On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
The only trouble is, depending on the kind of craps game it is, after enough wins like that they'll either escort you out of the casino telling you to never return, or they'll beat you up in a back alley.
Sure eventually you'll get barred. But my friends on the MIT blackjack team took 7 figures from the casinos before that happened. And since it was known that blackjack was beatable at the time, but the casino thinks that craps is not beatable, it would take them even longer to bar you. And to answer Alan, in casino craps dice are thrown from your hand; dice cups are not used. But the dice are required to bounce off of the irregularly shaped back wall of the table. Andy
--Dan
On 2012-09-21, at 6:59 AM, Andy Latto wrote:
I bet if one "rolled" a cubic dice more like the standard coin toss one could strongly bias the outcome (against the faces intersected by the rotation axis).
Provided you don't think this bias is almost completely undone by requiring the die to bounce against an irregularly-shaped surface before it lands, there are any number of casinos willing to take your bet. You don't even need a strong bias; a bias of 5% or so on the individual dice should be big enough to get the 2% bias you need on the total to make money at the craps table.
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