The Dice Institute

The talk is about a book that came out about a year ago and is the latest in a very small library of books dedicated to the subject of "Advantage Play Craps,"  "Dice Influencing" and what some call "Dice Control."  Although the subject is not as new as some popular authors and instructors would have you believe, it has evolved in the past decade. This book takes it's place with works of:  Scarne, "Yuri,"  Feinberg,  "Sharpshooter", and others who have written about the subject since the 1950's.

The Mad Professor, aka "Tino Gambino" has been a professional ACP since the mid 1980's and in that ~20 years has worked tirelessly to refine all aspects of APC.

Here's what Stanford Wong has to say about it:

Tino Gambino is the pen name of the advantage-play dice-influencer known by crapshooters worldwide as The Mad Professor.  He supports himself primary by playing craps in casinos throughout North America, the Caribbean, and literally all four corners of the gaming world.


The Mad Professor has written hundreds of essays on craps that originally appeared on dicesetter*, and although they were not actually hidden, they had not been mentioned in any existing books on craps. Unless you visited dicesetter* yourself, you might not have known that the Mad Professor’s essays even existed, and printing them all out would run to more than a thousand pages.


I still remember the day I stumbled across the Mad Professor’s essays. My reaction was: “Wow! What a mountain of wonderful advice that I did not even know existed!” I was impressed because the essays contained things that I thought I was the first to figure out; I had not realized that anyone had already figured them out earlier than I did, but the Mad Professor did. Those essays also contained many items that, when I read them, my reaction was “I wish I had thought of that!”


This book contains the best material in those essays, in distilled form. It also contains much new ground-breaking material that is not contained in any of those essays, and frankly in no other books on this subject.


The main strengths of the material in this book is the Mad Professor’s observations on gripping the dice, aligning them, tossing them, practicing, setting the dice, betting, and adapting to the various different tables you will find encounter no matter what casinos you play in.  In other words, it not only gives you a step-by-step process of how to construct and assemble all of those different components into a seamless, repeatable skill; but it also offers some keen insight into confirming and validating your real-world advantage and ultimately how to accelerate your profit-exploiting edge that lets you turn some of the casino’s money into your money.



Stanford Wong


*Editor' Note: The essays that once appeared on dicesetter now appear here, at the Dice Institute.