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Title:

Get the Edge at Craps

Author:

Sharpshooter

Publisher:

Bonus Books

Date:

2002

ISBN:

1-56625-173-7

Pages:

314

Price:

$14.95

Reviewed by Nick Christenson, npc@lvrevealed.com

May 22, 2003

In summary, this book professes to lay out a course of study for itsreaders who want to become winners at the game of craps by providingsome element of control over the way they throw the dice. Does thiswork? The only response I can give to this question is that I don'thave any first-hand knowledge of whether it works or not. Regardless,dice control has become such a hot issue lately, so I feel it is importantto review this book.

The first thing I must say is that at the very least the amount of effort the author states is required to become an advantage craps player seemsplausible. That is, these techniques are not something that one can learnin an afternoon. Sharpshooter (a pseudonym, obviously) advises the readerthat hundreds of hours of practice will be required in order to erasethe house edge. In fact, I find the author's descriptions of practicemethods, throwing techniques, and the mechanics of dice motion to bequite reasonable and believable.

Despite the fact that most of the mathematical calculations in this book look correct, at least at first glance, there are many placeswhere I think the author doesn't properly consider some of the importantmathematical issues. Frankly, given the edge that the author claimsa good shooter should have over the house, often in excess of 5%, Idon't understand why the author isn't a multi-millionaire, even giventhe issue of handling casino heat. This edge is so great that advantage players of other games (such as blackjack or video poker) would sacrifice limbs for it. Why does the author want to increase his edge enough to be able to justify place and buy bets of the outside numbers? Why not just load up on placing the 6 and 8, bets with which the shooter ostensibly has a much greater edge? I'm only scratching the surface here. A great deal of math work remains to be done to find optimal betting techniques under these circumstances.

So, will this book do for craps what Beat the Dealer did for the game of blackjack? I don't think so, not by a long shot. First, as the author acknowledges, a shooter's edge will vary from table to table, from casino to casino, and hundreds to thousands of rolls willbe necessary on a particular table before enough information is availableto accurately calculate a player's true edge. Acquiring this informationcan be difficult, which would make advantage craps difficult to simulate at best. Further, the physical skills required to become an advantageplayer are considerable. Almost certainly they're beyond the patienceof the typical casino enthusiast, and it's entirely possible that they may be beyond most people's physical capabilities as well. Finally, if armies of winning dice players descend on the world's casinos, effective countermeasures will be just too easy to implement.

Despite these reservations, I found Get the Edge at Craps to be aninteresting book. While I don't know for a fact that these techniques may be employed to gain an advantage over the house, much of whatthe book describes does seem plausible. However, outside of technique,this book just scratches the surface of what would be possible for advantage players. If it is postulated that the game can be beaten, a great deal of work remains to be done to determine the best way to accomplish this. Also on the plus side, even if they don't work fora given player, at least the techniques described in this book won't hurt one's chances at the game, in contrast to the multitude of other silly systems that fill the pages of gambling literature.

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Can the techniques discussed in this book be used to beat the game of craps? My answer is, I don't know, but I find it at least conceivable that they might. This is something I didn't expect to say when I started reading the book. I also like the author's work ethic, he isn't trying to sell a get-rich-quick scheme. His betting advice, on the other hand, could stand some significant improvement and more rigorous methodology. Overall, though, this is an intriguing book that is worth checking out.

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