Ahigh Show Tuesday at 7:30pm Pacific Time

Quote: Buzzard

Ah, it seems MrV has a long affair with Mrs. Thumb and her 4 lovely daughters.

that's funny....never heard that one

Quote: AlanMendelson

I don't know where you play, but I rarely see 60 rolls "all the time." I would love to be at a craps table for sixty rolls. If I get 15 I go wild with joy!

A 60 roll hand would last at least 20 minutes. Honestly, do 20 minute hands happen all the time? I'm figuring a roll every 20 seconds.

In Ahigh's 2412 rolls, his longest run without rolling a 7 was 44 rolls.

The chance of doing that in just 2412 rolls is 12.2% or 1 in 8.2 shooters (over 2412 rolls)
2412, 44, .8333333
http://www.pulcinientertainment.com/info/Streak-Calculator-enter.html

1 in 133 shooters would do it on average twice in 2412 rolls.

My best ever was 73 rolls on a non-casino craps table with new dice.
Thought something was wrong with them. No 7s. But they came like fire after that 73rd roll.

To have a run of at least 60 rolls with no 7s in 2412 rolls would take on average 144 shooters.
trick is, will you be at the table when it does happen.
Hope so!

added: avg length of the longest run without a 7 in 2412 rolls is 35.56 (median is 34)

Quote: superrick

how does anybody know that he's not just cherry picking the rolls he post.

This is the SINGLE biggest reason I set up for the live broadcasts. Whether it is me or not, and even whether I have witnesses here, a live broadcast open to anyone who wants to watch is the best way to let people know this is not being edited or cherry picked. It's reality!

When the March 11th date was set, I decided to put my time and money behind the broadcast instead of behind a bet. It just seemed like the smarter thing to do to me for my long term quest. I imagine it would take a while for someone else to do all of this, and I've already got all the other gear besides the broadcast equipment.

Quote: superrick

Ahigh I do give you all the credit in the world, when you have the watch on the table, so everybody can see that you didn't do an edit!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe it. A positive comment from Rick.

Setting up the Television Studio hardware.





I hope I have enough time to figure out how to use it, but I wanted to make a nice custom rack mount that matched the table. I got it done in about 3 hours or so.

J hooks normally used for TOKE boxes from Spinetti's, wood and stain and screws from Home Depot, and rack mount hardware from Guitar Center. So I had to do some shopping.

Nice rack!

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I can't believe it. A positive comment from Rick.

Oh Ahigh give it up, I gave you other compliments before but you were to focused on something else that I wrote to even see them!

I think your software is neat, the only problem I see with it is you can't take it to a table with you, and what you did the day before might not happen the next day, so what ever betting strategies you used then, may not work when you are shooting. I always say take what the table is giving you. If you use a set like I do for the outside box numbers and you aren't hitting them, then switch to the box numbers you are hitting. It's not just your software it's, bonetracker or any other ones too!

The other thing is that it does no good to come home and say look if I bet that way I would have made this amount of money, it's plain and simple you didn't bet that way and you lost! I do everything with the way I track the tables, VDC does the same thing and a few of the other DI's that I know.

I change set according to what I see happening on the table with the dice and the table. The guys that go to the tables with me know what to look for when I'm shooting. The one thing I do tell the guys is, if your not sure, watch what I'm betting on. On a All, Tall, All Small table I never want to see a seven at anytime, but on a fire bet table I will set for the 7's and crap numbers on the come out rolls. By the way when I told you that your working bets on the come out roll were a bad bet, they were, at that point I didn't even talk to before I said that. There is no fire bet on that table so its open house to throw 7's on the come out rolls.

I'm not at a table to make somebody else money, I'm there to make it for myself. So no Ahigh, just because you had a working 6 and 8 doesn't mean that I'm going to try and make it for you!

I would hate to see you put all this time and effort into what you are doing, only to have someone like me said that because you weren't shooting like it would happen in a real casino, what did you prove?

In case you forgot about what happened with your one show, HarleyHorn didn't have your software when he said something was wrong with your dice that you were shooting with and it turned out they weren't balanced. Now you can say anything you want to about what happened, that night. It was bad luck that most of your 7's were coming one way. What that show did was to make you rethink what you had said before about the dice. Isn't that what you are trying to do with you having a DI shooting on your show?

