For everyone coming to Las Vegas for the Adult Entertainment Expo starting January 15-18 and Heavy’s Axis Power Craps Seminar, we are having a free Biased Dice presentation on January 15 featuring:
- A Demonstration of unbalanced uncanceled real casino dice using casino equipment and
- How unbalanced Heavy’s Axis Power Craps dice are using casino equipment (no bogus water test) and
- free drinks, water, beer and Snickers.
Also, as a fellow Axis Power Craps/Crapsfest Seminar Alum, we are opening our Las Vegas Craps Recreational Center to all Axis Power Craps/Crapsfest Alums that are in Las Vegas that weekend free of charge to tune-up your toss and warm-up before putting your $$ on a live Casino table ...... This is most recommended to dust off that jet lag or practice that new shot you just learned. You can do so on either of the following as we have both:
- 14 foot table,
- 12 foot table,
- harder felt surface,
- microfibre bouncey surface,
- 7 rows of pyramids,
- 5 rows of pyramids,
- Fire Bet Layout,
- All, Tall, Small Layout.
.... And for those that want to sharpen their Roulette systems, we have both a European Single Zero wheel and Layout as well as the American Double Zero wheel.
For details on any of the above and to reserve a practice session time, email toHarleyHorn@gmail.com
Will the real Mad Professor please stand up ... because we know he will not show his face or come out from behind his curtain in his fantasy Land of Canada Oz .... As posted on Procraps4u2:
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Madprofessor Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 2:15 pm I was told that you can find this little tidbit over on Heavy's board.
Well I make faaaaaaaar more money trading triple-leverage ETF's than I do from playing craps; however, craps is MUCH more fun.The most fun you can have with your clothes on!
Now how many times have we all read that the great Madprofessor only made his money from the craps table and had no other source of income, therefore making him a professional craps players.
Lets look at two quotes from his book in chapter 1 on page 17 of The Mad Professor's Crapsshooting Bible.
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Madprofessor I make my living strictly by playing craps.
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Madprofessor I have been playing the game this way since 1990. My worst year since turning professional still managed to produce a net profit of $100,000. Resent years have proven to be even more lucrative as I've developed my dice-influencing abilities well beyond what they were when I first started out.
If you have read anything this great fiction writer has written in the past few years now he is making way over the 100,000. mark every year, even claiming to take a cool half million off the craps table with, now get this a $2000 buy-in. Now of course in that great piece of fiction he didn't come right out and say what he supposedly won, we had to do the math to figure it out with his claim of throwing all those 4's and 10's and how he said he was betting the game when that session was going on!
Madprofessor Long story short, I threw 13 PL-Point repeaters (covering only three PL-numbers, the 4, the 6, and the 10). I did not max-out the table-limit of $50,000 on either of my Buy-bets; but I came ‘deliciously close’ on the Buy-4 (with the vig alone on my last 4, costing a whopping $2000; and the last Buy-bet vig that I paid, up-front, on the 10, which didn't produce another paying-hit after its most recent press, was $1750).
Madprofessor As I mentioned above, all 13 PL-Points only encompassed three numbers (the 4, the 6, and the 10). For me, that in itself was a pretty high accomplishment that is rare as can be. I’ve thrown 13-Pointers before; but never were they restricted to just three different box-numbers.
While his claim to fame took a little figuring out to do, we came up with around a cool half million win, on a $2000 buy-in! If I was making that kind of money on the craps tables, I damn sure wouldn't be doing anything else.
One British Casino is changing the name Craps to Dice ...
The Hippodrome Casino is now hoping that the change will help encourage more British gamblers to give the game a go, as it is considered one of the most enjoyable casino games to play, while also offering some of the best odds in the house. Consequently, the “Craps” sign outside the Hippodrome casino in Leicester Square has already been replaced with a new board reading “Dice”.
Interestingly, the rude-sounding name for the popular game originated in the streets of France, where the players crouching down to roll the dice against the curb were said to resemble a “crapaud” – the French word for toad.
A look at what I have developed for my practice table. All were designed for my personal use until web pals found out about them. They insisted I make it all available to others. At first I was reluctant but the persistence finally caused a change of mind. Here they are. Interested persons can contact me at this e-mail address..... yopapp@yahoo.com Note there are two pages. Linaway
This is my answer to the high cost of tune ups, seminars and very expensive logistics away from home. Linaway
Interested persons can contact me at this e-mail address..... yopapp@yahoo.com
A gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane. - George Augustus Sala (1828-95) English writer and journalist
'God does not play dice' ... and neither do Las Vegas casinos. - adapted by Harley from Albert Einstein, whose views were summed up in his famous phrase when he became unhappy about the apparent randomness in nature. In nature and in the casinos, you could set up a certain situation, yet the outcome would still depend on chance, and there would be no absolute certainty about the result. Neither Einstein nor the Las Vegas Casinos and Nevada Gaming Board like that idea.
... it seems that even God is bound by the Uncertainty Principle, and can not know both the position, and the speed, of a particle. So God does play dice with the universe. All the evidence points to him being an inveterate gambler, who throws the dice on every possible occasion. - Professor Stephen W. Hawking If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success. - Max Born Quoted in H R Pagels, The Cosmic Code
Poor MP got his feelings hurt after being embarrassed by everyone picking on him, so he PMed Heavy and gave Heavy an ultimatum that he was going to quit posting on Heavy's board if he did not ban SuperRick
Problem is without MP's BS, Heavy message board lacks any kind of substance ...
So Heavy goes back to teaching craps on his 8 foot tub in the woods of Texas as he gets owned by a Canadian BS artist .... just sad
Mad Professor is Homeless ... DiceInstitute.com message board - "Home of the Mad Professor" was shut down for over 72 hours .... during this time he evidently was without his meds as he had trouble spelling (BTW - it is technically a Terms of Use violation in the United States, not some so-called TOS niolation):
Forum deleted for TOS niolation where no breach occured
Without notice, the Dice Institute Forum and Message-board was deleted for a TOS violation. To the best of our knowledge, no TOS breach occured, however, we are prepared to correct whatever the violation was.
