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Craps Myths


Separating fact from fiction

The Casino is there to take your money as fast as it can.
The casino actually offers you an almost-even game with the house, as long as you're smart enough to make the right bets. Betting the Pass Line and full double odds means your mathematical expectation is to win back 99.4% of what you wager. That's a far cry from taking your money as fast as possible. Also, while the casino may hope you lose, the casino employees don't. The Dealers are rooting for you to win because that is the only way that they will get tipped (toked). Dealers are happy when players are winning. For a dealer there is nothing worse than working all day watching players making stupid bets and losing their money.
The House changes dealers intentionally to change your luck.
Dealers on the Craps Table are rotated every 20 minutes -- 20 on stick, and 20-20 on the two base positions. Then a dealer takes a 20 minute break. The only other time that dealers are changed is on shift changeover, or when a job candidate auditions, or when a break-in dealer is overloaded with action and is replaced by a more tenured dealer in order to keep the game moving.
If the Stickman sends out the dice to a shooter with a 7 showing it is bad luck.
Professional stickpersons just don't send the dice out on a 7 anyway. However, sometimes the dice hit chips or tumble unintentionally when being sent to the shooter, sometimes ending up on a 7. Most hot-shot players usually pre-set the dice to their preference or shake them up anyway. This myth is just based on players not understanding that the odds of a 7 being rolled are one out of six no matter how you look at it.
When the dice or a die bounces off the table it is bad luck.
There is no such thing as something causing bad luck, there is just the fact that the odds of rolling a 7 are one in six. The biggest complainer about a 7 rolling after a die has bounced off the table is usually the shooter who couldn't control the dice in the first place, or the shooter who calls SAME DICE and then moans and whines when his SAME DICE seven-out.
A "Virgin" Shooter is good luck.
There is no such thing as something causing good luck. First-time shooters are only remembered when they have a good roll and quickly forgotten when they seven-out.
So and so is a good shooter.
Shooting dice is not a skill, it's a matter of luck and mathematics.
7 and 11 are lucky numbers
There is no such thing as a lucky number. Seven and eleven probably got their reputation for being lucky because either one will win a Come-Out roll. But betting on seven or eleven individually are the absolute worst bets on the table. The dealers consider it an insult when someone bets on 7 or 11 for them.

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