\nCasino Player \/ Scoblete \/ February 2011 <\/p>\n
\tScobe Speaks by Frank Scoblete <\/p>\n
\tOne Year Without the Man <\/p>\n
\tThe man who taught me everything I know about gambling died on February 10, 2010 at the age of 88. It was snowing heavily at the moment of his death. Had the wind been slightly stronger it would have been called a blizzard. Those of you familiar with the great individuals of history and of mythology know that great events take place when a great person is born or dies \u2013 moving stars, titanic winds, earthquakes. Certainly, it was probably merely coincidence that the severe weather reflected the passing of this great man. <\/p>\n
\tMany of you know who I\u2019m talking about \u2013 his nickname was the Captain, a legendary Atlantic City craps player and leader of the \u201cCrew\u201d of 22 high rollers. Some observers liked to call his group \u201cthe pumpkin patch\u201d for the color of the chips they wagered. <\/p>\n
\tThe Captain revolutionized the game of craps during the 1980s and 1990s with his ideas and his successful play. Today it is common to see craps players setting the dice, taking care with their throws, playing and discussing such things as controlled shooting, rhythmic rolling and the 5-Count, his method of eliminating 57 percent of the random rolls while playing the game. <\/p>\n
\tIndeed, before the Captain no one talked about how to legally beat the casino game of craps with a controlled dice throw, what he called in the late 1970s \u201crhythmic rolling.\u201d He was able to push the casinos to offer a better game than they advertised by using \u201cbuy\u201d bets on the 4 and 10 which were way out of proportion to what casinos had allowed previously. <\/p>\n
\tToday, my company Golden Touch craps and I teach classes in how to control the dice, how to properly use the 5-Count and how to bet appropriately into a dice controller\u2019s real edge. We use the Captain\u2019s concepts throughout our classes. There are also dice control classes taught by others as well. Indeed the first formal dice control class used a variation of the Captain\u2019s \u201crhythmic rolling\u201d by calling dice control \u201crhythm rolling.\u201d No credit was given to the Captain by that company\u2019s owner. <\/p>\n
\tSadly, there are individuals who jealously try to deny the Captain the thanks and glory the rest of us craps players should give him. Such bitter denials don\u2019t matter, really, as denials by the envious often represent tacit though begrudging agreement. <\/p>\n
\tWhen I first presented the Captain\u2019s ideas and related his casino adventures, many critics claimed the great man did not exist; that he was a fiction created by me to sell books. <\/p>\n
\tWell, I certainly sold an amazing number of books to craps players hungry for the Captain\u2019s extraordinary ideas but over the years so many individuals have met the Captain, played with the Captain or talked to him over the phone that it is now impossible for any but the most dense to deny that the Captain is everything I said he was. With the exception of Satch and his wife Annette, and my wife the Beautiful AP and me, the Captain\u2019s \u201ccrew\u201d now plays craps in the heavenly kingdom. <\/p>\n
\tI wrote about the Captain\u2019s ideas of dice control and the 5-Count in my 1993 collector\u2019s item book The Captain\u2019s Craps Revolution!<\/em> And I have now put all his ideas and betting methods into my latest two books Casino Craps: Shoot to Win!<\/em> and Cutting Edge Craps: Advanced Strategies for Serious Players!<\/em> In Cutting Edge Craps <\/em>I have a whole chapter about the Captain\u2019s remarkable 147 number roll too, which was the world record until Pat DeMauro broke it in 2009. Her roll is recounted in Casino Craps: Shoot to Win! <\/em><\/p>\n \tOver the years many brilliant men have refined and expanded on the Captain\u2019s ideas based on long-term computer research and experience. We now have computer analysis of the 5-Count and stunning information about on-axis dice throws which indicate radical betting styles as the best way to exploit one\u2019s edge. Dan Pronovost, a computer expert from Canada, created a software program called SmartCraps that can tell a player if he has any on-axis dice control ability and if he does, what are the best dice sets and bets he should make. <\/p>\n \tNone of this would have been possible or even conceivable had not the Captain led the way. His concepts were a blinding light in an otherwise dreary approach to the game of craps. <\/p>\n \tI enjoyed the years I knew the Captain. I played with him so many times in Atlantic City and got to watch in action the Babe Ruth of craps. Think of what it is like to be at the table with the best of the best; awesome is too trite a word to describe such a feeling. <\/p>\n \tI feel a profound sadness at this first anniversary of the Captain\u2019s death. While I now play with a new crew, known as the Five Horsemen, no one can replace the Captain. In fact, no mention of the Captain can be complete without mentioning \u201cthe Arm,\u201d a woman who was the greatest dice controller I ever saw. She and the Captain were an amazing team. She passed away in June of 2007. <\/p>\n \tOur greatest writer, Shakespeare wrote: \u201cDo not measure your sorrow by his worth \/ for then it has no end.\u201d And Dr. Seuss wrote: \u201cDon\u2019t cry because it\u2019s over. Smile because it happened.\u201d<\/p>\n No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Casino Player \/ Scoblete \/ February 2011 Scobe Speaks by Frank Scoblete One Year Without the Man The man who taught me everything I know about gambling died on February 10, 2010 at the age of 88. It was snowing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gtc-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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