If you want to put the board into maintenance mode while we fix the problem, that would be fine. In the alternative, if you would allow us to go back in, in read-only mode, so that some of the material can be saved; I would deeply appreciate that.
Was the MP message board shut down due his numerous plagiaristic acts and copyright violations !!??
Or was it shut down due to his libelous contentions which could very well have him served if he ever steps in Nevada again (see NEVADA REVISED STATUTES ) !!??
.... probably a combination of both -- until he started begging the landlord to let him back in
You can make donations to MP's noted email address, but unlike homeless donations in America that are tax deductible, these will not be.
It seems a few craps boards cannot survive on their own merit, so they allow a poster to embellish their boards with his myths unchecked in order to give them content without substance. This fictional writer from Canada calls himself MP or Mad Professor. Based on his postings, I contend MP stands for Mythomaniac Pathological.
A Pathological liar or mythomaniac is someone that "may be suffering from histrionic personality disorder or narcissistic personality disorder."
Some Characteristics:
Exaggerates things that are ridiculous.
One-upping. Whatever you do, this person can do it better. You will never top them in their own mind, because they have a concerted need to be better than everyone else. This also applies to being right. If you try to confront an individual like this, no matter how lovingly and well-intentioned you might be - this will probably not be effective. It's threatening their fantasy of themselves, so they would rather argue with you and bring out the sharp knives than admit that there's anything wrong with them.
They "construct" a reality around themselves. They don't value the truth, especially if they don't see it as hurting anyone. If you call them on a lie and they are backed into a corner, they will act very defensively and say ugly things ..., but they may eventually start to act like, "Well, what's the difference? You're making a big deal out of nothing!" (again, to refocus the conversation to your wrongdoing instead of theirs). ...
Obviously, they will contradict what they say. This will become very clear over time. They usually aren't smart enough to keep track of so many lies (who would be?).
One familiar with MP's rants:
Actually Mad Professor does give a very straight ego-centric answer and because he has created his persona cloaked in anonymity, he can say whatever he wants without ever being held to any standard. Some can consider this genius and still that anonymity has to frustrate him. This, does not make him a politician. He has no constituents to answer for accountability. You have to know, if you read between the lines, he is basically stating: "you all can kiss my a$$" to all his detractors. He's gonna state whatever he wants and no one needs to hold him accountable. After all, if you don't know who he is, he can create whatever stories he wants. Cowardly, if you ask me and insecure. For better or for worse, the authorities have placed them selves in the public eye and taken their lumps just like the rest of the community.
He subtly berates those he deems ignorant and praises those that stroke his proverbial peacock feathers. ...
Many true dice players no longer operate on the same frequency as the MP and many other figures seen as authorities of the game in some shape of form. Some figures have this incessant need to feel that they know everything far beyond anyone else and as long as there is an audience, regardless of which side they fall on his opinions, MP will continue to spew his wordy fantasies and you or I should not serve to dispute them.
In the end, it seems to me that it is about our own performance and how that translates into monetary results. I don't care what his, or anyone else's, results are. I only care about my own.
Pity the players who continue to feel the answer to mastering this game remains outside of themselves and religiously adheres to the fantastical results of someone else.
I believe DeadCat aka Vegas Baby that lives with his Mother and lost his job due to failing an ICE inspection can verify that this saying applies to MP's advice:
What you are Seeing: 1. a very nice dice laboratory with an excellent security camera system.
2. Biased dice being used in this video. Notice the faces occurring during these 2 streaks are all on one plane -- the 1, 2 and 6s. This is what happens with biased dice more often than not (see more discussion at Link --> Biased Dice ... ) The 3s and 4s end up as the axles and disappear all too often when the 5 and 6 are heavier due to the heavier resin used in the white pips (dots).
3. Furthermore, the stated odds by the author on YouTube are for balanced dice, and therefore not correct for this set of dice:
This is a short spurt where I got aces twice in a row followed by 6-2 five times in a row. ... Rolling the same non-pair 4 times in a row after the initial roll is a 1 in 104,976 occurrence .. any initial non pair is a 5/6 chance making the total 1 in 125,971.
4. Less than 2 minutes from hundreds of hours of video - sure if you toss the dice hundreds of hours at home on your practice table, almost anything can and will occur .... we are only seeing a snippet here as the author notes on DiceInstitute.com:
"The security camera system runs for every single toss on the table."
What you are NOT Seeing: 1. No proof that he is using fair balanced dice
2. No proof how old the dice are - most dice are only used for approximately 500 tosses or 8 hours (except Caesars LV) for a reason - they tend to become biased after then on their own .... so is it any doubt that a string of numbers is easier to obtain after many hours of use.
Did you ever notice how the drunkest player on the craps table was often the luckiest "best" shooter of the session !! Seasoned craps players will often bet on the drunk shooter --- others scoff at this as a superstition.
A new study may actually prove that a drunk craps player can be better based on fact, not superstition. According to researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago:
They found that men with a couple beers under their belts were actually better at ... creative problem-solving tasks,” psychologist Jennifer Wiley reported on the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) site.
Getting the dice to work for you on a live craps table definitely involves "creative problem-solving" skills. Additionally, it is known that alcohol actually suppresses parts of the brain that are used for math skills. This combination can be helpful on the craps table, especially by those dice tossers that are distracted (or lose focus) by the math or betting thought processes (press, don't press, regress, odds, etc.) Simply put - alcohol diminishes the attributes of the Left Brain (math) and augments those of the Right Brain (creative).
Therefore, alcohol can reduce the interference that the left brain (math) has over the right brain (creative). This interference is what I refer to as short-circuiting your right brain ... or Brain Fog:
... brain fog lapses in
concentration can also result in individuals losing their train of thought ...
