I remember once meeting
the legendary “Dice Doctor” Sam Grafstein
at the Gambler’s Book Club in Las Vegas. My
first book, Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos: How
to Play Craps and Win!, had just been published
and I was there to do a book signing. When Howard
Schwartz, the marketing director of GBC, told me
Sam had come to meet me, I thought: “Oh, God,
he’s going to lay into me.”
Sam’s writing had
lead me to conclude that he was a cantankerous old
timer who would be disdainful of my new efforts in
the craps field. That turned out not to be the case.
He had nothing but praise for me and the book. So
we got to talking about craps and how to approach
a game. At one point in the discussion, Sam said:
“You know, Scoblete, there are
times when you just
have to go with it.” The “with it”
meant the flow of the dice. The “with it”
meant, in outdated Hippie talk, “letting it
all hang out.”
I remember that conversation
with Sam and our subsequent playing together at
Binions Horseshoe, Las Vegas’ premier craps
casino. Sam rarely “let it all hang out”
and there was not a time in our two hours of play
that he went “with it” as the tables were
choppy and there was no “with it” to go
with.
But I understood what
he meant. All dice players do. There are times in
a craps game, rare times in the main, that everything
just goes the way you want it to go. I remember
once hitting nine hardways in a row - six of them
hard sixes. I don’t bet the hardways so I made
my money on my come bets with odds, but the guy
next to me started to bet those hardways after I
hit the first two and raked in a small fortune.
I once saw a guy parlay a hard four three times
and win on it each and every time until he took
it down. The moment he did, the shooter rolled an
easy four!
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