LuckyG had a great suggestion for a thread … Practice tips!
Here is what I do. I will practice everyday for at least 15 minutes to 20 minutes. I will warm up by throwing the dice. If I see something wrong with those few tosses, I will correct what I believe to be the problem. Things like my arm swing, or usually it is a grip thing.
Then I take $300 worth of chips as my buy in and proceed to play a game. My game will either be placing the 6/8 for $30 or two come bets of $10 with max odds. I will give myself 3 to 4 turns with the dice. My object is to double my buy in after those 3 to 4 turns. The real excitement comes when I am down to my last "All in" and I bring myself all the way back. This just reinforces in me that "I can do it!" It also shows that at any given turn is where the big roll comes. If I do the double up after my first turn, I quit.
Twice a week, I just throw into a bowl to try to get both dice to land in the bowl and stay in the bowl. I have a record that I strive for and try to beat. I will move this bowl around the table to really practice my "Target Shooting". To be a great dice controller you need to put your dice where ever you want.
Dominator
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Posted by: Mr Finesse on February 21, 2013, 3:29 pm
Since retiring I only practice in a practice rig with a throwing station, which is all one needs to become a very good thrower but if you have room for a table this is the best.
I only throw the dice 2 or 3 day’s a week now and I primarily work on my delivery and target shooting.
Delivery shooting is checking to make sure my backswing is slow and straight back, then making sure my forward motion is straight towards my target or landing area. This is done by pacing mirrors in different positions so I do not have to move my head, I just shift my eyes from mirror to mirror.
Target shooting is done the same way Dom does it by throwing into bowls. I have 3 different sizes that I use, 6in, 4 in and 2 1/2 inch(this one is square). When I am throwing into the bowls I have a bucket that has 200 pair of dice in it, I just dump it out and pick them up 2 at a time and keep on tossing, I have found that once I have thrown 40 in a row I need to take a break, back gets stiff.(getting old 🙂 )
One thing that I do every day is work on my grip, this is where it all starts and ends. I have dice everywhere except the powder room, that is for reading.
The other thing I do is practice with dice similar to the dice of the casino I will be playing in. An example of this is one casino I play on will use frosted dice so the week before I go there I practice with frosted dice. I do not think I have to explain why this is done.
I hope this topic will generate many more questions, I will be looking forward to answering them.
Posted by: getagrip on February 24, 2013, 8:29 pm
I think we need some more answers on this thread so I will post my practice routine as well. It really isn’t all that different from the others. Unlike Mr Finesse, I actually find that I practice much more since I have retired. Only because I now have more time and can practice for small increments throughout the day.
My morning practice routine starts with gripper practice at my throwing station. Amounts of things will vary but I usually do this about 6 times. I pick up the dice from the gripper and put them down. Then I regrip them and try to put them back in the gripper to make sure I have done it correctly. I also use mirrors and visual inspection to make sure that my fingers and thumb are in the proper alignment.
Next I use my brick/barrel dice and throw those about 6-12 times to check for wobble, landing or anything else that looks amiss. Will throw these until I think I have corrected the problem and the dice look good. Next I Imove to the drill of throwing the dice into a bowl or in my case a rectangular tupperware like container. Nothing else gets done until I get all of my dice to land in the bowl. I am not at the point yet of demanding that the dice stay in the container instead of hopping out but that is my ultimate goal in this drill—and also to move the target around to different places and still get the dice to go in.
I come back later in the afternoon for another practice session and spend that one working on any problems identified from the morning drills or if the dice were good in the morning then I will throw and record numbers for Smart Craps statistics.
Depending on my other activities I will do an evening session where I practice a casino session and work on any betting plans and pay outs that interest me or need work.
I do usually have a pair of dice within reach when I watch TV so I can play with them during commercials. I am in the process of trying to teach myself a right handed grip so I spend half of my time with the left hand and half with the right hand.
Guess that is about it for how my practice time is spent!
Posted by: Goddess on February 25, 2013, 9:20 pm
A big problem was identified during my video analysis as to my release and the position of my hand. I now have a floor length mirror hanging on the door behind my receiving station so I can see my release.
I practice on components, such as straight back, hand release, etc., until I am satisfied without worrying about the actual number result. When I am satisfied with the feel and how things look, then I put it all together. I then practice 15 minutes at a time, or until the 7 shows, whichever comes first.
Goddess
Posted by: Dice Pilot on February 25, 2013, 9:34 pm
I like to shoot and record each session in groups of 36 rolls. I take my results and tally up how many 4/10, 5/9, 6/8, 7’s and crap numbers in and compare them to a random roller. I use different dice sets on different practice days to measure the strength and weakness of each set.
The key is to keep the practice sessions interesting. If you are not learning something new at each session, than boredem and stagnation will set in.
Posted by: Dr Crapology on February 25, 2013, 11:32 pm
A last thing that we will do is to play with chips, we do this two different ways. First we play just like in the casino. With a 7-out we take the chips on the table and the other will shoot. The second way is to not count the 7 rolls. Why??? We want to keep rolling. This is drill is to let us get used to pressing our bets when we have a long roll. We may take 50 roll or more to get used to a long roll When we get a long roll we want to be ready to go and make the most of the roll.
Last but by no means last, as Finesse says, always practice the grip–everywhere you are.
Doc and Alligator Rose
