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Modern dice are made from cellulose acetate. It may be the best material available today, and there are strict manufacturing processes. This material is used because it is reasonably clear, hard, and less prone to deformation with wear and tear. But it doesn't mean they are perfect. The industry standard is accuracy within 1/10,000th of an inch. Most of the better manufacturers claim their dice meet the standards.
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As it turns out, most have an error several times greater what is stated. In most cases you will get dice with an error of about 5/10,000th of an inch. In fact, I've personally seen dice that are as much as 48/10,000th of an inch off. This is just the defects from manufacturing. Not only will you never get a perfect dice, but some of them out there are horrendously flawed.
Did you know just the heat from your hand can double the defect of an unbalanced dice? This is just from your hand. If you have the equipment required to make the measurements, make your measurements. Repeat the measurements a few times to make sure you have it right.
Then hold the dice in your hand for a minute. Repeat your measurements while the dice is still warm. You will find just the heat from your hand has deformed the dice. This is just the beginning.
In my time I've seen some remarkably clever ways players are gaffing dice. Gaffing is manipulating the physical characteristics. I will reveal some of the methods. You wont find them in any books or casino surveillance training videos. That information will be given later.
In particularly LV has some very strict requirements to ensure fair games. That is fair random games, within acceptable tolerances. For Craps, one of those requirements is balanced dice. It's not always actual law, although sometimes it is.
I hope everyone found this information useful. There's more coming.
You'll be surprised how easily dice can be gaffed. Relatively few in the gaming community know about it, and many have a vested interest and don't want to talk about it. Though even if you were to complain about it to a regulatory authority, you'll probably get a complacent response. They dont want the paperwork and hassle either.
I'll get into dice setting (controlled shooting) later too, but you don't even need that. If you know how to gaff a dice, you can readily do it and leave little or no proof you actually manipulated anything. Or at least the manipulation wasn't intentional. On this note, dice setting is not a myth although there are many dice setting course that don't do it right. I'll explain some of the studies, and my own experiences with it another time.
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As it turns out, most have an error several times greater what is stated. In most cases you will get dice with an error of about 5/10,000th of an inch. In fact, I've personally seen dice that are as much as 48/10,000th of an inch off. This is just the defects from manufacturing. Not only will you never get a perfect dice, but some of them out there are horrendously flawed.
Did you know just the heat from your hand can double the defect of an unbalanced dice? This is just from your hand. If you have the equipment required to make the measurements, make your measurements. Repeat the measurements a few times to make sure you have it right.
Then hold the dice in your hand for a minute. Repeat your measurements while the dice is still warm. You will find just the heat from your hand has deformed the dice. This is just the beginning.
In my time I've seen some remarkably clever ways players are gaffing dice. Gaffing is manipulating the physical characteristics. I will reveal some of the methods. You wont find them in any books or casino surveillance training videos. That information will be given later.
In particularly LV has some very strict requirements to ensure fair games. That is fair random games, within acceptable tolerances. For Craps, one of those requirements is balanced dice. It's not always actual law, although sometimes it is.
I hope everyone found this information useful. There's more coming.
You'll be surprised how easily dice can be gaffed. Relatively few in the gaming community know about it, and many have a vested interest and don't want to talk about it. Though even if you were to complain about it to a regulatory authority, you'll probably get a complacent response. They dont want the paperwork and hassle either.
I'll get into dice setting (controlled shooting) later too, but you don't even need that. If you know how to gaff a dice, you can readily do it and leave little or no proof you actually manipulated anything. Or at least the manipulation wasn't intentional. On this note, dice setting is not a myth although there are many dice setting course that don't do it right. I'll explain some of the studies, and my own experiences with it another time.
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