Just like the bias dice thing there are people that think totally differently then you do. If you set out to prove anything you need to do it in a way that everybody can look at it and without a doubt in their minds “Ahigh proved everybody wrong”

Quote: 7craps

In Ahigh's 2412 rolls, his longest run without rolling a 7 was 44 rolls.

The chance of doing that in just 2412 rolls is 12.2% or 1 in 8.2 shooters (over 2412 rolls)
2412, 44, .8333333
http://www.pulcinientertainment.com/info/Streak-Calculator-enter.html

1 in 133 shooters would do it on average twice in 2412 rolls.

My best ever was 73 rolls on a non-casino craps table with new dice.
Thought something was wrong with them. No 7s. But they came like fire after that 73rd roll.

To have a run of at least 60 rolls with no 7s in 2412 rolls would take on average 144 shooters.
trick is, will you be at the table when it does happen.
Hope so!

added: avg length of the longest run without a 7 in 2412 rolls is 35.56 (median is 34)

Don't forget average chance Rick is going to say this information is useless because it wasn't taken from rolls in a casino, 100%

Still setting up my toys. There's a lot to learn, and there are some limitations unfortunately. So I'm having to learn how to deal with those limitations.

Quote: Ahigh

Don't forget average chance Rick is going to say this information is useless because it wasn't taken from rolls in a casino, 100%

Who cares what he says. IF you can demonstrate actual dice control on your table then it will transfer to a casino table, just not always. No DI has ever said they can be successful at a full table loaded with chips. I am so looking forward to March 11.

So was Romeo.

Quote: superrick

This morning I had two + 30 rolls that were both stopped by other players, the first casino had no one on the table at 4 am, but that didn't last long. On the first table I had a 4 point fire bet, no big deal.
The roll was stopped by one player making a stupid prop bet for the wrong amount, that the dealers didn't know what the player was doing. The dice sat in the middle of the table while they tried to figure out what just happened!

Next casino, one player at 5 am when I bought in, it stayed that way for a while then one other player came to the table and started to scream every time I hit a point. Then 3 other players came to the table, again I was on a 30 + roll when one of the players stopped the roll by putting a $25 hardway bet up for the dealers and there was some confusion about what he did, because it happened as they were doing a pay out. Both times I called all my bets off and guess what happened both time; 7 out line away! In both cases I left the casinos after those rolls.

Please don't get me started. Don't tell me that you threw a 7 because some other player made a bet and disturbed your pacing. Or that you threw a 7 because other players came to the table. Or you threw a 7 because someone said the number 7.

Heck, I have parroted those same superstitions too, but I knew they were just parroting superstitions.

You threw a 7 because you threw a 7 and that's all that happened. The other players betting or coming to the table, or Mercury passing through the 7th house of Zeus in the Mustang constellation of the Galaxy WhipMeNot did not do it.

Tell me you were joking, okay?

I will not make any decision until I know what color socks he was wearing !

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Please don't get me started. Don't tell me that you threw a 7 because some other player made a bet and disturbed your pacing. Or that you threw a 7 because other players came to the table. Or you threw a 7 because someone said the number 7.

Well Alan that's what I'm going to tell you , the casinos use this type of defense against players that are on a roll, when they do a under pay out on a bet to start an argument with a player. It's been well documented in many books on craps. Does it happen very time ,no but it happens enough to take notice of it, you can call it a superstition or anything that you want to. That is why the DI's play when we do, to avoid players that are on the tables that will do stupid things, that will stop a roll as it is happening.

The dice stay in the middle of the table as the dealers and suits try to straighten out what just happened on the table. The shooter losses focus and now the roll is starting over again.Then because of the long time frame between the shooter gettting the dice back you might see a 7 out.Sometimes when you have a player that made their first point and there is now a long time to make the pay outs, the shooter comes back with a 7 on the come out roll, they stood there at the table waiting to get the dice back and now they lost the focus they had when they were shooting before the roll came to a stop.

