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As I write this we are just a few days away from the official "unveiling" of this site. It has been a ton of work but worth it and rewarding in it's own right.

This site was conceived originally to provide a place for people to see the great archived material from "IrishSetter's" ground-breaking website, Dicesetter.com that now appears to have shifted focus away from precision shooting under new ownership.

As the concept grew, we found there were a variety of needs to be filled. In addition to hosting large archives, we wanted to provide the fastest and most convenient way for prolific writers like Mad Professor, IrishSetter and others to get their new material published without delay.

We also wanted to provide a website that was not just a private message board for the many Dice Influencers (DIs) who have plenty to share and are an unusually literate bunch. We want this site to be accessible to the novices and just curious out there.

We wanted to provide information and reference materials for those who are in the new to the concept of Advantage Play Craps (APC) to help standardize the DI vocabulary. We even threw in some "Craps Basics" for the complete novice. You will notice that although we have a private members' forum, this site stands alone too, and is not a mere "come-on" where you will be asked to pay for access to "the Good Stuff."

For these reasons, and others, we decided to go with a WebLog, or "Blog" because at its core, this site is a vehicle for several writers, who all wanted to cut the time between writng and publishing. In fact, most of the regular writers will be given personal passwords and accounts to post their new articles directly to the site. Others will submit pieces through an editor (me) but the delay will still be minimal, no complicated conversion to HTML, no worries about bandwidth.

So as we prepare to go "live" I'd like to take a minute to say a well-deserved "Thank You" to a few people:

Thank You, Charlie, my business partner in all of this, who is backing our start-up and has shared some great content from his 3 craps books, this site would not exist at all if he hand't pushed the idea and put up some funding.

Thank You, Pace, our webmaster and my Movable Type (software) coach for your work in start-up and being there to fix the problems we might have down the road.

Thank You, Mad Professor, our "Clean-Up Hitter" for allowing us exclusive use of his vast archive once on the DS site and more importantly agreeing to choose this site as his main vehicle for publishing his prolific stream of new material.

If this site is your introduction to the MP, you have stumbled on a great resource, iinovative poneer and generous teacher of APC through his work here and on the forum.

Thank You, IrishSetter, who got the ball rolling years ago by starting that Geo-Cities message board about a little-known method of advantage play, "Dice Setting." FIrst for that and now for sharing his archives for use as instructional and insightful material here and once more for agreeing to write even more all new articles, here.

Thank You, Maddog, the creator of the single most useful tool in the APC's toolbox (besides his/her practice rig), "BoneTracker," a program that allows you to input practice results and crunches the numbers in all imaginable ways, all to help you make your time at the tables as profitable as they can be. He's let us set up a download link for the latest version, free for anyone who wants it. Look for it and for new and archived articles from him here.

Thank You.Jeff47 for reworking your "Mindful Living" series for publication here and agreeing to continue providing us insight into your specialitiy, the oft-misunderstood "Mental Part" of performance and helping us bridge that infamous mind-body gap.

Thank You, Tinhorn Gambler, for your ongoing column about life in las Vegas, "Las Vegas, What's Hot and What's Not." You are always on top of news in that most unique of cities that you happen t call "home."

And Thank You! To all those who have already submitted articles under their own by-lines or as "Guest Writers" like Heavy, Appstappis and others, for content already submitted and that which is yet to come.
If I forgot to thank you it as my mistake and I apologize, but the thanks are there.

It is all your contributions that will make this site a constantly evolving and growing resource for the APC community and it will be second to none.

If you have found this site but come from a different "School" of the "Dice Control" world, you are welcome here, too. Nobody has a lock on this information and we can all learn from each other. If anyone wants to contribute material contact me and I will make room.

-DeadCat

Next time in; "I've Got 8 More: This Cat's Life" my blog and chronical of my move to Las Vegas where I plan to use my APC learnin' to enhance my day job's wages.