How would you like to walk up to a craps table knowing that you had an excellent chance of creating a hot table, that when your turn came to pick up the dice, you could throw number after number without the losing seven showing, collecting profits on almost every roll of the dice?

How would it feel to make pass line bets and place bets with the confidence of collecting winnings, sometimes substantial winnings, before sevening out? Most of the time hot shooters and hot tables like this occur by chance. But, experienced "rhythm rollers" can create them. And that's what dice control is all about - developing a "rhythm roll" that turns the tables on the casino, swings the advantage to you the shooter, and gives you the means of creating a hot craps table.

If you're not familiar with the rules of play, think of craps this way: Holding the dice in your hand, you throw them down the table, hit the back wall and they come to rest. If they land on a 7 you lose; if they land on a 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, you win if you are betting on those numbers; if they land on 2, 3, 11, 12, you neither win nor lose.

Now, think of the power you would possess if you could throw the dice to avoid the losing 7. That's what dice control is all about -- to set and throw the dice in such a way as to avoid the losing 7 during the point cycle when your objective is to repeat the number you threw on the first roll of this series - called the "come out" roll.

To develop an advantage at craps, you must alter the physical phenomena of the game. To do this, you must learn how to control the dice, that is, throw the dice in such a way as to minimize the number of losing sevens being thrown after the point number is established. You achieve an advantage by throwing less than one 7 for every six rolls of the dice after the point number has been established.

You can do this with practice and in this series of articles, I'll discuss the issues of whether or not an advantage can actually be achieved, present some ideas for how to prove to yourself that an advantage exists, and teach you how to attain and exploit an advantage by using dice setting and dice control.

Knowledgeable gamblers have long recognized "The Big 4" - blackjack, poker, sports betting and thoroughbred racing - as the standard games in which an astute player can actually turn the odds in his favor and achieve an advantage over the casino.

But what about craps with its 1.4% house advantage? Can an advantage actually be achieved, the house odds overturned, at casino craps?

Yes.

Casino craps is an easy game to learn and the only game where you, the player, can create your own advantage over the casino and hold your winning destiny right in your own hands.

This differs from blackjack where you have no control over the shuffle or the order of the cards in the shoe. Your craps edge using dice control differs from roulette where you have no control over the croupier's spin of the wheel or the release of the ball. Next week, your instruction begins with a lesson in Dice Setting and a little history on the art and skill of dice setting.

More information on Jerry Patterson's Dice Control instruction is published in Casino Gambling which can be purchased at amazon.com, by calling 1-800-257-7130, or by visiting his Website: CasinoGamblingEdge.com.