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    Get Dicey: Play Craps and Have Fun
    Get Dicey: Play Craps and Have Fun
    Get Dicey: Play Craps and Have Fun
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    Get Dicey: Play Craps and Have Fun

    By Tracy Falbe

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    Get Dicey: Play Craps and Have Fun is a no-nonsense straightforward guide to the game of casino craps. It's written in a friendly and entertaining style, and you won't be subjected to some tedious and stupid system that claims to beat the casino. You'll get the facts straight from a one-time Las Vegas craps dealer with thousands of hours of live game experience. You won't have to spend a bunch of money bungling around at a dice game trying to figure out how to play. Read Get Dicey instead, approach the dice table with confidence, and have fun from the very first roll of the dice. After reading Get Dicey, you'll know the good bets from the bad bets. You'll know how to ask your dealer for help. You'll know cool betting techniques that make the game interesting and help you get the most action out of your money. Impress your friends with your new knowledge of craps. Read Get Dicey. It's your own private consultation with a game expert who has seen it all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTracy Falbe
    Release dateFeb 17, 2011
    ISBN9780976223511
    Get Dicey: Play Craps and Have Fun
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    Tracy Falbe

    I have been hooked on fantasy and science fiction since preschool when I watched Star Trek the Original Series with my family on TV. Then came Star Wars at the theater when I was 5, and a few years later, I discovered the joys of reading fantasy with the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings.The elements I like most about the genres are the high stakes (save the world, overthrow the empire, etc.), the diversity of characters, and how magic or extraordinary technology allows plots to expand in interesting ways. The ability of fantasy and sci fi to include analysis and criticisms of social conditions like religion and politics is especially fascinating as well. When this is done in conventional fiction, people and readers descend into arguments about whether an opinion is valid or the historical information is accurate instead of assessing the concepts themselves.Of course, fantasy and sci fi can just be fun as well. I love a good hero or heroine and villains can be the best of all. And there is something therapeutic about picking up a sword or blaster and solving the problems of the world.My taste in genre has inevitably married itself to my love of writing. For some reason I am a person capable of writing novels. The act of creating thousands of pages of fiction does not overwhelm me. Making it a good work of fiction is the hard part that requires countless hours of editing and rewriting and lots of daydreaming too.When I'm not writing, my other passions include cooking, growing food, reducing my plastic waste, raising rabbits, spinning wool, and reading.

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      Get Dicey - Tracy Falbe

      Get Dicey

      Play Craps and Have Fun

      By Tracy Michigan

      Published by Tracy Falbe

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2005 All rights reserved

      Tracy Falbe also writes fantasy fiction. Discover her titles at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/braveluck

      For a paperback edition of Get Dicey: Play Craps and Have Fun go to http://www.getdicey.com/.

      This is a work of nonfiction that explains to the best of the author's ability how to play the casino game craps also known as dice. The information herein does not promise or guaranty that any person will win at craps, which is a game of chance designed to favor the casino. Get Dicey is meant to aid people who wish to play craps for entertainment and enjoy the game to its fullest potential.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      A note concerning the tables in this book. Many of the rules were illustrated through the use of tables in the original print edition. These tables have been adapted from the print version and presented as lists in the digital version. The information is the same and clear to read, but this simplification of the formatting was necessary in order to provide a good digital reading experience across numerous formats.

      Dedication

      To the Players

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Introduction

      Chapter One To Pass or Don’t Pass

      Chapter Two Place Bets and Buy Bets

      Chapter Three The Field of Dreams

      Chapter Four Proposition Bets The Tempting Desserts

      Chapter Five Power Pressing and Creative Play

      Chapter Six Etiquette and Protocol

      Chapter Seven The House Edge of the Sword

      Chapter Eight The House of the Rising Sun

      Works Cited

      Glossary

      Acknowledgements

      Thank you to David G. Schwartz, Ph.D., Coordinator of the Gaming Studies Research Center Lied Library at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for his pleasantness and recommendations for sources of information.

      Thank you to Robert C. Hannum, Ph.D. from the Department of Statistics and Operations Technology at the University of Denver for kindly providing me with a copy of Practical Casino Math, which assisted me greatly in describing the mathematics of casino games.

      Thank you to all of the casinos that employed me.

