The Dice Dominator
The History Channel Presents: The Dice Dominator
The Dice Dominator The gambling master. DIEP.IO DOMINATOR VS ARENA CLOSER I BECOME & CONTROL TANK LEVEL 75. Diep.io New Level 75. Dom LoRiggio, known in craps circles as the “The Dice Dominator,” has turned the craps world upside down with his uncanny ability of being able to control the dice when he throws them. He was featured on the History Channel’s “Dice Dominator” and he has co-authored the. States Dice Dominator: “There are over 54 million casino gamblers in America but very few of them can beat the house. They play a losing game. With dice control you can change the nature of the contest and beat the house.” Frank Scoblete agrees, “It's more fun to win and dice control is the road to winning at the casino game of craps.”. Watch 'The Dice Dominator' on the Bio channel on Saturday, April 25. See how they practiced, became experts and took on the casinos all over the country. This is the story that shows why casino craps can be beaten with a controlled throw.
From the physics behind the flight of dice to the eight critical steps to mastering the act of tossing two dice, we reveal the true story behind Dominator’s phenomenal rise to riches through a seemingly impossible challenge – to control the outcome of a craps game with the flick of a wrist.
While most casinos laugh off the notion, Dominator knows that practice makes perfect and sets out to prove them wrong. He sets out to develop a Golden Touch™.
The Dominator Craps
First, he hooks up with dice-control master Chris Pawlicki - founder of Rosebud, the first team approach to craps ever attempted – and soon becomes their ace player. But Dominator grows dissatisfied with the team's approach and small betting as Rosebud is composed of red-chip ($5) players, while Dominator is a much bigger bettor.
Dom The Dominator Scam
In 2003, he partners with best-selling author and 20-year dice control expert Frank Scoblete, an experienced player with a penchant for big bets and bigger wins. When LoRiggio defies the odds and dominates the dice at table after table, however, the casinos vow to stop him – no matter what!
Commentary:
Frank: The show is a combination of real historic events, specifically Dominator having magnificent rolls as he often does, and some fabricated elements designed to make the show more dramatic. Dominator never actually joined the Rosebud team as they were not a big money team and they did not impress him as shooters, although he did play at the tables with them sometimes. I was disappointed that there was not one mention of the Captain when both Dominator and I gave him all the credit for creating the model throw to beat today’s casino craps games. Without the Captain, there would have been no Frank Scoblete, no Sharpshooter, and no Dominator. But the show accurately shows you just how great Dominator is at dice control. There’s no fiction there.
Dominator: The actor who played me did a pretty good job, although as Frank says, I am really wild at the tables when I get on a really big roll, much wilder than portrayed on the show. The way Frank was portrayed would make you wonder how Frank could have gotten three masters degrees as he was shown as a kind of low-life Soprano type. He is not that type at all. And by the way, Frank has never said anything bad to dealers or box people so the moment in the story where he threatens to kill a stickman never happened. Me, on the other hand, well, I have had my moments. I also wish there had been credit given to the Captain. Overall the show was a lot of fun and gives you an idea of what you can accomplish at dice control if you are disciplined, work hard, and learn the Golden Touch™ technique.
