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Good video on dice setting.

I just watched another good dice setting video. You can see it by clicking here . The dice are set with a 6 and 5 on top and the threes facing you prior to throwing. The throw is made with a slow, pendulum motion and slight backspin. The main point of this video is that you need to make adjustments if you keep throwing sevens. The only adjustment he makes in the video is to move the dice, so that the one that was on the left side is now on the right. (Watch the video and you'll see what I mean.) I know it doesn't seem like much but this adjustment makes a big difference. He goes from throwing three sevens in his first 6 rolls, to throw I eat 10 straight rolls without a seven. It's a really small sample size obviously, but it might indicate a real-world difference. Now I am still not convinced that all this will work , but I am going to give it another try.  My next time out I will use the same grip set and throwing motion, along with the "Iron Cross" beting s...

More adventures in dice setting.

Last night I continued my empirical research on dice setting, with mixed results. Let me tell you about it. So I was back at the Bonanza Casino, on North Virginia Street about 3 miles north of downtown, where the craps table has either a $2 or $3 minimum until 6 pm on most weekdays. I bought in for my usual hundred, and placed $5 on the pass line. My plan was the same as it usually is when I play craps: $5 pass line with max odds, and then place the 6 and 8 for $12 each, once a point is established. I'm continuing with the same way of setting that I said I've done before, which is to have the five and one touching each other on the inside. I also noticed that the threes face me as I set the dice, in kind of a V formation. I then used my three finger/one thumb grip and through the dice to the far end of the table as before, as low and slow as I possibly can. (I've taken to calling this a "low energy" dice toss.) So what were the results? I threw a lot of sevens ...