When we asked Ahigh about setting for the 7's on his come out rolls his answer was that he wasn't doing a set change, when he was putting on his show for everybody. A lot of his 7's came on the come out rolls when he wasn't setting for them. You can work all your bets that you want to after the roll is stopped for any length time; I'll call my bets off for one roll, big deal if I do that. The one thing I will not do is lose 5 or 6 bets that I had on the table because the roll stopped. Superstition or no,t it saved me money and cost you all your bets, if the 7 does show. I only lost the one, bet if there was a 7 out.

If you think that other players doesn't effect what is happening on a table then why are you pressing for no chips on Ahigh test or what ever you want to call it, there should be players on that table making bets like it was a real table, if you guys are going to try to prove there are guys that can always have good rolls when they go to the tables. There are a very few guys that can have pretty good rolls when they go to the table that others call DI's, but they can't do it every time they hit the tables. The same thing can be said for the random rollers or rhythm rollers, some players are damn lucky and it doesn't matter that their not DI's.

Take Pat DeMauro, with her 154 roll, she is just a damn lucky shooter, her dice goes all over the table when she is shooting, I happened to be on a table here in Vegas that she was playing on, when she was in town, my buddy was talking to her when she had a 45 roll, and was hitting the hard eight's. She would pick up the dice and shake them before she sent them down the table; her dice landed everywhere, hitting the chip the mirrors the working stacks of the stickman. You name it I think her dice, hit it. I didn't know who she was until after she left and we had colored up. That's when my buddy asked if I know who she was.

She showed back up on the same table the next day and had a very short roll, and cashed out and left. She was in town for one of the dice schools that was happening.

Please note that when I was writing about the other players, they stopped the roll by what they did, and it stopped for a few minuets both time.

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Tell me you were joking, okay?

No Alan, I will not tell you that I was joking, I save all my bets except the pass-line bet. I will continue to bet the rolls the same way when something like that happens, but change one thing to save the pass-line bet, by doing a come bet, when I turn off all my bets for that one roll!

I'm not blaiming it on the the other players, I"m blaming it on my own shooting because I didn't shake off what just happedned!
But in any case that is why I play at the ungodly hours that I do, to try to avoid other players that stop the roll when it is happening.

You guys can play on al the full tables you want to, but you won't find me there! By the way Alan I write about all the superstitions that are on the craps tables all the time, trying to get the guys to see that most of the time they are just that superstitions!
The only difference is that I will tell anybody if it just doesn't feel right to you then there is no harm in turning off your bets, the 7 has to come at some point in the roll, if it didn't there would be no craps game, everybody would be a winner and we know that will never happen!

By the way Alan anytime your in town I'll go to the table with you on my time, because I will not play on full tables, there is no need for me to do that I can play craps everyday.

PM me when you are coming into town!

Quote: superrick

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Please don't get me started. Don't tell me that you threw a 7 because some other player made a bet and disturbed your pacing. Or that you threw a 7 because other players came to the table. Or you threw a 7 because someone said the number 7.

Well Alan that's what I'm going to tell you , the casinos use this type of defense against players that are on a roll, when they do a under pay out on a bet to start an argument with a player. It's been well documented in many books on craps.

Superrick I will be more than happy to meet up and play with you. Thank you for the invitation.

Like you, I have also blamed my 7-outs on cold dice, stickman changing, new player buying in, player coloring up, dice going off the table, wife coming to the table, wife leaving the table, chip refill, chip count, dice change, cocktail waitress asking me if I want a drink, boxman commenting on my good roll, dealer telling a new player what a 7 means, player saying "don't roll a seven," don't player coming to the table, don't player betting a don't come, rolling three horn numbers in a row, dealer pushing the dice to the wrong player... and when you come down to it, each of those things does cause a 7-out "one out of six times."

But I would really like to read this casino tactic that has been "well documented in many books on craps."

The human belief system is the player's weakest link.

Believing falsehoods is often the cause of many downfalls.

It can also lead to fabulous wealth, however!

So there ya go!

LUCK TRUMPS ALL.

Its Tuesday, is there a show tonight? How come nobody is
talking about it.

