| Buy Axis Power Craps Dice |
Looking to sharpen your practice skills with regulation casino dice? Look no further. Axis Power Craps is proud to offer these beautiful 3/4 inch flush-spot, razor edge, high polished dice.
Created from an exclusive cellulose acetate formula developed to insure clarity, hardness and stability, these dice are milled to 1/10,000th of an inch and certified perfectly balanced. They are the perfect dice to take your practice sessions to the next level.
Each five-die stick is serialized and stamped with the Axis Power Craps logo. Designed with precision dice shooter practice in mind, these dice are only sold in two-stick sets containing one stick of red dice and one stick of green dice. Both sticks have matching serial numbers. Your cost? $39.99 plus $3 shipping and handling - just $42.99 total.
To pay by check or money order, send your remittance to:
Steve "Heavy" Haltom
P.O. Box 7094
Tyler, Texas 75711
|
|
|
|
| |
| Buy Heavy's Axis Power Craps Manual |
Axis Power Craps details five skill sets almost anyone can learn. Master these and you too can become a precision craps shooter. Order now and find out how!
Axis Power Craps includes betting strategies for every dice pre-set arrangement. Precision dice shooting works for both right-way and wrong-way play. Your package features an instructional 100 page workbook with dozens of photographs of dice pre-sets and grips. Each book comes with two shirt-pocket precision dice shooting strategy cards, as well as practice forms you can duplicate and use to record your rolls.
Axis Power Craps is just $39.95 including all shipping and handling. It is published in e-book format. You will receive the book promptly via e-mail. The dice setting strategy cards will be sent via 1st class mail. Order on-line through PayPal at this link:
If you prefer to pay by check or money order, send your remittance to:
Steve "Heavy" Haltom
P.O. Box 7094
Tyler, Texas 75711
Be sure to include your shipping address and e-mail address. |
|
|
|
| |
|
| Upcoming Events: Roadrunner Craps Clinic - Albuquerque NM - June 22-24, 2012 |
|
|
 By popular demand, we’re taking the Axis Power Craps Seminar back to Albuquerque, New Mexico - home of the world’s greatest craps game - and some of the finest cuisine the Southwest has to offer. But what should we call this get-together? At first I thought about using the State slogan, “The Enchanted State” and going with something like “An Enchanting Affair.” Nope. Sounds too much like my high school prom. A good friend suggested we recognize New Mexico’s Native American influence and call it the “On the Warpath Seminar,” or maybe the “Scalp the Casinos Seminar.” I kind of like that, but on the other hand, it might be a tad racially insensitive. My pal Roadrunner lives in Albuquerque about half of the year (when he's not camped out in Vegas) and the Roadrunner is the State Bird of New Mexico. Add to that the fact that the casinos in Albuquerque are separated by miles and miles of freeway and I have to think the “Roadrunner Craps Clinic” may be the name of choice. So for now, we’ll work under that title. The Roadrunner Craps Clinic will happen June 22, 23, and 24 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Why not plan to fly in a day early, hook up with friends from prior seminars and get a little play in before the “official” fun begins? There are plenty of great games in the Albuquerque metro area, including casinos like Route 66, Sandia, Hard Rock, and the Santa Ana Star. Scout out the tables in all of them, and then steer your friends to your favorites as the weekend wears on. But don’t plan anything for Friday night, because that’s when we’ll have our traditional Friday night Meet and Greet Get-Together.
The Meet and Greet will be Dutch treat at a local Brew Pub and Restaurant. We’ll keep the location on the Q.T. for now, but all will be revealed before we head to Albuquerque. Join us at the bar, knock back a few, renew old friendships and make new ones. Hungry? The place I have in mind has great Southwest gourmet selections if that’s what you have on your mind. Or kick back with some bar food and just enjoy the company of your fellow crapsters. Afterwards you’ll be on your own to hit the casinos alone or in teams to attempt to tame the tables. But don’t blow the entire bankroll Friday night. You’ll definitely want to have some cash in reserve when we take on the tables as a group on Sunday - after you’ve attended the class.
Saturday morning we’ll open the dealer school for two hours for toss tweaks with a very limited number of hook-up/alumni players. Define “very” limited? Sure. The number is eight. We’ll schedule four players in for one hour at 8AM and four more for one hour at 9AM. Define "hook-up/alumni players? Yeah, we can do that too. To qualify for the hook-up/alumni session you must have attended one of our live seminars previously.
