A New Shooter Has the Dice: How to Maximize Your Winnings, and Minimize the House’S Advantage When Playing Casino Craps.

By Mike Stringer

A New Shooter Has the Dice is not a complicated playing system but easy-to-use table tactics that help you understand Americas favorite casino table game: craps. Youll quickly grasp the basic best bets while you learn how to manage your money, and more important, manage your time. Learn when to recognize a hot table streak, as well as a cold streak. And youll learn what to do about eachall to your advantage and the casinos disadvantage. Youll no longer be intimidated by the fast play or the complicated layout. And youll learn about the bets that are easy to make and follow and arent marked on the craps table layout.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jul 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9781475996579

Mike Stringer

Mike Stringer has provided craps playing strategies and tips to others for over twenty-fi ve years. A business executive and entrepreneur who has visited casinos and played craps as entertainment for years, Mike has frequently found himself with money in his pocket after a visit to Las Vegas, Reno, or Atlantic City.

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A NEW SHOOTER

HAS THE DICE

How to Maximize Your Winnings

and Minimize the House’s Advantage

When Playing Casino Craps

Mike Stringer

iUniverse LLC

Bloomington

A NEW SHOOTER HAS THE DICE

How to Maximize Your Winnings

and Minimize the House’s Advantage When Playing Casino Craps

Copyright © 2013 by Mike Stringer.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2013911404

iUniverse rev. date: 07/10/2013

CONTENTS

Introduction

1.   There Is No System; There Is Only A Plan

2.   The Game

3.   Let’s Do The Math

4.   The Betting Options

5.   Don’t Make These Sucker Bets

6.   The Best Bet In The Casino

7.   It’s About Time

8.   It’s About Money

9.   Playing One Number Or More?

10.   When You Want A Third Number Working

11.   Other Acceptable Craps Table Bets

12.   Going Over To The Dark Side

13.   Etiquette

14.   It’s About Having Fun

One Last Thing

INTRODUCTION

On a warm summer night in 1981, Joe and I walked confidently up to the craps table at the Hyatt Lake Tahoe Casino. I was relatively new to the game but believed I had figured out how to make great bets and was anxious to show Joe how it’s done. Some thirty-five minutes later, we were stunned by what had happened at the crowded craps table.

Of the eight or nine players at the $5 minimum table, two shooters (dice rollers) had rolled the dice continuously for those thirty or so minutes while crapping out only once. Joe and I were more than $300 ahead. We had resolutely played my system of placing (or betting on) the number 6 and the number 8 at the top of the table. Despite this success, I was troubled by the reaction of the casino employees who were watching the play at our table. The stickman, who controls the dice between rolls at the table, and the pit boss, who watches over several tables from the center of the craps area, had become very interested in the play at our table.

Both the stickman and the pit boss, who had walked up to the table early in the long hand roll, were smiling and slowly shaking their heads throughout the winning roll. It was as if they knew something no one else knew; they seemed to be enjoying an inside joke.

After it was clear that the dice had turned cold with three quick crap outs for the next shooter, the pit boss smiled and said, Okay, how many millionaires at the table now? It was at that moment I knew there was a large chunk of information I didn’t have about how to play craps.

Later, we followed the pit boss as he headed for the break room and asked him, What were you thinking during that long roll?

You guys know how rarely a streak like that happens?’ he answered. It’s too bad you weren’t moving your bets up rather than just buying $6 numbers over and over. He said that without a customer-service smile on his face. Then he went on, I see player after player miss those short streaks, and others who try to double up as the table goes cold. If you’re going to play with dice, you’d better learn the game, and I’m not just talking about the probabilities of each roll."

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