Pictures:
Golden Touch™'s great Dice Dominator! | Dominator calm and collected on television. Talks about how he got started. |
Dominator talks about the buy in and how he bets his money. | Dominator discusses how much work it takes to become good enough to beat the casinos with a controlled throw. |
Dominator admits he has fun beating the casinos and why not? 'They want my money and I want their money. Fair enough.' | 'Oh, yeah,' smiles Dominator, 'I do get wild sometimes at the tables.' |
In one session, in 55 minutes of action, the man with the Golden Touch™ won $27,000 at the tables! | Frank Scoblete puts it simply; 'Dominator is the best dice controller in the world today!' |
'You can beat the casinos at craps,' states Frank Scoblete, 'but you have to put in a lot of work to do it. Just setting the dice and looking graceful isn't enough.' | The actor playing Dom on the left and the actor playing Frank on the right. Comment by Frank: 'They chose a thin actor, good, because that's how I think of myself! Thin and sexy.' |
The actor playing Dom and who is that blonde? | The actor playing Frank watches the dice performing their miracles when Dominator does his thing. |
'Oh, yeah, the money is coming in!' | 'Now, make sure you count up all my purple chips!' |
Dominator says to a nasty stickman, 'When you have thousands in front of you, buddy, then you can criticize me!' | Commentary by Frank: 'Does the actor playing me look crazy in this frame?' |
Commentary by Dominator: 'Does the blonde like the actor playing me or the actor playing Frank? I say me!' Commentary by Frank: 'In your dreams. She likes the actor playing me!' | The mean old pit boss. |
Dominator says, 'I am now going to throw a hard 10!' Yes, this really happened in real life and there were plenty of witnesses at the table when it did too. | Commentary by Frank, 'While the actor playing Dom sets the dice to go for the hard 10, just notice how all the women are around the actor playing me!' |
Yes, Dom does hit the hard 10! On the show - and he did it in real life too! |
Interview With The Greatest Dice Controller
By Henry Tamburin
Dom LoRiggio, known in craps circles as the “The Dice Dominator”, has turned the craps world upside down with his uncanny ability of being able to control the dice when he throws them. He was recently featured on the History Channel’s “Dice Dominator” and he has co-authored the new book, Golden Touch Dice Control Revolution! – Win at Craps Using a Controlled Throw.
- When and how did you get started playing craps?
Throughout the late 1980s and early 90s I was an advantage blackjack player. I got interested in craps after reading several dice books by Frank Scoblete about the Captain and the Arm and I was intrigued by the idea of getting the edge at craps using a controlled throw. In the late 90s I started to practice a controlled throw and then I took a poorly designed course in controlled shooting and that got me started. I worked on the throw for six months before I really had it down. A couple of years later I met Frank Scoblete who was researching a book and we went to the craps tables where he wanted to see me roll. Well, I wanted to see him roll too. I had a half hour roll. Scoblete was impressed. Then he came right back with a half hour roll himself. Boy was I impressed.
- Can you explain to readers how you can control the outcome of your rolls?
The game of craps is a game of probabilities inherent in two dice. In a random game, those probabilities are set in stone. However, what my fellow Golden Touch dice controllers and I do is influence which dice faces come up by setting the dice a certain way and throwing them our special way. We change the probabilities by reducing the number of sevens or increasing the appearance of other numbers.
- What are the steps in a controlled throw?
In dice control, you have to set the dice properly, stand at the right distance from the back wall, grab the dice properly, grip them properly, and throw them softly with the proper amount of backswing so they land softly on the layout, and then hit the back wall and die. It takes practice and discipline. It is a skill that most people can achieve if they work at it.
- The casinos require that you hit the back wall so doesn’t that make dice control impossible?
Not at all. The Golden Touch throw that Frank Scoblete and I teach and that is the subject of our new book, Golden Touch Dice Control Revolution!, must hit the back wall to be successful. If we miss the back wall the throw is usually random as one die is doing something completely different from the other die. When we miss the back wall, we grimace because now we must rely on luck for the seven not to show.
- How long would it take an average person to learn the Golden Touch dice control technique? How does a person practice?
I am an average person; so is Frank. It took me six months of practice before I knew I had an edge and was comfortable going into the casinos to play. I practiced almost every day on a craps station that I built. You don’t have to buy a craps table but you do have to simulate one so that you can practice your throw.
- How does a player know he is influencing the dice?
There are two methods that we use to ascertain and then calculate what our edge is. For new dice controllers, we recommend using the SRR formula – known as Sevens to Rolls Ratio. This is a way to show us in an easy formula if we are actually able to change the probabilities of the game. Using the Hardway set, which shows hardway numbers all around the dice set with the end pips being the 1 and the 6, we can see if we are reducing the appearance of the seven. The seven usually appears once every six rolls on average. If you do about five thousand rolls using the Hardway set and you find that the seven is appearing once every 6.5 rolls, then you are probably changing the game. At that point you then use the powerful software program, Smart Craps, to prove with statistical certainty that you are influencing the dice outcomes and how much of an edge you have over the casino.
- What sets do you recommend to a novice dice controller?