Yes. There is a show. Will be using the fancy new hardware for the first time.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-ahigh-show

I figured out all the technical details for using the rack-mount hardware to do multiple cameras and what-not tonight.





I will post up some previews tonight after 5:00pm as I am preparing for the broadcast.

Last week's Ahigh Show is available for viewing.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/29067829

It's taking a while for me to learn about how Ustream works. I don't know if tonight's show will be available in the future, but hopefully I can figure out all this stuff.

If you want to have a laugh at me rolling tons of sevens, go to 27 minutes.

So who thinks I will be getting a Sony NEX-FS700U slow motion HD camera soon? Any guesses for when it will arrive?

Quote: Ahigh

So who thinks I will be getting a Sony NEX-FS700U slow motion HD camera soon? Any guesses for when it will arrive?

dude... what is with the bragging? calm down a bit.

why would anyone be interested to guess when your package will arrive?

Quote: sodawater

dude... what is with the bragging? calm down a bit.

why would anyone be interested to guess when your package will arrive?

will you be giving out food stamps?

Quote: sodawater

dude... what is with the bragging? calm down a bit.

why would anyone be interested to guess when your package will arrive?

Is this the same poster who questioned the reality of me having the March 11th event televised? I don't remember if that was you or not.

I'm not bragging. I'm having fun.

Quote: sodawater

OK, the question needs to be asked: have you completely lost touch with reality? media coverage? Live, televised, event?

Here is what (probably) is going to happen. Two guys meet up at your house and roll some dice for a few hours, then post about it on the web.

If I am wrong I guess I will watch it on live tv.

Just a little over three weeks have passed since this comment, soda. I think then you assumed you had it all figured out what was going to happen, and it sounds like you still want to think you have it all figured out what is going to happen.

Knowing what is going to happen isn't much fun, anyway. Why not roll with it instead of fight it so much?

You could have guessed I would just whip up a broadcast event in three weeks before the and get my broadcasting all practiced before the March 11th event, couldn't you?

I like doing this stuff. I'm not winning a bet. I'm not getting help from anyone. I'm doing it all myself.

But to you, it amounts to "bragging?"

Really?

To me it would be really hard work EXCEPT that is fun. Fun at least except for some of the comments from guys like you who want to make it seem like there is something wrong with me or what I like to do.

"Televised" doesn't mean ustreamed. I can set up a ustream of me picking my nose and it would be up and running in 3 minutes. Televised means aired on a TV station. Which is a delusion.

"Medica coverage" means... coverage by media. The only "media coverage" thus far are your repeated narcissistic postings about the event.


"Here is what (probably) is going to happen. Two guys meet up at your house and roll some dice for a few hours, then post about it on the web." -- This is exactly what is going to happen. Whether or not you use a streaming site primarily used by bored teenagers and Chad Ochocino to broadcast his Xbox sessions, is up to you.

It doesn't change the fact that your event will not be televised, there will be zero media coverage, and that no one cares about this aside from you and a very limited number of forum members who are not actively rooting against you.

Quote: sodawater

"Televised" doesn't mean ustreamed. I can set up a ustream of me picking my nose and it would be up and running in 3 minutes. Televised means aired on a TV station. Which is a delusion.

"Medica coverage" means... coverage by media. The only "media coverage" thus far are your repeated narcissistic postings about the event.


"Here is what (probably) is going to happen. Two guys meet up at your house and roll some dice for a few hours, then post about it on the web." -- This is exactly what is going to happen. Whether or not you use a streaming site primarily used by bored teenagers and Chad Ochocino to broadcast his Xbox sessions, is up to you.

It doesn't change the fact that your event will not be televised, there will be zero media coverage, and that no one cares about this aside from you and a very limited number of forum members who are not actively rooting against you.

You know what? That is just plain mean-spirited.

What are you, some kind of bully?

Seriously, I can't find any explanation for your wanting me to not have any enjoyment from the stuff I am doing and why you would say stuff like this.

What exactly does it do for you?

Here, you're right. This is all pointless. I've wasted tons of time and energy for nothing at all.

You feel good now? Maybe you get some kind of excitement out of that. Do you want me to elaborate about how terrible I feel so you can enjoy it?

