The following year I went down to Tunica to teach a dice control class. I do not want to go to jail in Mississippi. I know many of you have seen “My Cousin Vinny” and you think it is a comedy. Most were “trespassing” offenses (if I came back I would get arrested for trespassing) and a couple were a little scary (although the scariest banning that ever happened to me was in the early 1990s in Vegas). I went into three more and out I was escorted. (I have the full story of this in my book The Virgin Kiss.) I was threatened with arrest if I returned (the banning in Fitzgerald’s was nasty the banning at the Grand – now Harrah’s – was almost comical – it took eight suits to do it the banning at Sam’s Town was weird because I hadn’t even started playing) and the pit boss at Gold Strike let me know that no matter what casino I went into I would get the heave-ho.

In Tunica, in a single week, I was banned from every casino. (“If you come back to this casino in the future you will be arrested for trespassing.”) Although casinos in Vegas, other Nevada venues, Mississippi and in most of the Midwest casinos don’t have to give a reason, they usually do.

Yes, a dice controller can be barred (“Sir, you can play any other game in the casino but you cannot shoot the dice at craps.”) or banned. So he is the exception to my experience.) Why bother losing beverage money when the “tap on the shoulder” can start the heave-ho-ing? (Note: Alan Mendelson mentioned in a post that he got the “tap” at several Vegas casinos and he had no dice control skill. I’ve never seen a drink spilled on someone who has had hot rolls in order to cool him off, whether that someone is merely a dice setter or a dice controller. I’ve never personally seen a plain, old dice setter who does not have a controlled throw bounced (other than for drunkenness or that kind of thing). No longer a totally random game in this case.Ĭan a “dice setter” be thrown out of the casinos? Yes. Here the object isn’t just a dice set but some control of the outcome of a roll. The dice controller (dice influencer) on the other hand not only sets the dice but takes care with his roll. Often these “dice setters” will wing the dice down the table where they bounce all over the place after hitting the back wall. This is nothing more than just setting the dice. A tremendous number of players set the dice this way, that way, some other way. First let me make a distinction between “dice setting” and controlled shooting.

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