      About the Author

      Working six days a week as a craps dealer in Las Vegas, Nevada gave Tracy Michigan thousands of hours of experience with the game. Trained to know every option available on the casino craps table, Tracy interacted with countless players—yes, even Elvis—and learned creative and popular betting strategies during her career.

      In Get Dicey: Play Craps and Have Fun, Tracy shares her knowledge with readers that will allow them to play the game with savvy and have a good time doing it. Tracy knows what people are wondering when they approach the game for the first time. She knows what mistakes they might make, explains baffling rules, and advises players on how to communicate with casino staff.

      With humor and common sense, Tracy dispels the mysteries of casino craps, which, once understood, is actually quite elementary and very entertaining.

      Introduction

      The dice tables intrigue the casino visitor. Attended by rows of gently chirping video poker and slot machines, the dice game lounges like a sleeping dragon on its hoard of treasure. The colorful bank beckons with the promise of fast money.

      But if you have ever strayed close enough to peep at the felt, the boxes of numbers and meaningless labels offered no hints about how to play. Stern commands such as Come and Don’t Pass looked more like an outline of dog obedience training than a fun activity.

      Confronted by this puzzle, you consider more user-friendly games, but when you hear the collective roar from a craps game full of winners, your curiosity spikes. You want to be one of the happy people at the table. And, if the dice are hot, they are happy people.

      Fortunately, the basic concepts of play are easy to learn, and if the gaming gods are willing, you will be collecting on odds bets and pressing place bets in a frenzy of action.

      Get Dicey: Play Craps and Have Fun will teach you everything you need to know about playing the game along with the nuances of betting, game etiquette, and the numbers that explain the good and bad bets.

      Just remember: there are six ways to make a seven.

      This is a good thing.

      This is a bad thing.

      Table I.i The Craps Table

      Players gather around the Pass Lines at the edges of the table. Base dealers stand at the rear of the game behind the boxed numbers, and a stick dealer stands at the front of the game in front of the proposition box. Players have direct access to the Pass Line, Don’t Pass, Field, Big 6, Big 8, Come, and Don’t Come. Other betting areas require interaction with the dealer in order to place bets.

      Primary Bets

      Pass Line

      Don’t Pass

      Field

      Come

      Don’t Come

      Place Bets (4, 5, six, 8, nine, 10)

      Proposition Box (Includes hardways, horn bets, any craps, any seven, eleven, two, three, twelve, and any one-roll bet designated by the player.)

      Chapter One To Pass or Don’t Pass

      The great difficulty in learning any casino game during live action is that you will not always know why you were paid. Or, more commonly, why the dealer just snatched your money like a factory worker plucking defective product from the conveyor belt. Craps to the untutored player will be no exception. A little familiarization with the basic rules of craps will serve you well before throwing your money down that first time.

      The Bare Bone Basics

      The craps game will have five dice on the table, and the shooter will select two for play. By using two six-sided dice for play, all rolls will equal a number between two and twelve. The remaining three dice will be set aside in a bowl in front of the person working the stick. If one or both of the live dice land in the bowl during a roll, the dealer with the stick, who makes most game calls, will announce, No roll, in the bowl, or any variation on that statement. When dice fly off the table, land in the table racks, or on top of the bank, the roll will be declared null as well. All other rolls of the two dice on the game surface will be valid.

      When you first arrive at a table, the game will be at one of only two stages of play. The game will either be coming out or have a point number. The circular pucks on each end of the table indicate the stage of the game. When the black side of the puck is up, it will generally read OFF, which means that the table is coming out. If the white side of the puck is up, it will generally read ON, which means that the table has a point number.

      The most commonly known aspects of craps take place when the game is coming out. Any roll that occurs when a game is coming out will be called a come out roll. Most bets on the table will be inactive at this time, and players will be betting on the pass line or don’t pass line. A bet on the pass line will win on any roll of seven or eleven. The pass line bet will lose on any roll of two, three, or twelve. These are the craps rolls.

      Table 1.1 Come Out Roll Rules for Line Bets

      Pass Line Coming Out

      Wins on seven and eleven

      Loses on two, three, or twelve

      Don’t Pass Coming Out

      Wins on two or three

      Pushes on twelve

      Loses on

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