My trip to Vegas from October 22 to October 29 was a roller coaster of fun, misery
and interesting circumstances.
Let’s get the advantage-play over with first. I won…a little. I had been up
quite a bit in craps through Sunday, October 25. I shot four times, won on
three of those rolls (one a big one) and thought I was in for a great week
ahead after the GTC dice control class ended. Dom
was hot; so was Stickman and Skinny. It was good. I was good. The Five Horsemen were riding high. It was all good.
Then nasty reality struck.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of October 26, 27 and 28 saw me plummet into
craps hell. I took the dice 18 times; won on four rolls, double-pitched as if
the dice were satanically calling to me, “Seven out, Scobe, seven out fast and
make a fool of yourself!” Oh, I did; I did.
On Monday evening, Dominator had a 39 roll, and
then fell flat on two more hands. That was fine as his 39 had been number after
number – a typical great Dominator hand. We made money, nice money on that
roll. I took the dice three times as well. The first two times, well, “sucked”
is too kind a word to describe my shooting.
There was a young man in the proverbial baseball cap standing near the dealer
on the end of the left side of the table. He wasn’t betting; he was just
watching. I didn’t know him; he wasn’t a student of GTC; just some baseballed
capped kid watching the Five Horsemen essentially stink up the craps table. He
had not been at the table to see Dom’s 39 roll.
After my second disastrous roll, the capped one said, “Hey, Frank, based on an
analysis of your dice, I would recommend using the V2 set.” Obviously while I
didn’t know him; he knew me. I couldn’t believe he just shouted this across the
table at me. Also, I had shot two Point/Seven Outs. How the hell could anyone
analyze anything on such a short sample? And it’s 2V; not V2.
Now the dealers and box person all knew us and they would cheer when we hit
numbers because 1.) we tip and 2.) we are nice guys to deal to and with. They
were also surprised that this capped kid shouted his recommendations across the
table.
I ignored him.
Not Dominator, he moved back from the table, looked at the kid and said, “What
the fuck!” I don’t think the capped kid heard him. Then Dom took the dice and
quickly sevened out.
Then the dice went around the table – Skinny, Nick-at-Night, Stickman and me
sevening out quickly – then Dominator got the dice. Dom sevened out quickly
too. And then it happened.
The capped kid said, “Dom, let me give you some advice about your shooting.”
Dom looked at him, his face totally surprised. “I can help you shoot better. I
see the flaws in your shot.”
Now, Dom will take advice from shooters he respects; we all will. But who was
this capped one to give the Dominator advice? The box person rolled his eyes
and looked at me and shook his head as if to say, “This kid is an idiot!”
Dom – his face red and the veins on his head pulsating – shot a devastating
hate-look at the capped one and screamed: “Shut the fuck up! If I want your
advice I’ll ask for it! Who the fuck are you?”
Dom took his cane and I thought for sure the capped one was about to be anally
violated. Thankfully, Stickman stepped between Dom and the capped one who,
white as a ghost, ran away from the table as fast as his legs could carry him.
We colored up and went to get some gelato.
Craps was a no-win proposition after that. While some of the Horsemen had good
rolls; we just couldn’t get enough of them to get ahead and our short rolls
tended to be losers as well (winning short rolls are even more important than
those occasional monster rolls).
However, we played our advantage-brand of Pai Gow poker, which allowed us to
overcome our overall poor performance at craps.
A small win is better than no win. Plus we got everything for free at the
casino so our expenses were nil.
The GTC class weekend was fun as usual. Great new students; great refresher and
advanced students. Old friends; new acquaintances; good stuff.
I did have some troubles during the weekend. For the week before and during
(and even now as I write this), I have been sick. First it was fever and
chills; then aches and fever and chills; then logginess; then diarrhea; then
laryngitis. Different symptoms on different days.
Usually I am funny during the “Meet and Greet” but this night was a real
struggle trying to emcee the event. It wasn’t that I couldn’t come up with
funny lines; it was just I couldn’t say them right. You see, I was about to
(ladies, you might not want to read further) have diarrhea – yes, right there
on stage. If I used my usual energy, I knew I would explode all over the place
since my stomach muscles tighten as I explode with mirth. But I didn’t want to
explode with mirth and smelly muck as well! So I had to hold it all back while
I tried to finish my introductions and strained funny comments.
I could feel the hideous stuff building up too. It was waiting, bubbling just
behind my sphincter longing to come ripping out and embarrassing me forever in
the eyes of my students.
When I finished, I leaped off the stage, launched myself into the elevator and
made it to my room. I made it…just made it, thank you God…and did what I needed
to do in a wild explosion of horror. It was Hiroshima on the toilet.
After the attack, I thought I was okay to go to our GTC instructors’ pizza
party, which we always hold after the “Meet and Greet.” I went down to pool
side and grabbed some slices. But the inner monster started gurgling again, and
again I could feel the buildup of an imminent atomic explosion.
I got up and ran like a lightning bolt to the elevator. But this time I was
stalled by the night of the living dead.
Four elderly people were ambling slowly down the hall to the elevator. A fifth
one was holding the elevator doors open. The five of them probably had a
combined age of a thousand years. All had hearing aids. Two were using walkers.
They must have been using the walkers for decades – they were rusty.
I was now in the elevator with the woman who was holding the doors open. I was
holding out my pizza plate and holding in my bowels.
“They are very slow,” croaked the woman holding the elevator doors. “You want
to eat your pizza, right? Hurry up down there,” she squeaked to her colleagues.
“There’s a young man who wants to eat his pizza.”
“Yeah,” I said. I could hardly talk. It was on the edge. Now, the first of the
living dead entered the elevator.
“Oh, pizza,” she said. “I love pizza.”
After seven-hundred fifty years the other three made it to the elevator.
“What floor are we on?” asked the only man, a mummy with a hearing aid as big
as his head.
