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[Michael Yardley]

www.google.com searh string on "Dominic LoRiggio" brings up this hit.


March 25, 2005

Skill and bones: Teaching how to control the dice
By ELAINE ROSE Staff Writer, (609) 272-7215, E-Mail

It's every dice player's dream.

You're standing at the table with the bones in your hand. You make
point after point, and the other players cheer you with each roll. The
chips seem to fly from the stacks in front of the dealers to the racks
in front of you and the others at the table. By time you "seven out,"
ending your streak, you've been shooting for almost an hour.

If they're lucky, most craps players will live out this scenario once
or twice in a lifetime. But Frank Scoblete and Dominic "Dominator"
LoRiggio claim to have done it several times.

Their secret? Learning to control the way they toss the dice, so that
when their turn comes to be the shooter, they have an advantage over
the casino.

Scoblete, LoRiggio and several colleagues from Golden Touch Craps were
in southern New Jersey recently to impart this skill to more players.
About 15 men from as far away as Virginia and Maine paid $1,295 each
for a two-day seminar held at the Casino Gaming Institute in
Pleasantville.

Words of warning before you give two weeks' notice at work and head
into the casinos to earn a living: This skill takes months of
dedicated practice and lots of discipline before you gain a
statistical advantage, Scoblete said.

"A good shooter can get a 10 percent edge (over the house). But you're
not going to find many people who are that good," Scoblete said in a
phone interview from his home in Long Island, N.Y. "It's easy to talk
about and easy to explain. Just try to do it. It really does take a
lot of work and a lot of practice. It's a high-level skill."

This skill was originally developed in the late 1970s by a man known
simply as The Captain, who is said to have won more than $20 million
at casino dice tables around the country, Scoblete said. But only 50
to 100 players in the country are good enough at tossing the bones to
be consistent winners.

Becoming a "controlled shooter," as these experts are called, is much
harder than learning to count

[alan]

If I recall Scobelete's book... he used the 5-count to keep from
betting on others with no control and to find those who were "rhythmic
rollers" who had control but didnt realize they had it.

the captain,himself, was a controller.

plnocowboy wrote:

[plnocowboy]

<<<This skill was originally developed in the late 1970s by a man known
simply as The Captain, who is said to have won more than $20 million at
casino dice tables around the country>>>

I thought "The Captain" won his money via his 5-Count method of play.
Are you saying it was via Dice Control?

[Dylanfreak]

I have always heard that the best controlled shooter in the world was
Sharpshooter. But I would put my money on Greens ,a pretty lady from the
Northeast woods, as possibly the finest controlled shooter in the world.

Her husband and Heavy , recently put on a seminar in the Northeast and she
dazzled everyone with not only her dice control but also her amazing
grace and beauty.

Dylanfreak

[Mr. V]

Here's a link to a post at gamingfloor.com, a casino staff site,
wherein the suits are beginning to discuss dice setting and an upcoming
GTC get together in Canada.

Looks like Scoblete will bring an astrologer with him to round out his
group of casino experts.

Scoblete is a hack author, Dominator sells shoes, and Howard "Rock 'n
Roll Newman," former actor, now flogs bad impressionist paintings
online.

Seven out, baby.

roll dem bones

[Mr. V]

http://www.gamingfloor.biz/forum/showthread.php?t=1727