How do you "view" The Captain as reported by Frank Scoblete?

Frank Scoblete has always written about "The Captain" a player without a formal identification who dominated the craps pits in Atlantic City with his "crew" of expert "dice controllers" until his death a few years ago.

Frank has written about The Captain throwing the dice 147 times in one hand before a 7-out, breaking the record number of rolls held by Stanley Fujitake of 118 at a casino in downtown Vegas which was later broken by Patricia Demauro who rolled the dice 154 times.

The epic rolls of Fujitake and Demauro have been documented. See:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...901663,00.html
http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/crun...ps-record-703/
http://grochowski.casinocitytimes.co...aps-roll-46976

Curiously, outside of Frank's books and articles, there is no other "news coverage" of The Captain and what was his record roll.

Did it actually happen? Or was literary license used to create a character to illustrate a story?

Did it actually happen? Or was literary license used to create a character to illustrate a story?

Hmmm... one wonders...

My recollection of the original reports on that lady's roll in AC (your first link above) is that it was amatuer hour and the table only dumped about $150,000 total. Anyone have the exact amount?

A little research shows it was only $180,000. TRAGIC!!! See below.

http://www.nextshooter.com/longestroll

About a year or so ago, I was told about a monster roll at a table at Caesars. It was a hot Saturday afternoon when the casino was "empty" and the pools were jammed, and two young guys were at a table by themselves. They were in town for some type of electronics show. Neither of them was a "craps player." One of them supposedly held the dice for close to -- ready for this? -- FOUR hours. Yet, they were only making passline bets and in the end only left with a couple of thousand dollars -- if that! Now, I don't know if the floorman who told me that was pulling my leg or not -- and no one else ever mentioned it.

But, I was at a table where one guy held the dice for about an hour -- but the players could not make up their minds about their bets. So in the course of any hour, this shooter only got off about thirty rolls. There were literally arguments at the table about changing bets and players changing their bets three or four times between rolls. It was an extended Persian family in town for a wedding. Another group who didn't know how to play craps.