The Dice Institute: August 2008 Archives

How the Field-Harvest’s Every-Roll-is-a-Decision Aspect Can Accelerate Your Earnings

By The Mad Professor
Mad Professor's Not-So-Random Thought for Saturday, 2 August 2008 (Reprinted from our message board)... Continue reading

Posted on August 3, 2008 1:09 AM

Using the Field-Harvest with an Above-the-Radar Win-License

By The Mad Professor
Mad Professor's Not-So-Random Thought for Monday, 4 August 2008 (Reprinted from our message board)... Continue reading

Posted on August 5, 2008 3:03 PM

Evolving Skill Means Evolving Betting Opportunities

By The Mad Professor
As your skill evolves your betting-methods have to evolve right along with them, or any shooting improvements will not...

Posted on August 6, 2008 3:54 AM

Evolving Skills Mean Evolving Opportunities-Part Two

By The Mad Professor
Mad Professor’s Bet-Weighting Program A while back we started talking about Bet-Weighting. It’s a wagering approach that simply let’s...

Posted on August 6, 2008 2:11 PM

Your Telegraph is Ringing

By The Mad Professor
Mad Professor's Not-So-Random-Thought for Thursday, 7 August, 2008 (Reprinted from our Message-Board)... Continue reading

Posted on August 7, 2008 6:28 PM

DiceTool…Unlock Your Current Potential - Part 5

By The Mad Professor
Does It Matter What Dice-Set You Gather Roll-Stats With? No, the basic toss-characteristic Foundation Frequencies that you throw the...

Posted on August 8, 2008 6:08 PM

DiceTool…Unlock Your Current Potential - Part 4

By The Mad Professor
The Source of Your Advantage The overall goal of dice-influencing is to improve your degree of influence over the...

Posted on August 8, 2008 6:11 PM

DiceTool…Unlock Your Current Potential Part 3

By The Mad Professor
Why Your In-Casino Toss-Results Are More Actionably Reliable Than Your At-Home Results How much relative value and significance we...

Posted on August 8, 2008 6:13 PM

Stretching Your Current Bet-Comfort to Reflect Your True Edge

By The Mad Professor
Bankroll A proper bankroll is the life-blood of an advantage-players existence. A bankroll is there to be used. It is...

Posted on August 8, 2008 6:15 PM

Handling Payout Disputes

By The Mad Professor
Most payout disputes that erupt at the craps table usually involves some inattentive bozo who is looking for his...

Posted on August 8, 2008 6:20 PM

Creating More Shooting Opportunities Part Five

By The Mad Professor
As a dice-influencer, the game only goes into positive-expectation mode when the dice are in your hands or in...

Posted on August 8, 2008 6:24 PM

Determining a Casino’s Win-Tolerance Comfort Level

By The Mad Professor
To a Pit-Managers mind, the only thing worse than a table that dumps a ton of money during one...

Posted on August 8, 2008 6:26 PM

Are Come-bets Worth Less to a High-SRR Shooter?

By The Mad Professor
Although we don’t actually ‘throw away’ what we know about random-expectation when it comes to analyzing our own dice-influencing...

Posted on August 9, 2008 7:49 PM

Keeping it Simple - Part Six

By The Mad Professor
Mad Professor's Not-So-Random Thought For Sunday, 10 August, 2008 (Reprinted from our message board)... Continue reading

Posted on August 11, 2008 6:34 AM

A Compelling Reason to Use Put-bets in Casinos that Allow Them

By The Mad Professor
For the skilled dice-influencer, Put-bets can be a very valuable advantage-play tool. What is a Put-bet? Traditionally, a Put-bet...

Posted on August 11, 2008 1:03 PM

Turning 'Trash' Into Treasure - Part 1

By The Mad Professor
An abundance of point-cycle craps numbers (2, 3, 11, and 12) pose an interesting predicament for the skilled shooter....

Posted on August 11, 2008 1:07 PM

Turning Trash Into Treasure - Part 2

By The Mad Professor
"If one or more of your most dominant point-cycle Signature Numbers are "Trash" (2, 3, 11, or 12); should...

Posted on August 11, 2008 1:10 PM

Heat-Magnets, Fleas, Flies, Mammoths, Maggots, and the Other Denizens of My World - Part 1

By The Mad Professor
Let’s start with this premise: ~You want to be able to do your dice-influencing thing in a relatively unmolested...

Posted on August 11, 2008 1:11 PM

Conquering Ultra Bouncy Tables - Part 1

By The Mad Professor
What We AREN’T Talking About Now before we dive right into this subject, let me first say that we...

Posted on August 12, 2008 3:59 PM

Conquering Ultra Bouncy Tables - Part 2

By The Mad Professor
The Grip The dice-grip that you choose for the ULTRA LS&E toss doesn’t really matter as much as the...