“I don’t know,” said one of the women. My God, I thought, there are only three
floors in the whole damn hotel! They weren’t on the first obviously, which is
where we were in the stinking elevator, so there were only two floors left!
“Why don’t we just press the other two buttons and you can figure it out as we
go up,” I strained.
“Good idea, young man, good idea,” said mummy-man. And up we went.
I was on the second floor and I rushed out of the elevator. “My, my,” said one
of the women. “You must really want to eat that pizza!”
I made it to the bathroom and in a Nagasaki-like explosion, I finished my
horrible “Meet and Greet and Gush” evening.
Tuesday evening, I was in the high-roller-room
bathroom, standing over the bowl happily peeing. These bathrooms are single
toilet ones. No urinal; just a toilet; all very elegant in amenities but one
person at a time.
A woman walked in. There I was with Godzilla in
my hands (Godzilla is the name of my you-know-what) spewing his fiery essence
into the bowl. (Sometimes I call Godzilla Goliath.)
“What are you doing in here?” she yelled.
Godzilla stopped in mid-flow…and shrunk to the size of a raisin.
“This is the men’s room,” I said, trying to hide my pin-sized mini-monster.
“You should have locked the door!” she screamed at me, and stormed out of the
bathroom.
Oh, there’s more…but I have to get back to working on my third book for Triumph
Books now.
It was a fun but a sometimes tough week this trip. But I did make it home with
a win. And that’s what counts.
Now is my accounting of the SAME evening that
can be verified by 2 other witnesses:
I get a call from a local GTCer mentioning
that the GTC gang leaders Frank Scoblete and the Dominator (Dominic Loriggio -
‘The Dominator’ ) would be shooting over at Bellagio ..... watching them shoot was fun and frightful at the same time as they each lost $$ as they ended with more PSOs than rolls over 10 ... so bad that even the "Captain's 5
Count" wasn't paying off as Frank S. had to throw in $300. to pay off his
marker .......
I had been mentally (no pad and pen) charting the Bellagio tables with a couple of other players when we noticed that the GTC gang of 5 had taken an empty table on the back row so we moved over to their table and bought in before they even started to toss ..... each GTCer was either using the hardways or V3 and each was coming up with the same result => short rolls with a 5-2 or 6-1 Seven-out
the 3 GTC instructors were at SL1
......... Frank S. tossed 1st using the V3, but quickly Sevened-Out with a 5-2
......... these dice were so biased to the 5 & 6 that it was almost
impossible to keep both 3s on axis (on the night I only saw Frank S. make
1 point as each of his rolls were very short)
next at SL2 was the tall lanky GTC instuctor Jim Stickman ("Stickman" according to the GTC website:
"Tall and lean, relaxed and contained, the Stickman has a gentle touch and strong concentration. He is a master of visualization and in the use of the "hardway" dice set.") .... he set the Hardways and had
another short roll of about 4 ...... no world famous GTC instructor was being able to bet on the other GTC instructors since they were all doing a 5 count on
each other ... their lousy shooting with the terribly Biased dice was validating the Captain's "5 count" strategy
The dice then came to Dominator at SL3ish (according to the GTC website:
"The nickname for one of the greatest and most fiery dice-controllers
of all time; Dominator plays several days a week in the casinos around
the country. Graduated with degrees in both biology and math, Dominator
knows his way around the numbers and around a craps table."
as GTC instructors Frank S. and Jim "Stickman" scooted back out of his way
to allow him closer to the Stick, Dom set the V2 & took advantage of these "Outside" Biased dice to near perfection as he starting banging out 4s and 10s mixed in with a few 6-2 Eights ...... the
Dominator hobbled his way on his broken foot to 3 Points and a 20+ roll
I continued mentally charting the dice and watching Frank S and the rest of the GTC gang leaders have short rolls until I tongue-in-cheek, but seriously mentioned to Frank
Scoblete before his next roll:
"Frank - based on the way your dice are reacting on this table this
evening, you may want to consider using a V2"
Frank did not respond, but the Dominator let out a loud burst in disgust:
"OH JESUS CHRIST !!"
...... I had to chuckle a little as I knew I had just
given a little Biased dice and shooting advice to the world's # 1 best selling craps author
and even though they did not say it out loud, I could hear Frank S. and the Dom loudly thinking "Who the Hell is this guy giving us advise -- does
he know who we are!!"
I just smiled as the dice came to Frank S ... he set the All-7s set with the 3/4 up instead of a 6/1 up and 5/2 facing on a 4/3 axis to take advantage of the biased dice ....... his 1st toss was a 6, then he bets $60 each on the 6 & 8 and sets the V3 as he glances over towards me
....... Frank S. then proceeds to toss a perfect 5-2 PSO
GTC instructor Jim Stickman passes the dice after several short rolls as he has had
enough trying to toss ........ so Dom hobbles up to the table from his chair ....... at this point, the Dominator is determined to show me that the V2 is not the right set to use as I had suggested to Frank S.
so he sets the V3 even though he had been doing well (well, better than
anyone else on the table) with the V2 ..... he was determined to show me I was wrong.
Frank S. cheers out loud:
"Come on Dom !!"
Quick result was a PSO - 6-1 Seven-Out using the V3 ...... at this
point I just shook my head and said:
"I am just saying guys .... "
Dom quickly snaps back at me "I don't need any FVCKING advise from you
!!" as he grabbed his walking cane .........
Frank S. and the rest of the GTC instructors then colored up as each reached into their
pockets to grab numerous Ben Franklins to pay off their markers.
..... even the "best" are still in denial ........
Here is a recent post from a craps message board that does not like to give credit where credit is due, so I will return the favor:
I think everybody that uses this board would be heart-broken if your board went down, I would still be losing thousands if it wasn't for you and Irishsetter. I would still only be betting on myself, and would be missing out on some fantastic rolls at the tables. While I just play craps for the fun of it now, I was looking for something to do after I retired.