Each attendee will receive approximately fifteen minutes of one-on-one toss analysis with yours truly while the other three attendees look on and hopefully learn something. Plan to hang around for the full hour and observe the other hookers in your group receive their critique. You can learn a lot by simply watching others being coached. Plus, you might want to hook-up with your fellow hookers and play the rest of the day.
Alumni/Hookers will, of course, receive a copy of the class matrix, which we use to facilitate in-casino hook-up and play. If you have an alumni pal or two you’d like to sign on with so you can attend the same session, you’ll want to do that very early. Otherwise, I’ll assign slots on a first-registered - first-served basis. What’s the charge for this Saturday Morning Special? Exactly the same as I charge for a 1 hour session on my home table in East Texas - $99 per person. Remember, once those eight slots are filled this offer is over. Two hours and one table are all I have to work with. Ready to pull the trigger on this deal? Here’s the link to register:
As with the Alumni/Hooker session, enrollment in our full Axis Power Craps Clinic will very limited. How limited? Due to space constraints at the dealer school - plus the fact that I want to make certain every attendee receives ample personal attention - I am going to limit enrollment to the full seminar to just ten players.
We’ll crank up the full seminar at 10AM on Saturday and run until 6PM that afternoon. Saturday night you’ll be on your own to experience the best of Albuquerque, but don’t stay up too late! Sunday morning we’ll reconvene for the second portion of the craps clinic from 8AM - 12PM. After that we’ll adjourn for an afternoon of hook-ups and in-casino play on some of the best games in the world.
On Saturday we’ll cover the basics of dice setting and betting; table position, stance, the sets, the grips, picking up and tossing the dice, plus the “crap between your ears.” Once everyone’s toss is up to speed, as time allows we’ll move on to some of the advanced techniques in dice control, including point shooting and shooting from the Don’ts. Interested in some different variants in toss techniques? I’ll be glad to show you my version of the stack set, the underhanded lob, and another toss or two I’ve used through the years. Need some help fine-tuning your game? We’ll cover that as well as we work toward taking your game to the next level. And yes, as always you’ll get the Saturday Night Fever lecture before we dismiss for the day.
On Sunday morning we’ll reconvene at the dealer school from 8AM - 12PM for an Intuitive Betting Session covering the “best bets” at the table, how to read the table and determine which additional numbers to bet, how to follow the table trend, when to press, regress, or say the magic words “take me down.” We’ll have a round table discussion on the various styles of betting - negative progressions, positive progressions, flat-betting, and more. Armed with this information, you should be able to develop your own personal “rules” for play to help you lose less and rack more chips when the table is hot.
We’ll wrap up with the importance of a winning attitude as we play a mock session around the table, tweaking those tosses again along the way. At the end of the session we’ll have a special prize for the player who ends up with the most chips. Add to all of these learning opportunities the chance to hook up with like-minded DI’s from around the country, live sessions with yours truly, and all of the amenities that Albuquerque has to offer and it’s hard to go wrong.
What’s the cost of this exciting weekend? Tuition for the full seminar is $499 for alums - $599 for first time students. If you previously purchased a copy of the Axis Power Craps seminar on DVD then you will qualify for the alumni pricing. First time students receive a copy of the original Axis Power Craps Seminar on DVD as part of their package. Every attendee receives a Seminar Pack that includes e-copies of all of my books and handouts. Again, this seminar is limited to just ten players. Once those ten slots are filled registration will be closed.
Axis Power Craps Alums - sign on for the full seminar at the following link:
First time Axis Power Craps Students - sign on for the full seminar at the following link:
If you prefer to pay by check then mail your remittance along with your seminar selections to:
Steve “Heavy” Haltom
PO Box 7094
Tyler, Texas 75711
Please notify me by e-mail when you drop your remittance in the mail. I would hate for you to miss out on this seminar because someone else beat you to the last slot by enrolling via PayPal. My e-mail address is axispowercraps@gmail.com. Put ALBUQUERQUE SEMINAR REGISTRATION in your subject line.
