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Current Practice…Future Profitability - Part 1

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

It’s STILL the Toughest Way to Make an Easy Living.

By The Mad Professor
A not-so-devoted follower on a different M-board, quipped the other day, that there wasn’t anything “sexy or glamorous” about being... Continue reading

Shooting From The Don’ts…A Journey of Opportunity - Part 1

By The Mad Professor
I didn’t want to use too many superlatives in the title of this article, but frankly,... Continue reading

Creating More Shooting Opportunities - Part 1

By The Mad Professor
If Precision-Shooting reduces the house-edge or eliminates it altogether; then the idea that a Precision-Shooter would want to throw the... Continue reading

Las Vegas Player’s Card - Perks

By Tinhorn Gambler
There has been a lot of discussions, Pro and Con concerning the player’s cards. Player cards can be seen as... Continue reading

Mad Professor's Mini-Table Craps Tour with the Vegas Ghost - Part 1

By The Mad Professor
Welcome to the latest installment in the Walking with a Vegas Ghost series of articles. Today we are not... Continue reading

Shooting From The Don’ts…A Journey of Opportunity - Part 2

By The Mad Professor
In addition to the normal Road Trip kind of report you are used to seeing from me, this article... Continue reading

Creating More Shooting Opportunities - Part 2

By The Mad Professor
Even the most rudimentary Precision-Shooting skills will consistently beat random-rolling most of the time. While a random-roller may have an... Continue reading

Mad Professor's Mini-Table Craps Tour - Part 2

By The Mad Professor
In Part I of this article, we took a close look at both the Mini-Tub tables, and the smaller... Continue reading

Shooting From The Don’ts…A Journey of Opportunity - Part 3

By The Mad Professor
The drive from Montreal to my next casino destination gave me some time to think about certain ways to... Continue reading

Current Practice…Future Profitability - Part 3

By The Mad Professor
So far in this series we’ve looked at a couple of ways to make your practice-sessions more effective and... Continue reading

Mad Professor's Mini-Table Craps Tour with the Vegas Ghost - Part 3

By The Mad Professor
In Part II of this series, we visited the shrine of Las Vegas mini-table Precision-Shooting: Casino Royale. We continue... Continue reading

MONEY: They got it – I want it!

By Dave of S.A.
About a year ago, I decided I wanted to become one of the few players who could claim regular wins-and... Continue reading

Current Practice…Future Profitability - Part 4

By The Mad Professor
Your current practice determines your future profit, so it’s pretty easy to see how and why the time you... Continue reading

Shooting From The Don’ts…A Journey of Opportunity - Part 4

By The Mad Professor
Leaving Quebec and entering Ontario is physically uneventful.  One sign thanks you for visiting their province and the other... Continue reading

Current Practice…Future Profitability - Part 4

By The Mad Professor
Many players like to accumulate roll-stats for a sizeable number of tosses in order to give their Sevens-to-Rolls Ratio,... Continue reading

Mad Professor's Mini-Table Craps Tour with the Vegas Ghost - Part 4

By The Mad Professor
Welcome aboard the Mini-Table Craps Tour of Las Vegas. Yours truly, The Mad Professor, is your somewhat kind and... Continue reading

Shooting From The Don’ts…A Journey of Opportunity - Part 5

By The Mad Professor
I have a love-hate relationship with the two casinos in Niagara Falls, Ontario.... Continue reading

Oink! Oink!

By Tinhorn Gambler
Oink! Oink! Vegas is big on celebrations and the Chinese New Year is no exception. It’s the Chinese “Year of...

