Midgley analyzes 40 hours of actual table play which took place in five Las Vegas casinos. Written by an engineer, it is designed to keep you away from sucker bets with a high house edge. Shows how dice actually perform compared to how mathematical probability dictates they should perform. 200 Pgs. 1980 Table of Contents Why This Book Has Been Written Why We Have Casinos Why This Book Is Different and A Look At Future Chapters It Takes Addicted People With High Hopes To Have A Lively Crap Game The Dice and Their Odds The Basic Game And The Basic Odds Why Contract Bets The Vertical and the Horizontal The Sucker Bets Fantasyland Into The Land of Reality Calculations Tabulations of Data
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Thomas Midgley began playing dice at age five, which began a lifelong fascination with the game. Midgley used his 60 years experience as a player, mathematician and craps systems researcher, plus 7,500 rolls of the dice under actual game conditions, to create this important work.
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