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Other Than That Mrs. Lincoln, How Did You Enjoy the Play?

By The Mad Professor
Quite a few years ago, I wrote a Dicesetter.com article about “Lumberjack Mike” and the unique betting approach he... Continue reading

Posted on February 13, 2009 4:20 AM

Can You Fool Your Bankroll into THINKING and ACTING Like It Is Bigger? - Part Eight

By The Mad Professor
Let me start with this timeless advantage-play vérité:  When you are shooting with an advantage, the best choice is to... Continue reading

Posted on February 10, 2009 8:00 AM

Can You Fool Your Bankroll into THINKING and ACTING Like It Is Bigger? - Part Seven

By The Mad Professor
Arrogance and self-awareness seldom go hand in hand.... Continue reading

Posted on February 10, 2009 7:37 AM

Can You Fool Your Bankroll into THINKING and ACTING Like It Is Bigger? - Part Five 

By The Mad Professor
I am fortunate to once again be joined by our friend, Chuck D. Bohnes, as we continue our bankroll-doubling... Continue reading

Posted on February 9, 2009 5:04 AM

ALL, TALL, & SMALL

By The Mad Professor
With the recent discussion about Prop-bets like the 4-Rolls-No-7, the All, Tall, & Small, the Midway 6-7-8, and the Fire-bet,...

Posted on February 7, 2009 1:34 AM

Can You Fool Your Bankroll into THINKING and ACTING Like It Is Bigger? - Part Four

By The Mad Professor
Once again I am joined by our friend, Chuck D. Bohnes, for a lively discussion about what for many... Continue reading

Posted on February 5, 2009 1:08 AM

Can You Fool Your Bankroll into THINKING and ACTING Like It Is Bigger - Part Three

By The Mad Professor
A frank and candid discussion between Chuck D. Bohnes and the Mad Professor... Continue reading

Posted on January 19, 2009 10:48 AM

A Question, a Challenge, and a Promise

By The Mad Professor
The Question - How would you like to bet the same amount of money on random-rollers that you do... Continue reading

Posted on October 1, 2008 8:11 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My Not-So-Random Thought For July 11th, 2008

By The Mad Professor
(Reprinted from our Message board) Is That a Stack of Chips in Your Pocket…or Are You Just Glad to... Continue reading

Posted on July 27, 2008 6:58 AM

The Sweetest Roller This Side of Heaven

By The Mad Professor
I’ve seen a lot of things at a craps table. I’ve seen people drop dead, literally, as well as... Continue reading

Posted on July 14, 2008 8:36 PM

D'ya Wanna Win, or D'ya Wanna Gamble Part 1, Revised

By The Mad Professor
With all the new shooters who have joined our community over the last couple of years, I thought I’d... Continue reading

Posted on July 7, 2008 9:39 AM

How To Get THERE from HERE - Part II

By The Mad Professor
Okay, let’s continue our journey of getting from where we are now (HERE), to that more profitable place that... Continue reading

Posted on November 7, 2007 3:47 AM

How To Get THERE from HERE - Part 15

By The Mad Professor
Is One Power-Number Enough, or Does Betting it’s Ugly Twin-Sister Make Sense for Volatility Control?... Continue reading

Posted on November 2, 2007 2:18 AM

How To Get THERE from HERE - Part 14

By The Mad Professor
If You Had An Extra $100 Per Session, What Would You Do With It?... Continue reading

Posted on November 2, 2007 2:12 AM

How To Get THERE from HERE - Part Twelve

By The Mad Professor
Is There Unknown Value in Certain Types of Bets?... Continue reading

Posted on November 2, 2007 2:06 AM

How To Get THERE from HERE - Part Eleven

By The Mad Professor
What hours of the day is your dice-influencing most effective?... Continue reading

Posted on October 30, 2007 3:01 AM

How To Get THERE from HERE - Part 10

By The Mad Professor
Some players bet with more mental certainty on negative-expectation random-rollers than they do on their own validated positive-expectation bets.... Continue reading

Posted on October 30, 2007 2:53 AM

How To Get THERE from HERE - Part VIII

By The Mad Professor
This is probably the right time to remind you that this particular series is for players who have gotten... Continue reading

