I had a chance to play at what used to be one of my favorite casinos. I hadn’t been there for well over a year, so I was really looking forward to dominating one their tables the wayI used to do.
When I walked in, there were just two craps tables where there used to be eight…and of the two remaining orphans; only one of them was open.
Needless to say, it was crowded, but the boxman and two of the three dealers immediately recognized me, so they did a “Everyone on this end of the table take one step to your right” maneuver and SR-1 became instantly vacant for yours truly.
I’d love to report that my shooting was so stellar that the angels wept at the sheer sight of my dice-influencing prowess and mastery; unfortunately that was NOT the case.
Instead, during my first hand, a couple of my tosses did produce perfect primary-face on-axis tosses that looked like the hand of God had directed them; however most of the others had the dice hitting the backwall and doing a sideways tumble that, though perfectly in synch with each other, was producing outcomes that were anything but in-synch with the bets I had in action.
In fact, by the time I figured out how to change my bets to correspond with my instant results, and how to bring my toss back in line in order to produce the outcomes that I was originally looking for; the hand abruptly ended with a most unceremonious 7-Out.
By the end of my hand, I knew exactly what I was doing wrong, however I also knew that it would take at least 50 to 60 minutes before the dice cycled back around so that I could fix the problem or at least compensate for it by changing my bets to better match the outcomes I was then producing.
I patiently bade that time by making simple Passline bets on all the random-rollers who populated the table, never venturing to the Darkside even though the table was trending quite cold. I played it that way because the number of Come-Out winning 7’s and 11’s were keeping me within $30 of even.
When the dice did come back to me, my toss behaved itself a little more than it did on my first hand, and I managed to make three PL-Point repeaters. Even the crew was relieved that I was making some Points because my hand-in tokes were the first ones they saw in that first hour.
I felt better that the tables that I used to love at this place, although reduced substantially in number now; were still the old reliable rollers that had endeared me to them for nearly three years of steady play.
Although the dice weren’t doing everything I asked them to do, they were doing it often enough to produce some reliable outcomes…and when it comes right down to it, that’s really what dice-influencing is all about.
Once again, I had to wait through almost a full hour before the dice came back around to my spot for the third time, and once again the dice were behaving themselves relatively well. Though I hadn’t completely cured the sideways rollouts that the dice were still occasionally doing (due to an insidious wrist-twist that kept sneaking in just before my release-point), and though I wasn’t patting myself on the back over my less-than-stellar matched-to-outcome wagers; I was still producing enough per-hand profit to keep me at the table for two more laps around the random-population layout.
For me, the whole process of making tiny, almost inperceptible changes to my basic toss in order to get the dice to straighten up and fly right, was a revisit to the old lessons about patience and perseverance.
Had I become impatient and started to over-compensate for my first not-so-great showing, by recklessly trying to make up lost ground betting more on random-rollers; or had I lacked the perseverance to stay the course and attempted to make radical changes to my basic toss…I doubt the net-results would have been nearly so positive.
To my mind, knowing that you have a validated skill even though it may go on an occassional vacation, means that a little more patience and a little more perseverance often leads you right back to the point where you can earn much more profit.
MP