NOTE: Your seminar registration covers the cost of the seminar and all materials. You are on your own for travel and hotel accommodations. Due to the limited number of slots available for this seminar, $250 of the seminar registration fee will be considered a non-refundable deposit in the event of cancellation, provided cancellation notice is received before May 22nd. No refunds will be offered on cancellations received after May 22nd. However, 100% of any deposit retained will be available to apply to a future Axis Power Craps seminar of your choice.
Remember, Albuquerque has some of the best craps games in the country. Don't miss out on your opportunity to profit from them. See you in New Mexico!
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| Back to the Math - by Steve "Heavy" Haltom |
|
Posted by heavy on Wednesday, May 12 @ 06:38:32 EDT (1478 reads)
(Read More... | 4221 bytes more | Score: 5) |
|
Craps wouldn’t be a game of chance if you knew the outcome of the roll in advance. Why? By definition, the outcome of any game of chance must be uncertain. The branch of mathematics that deals with this uncertainty is called Probability.
The science of Probability was born in the seventeenth century when the Chevalier de Mere, a French nobleman who enjoyed a good gamble as much as the rest of us, began posing questions about the probable outcome of certain dice wagers to prominent mathematicians. The Chevalier had made a considerable amount of money on even money bets – wagering that the number six would be rolled at least once in four rolls of a single die. He did so well with this wager that he sought to expand upon it by wagering that if two dice were rolled the double-six would show up at least once every twenty-four rolls. Needless to say, his math failed him and he lost his money just as quickly as he won it with the single die wager.
Baffled by his misfortune, the Chevalier took his problem to the mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal, in turn, consulted with another mathematician, Pierre de Fermat, and the two of them solved the double-six problem and laid the foundations of the Probability branch of mathematics.
By the way, the rule of mathematics used to solve this problem was the Multiplication Rule of Independent Events. It states simply that “For independent events, the probability of all of them occurring equals the product of their individual probabilities.
Say what?
Click on Read More, above, for the rest of this article.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Let’s face it. It happens to all of us. For one reason or another, skills we’ve developed at home don’t make the transition to the casino. Blame it on variance, bad luck, or something you ate for dinner - sometimes the correct craps play is no craps play. So what do you do if you’re in the casino and it’s one of “those” days? Here are my personal picks for the games you should play.
1. Sports Book. Benny Binion was once quoted as saying “Never bet on anything that eats or shits.” Try betting sports and you’ll understand why. Sports betting is an extremely tough way to grind out a small profit. Nevertheless, nationwide there are plenty of players making big bucks moving money through books. The downside? You have to do your homework. Unless, of course, you want to shell out money for a handicapping service. Of course, from an advantage players point of view that just adds to the vig. My suggestion? Invest the time to learn how to do your own handicapping. Limit play to the games where you believe you have an edge. And remember, just because you’re a Chicago fan doesn’t mean “Da Bears” are going to win Monday night. Bet with your head - not your heart.
Click on Read More, above, for the rest of this article.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| Partner Play for Fun and Profit by Steve |
|
Posted by heavy on Monday, October 27 @ 17:51:45 EDT (2746 reads)
(Read More... | 6737 bytes more | Score: 4.5) |
|
Think about it. Why do you play craps? If you’re like me you play for two reasons. First, you want to win some of that money the casino keeps in the cage. Second, you enjoy the action. It’s just a fun game, and playing with a partner is a great way to win MORE money and have MORE fun.
Let’s look at partner play from the winnings point of view. How many times have you tossed a great hand only to count your chips and discover that you didn’t make any money? It’s not unusual for a dice influencer to get so deep in the zone while tossing that they ignore their betting. Even veterans like me fall victim to this.
In a recent group hook-up in Albuquerque I decided I would put my bets on auto-pilot so I didn’t have to concern myself with them during a long hand. I told the dealer that I would be pressing every other hit, regardless of which number rolled. Throughout the afternoon I tossed several hands in the high teens and low twenties. All of them fell well short of their potential from a winnings standpoint. Oh, I won money. But I left way too much on the table. Playing a simple $5 Pass Line bet with max odds and pressing every other hit beginning with the first box number tossed, over the course of a twenty number hand I won roughly $300. But when I sevened out I had $55 invested in my line bet with odds, $50 on the four, $35 on the five, $42 on the six, $18 on the eight, $10 on the nine and $25 on the ten. My net profit for the hand - around $65. At the other end of the table one of the local players had made over $400. Had I been paying more attention to my betting and less on my throwing I might have made more profit. Then again, my shooting may have suffered when I shifted my attention to my betting.