Posted on October 30, 2007 2:47 AM

How To Get THERE from HERE - Part VII

By The Mad Professor
Shooting & Betting In The Present-Tense... Continue reading

Posted on October 29, 2007 7:53 AM

How To Get THERE from HERE - Part VI

By The Mad Professor
Precision-Shooting Is A Journey Rather Than A Destination... Continue reading

Posted on October 29, 2007 3:42 AM

How To Get THERE from HERE - Part V

By The Mad Professor
WHAT I Do…WHY I Do It…HOW I Do It... Continue reading

Posted on October 29, 2007 3:28 AM

How To Get THERE from HERE - Part IV

By The Mad Professor
Let’s jump right back into where we left off in Part Three…... Continue reading

Posted on October 29, 2007 3:15 AM

How To Get THERE from HERE - Part III

By The Mad Professor
The idea behind this series is a simple one.... Continue reading

Posted on October 29, 2007 3:01 AM

Game Within a Game...Profiting From Your Come-Out Cycle

By The Mad Professor
My advantage-play philosophy over the last few years has been to use the come-out portion of each hand as... Continue reading

Posted on October 26, 2007 10:44 AM

How Good Is Your Precision Shooting? Part II

By The Mad Professor
Today I want to discuss how to break free from that frustrating “Break-Even” phase of Precision-Shooting, and help you... Continue reading

Posted on October 26, 2007 6:59 AM

How Good Is Your Precision Shooting? Part I

By The Mad Professor
I get a fair bit of e-mail from readers who want to determine just how good their Precision-Shooting is. ... Continue reading

Posted on October 12, 2007 3:12 AM

Game Within a Game...Profiting From Your Come-Out Cycle

By The Mad Professor
For the past five or six years, I’ve been treating the Come-Out portion of my hands as a profit-center... Continue reading

Posted on October 12, 2007 2:59 AM

How To Get THERE from HERE

By The Mad Professor
When most players look at the existing state of their Precision-Shooting affairs, they realize that even using their current... Continue reading

Posted on October 12, 2007 2:47 AM

Discipline, Character & Consistency Part IV

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

Posted on August 7, 2007 2:00 AM

D'ya Wanna Win, or D'ya Wanna Gamble? Part IV

By The Mad Professor
Most gamblers subscribe to Nick the Greek’s philosophy:... Continue reading

Posted on August 7, 2007 1:49 AM

Discipline, Character & Consistency Part III 

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

Posted on August 4, 2007 10:51 PM

D'ya Wanna Win, or D'ya Wanna Gamble? Part III  

By The Mad Professor
The reason most skilled Precision-Shooters don’t make more money is because of the way that they BET, and NOT... Continue reading

Posted on August 4, 2007 6:40 PM

Discipline, Character & Consistency Part II

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

Posted on August 3, 2007 9:28 AM

D'ya Wanna Win, or D'ya Wanna Gamble? - Part 2

By The Mad Professor
In Part I of this series, I left you with something to think about: The reason most skilled Precision-Shooters... Continue reading

Posted on August 3, 2007 5:17 AM

Discipline, Character & Consistency, Part One

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

Posted on July 31, 2007 6:32 AM

D'ya Wanna Win, or D'ya Wanna Gamble? -Part 1

By The Mad Professor
I was shooting dice at the Stardust Hotel-Casino a short while ago, and there were just three other players... Continue reading

Posted on July 31, 2007 2:44 AM

Part 14- How To Get it, and How To Keep It

By The Mad Professor
How Does The Time-Interval Between Each Successive Lap Around The Table Affect Your Shooting?... Continue reading

Posted on July 12, 2007 5:44 AM

Part 15 - How To Get It, and How To Keep It

By The Mad Professor
Death By A Thousand Cuts Is Optional, Not Obligatory... Continue reading

Posted on July 12, 2007 3:48 AM

Part 10 - How To Get It, and How To Keep it

By The Mad Professor
You may have been playing craps ever since George Washington was a Colonel in the British Army; but if... Continue reading

Posted on July 8, 2007 3:50 PM

Part 12 - How To Get It, and How To Keep It

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

Posted on July 7, 2007 4:23 PM

Part 9 - How To Get It, and How To Keep It

By The Mad Professor
Can You Be At The Top Of Your Game And STILL have Bad Sessions?... Continue reading

Posted on July 7, 2007 3:35 PM

Part 8 - How To Get It, and How To Keep It

By The Mad Professor
I continue to receive quite a bit of e-mail regarding ways to properly gauge Win-Loss ratios.... Continue reading

Posted on July 5, 2007 6:27 PM

Part 7 - How To Get IT, and How To Keep It

By The Mad Professor
A man returning home a day early from a business trip, got into a taxi at the airport after midnight,...

