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“Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos” is the number one best-selling craps title of all time. And now this classic title has been completely updated for those gamblers who want to figure out how to beat the house! Until now, craps has been considered an unbeatable casino game because the house has the edge on every bet. “Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos” changes all that by introducing you to the “Supersystem,” a method developed by the “Captain,” a player who for years has been winning at the game players and pundits call unbeatable. Want to beat the casinos while they pay for your room, food, and entertainment? Learn how to take advantage of casino comps reserved for high rollers without the risks…. More >>
Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos, 2nd Edition: How to Play and Win
This is the best book every written on craps and broke th emold of craps books forevermore. Rating: 5 / 5
My wife just gave me what I really wanted, a complete set of Frank Scoblete’s books and tapes on craps. While I have read and reread all of them several times, my copies have gotten beaten up. Now I have a pristine collection: Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos, Frank’s first book, introduces the Captain and his marvelous methods of play such as the 5-Count, The Captain’s Craps Revolution look more indepth at the 5-Count and variations in betting systems, then Forever Craps creates the ultimate method of play by utilizing 5 basic concepts to actually get the edge at the game.
In addition to these, my wife gave me Sharpshooter Craps, Scoblete’s audiotape, and Guerrilla Gambling, the best overall book on the casino games.
My wife also ordered me The Craps Underground, Scoblete’s new hardcover book, but that has not yet been released.
I love the man’s writing and I recommend him to anyone with the least interest in craps or casino gambling. His books run the gamut from craps to blackjack to even slots and they are all just so well written and instructive and fun to read. Rating: 5 / 5
No matter what ANYONE writes, there is no way to get an edge over the house in craps unless you cheat. Using the “5-count system” isn’t going to change the probabilities of the dice. The dice don’t know what was thrown on the last throw, the last 5 throws or the last 100 throws. Each throw is independent, and the odds remain the same. Trying to beat a bad streak by counting 5 good rolls is moronic…the probability that a seven will be thrown in the same as it was at 1 or 2 or 10! The author is banking that you believe in LUCK, and that’s it. He’s telling you to ride a shooters lucky streak. But how long is a streak? 5 good rolls? 10? The fact is, is that there is no set number, and that 7 can come out at anytime, no matter what system you use. How to beat the craps out of the casinos? Get lucky, that’s how. This book won’t help you. Rating: 1 / 5
This book tells of the 5 count, a strategy based on superstition not math, which was created by the Captain, a person I believe to be a figment of the authors imagination. The book tells some of the basic play of craps which is useful but everything else is a waste of the reader’s time. The way the material is presented is also boring and anything but to the point. The author must tell unentertaining and most likely made up stories in order to present anything and this gets very old when simple facts are all that is desired. I believe that the author is a writer but I’m not sure he’s ever been in a casino. If he is still capable of playing in casinos without a disguise – he seems to love the attention, and his picture is right on the cover, something a real casino winner that still plays would never do – he must not be a threat to the casinos. If you are going to buy a book on craps I suggest one written by Avery Cardoza. If you insists on getting this book I ask you to check a Cardoza book out from the library and compare the two. I think you will agree that Cardoza is a superior gaming author. Rating: 2 / 5
Read it – Haven’t tried it, yet… an interesting approach but some questionable statistics, for instance it claims Pass line with full odds has a “tax of 7.41″ while PLACE bets has a tax of 6.24 and his “Doey-Don’t system is only 1.39. Every source I’ve ever seen has the pass line at 1.41 and with odds it drops down to .81 or .61… and NO ONE has ever claimed that place bets have better odds that the pass-line with odds.
Still the system does slow down the action and avoids those quick 7-outs. However he totally discounts “Don’t betting” saying it antagonizes other player. Table go cold (sometimes for long stretches as the author admits) and the best deal is to bet with the flow when that happens. I’d rather win than worry about what the other players think (and most could care less how you bet). But IF the systems work (and that’s a big IF), it’s worth the 10 bucks.
A better book is Mark Goodman’s “Your Best Bet” (its out of print but can be bought second hand). Rating: 3 / 5