Partner play - and I’m talking about one partner that you play with regularly - can help take this issue off the table. Why? Because when playing with a partner using a shared bankroll you can pre-plan your betting strategies to include regressions and keys to turn bets off during your hands. And in the end you can turn more profit.
Click on "read more" at the top of this article for the rest of the story.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| Craps Tournament Time - by Steve ''Heavy'' Haltom |
|
Posted by heavy on Sunday, August 03 @ 12:09:35 EDT (2962 reads)
(Read More... | 4352 bytes more | Score: 4) |
|
Fall has arrived, which means many players thoughts have turned to craps tournaments. And with the tournaments come the ever-present questions on the best way to play. The answer, of course, is like a lot of answers in this game. It all depends.
First let’s take a look at a typical craps tournament format. Most tournaments require entry fees ranging from $300 - $500 or more. For that entry fee the casinos usually provide you with a hotel room, all meals, a welcome reception and some sort of tournament gift.
In addition, all of the money received as entry fees is typically paid out to the winning players in the form of tournament cash prizes. That means a small local tournament can have a prize as high as $10,000, and a large casino mega-resort can offer prizes totaling $1 million or more.
Depending on how many players sign on for the tournament, there may be four or five tables running for three to four rounds. Generally, the top two players from each round advance to the next round, until the final table is filled and the competition begins for the big prize. In this type of tournament, every player who advances to the final table may receive some sort of cash prize, and the top two or three will finish in the big money.
Click on "read more" at the top of this article for the rest of the story.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| The Cost of Doing Business - by Steve ''Heavy'' Haltom |
|
Posted by heavy on Sunday, August 03 @ 12:02:09 EDT (2715 reads)
(Read More... | 3986 bytes more | Score: 4.33) |
|
Okay, don’t get me started on whatever happened to $2 a gallon gas - or $1 a gallon gas - or even .69 cent a gallon gas. I spent $80 filling up my truck last week and I have to tell you I’m still suffering from sticker shock. While I don’t normally take travel expenses into account when heading out to the casino, I’d be lying to you if I said the price of gas hasn’t impacted my travel planning of late.
What does $4.15 a gallon gas mean to your casino play? Well, for DI’s it’s all part of the cost of doing business.
I sometimes joke about my card-counting AP pals who are so cheap they bring their own bottle of water with them to the casino so they won’t have to tip the cocktail server. These guys sweat every penny and count everything they spend en route to, inside, and on the way home from the casino as a business expense. On the other hand, many of these guys are full time pros who travel the country in search of the best game. Some live in Las Vegas, where you’d think one could find a decent game, and fly to obscure Indian casinos in Mississippi to play. Why? Because that’s where the games with the best odds are. By playing the best game they maximize their winnings - and subsequently their profit. I might also mention that most of these guys are black and purple chip bettors, which means they often get things like airfare comped. There’s a lesson in there, so let’s explore it a bit.
Click on "read more" at the top of this article for the rest of the story.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| Hybrid Craps Strategies - Do You or Don't You |
|
Posted by heavy on Wednesday, July 23 @ 01:13:39 EDT (3168 reads)
(Read More... | 4833 bytes more | Score: 4.5) |
|
Hybrid Craps Strategies
by Steve "Heavy" Haltom
Every month I receive newsletters from other gaming education outfits, and it’s always interesting to read their take on the game - just as it is no doubt interesting to them to read what we have to say here on the CrapsFest website. To say we have different philosophies when it comes to betting would be an understatement.
Take, for instance, their system that combines the Doey-Don’t with the Five Count. It calls for the player to make consecutive Pass/Don’t Pass and Come/Don’t Come wagers until the player has five bets established. Then the player takes odds on all of the Come bets and collects as the numbers repeat.
Click on "read more" at the top of this article for the rest of the story.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| Focus on the Fundamentals - by Steve ''Heavy'' Haltom |
|
Posted by heavy on Saturday, March 08 @ 00:07:54 EST (3442 reads)
(Read More... | 8640 bytes more | Score: 0) |
|
At least once a week I hear my daughter's karate instructor tell the class to “focus on basic punches, basic kicks, and kata.” It's the same sort of speech we used to get when I played high school football. “Focus on basic running, blocking and tackling.” In both cases the coaches were talking about fundamentals - something very few craps players spend a lot of time on. Why? Because they'd rather be comfortable losers than have to work at a win. And believe me, sticking to the fundamentals is not a lot of fun.