The Hardway set is the best for reducing the appearance of the seven. If you wish to set for the sevens, you use a set called the All Seven set that has sevens all around the dice. A more skilled shooter might wish to try the 3-V set where you have the threes together and sixes and eights all around the dice. These different dice sets are described in more detail with photographs in my new book.
- What bets do you make?
There are three aspects to dice control. You must practice your throw, know what your edge is, and then bet into that edge. Skilled shooters must make bets that they can overcome. If I have a five percent edge and I make bets where the casino’s initial edge is 1.5 percent, I will beat the house making those bets. If I make bad bets, like the Horn, then I am going to lose to the casino because the house edge is 12.5 percent. My edge can’t overcome the house edge. Too many would-be dice controllers are such poor bettors that they lose anyway.
- Do you increase your bets when you win?
If you are having a good roll and you have made a profit of maybe three or four times the amount you have bet on the layout then careful pressing at times can help. However, you should always bet into your advantage right from the beginning. That is how you establish your bankroll and your betting levels.
- What were some of your greatest dice sessions?
I had a 56 hand roll before the very first seven showed. I’ve had many hour-long rolls and a few hour and thirty-five minute rolls. With Frank playing, I went 30, 33 and 38 rolls back to back to back. Of course that day Frank Scoblete had an 89-hand roll. Even that great roll doesn’t compare to the Captain’s 147-roll hand or 100-roll hand as described in detail on www.goldentouchcraps.com. The History Channel showed me calling my numbers and that was a true account. There are times when I am so “on” that I can call what will land next. I did this six times in a row for a Travel Channel show that Frank wrote but the producer decided not to use that sequence. I am usually a very consistent and quiet shooter but there are times that I get into a zone when I am hot and I can get very loud and flamboyant. Frank says that I scare the younger stick people when I “go crazy.”
- How often does a skilled dice controller win?
The number of winning sessions is not as important as whether you are winning money overall. Most hands are not winners for a dice controller, just like most at bats are not hits for good hitters. If you have three winning hands every 10 turns with the dice you will make money. A player who establishes a point and sevens out can only lose his initial bets but those hot rolls can win multiple bets over and over so the good to great rolls will make you a lot of money.
- How accurate was the History Channel show (The Dice Dominator) about you?
The show put me in with a dice control team at the beginning of my career and that the classes they taught were actually to get members for their team. Not so. That team bet low stakes and I was never involved with them. Also, most of the players on that team were not really all that skilled so that was inaccurate. Both Frank Scoblete and I discussed the Captain, the man who started all this dice control stuff in the modern casino, and his partner the Arm for several hours with the producer but none of that appeared in the show. However, the show did portray accurately how I am in a casino and the work I put in to the developing of my skill. Frank Scoblete, unfortunately, was portrayed as someone who was a lowlife instead of someone with three master’s degrees who is a real gentleman.
- Why are your Golden Touch Craps dice control classes so popular?
It is better to play with an edge than without an edge. We have the best dice controllers teaching our classes. They have all gone through a rigorous training program and they have demonstrated their edge on Smart Craps and in the casinos. The word of mouth spreads and all our classes are sold out by the time we conduct them. We have a ratio of four or five students per teacher in our classes so you are paying for intense and I mean intense personal, hands-on training.
- What are the common mistakes dice controllers make?
The first mistake is to overestimate your edge. The second mistake is to bet that overestimated edge, which means you will lose money or win very little money. The third mistake is to not practice. No skilled athlete goes into intense competition without practicing his skill. Pitchers warm up; hitters take batting practice almost every day.
- What words of advice do you have for players interested in becoming dice controllers?
First read Frank Scoblete and my book The Golden Touch Dice Control Revolution to see if you really have the discipline and stick-to-the-task attitude. If you are interested in learning the skill from great dice controllers then consider attending the Golden Touch Craps dice control class.
- Frank Scoblete rated you as one of the top four dice controllers he ever saw in a past issue of Casino Player. How do you see this?
Well, Frank is the best one I ever saw. Of course, I never saw the Arm or the Captain shoot, although I have talked with the Captain and our throw is modeled on his throw. There are great shooters in our Golden Touch group and our students get to see them shoot the dice when they take our class – that is an eye-opening. The bottom line is, once again, playing with an edge is better than playing without an edge.