After reading some books and the accomplished trip reports on different crap boards, I surmised that I too could become a dice influencer. Well the journey was a costly one, until I read what you and Irishsetter were writing about dice influencers. It sounded to me that what you were saying in your writings was that, yes there are a sprinking of dice influencers that can get on large rolls, and they are merely getting lucky when they experienced their large rolls, just like everybody else. Even though they had skill with their shooting, you also needed some luck.
That was one of the points that had me thinking about what you were saying, unlike over on the Dice Institute, were I was led to believe (by it's co-owner Mad Professor), that I too could make fantastic money in my retirement just by playing craps. I was waiting for their Spring Fling where I thought that I would get to met their main writer, and the last living legend in the dice influeancers scene.
Unforgently I found out that he will always just be a legend, like the Captain, and that grown men can be made fools of too. You guys saved me when I realizing that I could be betting on everybody, and I would come out just about the same.
When I first bet on that hot chick in Caesars, and I made back 33 grand on her one roll, it was a life changing experience, if she could do it just by letting the dice fly down the table, why couldn't I do the same thing by setting the dice.
When the dice came to me I made 26 grand on my roll. I just felt that I couldn't do anything wrong after watching her roll. Don't ask how many rolls I had because, I was to caught up in the fun I was having at the time, and that was to long ago.
After reading what Irishsetter wrote about MP (Mad Professor), and that he just might be a wheelchair-bound quadriplegic, with research tools that would allow him to do research on all the casinos around the world. That was the real wake-up call for me.
After my trip to Uruguay with my old girl friend, where it was fun in the sun and the great night life, I have been practicing again, and I have moved on to a different girl friend that is a few years older, I couldn't keep up with the last one, she was just to young, for an old guy like me.
I will still go to Vegas as it's a fun-filled life style, and when I go out, I'm going out with a bang, I hope to continue following your forum, and maybe see a book out of you and Irishsetter.
I would like to see a chapter or two on betting, where everybody could learn something about the game, I have been betting what they all say is Hawaiian style, after meeting a few of the Hawaiians that come into Caesars, yes I know that it isn't the best way there is to bet, and that I will take some big hits betting this way, especially with big money on the tables.
With the new girl friend, we spend a lot of time taking in the shows, and going to the many fine restaurants that Vegas has to offer.
If you close down your forum, none of the players would be able to read any reality about craps, you guys have a great way of educating your forum members, keep up the good work, and maybe come back with a class once a year, if I took your class to start with, I wouldn't have been losing thousands of dollars, what was I thinking, when I was reading about the living legend?
Thanks please keep up the board, some of us do not like to post, but love reading the knowledge that you and others have on this forum.
I'm back in Vegas for a few weeks, and maybe will do a trip rport before we leave again.
Now that Mad Professor has his own website and is a competitor of Heavy's online craps boards, Heavy has developed a new theory on the Mad Professor ..... heard on the floor of a Mississippi casino this past weekend was Heavy's new theory that Mad Professor is actually 5 different people
Heavy has endorsed the Mad Professor for many years professionally on his own website .... so just when and how did Heavy develop this theory that MP is actually writing for 5 people ??
- was it because of people like SuperRick that has proven his many writings to be fictional (see ProCraps4u2 ) or
- was it because we have exposed many of MP's inconsistencies on this website including that:
..... MP has not been to Las Vegas in the last 5 years or
..... that MP talked to his buddy DeadCat almost an hour everyday to get info about what was happening in Las Vegas or
..... the fact that MP is always blogging from his Canadian residence when he says he is at some casino somewhere
..... or is Heavy up to his typical age old insecure tactics of downgrading the competition like he does so often.
We have identified casinos that are methodically using unbalanced Biased Dice to increase their house advantage at craps. Over the past 2 years, we have assembled a Biased Dice Research Team which includes over a dozen dice detectives with professional resumes that include:
- a double PhD tenured Math professor;
- a NASA aerospace scientist;
- a retired plastics engineer;
- a mechanical engineer;
- an electrical engineer;
- 2 finance majors;
- a CPA;
- a computer geek;
- and 4 craps players that live and play in Las Vegas almost every day of the year
(collectively we have 8 regulation size craps tables).
Casinos and gaming commissions do not see using unbalanced dice as an illegal act, but simply changing the odds in the same fashion as 6:5 Black Jack --- Giving the house more favorable odds with 6:5 BJ. As noted somewhere,
"You may have noticed the disturbing proliferation of 6:5 Blackjack in Las Vegas. ... Let us be very clear; 6:5 Blackjack is not Blackjack at all"
YET, people still play BJ in Las Vegas -- the change had very little measurable effect on the attendance at the BJ tables and no casinos were threatened with losing their license.
Casinos count on the casual player in a whirlwind visit to the casino not recognizing which days biased dice are used. Those of us that play more than 300 days a year see the difference.
We have come to the conclusion that most casinos are using unbalanced dice to alter the odds MORE to their favor ..... this is easy to prove to yourself. Loaded dice or weighted dice will be heavier on one side. The extra weight may be something very heavy like lead, gold or platinum so it only takes a small amount to change the odds. The weight is often placed nearer one corner or edge rather than at the center of one face. Transparent dice do not prevent loading because the actual spots can contain the weight. Check if the spots are deeper on some sides than others, although this is no guarantee because a well made gaffed dice will look straight and even.
Pictured above is all you need to verify balance -- a dice balancing caliper. You can clamp a die into the caliper and give it a spin. If the die always stop at the same position, there is a problem with the balance.
Once our Biased Dice Research Team had verifiable tangible proof that the Las Vegas casinos were cheating, we decided that it was time to blow the whistle. That is when we ran into a bureaucratic circus similar to what Father of the Underwear Bomber ran into when he was trying to report his son's Christmas day attack to the CIA.
