Craps is beatable because customers are allowed to toss the dice, and skillful crapshooters generate results that differ from random enough so that customers have the edge over the casino on some bets.
I�ve been studying craps for about a year. I�ve read much of what has been written about beating the game, have taken Frank Scoblete�s �Golden Touch Craps� course, and have benefitted from advice from dice coach Beau Parker. I�ve practiced enough so that I personally can hold my frequency of sevens down to 1:6.5 or better, compared to 1:6 for random rolls. 1:6.5 is good enough for me to enjoy about the same edge over the casinos as casinos enjoy over random shooters. I put in a couple of hundred hours as a customer at crap tables during 2004, and have several thousand dollars of winnings to show for it. Various green chippers who joined me at the tables and bet on my rolls have won thousands more.
I am not particularly coordinated. There are skilled crapshooters who are much more coordinated than me, and whose SRRs (sevens to rolls ratios) are much better than mine, and who thus are capable of winning money much faster than me.
In September 2004 we had a challenge: 500 rolls, with Little Joe Green and I betting that we would roll fewer than 79.5 sevens. Random would have been 83.3 sevens. Little Joe is a green chipper who learned to toss dice a few months before I did, and who is more skillful than me. Little Joe and I combined for 74 sevens, winning the challenge. The green chippers who monitored the challenge also bet on the 500 rolls, winning thousands of dollars.
I�m writing a book on beating craps. The book is a long way from completion, but I have finished writing the most important parts of it, the parts that tell you how to toss the dice, how to know when you are good enough to have an edge over the casino, and what bets to make. I�m making that part of the book available now at a high price while I�m working on the rest of the book. The part that is available now is called Wong on Dice, and is $199. To order it, click on �Our Catalog� on the top of BJ21. Green chippers get a 10% discount.
Wong on Dice is 34 pages in 8.5 by 11 format.
Pages 3-6, �The Rules of Craps,� is a rewrite of chapter 11 of Casino Tournament Strategy.
Pages 7-11, �Playing Craps in a Casino,� is mostly new material. Some of the items in it appear in other books on craps and have been discussed on the Craps page of BJ21.
Pages 12-19, �Tossing Dice�: The basic material on grip and alignment and the concept of SRR exist in other books on craps, and the rest of the chapter has never before appeared in print, including the four-item checklist I use on every toss of the dice, getting an edge through correlation, the 45 different dice sets, the logic of how to choose which sets to use and why, and estimating SRR and using it to make decisions. The terms �good seven� and �bad seven� are used for the first time.
Pages 20-23, �Practice Tips,� is all new to the literature. Included is a description of how you can test yourself to see if your skill has advanced to the point have an edge over casinos.
Pages 24-28, �Money Management,� is all new to the literature. Most important are the parts on estimating your edge, what to bet, come-out bets, optimal bet size, pressing bets, and estimating win rate per hour. The term �seven exposure� is used for the first time. There also is a section on betting on a random roller.
Pages 29-32 contain a glossary. Pages 33-34 contain an index.
Wong on Dice is a work in progress. It will be revised continuously based on feedback from readers. Most of the revisions will be minor, and most of the new material will be of less importance than the material that already exists. Any new material that we think has value comparable to that of pages 7-28 will be sent to previous purchasers of the $199 manuscript.
Anybody who buys Wong on Dice for $199 will automatically receive the first edition of the book, assuming I finish writing it.
At some future time, my material on beating craps will be offered at a much lower price. So if you want Wong on Dice but would rather buy it for a lower price, just wait a year or two and it probably will be available for $20 or so.
Stanford Wong