Is that it?

I will talk specifically about how terrible you have made me feel on my show if it gives you some kind of pleasure.

Quote: sodawater

dude... what is with the bragging? ?

You just noticed? Everything is about money with
Ahigh, he's obsessed with it.

I am not begrudging you any enjoyment. Enjoy it to the fullest.

But it sounds like you want no one to disagree when you make outrageous claims like your event will be televised and covered by media. You posted those things, not me. So why are you surprised when someone references the reality that your event will not be televised and will not be covered by any media? Does reality offend you? Are you angry at me for not going along with your fantasy?

If you post something patently untrue on a public forum, please do not be offended when someone corrects you.

If you post what television channel your event will be aired on, and a link to any newspaper or magazine articles about the event, then I will stand corrected and withdraw my statement. Otherwise, I think reality speaks for itself.

Quote: sodawater

I am not begrudging you any enjoyment. Enjoy it to the fullest.

But it sounds like you want no one to disagree when you make outrageous claims like your event will be televised and covered by media. You posted those things, not me. So why are you surprised when someone references the reality that your event will not be televised and will not be covered by any media? Does reality offend you? Are you angry at me for not going along with your fantasy?

If you post something patently untrue on a public forum, please do not be offended when someone corrects you.

If you post what television channel your event will be aired on, and a link to any newspaper or magazine articles about the event, then I will stand corrected and withdraw my statement. Otherwise, I think reality speaks for itself.

I think the reality is just that you are a mean person.

" I am not begrudging you any enjoyment. Enjoy it to the fullest. " Then why not just shut the F*** up ?

You can be both bragging, AND enjoying yourself.

Quote: Buzzard

" I am not begrudging you any enjoyment. Enjoy it to the fullest. " Then why not just shut the F*** up ?

So everyone should just go along with ahigh's lies that his dice-rolling even will be aired on live TV and covered by media?

"Then why not just shut up?" could be applied to 99%, if not 100%, of forum posts.

The point of a forum is discussion.

Quote: Ahigh

I think the reality is just that you are a mean person.

Being realistic is not being mean.

Not going along with someone else's delusional fantasy is not being mean.

You know what is sort of mean, or at least selfish? Expecting everyone to agree with everything you say, no matter how outlandish, and crying in public when they don't agree.

As a fellow human being, I hope you have a good time at your event. But I do not expect it to be aired live on television, and I do not expect it to draw any interest from the media. I also happen to think your entire dice-controlling endeavor is folly. But the fact that I think those things is not because I am mean.

Quote: sodawater

Being realistic is not being mean.

Not going along with someone else's delusional fantasy is not being mean.

You know what is sort of mean, or at least selfish? Expecting everyone to agree with everything you say, no matter how outlandish, and crying in public when they don't agree.

As a fellow human being, I hope you have a good time at your event. But I do not expect it to be aired live on television, and I do not expect it to draw any interest from the media. I also happen to think your entire dice-controlling endeavor is folly. But the fact that I think those things is not because I am mean.

So you have proven that I am in a "delusional fantasy" and that makes your behavior acceptable and my behavior unacceptable?

That is a very interesting perspective.

We had the conversation where I admitted that using the word "televised" was misleading and that I should have used another word. Maybe you just didn't read that. But the spirit of being mean is still there, regardless of how you rationalize your behavior, you are a mean person from my perspective.

You have plenty of experience in this area (bullying) so I'll just ignore the comments about "crying" and what-not.

It seems it's becoming very familiar territory this discussion at this point now that I have given in to your efforts in saying that you have made me feel bad.

Congratulations!

Have some yummy food, and ignore the mean people.

Quote: Ahigh

So you have proven that I am in a "delusional fantasy" and that makes your behavior acceptable and my behavior unacceptable?

That is a very interesting perspective.

We had the conversation where I admitted that using the word "televised" was misleading and that I should have used another word. Maybe you just didn't read that. But the spirit of being mean is still there, regardless of how you rationalize your behavior, you are a mean person from my perspective.

You have plenty of experience in this area (bullying) so I'll just ignore the comments about "crying" and what-not.