Conquering Micro-Fiber Table-Felt

By The Mad Professor
Is there a conspiracy to hide the truth about Precision-Shooting and craps? You be the judge. In our never-ending quest... Continue reading

Adapting to Tables - Part One

By The Mad Professor
Three Labrador retrievers - a brown one, a yellow one and a black one are sitting in the waiting room... Continue reading

Part 1: The Journey Begins:

By Dave of S.A.
In my articles I will be looking back on my first year as a “DI’er Wanna Be.” Your journey should... Continue reading

Craps Tournaments…The Basics and Beyond... Part 1

By The Mad Professor
There seems to be a Craps Tournament resurgence of late. From the early ‘80’s through to the mid ‘90’s, you... Continue reading

The Mad Professor’s Precision-Shooting Laboratory Tour

By The Mad Professor
When you earn your living strictly by playing craps, you have to be pretty sure you not only know what... Continue reading

Mad Professor's Mini-Table Craps Tour with the Vegas Ghost - Part 5

By The Mad Professor
As we were leaving the Wild Wild West Gambling Hall parking lot, there was one car in front of... Continue reading

Current Practice…Future Profitability - Part 5

By The Mad Professor
Your current dice-influencing practice-sessions are inexorably tied to your future casino profit….A player shouldn’t expect to reach a reasonable... Continue reading

Shooting From The Don’ts…A Journey of Opportunity - Part 6

By The Mad Professor
Influencing ONE Roll Rather Than EVERY Roll... Continue reading

Mad Professor's Mini-Table Craps Tour with the Vegas Ghost - Part 6

By The Mad Professor
“Ya gotta remember that craps tables weren’t always the huge 16 or 18 player mother-f%#&ers that most casinos have... Continue reading

Part 2: Practice and the Practice Rig:

By Dave of S.A.
An essential part of DI’ing is practicing. As we say “practice, practice and practice until you puke.” As I have... Continue reading

Current Practice…Future Profitability - Part 6

By The Mad Professor
Level Your Table You know how I’m always imploring you to make sure that you are throwing the dice... Continue reading

Shooting From The Don’ts…A Journey of Opportunity - Part 7

By The Mad Professor
Here’s The Fishing-Pole, Here’s the Bait…There’s the Lake... Continue reading

Mad Professor's Mini-Table Craps Tour with the Vegas Ghost - Part 7

By The Mad Professor
“This is where the craps pit used to be here at Circus Circus”, said Mel, the Vegas Ghost. “If... Continue reading

Being An Advantage-Player Starts with Knowing What Your Real-World Advantage Is

By The Mad Professor
Knowing what your real-world advantage is, means knowing how big, how durable, and how sustainable your specific advantage is over... Continue reading

Limited Bankroll…Obstacle or Opportunity

By The Mad Professor
The interesting thing about most people who consider themselves to be "$5 players", is the fact that their total action... Continue reading

The Match-Play Coupon Circuit - Part 1

By The Mad Professor
If I told you that there are a number of people who make a modest subsistence living by using match-play... Continue reading

Part 3: Tyler, Texas

By Dave of S.A.
There are some people in this world that will go out of their way to help you. This is what... Continue reading

Shooting From The Don’ts…A Journey of Opportunity - Part 8

By The Mad Professor
Daddy, How Many Stars Are In The Universe?... Continue reading

Weighing the Cost of Maintaining Your Spot at the Table

By The Mad Professor
"Sir, you have to bet on the previous players if you want to shoot the dice."... Continue reading

Go west .. Young man.

By Tinhorn Gambler
Is Las Vegas a consideration? Occasionally I get requests for information on what the job market in Vegas looks... Continue reading

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... Continue reading

Part 4: My Money on the Line

By Dave of S.A.
In April of 2006 I was to make my first attempt at influencing the dice, with my money on the... Continue reading

Shooting From The Don’t… A Journey Of Opportunity - Part 9

By The Mad Professor
As a border city from across Detroit, Michigan, you would think that the Big Three from Motown (no, not... Continue reading

4-Rolls-No-7……Worthwhile Bet or Waste of Money?

