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Surveying, the lay of the table
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Before you learn how to play craps and start to play, you need to know the landscape. You play craps on a long, narrow, felt-covered table (see Figure 8-2) that has a foot-high ridge running all the way around, making it the perfect mini-arena for tossing dice - or racing hamsters. The standard craps table […]
Shooting for the whole table
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008The shooter is a key character in craps because she’s the player who’s rolling the dice. In craps, shooting, or dice rolling, is a rotating affair. Each player gets a turn to roll for the entire table, and the honor moves clockwise around the table. When your turn comes around, the stickman pushes five dice […]
The founding father of card counting
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Once upon a time, craps was king of all casino games, and blackjack lagged far behind in popularity. That pecking order changed dramatically when Dr. Ed Thorp, a professor from MIT, developed a system for counting cards in 1961. His work showed that blackjack is a game of skill; how you play the cards and […]
