Literally hundreds
of thousands, if not millions, were won by those
high-rolling players in a single session. (Robert
Renneisen, the former Claridge President, obliquely
refers to the Captain’s Crew and episodes such
as this in his excellent book How to Be Treated
Like a High Roller Even Though You Are Not One.)
Supposedly the “Arm” was triumphantly
boosted on the shoulders of the winning players
and carried out of the casino like Michael Jordan
after a championship, with all the attendant whooping
and hollering. A happy New Year, indeed!
My claim to lasting
fame is a seven-hour tag-team roll that I had in
September of 2002 with a fellow dice controller
at Treasure Island in Vegas. Everyone at the table
passed the dice to the two of us, one of us was
at the stickman’s left (me) and one was at
the stickman’s right (him). We were the official
rollers for the table and we had consistently good
rolls, 15, 20, sometimes 30 minutes in duration.
We almost broke the bank of that table!
Of course, there are
famous craps players as well; that is, players who
are known for running up big wins with small investments,
not necessarily on their own individual rolls. Because
craps is a game with many long-shot bets, some paying
as high as 30 to 1, a craps player can catch a “lucky
streak” and ride small buy-ins to big wins.
It’s rare but it does happens. Michael Konick
in his excellent book, The Man with the $100,000
Breasts and Other Gambling Stories tells of one
character known as Fast Eddie, “an octogenarian
jockey who has on four separate occasions run $100
up to more than $250,000.” That ain’t
hay!
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