In
gamblese, Billy, the player you're envisioning
is called 'an arm'.
As to whether or not such a golden arm actually
exists, who can chuck
the die with any accuracy is dicey at best. I
fly on the side of gaming
folklore, and hold that it ain't so. Others in
the betting house biz
disagree. One of my favorite gaming authors, Frank
Scoblete, penned a
very enjoyable read called, Golden Touch, Dice
Control Revolution. We
are both on the same page in that craps is a losing
proposition and the
game is structured to mathematically beat all
betting systems. But in
his book, Frank feels that you can control the
outcome of a roll and
that the skilled dice controller can change the
nature of the game to
favor the player. I'm not saying phooey aloud
here, it's just that
after spending 18 years on the inside, an umpteen
years bellying up to
a table that I have to see it to believe it, and
I haven't seen it yet.
As
for a player sliding the dice across the table
to get a specific
result, yes, that's a possibility. I've witnessed
that, along with
those who have tried it being escorted off the
game. Crap dealers, a
box person, the pit boss or the eye in the sky
tend to go berserko if
some dice jockey tries to illegally manipulate
the cubes so that a
random outcome doesn't occur.
It's
your play, of course, and your hotshot is certainly
going to be
sharp enough to know all that, so you might invent
a brand new term for
his magic anatomy: Dicerony, Warlock 7, The Wrist
of Doom… Let us know when and where we can
see it.
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