First we had a member of our Biased Dice Research Team contact the Las Vegas FBI where we were told by a female agent that they referred all casino related problems to the Nevada Gaming Commission. When we told the FBI agent that we felt that the Nevada Gaming Commission was part of the overall problem and that was like "letting the fox guard the hen house" they simply responded with a
"Well, we are short staffed and only have enough agents to concentrate on gangs and drugs that are entering from Mexico."
So, we then decided to talk to the head Fox in charge of the Hen Houses by sending the following letter to the Nevada Gaming Control Board:
Date: Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Subject: INFORMATIONAL SEMINARS - Discussion Topic
To: "Nevada Head Fox"
Dear "Fox",
We would like to congratulate you for your Informational Seminars and your efforts to keep Las Vegas casinos a first class operation parallel to no other destination in the world.
We are responding to your July 21st letter as an interested party because we do not want everyone’s favorite vacation site to turn into a ghost town due to corporate financial pressures and greed that have literally ruined other corporate giants like Enron, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom, Barings Bank, Wall Street Investment Bankers and Mortgage brokers.
Issue: Las Vegas Casinos are systematically using biased dice in an effort to cheat their customers and increase profits. Furthermore, the down economy has tempted most casinos to use the biased dice more often to manage cash flow and guarantee fewer losses.
Various Nevada casinos are systematically using biased dice to influence the outcome of a random game. These unfair dice are mostly used every weekend, holidays and especially when marketing promotions have targeted high rollers into the casino.
Objective: To create a legal atmosphere in Nevada (specific dice statutes similar to those in Colorado, New Jersey and Australia) whereas fair dice are used 24/7 and enforced by the Nevada Gaming Commission.
A few organizations realize what is being done. This has been verified by the proper use of a dice balancing caliper. I believe this should be handled “internally” and at a state level before the media obtains this information. We do not want a public perception that Nevada is cheating at a game of chance or even more of the tourists will not play the games when they visit.
I would like to meet with you in person to illustrate the aforementioned concern, preferably in private before this issue is added as a topic in your Informational Seminars.
Until we meet, below is a brief summary of the issues that led to this statement by Cy Ryan in the October 12, 2008 Casino News (Carson City, NV):
Casino win on Strip declines 8th straight month
“For the eighth consecutive month, winnings at Strip casinos declined.
The state Gaming Control Board reported today that the win at the 41 casinos on the Strip totaled $494 million, down 7.43 percent from a year ago. Statewide, casinos posted an 8.1 percent decline.
… The $934.1 million was the lowest winnings month since June 2006, …
The positive signs were in craps with winnings increased by 59.4 percent and the sports pools inched up 0.7 percent. Winnings in the 21 games dropped 13.1 percent; roulette was off 4.8 percent; and keno fell 23 percent."
The craps winnings were abnormally out of place compared to the rest of the industry and it is our belief that this is happening due to the use of unfair dice. As you mention in your July 21st letter, “… there are a number of other areas where regulatory concerns have surfaced. Either through lack of knowledge or apathy, licensees are creating regulatory challenges in areas requiring corrective action.”
Unfortunately the financial pressures of the current economy coupled with the statutory risk to reward ratio encourages cheating by the casinos. The risk of ever getting caught using Biased Dice is very minimal and even if the casino is caught, the $10,000 penalty of maybe getting caught once a year is well worth the $100,000 plus each casino protects every day biased dice are used.
The penalties for cheating in Nevada are outdated and only discourage cheating by patrons while the lack of enforcement actually encourages corporate greed on a much larger scale (by comparison you will be fined $16,000 for making one pre-recorded solicitation phone call):
NRS 465.088 Penalties for violation of NRS 465.070 to 465.085, inclusive.
1. A person who violates any provision of NRS 465.070 to 465.085, inclusive, is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished:
(a) For the first offense, by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than 6 years, or by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by both fine and imprisonment.
(b) For a second or subsequent violation of any of these provisions, by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than 6 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $10,000. The court shall not suspend a sentence of imprisonment imposed pursuant to this paragraph, or grant probation to the person convicted.
2. A person who attempts, or two or more persons who conspire, to violate any provision of NRS 465.070 to 465.085, inclusive, each is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished by imposing the penalty provided in subsection 1 for the completed crime, whether or not he personally played any gambling game or used any prohibited device.
