Comments on: How to Play Craps: A Simple Guide (Part II) http://www.muttrox.com/index.php/2010/03/how-to-play-craps-a-simple-guide-part-ii/ Critical Thinking Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:55:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Muttrox http://www.muttrox.com/index.php/2010/03/how-to-play-craps-a-simple-guide-part-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-205747 Muttrox Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:19:05 +0000 http://www.muttrox.com/?p=1880#comment-205747 I use Wagar's second approach. Roll them hard. If they bounce into someone's chips, so be it. Ole, this post actually got a lot of traffic. People do Google searches for "How to Play Craps" and ended up here. I use Wagar’s second approach. Roll them hard. If they bounce into someone’s chips, so be it.

Ole, this post actually got a lot of traffic. People do Google searches for “How to Play Craps” and ended up here.

]]> By: Ole Ole http://www.muttrox.com/index.php/2010/03/how-to-play-craps-a-simple-guide-part-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-205703 Ole Ole Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:30:36 +0000 http://www.muttrox.com/?p=1880#comment-205703 amusing post by wagar. i actually will be "don't pass" on people whose rolling style i don't like. muttrox must be running low on topics to post on craps. craps is my fav. game. i don't know anyone who learned to play craps by reading the rules. only way to learn is to play with a friend who know what they are doing, follow same betting pattern, and get explained - on the job training. otherwise, too intimidating to go in cold w/o being w/someone. if you play craps by the book, it's the best odds vs. the house. amusing post by wagar. i actually will be “don’t pass” on people whose rolling style i don’t like. muttrox must be running low on topics to post on craps. craps is my fav. game. i don’t know anyone who learned to play craps by reading the rules. only way to learn is to play with a friend who know what they are doing, follow same betting pattern, and get explained – on the job training. otherwise, too intimidating to go in cold w/o being w/someone. if you play craps by the book, it’s the best odds vs. the house.

]]> By: Wagar http://www.muttrox.com/index.php/2010/03/how-to-play-craps-a-simple-guide-part-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-205701 Wagar Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:42:05 +0000 http://www.muttrox.com/?p=1880#comment-205701 I think rolling the dice in craps is surprisingly hard. Particularly if you are standing all the way at the end. The house encourages rolls that hit the back wall -- I guess that way any miniscule chance that I had to fix the dice to roll a certain number go out the window, as it adds a random bounce to the dice. So getting the dice to the back wall from one end of the table to the other is not easy. You can always tell the seasoned vets because they can casually lob the dice up in the air, have them short-hop the wall, and stop right there -- like Tiger Woods plopping a ball with a sand wedge onto the green and having it spin to a stop. I'm not going to try "the lob", because God knows where the dice would end up. Probably on the floor, or in the mobster-looking guy's scotch-on-the-rocks. The alternative is to roll them like you'd roll dice on a Monopoly board. i.e. just roll them along the table, but hard enough so that they will eventually hit the back wall. This too is surprisingly hard, as the dice have sharp edges and corners, and bounce in unusual directions at times. So what happens in this scenario? I end up knocking over bets, people's chip piles, and bruising other people's knuckles. Not to mention getting dirty looks from the gallery -- "damn rookie...". Ah, screw it. Maybe I'll just go over to the blackjack table and let the house take my money in mere moments rather than delaying the inevitable through craps. I think rolling the dice in craps is surprisingly hard. Particularly if you are standing all the way at the end. The house encourages rolls that hit the back wall — I guess that way any miniscule chance that I had to fix the dice to roll a certain number go out the window, as it adds a random bounce to the dice. So getting the dice to the back wall from one end of the table to the other is not easy. You can always tell the seasoned vets because they can casually lob the dice up in the air, have them short-hop the wall, and stop right there — like Tiger Woods plopping a ball with a sand wedge onto the green and having it spin to a stop. I’m not going to try “the lob”, because God knows where the dice would end up. Probably on the floor, or in the mobster-looking guy’s scotch-on-the-rocks. The alternative is to roll them like you’d roll dice on a Monopoly board. i.e. just roll them along the table, but hard enough so that they will eventually hit the back wall. This too is surprisingly hard, as the dice have sharp edges and corners, and bounce in unusual directions at times. So what happens in this scenario? I end up knocking over bets, people’s chip piles, and bruising other people’s knuckles. Not to mention getting dirty looks from the gallery — “damn rookie…”. Ah, screw it. Maybe I’ll just go over to the blackjack table and let the house take my money in mere moments rather than delaying the inevitable through craps.

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