Posted on August 12, 2008 4:00 PM

Conquering Ultra Bouncy Tables Part - 4

By The Mad Professor
Since we’ve already covered grip, throwing-motion, spin, release-height, throwing speed, and descent-trajectory for the ULTRA Low, Slow, and Easy...

Posted on August 13, 2008 6:40 PM

Conquering Ultra Bouncy Tables Part - 5

By The Mad Professor
In dealing with trampoline layouts that have a ton of spring and bounce, we not only have to look...

Posted on August 13, 2008 6:41 PM

Conquering Ultra Bouncy Tables Part - 6

By The Mad Professor
A Little More Clarity The high-density closed-cell (HDCC) foam which is the underlay material that a growing number of...

Posted on August 13, 2008 6:44 PM

Conquering Ultra Bouncy Tables Part - 3

By The Mad Professor
The Function of Spin As many players have discovered, these next-generation super-bouncy tables are very touchy especially if you...

Posted on August 13, 2008 8:38 PM

LOSING-Session Can (and Should) be More Instructive Than WINNING Ones

By The Mad Professor
Mad Professor's Not-So-Random Thought for Wednesday, 13 August, 2008 (reprinted from our members' message-board)... Continue reading

Posted on August 15, 2008 3:33 AM

Casino Credit Update - Part Two

By The Mad Professor
In Part I we discussed the new Cash Transaction Reporting requirements,and... Continue reading

Posted on August 15, 2008 4:22 PM

Casino Credit Update - Part Four

By The Mad Professor
The subject of casino-credit is a popular one with frequent Vegas visitors and professional craps players alike. Both types... Continue reading

Posted on August 15, 2008 4:34 PM

DiceTool…Unlock Your Current Potential Part - 6

By The Mad Professor
Using "Time" as a Metric of Success "Time" in an advantage-play dice-influencers context can be measured by rolls-per-hand, rolls-per-hour,...

Posted on August 16, 2008 3:32 PM

Are Cheap Tables Costing You MORE Money, and Giving You LESS Opportunity?

By The Mad Professor
The more random bets that you make at the cheap tables, the less likely it is that your own...

Posted on August 16, 2008 3:35 PM

The Benefits of Playing at Cheap Tables

By The Mad Professor
I’ve long talked about the benefits of playing craps at low-limit tables. ~They offer low bankroll exposure if you carefully...

Posted on August 16, 2008 3:36 PM

Can You Fool Your Bankroll into THINKING and ACTING Like it is Bigger?

By The Mad Professor
Without a heart you die. Your bankroll is the heart of your advantage-play dice-influencing engine. Without a properly financed bankroll,...

Posted on August 16, 2008 3:36 PM

Can You Fool Your Bankroll into THINKING and ACTING Like it is Bigger Part - 2

By The Mad Professor
In Part One, we looked at the recirculation-rate that various randomly-bet wagers carry, and how it affects the likely number...

Posted on August 17, 2008 7:08 PM

Betting Strategies - Custom-Fit or Prêt-à-Porter

By The Mad Professor
When I respond to a request for betting advice from a player, I try to tailor it to that...

Posted on August 17, 2008 7:17 PM

WOTCO---Working On The Come-Out

By The Mad Professor
If a dice-influencer has the ability to sway and affect the outcome of the dice in a de-randomized way;...

Posted on August 17, 2008 7:21 PM

How Often Should You Expect to Toss a 40-Roll Hand

By The Mad Professor
I’m going to make this short…and probably not quite as sweet as some might like. ~An SRR-6 random-roller will...

Posted on August 17, 2008 7:22 PM

Discipline, Character & Consistency Part - 1

By The Mad Professor
A guy walks into a bar with a monkey and they both sit down. The guy orders a...

Posted on August 19, 2008 3:44 PM

Discipline, Character & Consistency Part - 2

By The Mad Professor
An old cowboy went into the Fontana Lounge at Bellagio and ordered a drink during the recent National...

Posted on August 19, 2008 3:46 PM

Discipline, Character & Consistency Part - 3

By The Mad Professor
A construction worker on the 3rd floor of a building needs a hacksaw. He sees another man on...

Posted on August 19, 2008 3:47 PM

Discipline, Character & Consistency Part - 4

By The Mad Professor
A man is jogging in the park when he comes across a 98-year old man weeping on a...