(Added to NRS by 1981, 1292; A 1985, 970; 1995, 1295)
According to the Nevada Gaming Commission, there are no Dice technical specifications or requirements in Nevada. However, there are very valid reasons New Jersey enacted very specific Dice Regulations over 30 years ago. For some reason these New Jersey dice specifications were amended just over 2 years ago to allow more tolerance, coincidently about the same time biased dice were introduced into the casinos. (See http://www.state.nj.us/casinos/actreg/reg/docs_new_adopted/a460115.doc )
19:46-1.15 Dice; physical characteristics …
Effective: 06/05/78
As amended, effective: 12/16/91
As amended, effective: 10/19/92
As amended, effective: 01/19/93
As amended, effective: 10/06/97
As amended, effective: 08/20/07
Colorado adopted the same dice laws as New Jersey earlier this year when they initially allowed craps into the state:
47.1-1280 DICE; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
(1) BE FORMED IN THE SHAPE OF A PERFECT CUBE AND OF A SIZE NO SMALLER THAN 0.750 OF AN INCH ON EACH SIDE NOR ANY LARGER THAN 0.775 OF AN INCH ON EACH SIDE;
(2) BE TRANSPARENT AND MADE EXCLUSIVELY OF CELLULOSE EXCEPT FOR THE SPOTS, NAME OR TRADE NAME OF THE CASINO LICENSEE AND SERIAL NUMBER OR LETTERS CONTAINED THEREON;
(3) HAVE THE SURFACE OF EACH OF ITS SIDES PERFECTLY FLAT AND THE SPOTS CONTAINED IN EACH SIDE PERFECTLY FLUSH WITH THE AREA SURROUNDING THEM;
(4) HAVE ALL EDGES AND CORNERS PERFECTLY SQUARE AND FORMING PERFECT 90 DEGREE ANGLES;
(5) HAVE THE TEXTURE AND FINISH OF EACH SIDE EXACTLY IDENTICAL TO THE TEXTURE AND FINISH OF ALL OTHER SIDES;
(6) HAVE ITS WEIGHT EQUALLY DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT THE CUBE AND NO SIDE OF THE CUBE HEAVIER OR LIGHTER THAN ANY OTHER SIDE OF THE CUBE;
(7) HAVE ITS SIX SIDES BEARING WHITE CIRCULAR SPOTS FROM ONE TO SIX RESPECTIVELY WITH THE DIAMETER OF EACH SPOT EQUAL TO THE DIAMETER OF EVERY OTHER SPOT ON THE DIE;
(8) HAVE SPOTS ARRANGED SO THAT THE SIDE CONTAINING ONE SPOT IS DIRECTLY OPPOSITE THE SIDE CONTAINING SIX SPOTS, THE SIDE CONTAINING TWO SPOTS IS DIRECTLY OPPOSITE THE SIDE CONTAINING FIVE SPOTS AND THE SIDE CONTAINING THREE SPOTS IS DIRECTLY OPPOSITE THE SIDE CONTAINING FOUR SPOTS; EACH SPOT SHALL BE PLACED ON THE DIE BY DRILLING INTO THE SURFACE OF THE CUBE AND FILLING THE DRILLED OUT PORTION WITH A COMPOUND WHICH IS EQUAL IN WEIGHT TO THE WEIGHT OF THE CELLULOSE DRILLED OUT AND WHICH FORMS A PERMANENT BOND WITH THE CELLULOSE CUBE, AND SHALL EXTEND INTO THE CUBE EXACTLY THE SAME DISTANCE AS EVERY OTHER SPOT EXTENDS INTO THE CUBE TO AN ACCURACY TOLERANCE OF .0004 OF AN INCH; AND
(9) HAVE IMPRINTED OR IMPRESSED THEREON THE NAME OR TRADE NAME OF THE CASINO LICENSEE IN WHICH THE DIE IS BEING USED, AND A UNIQUE SERIALIZED NUMBER.
However, Colorado in its infinite wisdom decided to expand the New Jersey laws by giving them teeth:
47.1-1281 DICE; RECEIPT; STORAGE; INSPECTIONS AND REMOVAL FROM USE …
(4) … (A) PRIOR TO USE IN A GAME, THE MANAGER ON DUTY OR PIT SUPERVISOR SHALL INSPECT THE DICE WITH A MICROMETER, BALANCING CALIPER, A STEEL SET SQUARE AND A MAGNET OR ANY OTHER INSTRUMENT APPROVED BY THE DIVISION. A BALANCING CALIPER, A STEEL SET SQUARE AND A MAGNET, SHALL BE KEPT IN A COMPARTMENT AT EACH CRAPS TABLE OR PIT STAND AND SHALL BE AT ALL TIMES READILY AVAILABLE FOR USE BY THE DIVISION UPON REQUEST. … (5) THE LICENSEE SHALL REMOVE ANY DICE FROM USE ANY TIME THERE IS ANY INDICATION OF TAMPERING, FLAWS OR OTHER DEFECTS THAT MIGHT AFFECT THE INTEGRITY OR FAIRNESS OF THE GAME, OR AT THE REQUEST OF THE DIVISION.
We have interviewed 6 different Las Vegas casino floor supervisors that admit they are in charge of measuring the dice and each has admitted that they do not use a dice balancing caliper to measure the dice. Additionally, we have interviewed the chief operator of a dice company that supplies dice to several Las Vegas casinos and he admitted that he does not have a dice balancing caliper in his entire dice factory and boasted that he did not need one since his dice were near perfect. He immediately grabbed a stick of dice from his production, measured them with a micrometer to show how near perfect they were then put them on our dice balancing caliper only to be shocked that they were extremely out of balance. He went on to defend himself by stating that there were no dice regulations in Nevada that required him to produce balanced dice.
Basically, the use of unbalanced biased dice “Alters the normal criteria of random selection, … which determines the outcome of a game” (NRS 465.085) and gives advantage to the casinos. John Scarne addresses this advantage to the casinos in his book Scarne on Dice.
There is much more to discuss, but I will close for now, If you should have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to email me. Once again we would like to thank you for your assistance and efforts in keeping Las Vegas from turning into a parking lot carnival.
Respectfully yours,
BDRT
Interested Party
..... the Gaming Control Board Member "Head Fox" referred the above letter to one of his Senior Enforcement Agents in the Reno office ..... and here is what one of our Biased Dice Research Team members shared with me, reprinted here with his permission:
From: "Senior Fox" To: BDRT Date: Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:28 PM Subject: Informational Seminars/biased diced mailed-by: gcb.nv.gov
Dear BDRT, Board Member "Head Fox" has referred your e-mail on biased dice to me for further inquiry. Please contact me at the Reno GCB Enforcement Division office at your earliest convenience. My direct telephone number is (775) 823-xxxx and I can be reached M-F from 8a-4p. Sincerely, "Senior Fox" Senior Agent NSGCB/Enforcement Division Reno Office (775) 823-xxxx
..... and after several email exchanges, our Team member asks if the NSGCB Senior Agent could bring a dice balancing caliper, and below is his response to our associate -- note the investigative tone in the queries -- suddenly the messenger becomes a possible suspect if he answers the questions in a certain way:
From: "Senior Fox"
To: BDRT
Date: Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Subject RE: Informational Seminars/biased diced
mailed-by gcb.nv.gov
Good morning BDRT,
I can bring the caliper and, is it safe to say, you’ll be bringing the other inspection instruments?
