God Awful Things

Last night Jay taught us how to play craps. What a site it must’ve been if you’d been lucky enough to step into the back alley of the Short Stop…

A smoke filled alley, there at the end.. a group standing around, throwing money down while people shout out numbers..

I won 10 bucks… and fortunately I remember all the rules for playing in the future.
From the Wiki entry:

When throwing the dice, the player is expected to hit the farthest wall at the opposite end of the table. Some casinos refer to throws that do not hit the opposite wall as “Mellenberg Rolls.” Most casinos will allow a roll that does not hit the opposite wall as long as the dice are throw past the middle of the table, occasionally a short roll will be called a “no roll” due to the more controllable nature of such a roll. The dice may not be slid across the table and must be tossed. Typically, players are asked not to throw the dice higher than the eye level of the dealers.

Pretty interesting stuff… and it was surprisingly fun… I need to learn some of the techniques though, the Gamblers Fallacy technique is definitely a strongo gambling method.

Gambler’s fallacy
Other systems depend on the gambler’s fallacy, which in craps terms is the belief that past dice rolls influence the probabilities of future dice rolls. For example, the gambler’s fallacy indicates that a craps player should bet on eleven if an eleven has not appeared or has appeared too often in the last 20 rolls.
In reality, each roll of the dice is an independent event, so the probability of rolling an eleven is exactly 1/18 on every roll, even if eleven has not come up in the last 100 rolls, or if eleven has come up five times in the last five rolls. Even if the dice are actually biased toward particular results (“loaded”), each roll is still independent of all of the previous ones. The common term to describe this is “dice have no memory”.

On the way out I ran into Greg Dulli and asked if he would be the wedding singer at my upcoming wedding.. He said he may be interested, score.

also, I tried to find the etymology of “Suit Yourself” today, no dice.. snake eyes, box cars..