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Crap Shooters Wake Up and Smell the Roses

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What i liked about this book was that there was hardly any filler, many craps/gambling books spend 75% of the book on explaining basic rules of the game, which is annoying as not all books should have that. This book skipped all the basic craps knowledge and assumes you know what a pass line, come bet is etc. Most of the book was actually spent talking about the strategy he uses when playing craps.

A Five Star Rip-Off ***** !

At just under 50 pages this might seem like a light and tight treatise on
a new, or well tried old theory of winning at craps. This is not correct.

The text fits on two and a half, maybe three type written sheets of paper. The author seems unfamiliar with the name of the game, "Craps", and is always calling it "Crap". [Correction 9/14/2010: Just been reading Scarne on Dice and he also refers to it as "crap" now and then.]

The tables added are not only not new but the most important, table 4, is very clearly torn from some book or magizine, badly xeroxed and pasted in place. Even if this table added untold insight it is fuzzy and illegible as presented. Had they wanted to make a proper job of it they could have had this table typed out again by an adult.

Even in a short review the basic theory and big "secret" is hard not to tip, but that would not be fair. It is fair to say that the "secret" is one of the worst methods chosen from a list of old betting methods, most entirely discredited, and amplified with the most ignorant use of available bets. Worse advice cannot be found.

The secret method relies partly on the idea that a streak [The "5 Count"], once begun and detected(?!), is no longer subject to the rules of probability. The dice are in a new state: "lucky". The advantages as stated are entirely mistaken and the bets as they ramp up are astonishingly bad.

To prop the thing up to 49 pages they have added a Glossary. This is also typed out to take up major space and is jam packed with such advanced terms as "Dice" and "Chips". This is significant in that the basics of the game are Not described, they assume a knowledgeable audience. Fine, but then why the kiddy glossary? Answer: more filler.

The book as seen at Amazon seems to compare to more substantial texts. In reality this tiny thing is made with the same quality of the horoscope books at the grocery checkout. Not only an amateur gambler's fantasy but an amateur publishing effort.

Pretty picture on the cover, though.

Overpriced at two bucks.

Far, far better is Winning Casino Craps (Other). Strategies from this book are repeated in many other more recent books on craps since they have held up.