, I say po-TAH-toe… let’s call the whole thing off..”... Continue reading

Posted on January 23, 2007 10:26 PM

Novice Shooters Can Make A Profit Despite Low SRR's*

By IrishSetter
(The V-3's Set as a Case In Point. *SRR = Sevens to Rolls Ratio.) I want to first say that... Continue reading

Posted on January 23, 2007 10:30 PM

Great Expectations…

By IrishSetter
No, this is not an essay on the Dickens novel by the same name, though, there are a number of... Continue reading

Posted on January 23, 2007 11:31 PM

What A Concept!

By IrishSetter
Because dice influencing is a skill that requires a great deal of practice, an aspiring precision shooter generally has to... Continue reading

Posted on January 23, 2007 11:42 PM

The Importance of Being Earnest (About Practicing)

By IrishSetter
Originally I was going to address some e-mail questions I received about practice sessions in one of the Dog’s Mailbag... Continue reading

Posted on January 23, 2007 11:46 PM

The Importance of Being Earnest (About Practicing) Part II

By IrishSetter
In Part I of this article, I spoke of several rather obvious issues, Mental and Physical Preparation, Attire, Grips and... Continue reading

Posted on January 24, 2007 12:00 AM

The Importance of Being Earnest-ER (About Practicing): Part III

By IrishSetter
In Part I of this article, I spoke of several rather obvious issues, Mental and Physical Preparation, Attire, Grips and... Continue reading

Posted on January 24, 2007 12:05 AM

It's Not Rocket Science

By DeadCat
If you're like me, when you first get interested in any particular topic, you read anything you can get your... Continue reading

Posted on January 24, 2007 12:59 PM

Mindful Living, Mindful Shooting

By Jeff47
The deeper you go . . . Paraphrasing that pop-culture notion from a bygone era, the more deeply engaged in... Continue reading

Posted on January 26, 2007 6:30 PM

Mindful Living, Mindful Shooting Part II

By Jeff47
Learning an appropriate precision-shooting mindset I think most would agree that attending to our state of mind is an ability... Continue reading

Posted on January 26, 2007 6:37 PM

Casino Credit Update: Part One

By The Mad Professor
This is a three-part update on casino credit. Part One deals with the new Cash Transaction Reporting requirements, and what... Continue reading

Posted on January 27, 2007 11:24 AM

Smash Mouth

By IrishSetter
One evening, a week or two back, I’m surfing the craps message boards. I’m sitting in the living room with... Continue reading

Posted on January 27, 2007 11:08 PM

Adapting to Tables: Part Two

By The Mad Professor
I’ve long said that if you use the same one throw to the same target of every craps table the... Continue reading

Posted on January 28, 2007 12:21 PM

New Dice, New Opportunity

By The Mad Professor
This guy went into the hospital for a circumcision, but because of a mix up, he ended up having a... Continue reading

Posted on January 28, 2007 1:14 PM

Slaughtering A Sacred Cow

By The Mad Professor
If you haven’t realized it by now, I am not the most conventional of craps player…nor am I the most... Continue reading

Posted on January 28, 2007 1:26 PM

Current Practice…Future Profitability

By The Mad Professor
There’s been a lot of recent discussion about the relative merits and benefits of practicing your dice-influencing skills. To my... Continue reading

Posted on January 28, 2007 2:32 PM

Long Tables = Po$$ibilitie$: Part One

By The Mad Professor
A middle-aged lawyer and a woman meet, fall in love, and decide to get married. On their wedding night they... Continue reading

Posted on January 28, 2007 7:16 PM

Long Tables = Po$$ibilitie$: Part Two

By The Mad Professor
The ambassador of a small African nation visited Russia, and was entertained by the Russian ambassador. For two days, the... Continue reading

Posted on January 28, 2007 8:11 PM

Long Tables = Po$$ibilitie$: Part Three

By The Mad Professor
In 1993, the American Government funded a study to see why the head of a man's penis was larger than... Continue reading

Posted on January 28, 2007 8:24 PM

Long Tables = Po$$ibilitie$: Part Four

By The Mad Professor
Yesterday, scientists for Health Canada suggested that men should take a closer look at their beer consumption. The study was... Continue reading

Posted on January 28, 2007 8:37 PM

Long Tables = Po$$ibilitie$: Part Five

By The Mad Professor
Some friends of mine were out birthday-gift shopping for their daughter who desperately wanted a Barbie-doll set. At the toy-store... Continue reading

Posted on January 28, 2007 9:10 PM

Stick Right Toss

By Charlie009
Face your Target (back wall). Put your left hand on rail for support, feet point towards target. Start the...

Posted on January 30, 2007 8:39 AM

Stick Left Backhand Toss

By Charlie009
Start from the table top and bring your arm up in a pendulum movement and release almost shoulder high....

Posted on January 30, 2007 8:43 AM

What Percentage of Your Buy-In is REALLY Dedicated to Advantage-Play?

By The Mad Professor
Think about your current session buy-in and about the things that you do with that money. Some of your buy-in... Continue reading

Posted on January 31, 2007 10:33 AM

Dealer TIPPING … Las Vegas Style

By Tinhorn Gambler
Here is the following information from the Las Vegas magazine; WHAT’S ON under the heading of "TIPPING": "Casino’s - It... Continue reading

Posted on January 31, 2007 12:24 PM

From the Stick...

By Guest
Wow, now I get to write about gambling. I guess I have all the bases covered now. Gambled for over... Continue reading

Posted on January 31, 2007 1:53 PM

Pardon Our Dust....

By DeadCat
This is a "brand-new" site, built from scratch using systems that are new to the hosts and the writers. We... Continue reading

Posted on January 31, 2007 2:02 PM

Ribbon Cutting Goes Smoothly

By Charlie009
The “Ribbon Cutting” ceremony went without a hitch, bringing together the Dice Institute Website and its Members Forum. It... Continue reading

Posted on January 31, 2007 3:10 PM

Welcome Warning

By Charlie009
I will start out with an old cliché. “Don’t bet with money you can’t afford to lose”. We have heard... Continue reading

Posted on January 31, 2007 4:06 PM

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