Originally Posted by AxelWolf View Post
I have no doubt Alan conducted himself property at the craps tables.

During the DI craze, especially after the breaking Vegas episode, some of the casinos tossed out anyone attempting DI who appeared to have an influenced shot(It's not something you can hide). Nowadays, most casinos don't care as long as you're not significantly slowing down the table or consistently missing contact with the back wall.

DI had a great number of smart guys fooled. It seems logical that it could be possible with practice. Just imagine you're someone who makes an investment of lots of time and money, perhaps you even paid for classes. You get an elaborate tossing rig or craps table tracking software dice chips etc. You start practicing until you have a good-looking shot. Now you start tracking your SSR/SRS numbers... low and behold, it seems as if you've struck gold and it's working. But here's the thing... at some point, just about everyone sooner or later will have a good SSR due to good old-fashioned variance. It's hard for someone to not equate that with practice and skill. When you're losing/bad SSRs there are all kinds of reasonable excuses... it's just variance, more practice is needed, you were having an off day, the dice are biased, the table conditions have changed, etc. When you're winning... it must be your personal skill.

I have no idea exactly how many tosses it would take to have 99% confidence it has to be skill, but it has to be a fuck-ton.
I always thought it was called Dice Control. To me this is the stuff of legends. I never really believed it was possible but once heard a convincing podcast otherwise so who knows. I figure for every person who could do it with a most marginal edge - there are 20 others who hopelessly fail but believe. That's probably being conservative. Who knows if anyone has ever actually successfully done it.

Sounds like one of those things where the money is in the courses.