Posted on August 19, 2008 3:48 PM

Mad Professor’s New Testament Shooting Bible - Chapter One - Part One

By The Mad Professor
The Dice-Set You Choose is All That Stands Between Your SKILL and the Casino’s MONEY (Reprinted From Our Member's... Continue reading

Posted on August 20, 2008 2:31 AM

Saturday Night at the Boat Series

By Charlie009
The Saturday Night at the Boat Series is a collage of articles posted on the Dice Institute Forum from time... Continue reading

Posted on August 20, 2008 2:35 PM

Mad Professor’s New Testament Shooting Bible - One- Part Two

By The Mad Professor
BoneTracker w/DiceTool Determines Your Advantage and (should) Direct Your Wagers (Reprinted From Our Members Message Board)... Continue reading

Posted on August 20, 2008 9:23 PM

Is There Such a Thing as Off-Axis Dominants Part - 1

By The Mad Professor
Let’s Start With an Example Let’s say that you use the Crossed-Sixes (X-6) dice-set for your Point-cycle, and you...

Posted on August 21, 2008 8:34 PM

Is There Such a Thing as Off-Axis Dominants Part - 2

By The Mad Professor
"Can you change dice-sets or permutations to get a better set of Off-Axis Dominants without adversely affecting your On-Axis...

Posted on August 21, 2008 8:36 PM

Does It Make $$$ense To Place-bet Some Box-Numbers While LAYING Another Box-Number at the Same Time?

By The Mad Professor
Defining a New Advantage-Play Twist on an Old Concept This is a strategy that gives you an edge when...

Posted on August 21, 2008 8:37 PM

WinCraps

By The Mad Professor
WinCraps is a 5-star ZDnet-rated Windows-based craps simulator program developed by a very talented craps playing software engineed named...

Posted on August 21, 2008 8:38 PM

Mad Professor’s New Testament Shooting Bible - Chapter One - Part Three

By The Mad Professor
Consider All Sets Against All Bets (Reprinted from our members' message board)... Continue reading

Posted on August 23, 2008 12:21 AM

Laughlin Table Report Part - 1

By The Mad Professor
A man staggers into an emergency room with two black eyes and a five-iron golf club wrapped tightly around...

Posted on August 23, 2008 3:28 AM

Laughlin Table Report Part - 2

By The Mad Professor
Edgewater Hotel The Edgewater Hotel-Casino is also in the Mandalay Bay Group like it’s other Laughlin sister, the...

Posted on August 23, 2008 3:37 AM

The When, Where, Why, What and How of Signature Numbers Part - 1

By The Mad Professor
A guy goes into a tattoo parlor and offers the tattoo artist $1,000 to tattoo a $100 bill on...

Posted on August 23, 2008 3:41 AM

The When, Where, Why, What and How of Signature Numbers Part - 2

By The Mad Professor
Three women were sitting around throwing back a few drinks and talking about their love lives. One woman...

Posted on August 23, 2008 3:50 AM

The When, Where, Why, What and How of Signature Numbers Part - 3

By The Mad Professor
For the accomplished Precision-Shooter, the difference between inconsistent wins and consistent profitability is the capacity to recognize and...

Posted on August 23, 2008 4:02 AM

The When, Where, Why, What and How of Signature Numbers Part - 4

By The Mad Professor
Luck or Skill - If your Precision-Shooting skill has generated a steady SRR (Sevens-to-Roll Ratio) higher than...

Posted on August 23, 2008 4:07 AM

Cheap Craps Guide Part - 4

By The Mad Professor
Cannery Hotel-Casino One of the newest casinos in North Las Vegas offers a cheap $2 game at their...

Posted on August 23, 2008 4:11 PM

Cheap Craps Guide Part - 1

By The Mad Professor
As a man was walking, a dirty and shabby looking bum asked him for a couple of dollars...

Posted on August 23, 2008 4:13 PM

Cheap Craps Guide Part - 2

By The Mad Professor
In Part Part -1 we had a look at sixteen casinos where you can play craps for a buck...

Posted on August 23, 2008 4:15 PM

Cheap Craps Guide Part - 3

By The Mad Professor
Let’s continue our journey of discovery, enlightenment and Precision-Shooting profit on some more bargain-priced $2 tables. Silverton:...

Posted on August 23, 2008 4:18 PM

Cheap Craps Guide Part – 5

By The Mad Professor
When you go to Las Vegas, you can play in a large number of casinos and get a lot...

Posted on August 23, 2008 4:21 PM

Cheap Craps Guide Part - 6

By The Mad Professor
There are still a dozen or so Las Vegas casinos that we haven’t covered where you will find $3...

Posted on August 23, 2008 4:26 PM

The When, Where, Why, What and How of Signature Numbers Part - 5

By The Mad Professor
Investing For CONSISTENT Profit Let’s determine why you have to judge which bets pay off with the...

Posted on August 23, 2008 4:33 PM

The When, Where, Why, What and How of Signature Numbers Part - 6

By The Mad Professor
Evolution As we emerge from the primordial ooze of the random-roller swamp, and set foot on the...

Posted on August 23, 2008 4:40 PM

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