In the meantime, I have several questions:
1. The name of the casino that the dice came from
2. The manner in which they were collected
3. Can I borrow them for further inspection (if necessary).
4. Who else, if anyone, will be present at our meeting?
Next week, the only day that I’m sure to be in the office will be on Monday, September 21. Please call between 8am and 9am (Pacific time). From Tuesday on, I’ll be out of the area..
As to a suitable LV location, let’s meet at the Xyzzz on Abcccc.
After the 3 hour meeting with the Nevada Gaming Commisiion, we interviewed our Biased Dice Research Teammember that participated. His conclusion was that Nevada State Gaming Control Board is paid for by Casino gross gaming revenues and therefore knows exactly who they must protect -- the Casinos. Thus the proverbial Fox guarding the Hen House. Basic summary notes from the meeting:
NSGCB Agent was more interested in who the messenger was instead of possible crimes being committed by the Casinos,
Wanted to know if our messenger was a member of GTC (Golden Touch Craps group associated with Frank Scoblete),
NSGCB Agent explained in so many words that their duties were to protect the casinos from Casino staff and patrons from stealing casino revenues.
Agent gave a 15 minute presentation on how shaved dice would not alter the odds of craps. We then tried to tell him that we were not talking about shaved dice, but unbalanced dice. Agent seemed to have trouble understanding the difference between shaved dice and unbalanced dice;
NSGCB Agent wanted to know when and where Biased dice would be used -- we gave him days and times that 6 casinos would normally use unbalanced dice and he promised to audit their dice;
Agent said he would be available to audit dice from any Nevada casino within 30 minutes of receiving a call if we suspected Biased dice. An auditor would arrive at the casino and give the Pit Supervisor a 5 minute warning that he would be confiscating the dice from the table, thus allowing the Casino a chance to get a new stick of dice so as not to interfere with operations;
We presented our unbalanced dice evidence from 6 casinos -- showing how the standard dice balancing caliper (pictured above) clearly proved that live casino dice were unbalanced and being used to change the odds;
Then the Auditor explained how he would conduct the audit upon arriving at the casino -- he would first put the dice in a micrometer --- he demonstrated with our bad dice. He showed us how the dice were almost perfectly square -- again we had no argument with his findings. Then he pulled out his 50 year old all metal dice balancing caliper that weighed nearly 5 pounds and proceeded to spin the unbalanced dice --- the result was that the official NSGCB dice balancing equipment DID NOT WORK.
The State "Caliper" cups that held the dice were too deep so that the points of the dice could not touch the end of the cup, thereby forcing the 4 sides of the plastic dice near that point to rub against the metal cup. Therefore, the metal cup would act like a brake against the 4 sides of the dice and prematurely stop the dice from freely spinning to a stop. In effect gravity would not work on the official Nevada state caliper in much the same way gravity does not work on a car going down hill if one applies brakes to the wheels, thus stopping the car from freely going to where gravity would take it.
When we asked if the state had a newer or better caliper, the Agent answered that "the state only had 2 official calipers -- one in the Reno and one in Las Vegas and they were both exactly the same except that one was painted red and the other green." The Agent then went on to explain that the state had no intention of getting new calipers -- that this was the official one to be used in all court proceedings.
It was clear the state had no intention of getting the answer right. Even after we explained what was wrong with his caliper. Therefore calling a Nevada State Enforcement Agent to verify if casino dice are balanced is a waste of time.
Well, maybe we should do as God does .... or at least take the advise of an insider:
If taxpayers only knew just how shady the (Wall Street) markets have become, they would pull all their money out before you could say, “Let Me Know When It’s All Cleaned Up- And Only Then Will I Even Think Of Ever Investing Again.” Makes for a great T-shirt, don’t it?
I mean, who wants to play craps with loaded dice? It’s that simple. The only thing that separates Wall Street from gambling in Vegas in the first place, is that in Vegas, you are mostly at the mercy of luck. In the stock market, an investor armed with sufficient research and savvy is supposed to be able to have far more control over his “luck”, in predicting a stock will go the right way. Else, he would go to Vegas, put his money down - 50/50 - and pray.
Now, manipulation issues place Wall Street investing further and further into the Vegas gambling camp. So, a smart investor would simply say, “Well, if that’s the case, I’d rather go to Vegas - at least the food is better.”
For all those that doubt casinos would ever cheat, consider the words of a casino industry insider Bill Zender, former Nevada Gaming Control Agent and Director of Casino Operations at the Aladdin and author of How to Detect Casino Cheating at Blackjack. In his summation, Zender again emphasizes that cheating by casinos is rare, but not out of the question:
"In 1979 I joined the Nevada Gaming Control Board as an agent with their Enforcement Division. During my period with the board I learn quite a lot about card, dice, and slot cheating, as well as internal thefts and major scams. I also got involved in giving game protection seminars for many of the law enforcement agency in Nevada and throughout the western United States. At one point I was assigned to survey all the casinos in the rural areas of Nevada and to make sure they weren't taking unfair advantage of the public. In doing so I prepared myself by going over the files of all cow county casinos from the period starting in the 1960's through 1979. In those files I read about the different casinos that had been closed over the years for cheating the customers, what the investigations had found, and what the Gaming Board had done to prevent it from happening again. I also got to inspect and analysis numerous cheating device that had been seized from both casinos and cheater. The education I receive from my time with the NGCB was invaluable."
That was last century -- this century, the Nevada casinos in conjunction with the NGCB are increasing the house edge by using unbalanced dice as a countermeasure against Craps Advantage Players. The attitude of Nevada Gaming Control Board is that the assets of the state (and their salaries) must be protected from Craps Advantage Players. Until just a few years ago, you could walk into a Las Vegas casino and see the dice being balanced in the pit. In this century however, you will maybe see only 1 (Sahara) of the 30+ casinos in the Las Vegas area with craps tables utilize a dice balancing caliper -- just for show, because even they do not use the caliper correctly.
In fact you can take an unbalanced dice and spin it on different points and it will look like it is balanced to the untrained eye.