Posted on July 4, 2007 8:10 PM

Part 6 - How To Get It, and How To Keep It

By The Mad Professor
Let me begin by saying that IF you have a validated skill for throwing a certain number, it DOES... Continue reading

Posted on July 1, 2007 4:05 PM

Part 5 - How To Get It, and How To Keep It

By The Mad Professor
A man comes home to find his wife packing her bags. "Where are you going?" asks the surprised husband.... Continue reading

Posted on July 1, 2007 3:57 PM

Part 4 - How To Get It, and How To Keep It

By The Mad Professor
We've all seen television police dramas where the detectives nab the guilty criminal by determining who had the means,... Continue reading

Posted on July 1, 2007 3:43 PM

Part 3 - How to Get It, and How to Keep It.

By The Mad Professor
I think most of my articles should come with a federally-mandated warning label that reads:... Continue reading

Posted on July 1, 2007 1:50 PM

Part 2 - How to Get It, and How to Keep It.

By The Mad Professor
In this series, we are looking at various ways to squeeze more profit out of our plays WITHOUT resorting... Continue reading

Posted on June 30, 2007 2:01 PM

Part 1 - How To Get It, and How To Keep It

By The Mad Professor
One day, at a casino buffet, a man suddenly called out, "My son is choking! He swallowed a quarter! Help!... Continue reading

Posted on June 30, 2007 12:58 PM

Part 16 of: How To Get It, and How To Keep It

By The Mad Professor
Putting all of our wagers in their proper perspective and then keeping them there during the heat of battle... Continue reading

Posted on June 28, 2007 4:55 AM

MP's ODDS S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-R…a Force-Multiplier for your Current Skills

By The Mad Professor
Now that we’ve resolved that the Stack ‘em Don’t Rack ‘em method is nowhere close to being the “mathematically... Continue reading

Posted on June 12, 2007 7:28 AM

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

Posted on June 12, 2007 5:07 AM

Using WinCraps to War-Game your Current D-I Skills Against Various Betting-Methods

By The Mad Professor
Simply stated, WinCraps lets you separate the truth about your current-skill player-edge from all the speculation, conjecture, and bullshit.... Continue reading

Posted on March 24, 2007 10:28 AM

The MORE Your R-R Losses Affect Your Advantaged-Bets…the LESS You'll Win

By The Mad Professor
The MORE your random-roller losses affect the bet-management of your own advantaged-wagers (by way of the bet-sizing as well as... Continue reading

Posted on March 18, 2007 8:55 AM

Old Dog…New Tricks…Better Rewards

By The Mad Professor
The more we investigate WHERE our dice-influencing edge comes from, and the more we understand HOW that edge can be... Continue reading

Posted on March 6, 2007 2:03 PM

Does the “Stack ‘em, Don’t Rack ‘em” Approach Make Financial Sense?

By The Mad Professor
Many players these days are taught to stack their instant (7 or 11) PL-wins back onto the Passline instead of... Continue reading

Posted on March 5, 2007 7:04 PM

Your EDGE Determines Your Bankroll Requirements...

By The Mad Professor
...…and conversely; your bankroll determines how well you’ll be able to exploit any D-I edge you have developed.... Continue reading

Posted on March 4, 2007 9:00 AM

Doey-Don’t…The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth

By The Mad Professor
What is a Doey-Don’t? As most of you know, a Doey-Don't bet is one where a player places a... Continue reading

Posted on March 2, 2007 10:04 AM

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

Posted on February 11, 2007 8:25 PM

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

Posted on February 9, 2007 9:03 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... Continue reading

Posted on February 9, 2007 7:10 PM

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

Posted on February 8, 2007 11:00 AM

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

Posted on February 8, 2007 10:48 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

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

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