By The Mad Professor
It’s almost always a safe bet to assume that any new bets that are offered by casinos these day... Continue reading

Adapting to Tables-Part 2

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

Mad Professor's Mini-Table Craps Tour with the Vegas Ghost - Part 9

By The Mad Professor
Mel, the Vegas Ghost was in a rare mood as we made our way to the next mini-table target.... Continue reading

Craps Tournaments…Going For The Gold - Part 2

By The Mad Professor
DE-Programming Your Advantage-Play Mindset 
It is CRITICAL for you to understand that tournament play does not pit you against... Continue reading

Current Practice…Future Profit - Part 9

By The Mad Professor
If you missed Maximus/HSC-III’s absolutely outstanding Laser Practice…Laser Perfection idea in Part Seven of this series, I would invite... Continue reading

Craps Tournaments…Zigging, Zagging and Zinging - Part 3

By The Mad Professor
To win a craps tournament, you only have to end up with one dollar more than your nearest rival.... Continue reading

Dodging Bullets as a Darksider...Part 1

By The Mad Professor
To Begin With… I’ll start by telling you this: The chance of a random-roller making multiple Point-winners in a... Continue reading

Mad Professor's Mini-Table Craps Tour with the Vegas Ghost - Part 10

By The Mad Professor
Okay, I’ve taken you to some of my favorite mini-table haunts both on and off the Las Vegas Boulevard... Continue reading

Dodging Bullets as a Darksider - Part 2

By The Mad Professor
"Statistics are like bikinis: what they show is important, but what they hide is vital." Anonymous... Continue reading

Craps Tournaments…Seize the Lead To Seize the Gold - Part 4

By The Mad Professor
If you’ve read the first three chapters of this series, you know that I have a strong win-philosophy predisposition... Continue reading

Long Tables = Po$$ibilitie$ - Part 2

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

Long Tables = Po$$ibilitie$ - Part 4

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

Long Tables = Po$$ibilitie$ - Part 5

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... Continue reading

Craps Tournaments…Choosing Your Weapons and Wielding Them Wisely

By The Mad Professor
Part Five The thing about craps tournaments is that you have a very limited time in which to prevail over... Continue reading

Shooting From The Don’t…A Journey of Opportunity - Part 10

By The Mad Professor
When a heated payout dispute breaks out at one of Detroit’s craps tables, I half expect it to be... Continue reading

Mad Professor's Mini-Table Craps Tour with the Vegas Ghost - Part 11

By The Mad Professor
I don’t get to play at this next venue very often. In fact, the last time I was there... Continue reading

More Gain & Less Pain (Extra Practice-Tips) Part 1

By The Mad Professor
I want to give you some tips that will decrease the pain, and increase the pleasure of your Practice... Continue reading

More Gain & Less Pain ( Extra Practice-Tips - Part 2 )

By The Mad Professor
In Part I of this series we looked at ten ways to decrease the pain, and increase the pleasure... Continue reading

More Gain & Less Pain (Extra Practice-Tips) - Part III

By The Mad Professor
Let’s continue where we left off in Part II by taking a further look at how new dice compare... Continue reading

More Gain & Less Pain ( Extra Practice Tips) - Part 4

By The Mad Professor
I was going to continue exactly where we left off in Part III, but I’m going to skip far... Continue reading

More Gain & Less Pain ( Extra Practice-Tips) Part 5

By The Mad Professor
In Part II we talked about improving your targeting skills by shooting the dice into a pan or a... Continue reading

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... Continue reading

Shooting From The Don’ts…A Journey of Opportunity - Part 11

By The Mad Professor
I made an informal pact with a group of players who frequent the small tribal casinos of Northern Michigan... Continue reading

Craps Tournaments...Betting-Methods That You’ll Hate to Win With

By The Mad Professor
Part 6 In the movie, Wall Street, Michael Douglas' character defines ‘mixed emotions’ as, “Seeing your worst enemy drive off... Continue reading

To Turn Off or Take Down, is the Question

By Charlie009
Turning off or taking down your bets is one of the hardest strategies to master. The thing you have to... Continue reading

Shooting from the Don’t…A Journey of Opportunity - Part 12

By The Mad Professor
In accordance with the informal pact that I made with a group of players who frequent the small tribal... Continue reading

Maddog’s Dice Influencer Glossary

By Maddog

If there is one place in a casino where you can feel like you are in another country as far as the language goes, it is at the Crap table. Hard this, Come that, get ‘yer odds, gimme a horn, gimme a hi-lo, and the list goes on.