Don’t get me wrong. Most of us who attempt to influence the dice work on our grips and tosses. But when was the last time you really sat down and looked at your betting strategy? When was the last time you gave money management a second thought? And what about that discipline thing nobody wants to talk about? Yeah. That’s what I thought. And with those thoughts in mind let’s borrow heavily from the wisdom of my friend John Patrick and talk about what it takes to win.
1. Knowledge of the game. One of the silliest questions I hear people ask at the craps table is “How do you play this game?” Standing at the table with your hard-earned cash at risk is not the time to learn. Before placing your first bet you should have mastered all of the basic rules of the game, understand the terminology, have a working knowledge of the correct odds and pay-off, and be comfortable with both the pass and don’t pass sides of the game. To that end, you should read some of the top books on the game - including Scarne on Dice, Sam Grafstein's The Dice Doctor, and John Patrick's Advanced Craps. Explore the game on the internet through forums like ours and through "play for fun" sites and downloads such as WinCraps. Once you feel you have a good command of the game - head to the casino the try it out. But be sure you have a good command of the other seven tools of the trade.
Click on "read more" at the top of this article for the rest of the story.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Gambling Problem?
If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, help is available. Call the National Council on Problem Gambling toll free at 1-800-522-4700. |
|
|
|
|
|
| Book Your Private Event With Heavy |
Heavy is available for small private group seminars in Las Vegas, Tunica, and Biloxi.
You'll receive an advance copy of Heavy's Axis Power Craps Seminar on DVD and all of the related training material. Then, at the seminar you'll have Heavy's undivided attention for two full days.
Saturday morning you will meet Heavy and take a casino walk, learning about the tables we prefer and why. If conditions are favorable you may play a brief live casino session together before a mid-morning brunch. Afterward, you'll have your first four-to-six-hour toss training session, learning the sets and the bets that will get the money.
Saturday evening, casino conditions permitting, you will play a live session, followed by a review of your play and ways you might improve on it. After that you'll be on your own for the evening. But don't stay up playing all night. Sunday is a full day.
Sunday morning begins with an early-bird in-casino session. Afterward we'll adjourn to a private table again where we'll spend another four to six hours perfecting your dice grip and toss. We'll analyze your toss with BoneTracker and custom-design a dice pre-set arrangement for you. Then we'll play a virtual casino session so you'll be 100% ready for that afternoon's final live session.
All in all, you'll have almost eighteen hours of face time and table time with the big guy - including at least three live casino sessions.
Sign on with three of you friends and the cost per person for this exciting private weekend is $1000 less than you'd pay for our overpriced competitor's group classes. Pay just $3995 for up to four players. Add up to two additional players for just $500 each. Maximum class size is six players.
Reservations must be made and pre-paid a minimum of thirty days in advance. For more information contact Heavy direct at:
axispowercraps@gmail.com or telephone 1-888-YO-HEAVY. |
|
|
|
| |
| Axis Power Craps Seminar on DVD! |
Heavy's Axis Power Craps Dice Control Seminar is now available on DVD!
This is the breakthrough video that sent the competition back to the drawing board. The first professionally produced DVD demonstrating the mechanics of a controlled dice shot, the program is available in both a Limited and a Full Version.
The Limited Version of the DVD includes the portion of the seminar that deals specifically with the mechanics of the grip and toss, along with roughly twenty minutes of tossing and coaching live at the craps table. Running time is approximately forty minutes. Order the limited version via PayPal now for just $89.00 plus shipping and handling. US customers add $4 shipping and handling. Canadian customers add $6 shipping and handling.
The Full Version contains all of the above - and more. Almost three hours of player education featuring the best dice sets, grips, tosses, and more. In addition, we cover betting strategies, money management, discipline, focus, the mental edge, and playing the comp game to win. You''ll also receive the seminar workbook, strategy cards, and a pair of regulation casino dice as an added bonus. Order the Full version via PayPal below for just $189.00 plus shipping and handling. US customers add $6 shipping and handling. Canadian customers add $11 shipping and handling.
The Axis Power Craps Clinic on DVD - it's the next best thing to being there! |
|
|
|
| |
|
