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Veteran’s Day Weekend Seminar
November 8th – 11th

Make plans NOW to join us as we SALUTE our Veteran’s –  November 8th – 11th – Veteran’s Day Weekend in our favorite casino market in the USA – Biloxi, MS.

This weekend will feature the traditional Friday night Meet and Greet get-together – a chance for attendees to put faces with names, swap a few war stories, and perhaps make plans for dinner, drinks, or an evening at the tables. Everyone is welcome to bring a spouse, friend, or significant other. This will be a “no host” event, so everyone is on their own for food and beverages. Enjoy yourselves, but don’t be out too late, because we’ll have a full day of training on slate for Saturday.

Saturday’s class will be at a local casino dealer school, beginning at 9AM and running through approximately 5:30PM. There will be roughly a 45-minute break for lunch around mid-day at a local sandwich shop a block down the street from the school. This will be a full day of dice control training, focusing on the mechanics of the grip and toss, including set, grip, aim, focus, breath control, visualization, landing zone, execution, and follow through. We’ll teach you how to read the dice and how they interact with the layout – and how to interpret that interaction and make adjustments to your grip and toss to correct any errors. We’ll practice shooting from alternate positions – Stick Left, Stick Right, and Straight Out. And, given time, we will play a mock session using casino chips and incorporate some Basic DI Betting Strategies into your play. All that and more on Day One.

Saturday night you’re on your own to hook up with your fellow students and coaches for live play, dinner, entertainment, or just to hang out and chill. Again, I don’t recommend staying out too late. Typically, Saturday nights are not conducive to winning play in the casino due to crowded tables and the abundance of “amateurs.” It’s always better to get to bed early, then get up early in the morning and play a “coffee run” session under better conditions.

Sunday morning we’ll meet up once again at the dealer school for the Advanced Betting Strategy Session. This session will begin at 9AM and will wrap up no later than 1PM. We’ll start out the morning with one more quick round of toss tweaks. Then we’ll move right into Right-Side betting strategies. We’ll cover reading a table, presses, power presses, regressions, etc., then move on to Hybrid strategies. From there we’ll move right on into Dark Side Plays and how to implement them into your game and use them as a springboard back to the right side when the heat turns back on. Just about every strategy we discuss will have a specific live-session example associated with it that we can discuss – and examples where the play in question has worked far beyond expectations (or failed miserably). This session will definitely put some tools in your craps tool box.

We will wrap up the session at 1PM with plans to reconvene at one of the local casinos later in the afternoon for live play with your Axis Power Craps coaches.  Location and exact time to be announced at the seminar itself. Play is planned to last roughly three hours, depending on table conditions. The intent is to play two ninety-minute sessions, but if we get on a table and it is running warm to hot, we will continue to play it until it stops paying, even if it goes beyond the three-hour mark. At the end of the live sessions the seminar weekend will “officially” be over. However . . .

Don’t forget Hangover Monday. Hangover Monday is Veteran’s Day this time around – and it’s that Monday after the seminar weekend when the coaches and many of the students who have been to a few of these classes like to “hang over” for another day to get in some additional play before heading home. So, we book our rooms for Monday with a Tuesday departure so we can have the casino to ourselves for the day. Typically, there are fewer players, more open spots at the tables, often lower limits, and the pressure to perform is off so frequently the hands are longer and the money won is bigger. Best of all, it doesn’t cost you a dime more to hang over and hang out with us (unless you’re having to pay extra for the room or you drop a few bucks at the tables) so why not? I will definitely be there. Heck, I may hang around on Tuesday as well if I can get away with it.

Our First Time Student is $1250 for BOTH the Saturday Dice Control Class and the Sunday Advanced Betting Strategy Class. Register via the Zelle app and we offer a $50 discount to $1200. Register via Zelle by sending your payment to axispowercraps@gmail.com. If you prefer, you can send a $600 deposit via Zelle and pay the $600 balance in cash at the Friday night Meet and Greet or at the seminar itself before class starts on Saturday morning. If you do not have Zelle, you can learn more about it at www.zellepay.com. Download the Zelle app from your Play store on your phone. Link the app to your checking account and send payment to axispowercraps@gmail.com. Once you receive confirmation from Zelle that your payment was sent, follow up with an email to axispowercraps@gmail.com providing me with your contact information – name, mailing address for class pre-work, casino handle if you have one, email address and cell number. I will send a confirmation email back to you with additional information on the class itself.

First Time Students paying via PayPal – your tuition is $1250. You can pay via the following link:  https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=PBHWF2U3ZVYK6

Once you make payment I will reach out to you via email to the address linked to your PayPal account with additional information. If you use a different email address with your PayPal account than you usually use for day-to-day email, please email me at axispowercraps@gmail.com and advise me of that OR include that email address in comments when making your payment. I will be mailing pre-class material to you so it is important that I have your correct snail mail address and cell number.

DD214 Veteran’s.  As  “Thank You for your Service” we’re offering an additional $100 discount off your tuition.  If you pay via the Zell app your tuition is just $1100.  If you prefer, you can send a $600 deposit and pay the $500 balance in cash at the class itself.  Or send the entire $1100 now via Zelle to axispowercraps@gmail.com.  Don’t forget to follow up with an email to axispowercraps@gmail.com with your full name, address, and cell number so we can contact you with additional details.  If you prefer to pay via PayPay your tuition will be $1150.

Veteran’s can register via PayPal at the following link for $1150:  https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4PDWVLDMPRE4C   Again, be sure to include your cell number for future contact.

Alumni – Refresher Student Tuition is $950 – That also includes both Saturday Dice Control and Sunday Advanced Betting Strategy Class. We reduce that tuition to $900 if you pay via the Zelle app. Pay via the Zelle app now by sending payment to axispowercraps@gmail.com. If you with you can pay as little as $400 now and pay the $500 balance at the class itself.

Alumni Students paying via PayPal – your tuition is $950. You can pay your tuition via PayPal at the following link:  https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=MBVKXWEGQE7KY

If you prefer, you can pay a deposit of $450 via PayPal and pay the $500 balance in cash at the class. Pay a deposit of $450 via PayPal at the following link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=FBQY8YKYZ4LP2

DD-214 Veteran Alumni Students – you also get a $100 discount as a salute to your service.  Your total tuition if $800 if you pay via the Zelle app.  Make your payment to axispowercraps@gmail.com and follow up with an email to axispowercraps@gmail.com with your contact information, including your cell number.  If you wish, you can pay a $400 deposit and pay the $400 balance in cash at the class in November.

If you prefer to pay via PayPal, DD-214 Alumni Students can enroll for $850 via PayPal at the following link:  https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=78LDDNGJR4A6L

Be sure when paying via PayPal to include your cell phone number in the comments. If there is no space to include that, email axispowercraps@gmail.com after making payment with your full name, casino handle if you use one, cell phone number, and which property you’ll be staying at while in Biloxi if you know it yet. This info is for the class roster.

Enrollment fees cover the cost of training and handout material only. Students are on their own for transportation, meals and lodging.

November is really Just Around the Corner.  Make your plans EARLY and Register NOW – even if you just make a deposit on the class.  This weekend ALWAYS sells out!

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