Beyond all the crazy Crap lingo, the Dice Influencing community uses quite a collection of acronyms, terms and other assorted jargon to communicate what we do and what we see and how we perform. Here is a collection of the most common terms specific to Dice Influencing…

 

The latest El Cortez tale or fable.

By Tinhorn Gambler
Don’t look now, but in Las Vegas the El Cortez Casino is about to make some big changes. In order...

Is "Hit the Back Wall" Heat???

By Charlie009
Going back as far as I can remember ( some thirty five years), the casino craps personnel have been warning... Continue reading

Part 5 – Lake Charles, LA

By Dave of S.A.
Shortly after my S/B trip I had a family obligation in Lake Charles, LA. While Hurricane Rita really messed up... Continue reading

From The Stick #2 - The Dealers

By Guest
A set of jumper cables goes in a bar and orders a beer. "Okay, Okay I'll serve you" says the... Continue reading

Of Pressing Concern…

By DeadCat
As we all know, all the dice tossing skill in the world isn’t worth a dime if you can’t... Continue reading

Part 6 – A visit to the Dice Coach

By Dave of S.A.
I set up an appointment with The Dice Coach, for several reasons:... Continue reading

A, B, C's of Practice

By Charlie009
Advantage play in craps can only be gained by hours of dedicated practice, learning the necessary skills to overcome the... Continue reading

Part 7: My Table

By Dave of S.A.
I destroyed my study – got rid of the bookcases, carpet and put down some nice wood flooring. All... Continue reading

"Don’t Worry Ma’am, He’s a Professional"

By The Mad Professor
I had just completed my third PL-Point in what was looking like a pretty decent hand. The Pit Manager was... Continue reading

Mad Professor's Crapshooting Bible

By DeadCat
On this site, and on our message-board, you may see reference' to "MP's book" or the "Crapshooting Bible"... Continue reading

Can You Create a Customized Shooting Target on the Casino’s Layout…and Should You?

By The Mad Professor
You know how you’ll often see a piece of lint at the far end of the table, and it’s perfectly... Continue reading

This Is Not Your Father's Oldsmobile

By DeadCat
For those of you who once looked to Dicestter (DS) for articles by MP, IrishSetter, Maddog and others, hang on... Continue reading

Practicing For Perfection

By Toss Boss
-The Fundamentals of Training for Casino Craps Players and Dice Influencers... Continue reading

The Toss Flight

By Charlie009
There are two lines of thought on how high you should throw the dice.  Most DI’s  will start off... Continue reading

Regression Avoids Depression - Part 21

By The Mad Professor
Let me ask you something. How long has it been since your dice-influencing winnings actually doubled your total gaming bankroll?... Continue reading

Hey, Big Spender.

By Tinhorn Gambler
Do you want to look like you have some clout in Las Vegas, and act like a HIGH ROLLER?... Continue reading

Three Parts to Every Good Toss

By Maddog

It's pretty easy to remember the rules for a good structured toss. Every good toss needs exactly three things...

About the Archives and Links in Text...

By DeadCat
If you have been reading some of the Mad Professor's Archives... Continue reading

Watching the Table

By Guest
When we Dice Influencers say we're going to the casino to gamble, we really don’t MEAN we want to... Continue reading

Forget the Complimentarities (Comps)

By Charlie009
Forget about all those “Comps”! The casinos have the crapshooter so worried about getting comped that he can’t see straight.... Continue reading

Creating More Shooting Opportunities - Part 3

By The Mad Professor
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." ...Chinese Proverb... Continue reading

Creating More Shooting Opportunities - Part 4

By The Mad Professor
For the savvy advantage-player, creating more shooting opportunities is almost as important as maximizing each profit opportunity every time you... Continue reading

Part 14 - Shooting from the Don’t…A Journey of Opportunity

By The Mad Professor
As soon as you look at a map of Canada, it’s easy to figure out why most sane people... Continue reading

Practicing For Perfection - Part II

By Toss Boss
The Requirements of Proper Practice... Continue reading

About February 2007

This page contains all entries posted to The Dice Institute in February 2007. They are listed from oldest to newest.

January 2007 is the previous archive.

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