{"id":10237,"date":"2020-11-15T23:44:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T23:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2020\/11\/15\/practice-night\/"},"modified":"2020-11-15T23:44:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T23:44:48","slug":"practice-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2020\/11\/15\/practice-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Threw the dice for a quick practice the other night. \u00a0First toss was a four. Second toss was a ten. Ok. Good numbers for this dice set. Third toss results in a seven. Hmm. Too much back spin? Finger grip? \u00a0Was the landing on spot before the wall? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0Fourth \u00a0toss results in another seven. Fifth toss seven. Ok I am thinking. At least I&#8217;m being consistent now. Thinking back to what Dr. Crapology showed me about my finger grip. Made adjustment and cut the back spin. ( If I was in the Casino and had that one last COME BET to bring down.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Rolled again with a four. Rolled one more time with a hard ten showing. Ah &#8211; felt good. Went back to the television.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Dr Crapology on November 16, 2020, 1:02 am<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Lob, glad Rose and I could be of help to you.\u00a0 It is always best to check on the grip as taught in the class.\u00a0 Good self critique.<\/p>\n<p>We have a lot of students say something like &#8220;I am hitting a lot of 6&#8217;s and 8&#8217;s so will use the 3V set&#8221; or &#8220;I am hitting a lot of 4&#8217;s and 10&#8217;s so I will use the 2V set.&#8221;\u00a0 If you use the hard way set you will hit plenty of the above numbers if your grip is correct.\u00a0 I know when we are on we usually hit a lot of 6&#8217;s and 8&#8217;s and know we are on.\u00a0 After the dreaded 7 these two numbers have the most combinations&#8211;28% of the total 36 possible combinations..\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Great post.\u00a0 Look forward to seeing you in the future when this pandemic is over.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Take care and be save.<\/p>\n<p>Rose and Doc<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Dominator on November 16, 2020, 3:30 pm<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Remember that in all this practice that you might take 3 steps backwards and then BOOM &#8211; 10 steps forward. In the beginning, please don&#8217;t concentrate on the numbers. instead concentrate on if the dice look good in the air and are landing together<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dom<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Dr Crapology on November 16, 2020, 11:14 pm<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Amen, Dom.<\/p>\n<p>Rose and Doc<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Cotton Lob on November 18, 2020, 9:47 pm<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>@dominator I know what you are talking about Dom. I remember standing at the end of the table when the instructors gave us students a demonstration by each throwing the dice. My eyes were locked on those dice coming at me in perfect alignment with that slight rotation. I remember that like it was yesterday. \u00a0I recall visiting the Big Indian the Spring after attending the Vegas Class and doing just that. I impressed myself and everyone else at the table. The dealer blurted out &#8220;we got a shooter at the table&#8221;. \u00a0Never had so much fun.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Cotton Lob on November 18, 2020, 9:54 pm<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>@dr-crapology \u00a0 Doc and Rose, The class is all brick and mortar until we fine &#8211; tweak our game. It wasn&#8217;t until the last hours of the last day of class until \u00a0I had the ahah moment. It then takes hundreds upon hundreds of thoughtful dice throws to set it in stone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Jeremy Young on December 28, 2020, 10:34 pm<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to see I&#8217;m not the only one this happens to.\u00a0 I did a 20 toss last night and out came the 7.\u00a0 AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!\u00a0 Took a break, came back, and it was 5 2 then 6 1.\u00a0 Very same thing happened today during practice.\u00a0 But, even though I had purchased the throwing and receiving stations, I had never gotten to 20 rolls before taking the class.\u00a0 And @dominator is 100% correct about the 3 steps backwards and then BOOM totally out of nowhere.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threw the dice for a quick practice the other night. \u00a0First toss was a four. Second toss was a ten. Ok. Good numbers for this dice set. Third toss results in a seven. Hmm. Too much back spin? Finger grip?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}