It seems it's becoming very familiar territory this discussion at this point now that I have given in to your efforts in saying that you have made me feel bad.

Congratulations!

I think the very definition of narcissism is the inability to recognize that other people might do or say things that have little if anything to do with your own personal feelings.

Do you understand that it is possible I object to lies and wild exaggerations without wishing you any personal ill will?

http://youtu.be/Rzb7ycsQA2Y?t=12m51s

Quote: sodawater

Do you understand that it is possible I object to lies and wild exaggerations without wishing you any personal ill will?

So now all of the sudden you want to help me out? Really? Yeah, that sounds credible. If we established exactly what my lies were maybe we could have this conversation.

I can't recall a single post where you posted something that I inferred to be helpful towards me. Not one.

I think you're just having your own issues, frankly. And I don't care to try to diagnose them.

Quote: Ahigh

So now all of the sudden you want to help me out? Really? Yeah, that sounds credible. If we established exactly what my lies were maybe we could have this conversation.

I can't recall a single post where you posted something that I inferred to be helpful towards me. Not one.

I think you're just having your own issues, frankly. And I don't care to try to diagnose them.

I'm not trying to be helpful toward you. Like I said, I think your entire endeavor is complete folly.

What I am trying to make you understand is that while I object to your lies and outlandish exaggerations -- inasmuch as I take the time to refute them in my posts -- it's not out of personal animus but simply out of a respect for truth and reality.

"Personal animus?"



Yeah, baby!

Yeah, I just got done with the show. It was the least fun show ever. I wasn't really enjoying it and all I could think about was this thread. Then Alan comes on and says "sorry you're not proving anything."

So yeah. I know I'm not proving anything Alan.

Well, there ya go! Definitely succeeded in making this not fun for me tonight.

In fact, I almost just didn't even do the damn thing.

It's like this: NOT FUN because of a few people.

CONGRATULATIONS to you.

I was so looking forward to this until all this crap.



I'm still doing the March 11th show, but I may just move along. I think you guys have just beat me down too hard.

I think I'm going to go to the casino and do $5 passline bets with max odds on random shooters like how you smart guys do it.

Quote: Ahigh

It's like this: NOT FUN because of a few people.

CONGRATULATIONS to you.

Like I said a couple weeks ago, you take
everything wayyyyyy too personally. And
when its brought up, you deny it with
a 'ha ha, no I don't, its all part of my plan'.


Whatever, everybody isn't going to like you,
get over it. I'm the most disliked person here,
does it sound like I lose any sleep over it?

Quote: EvenBob

Quote: Ahigh

It's like this: NOT FUN because of a few people.

CONGRATULATIONS to you.

Like I said a couple weeks ago, you take
everything wayyyyyy too personally. And
when its brought up, you deny it with
a 'ha ha, no I don't, its all part of my plan'.


Whatever, everybody isn't going to like you,
get over it. I'm the most disliked person here,
does it sound like I lose any sleep over it?

Yeah. I'm already in the car on the way to the Casino Royale with a bulging wallet ready to unload my cash into the WOV "wisdom."

Quote: Ahigh

Yeah, I just got done with the show. It was the least fun show ever. I wasn't really enjoying it and all I could think about was this thread. Then Alan comes on and says "sorry you're not proving anything."

So yeah. I know I'm not proving anything Alan.

Well, there ya go! Definitely succeeded in making this not fun for me tonight.

In fact, I almost just didn't even do the damn thing.

It's like this: NOT FUN because of a few people.

CONGRATULATIONS to you.

Aaron,
I have followed the various threads, but have kept out of the exchanges, so trust me when I say I have no agenda here.
Here are my impressions of the show tonight:

1. Have a goal for each show. I sense you are kind of feeling your way through it, and I know you have a bunch of new gear that you are still learning, so I am not holding that against the show. But we wandered all over the place. A concise goal for a given show would help.

2. IF the goal is to prove DI, then I would recommend that you throw with ONE set, and just throw a set number of throws. I enjoyed seeing how consistent, or inconsistent, your dice were in the landing and roll out. But changing sets for Come out vs regular throws does not help show DI.

3. IF the goal is to see how much money the betting program can win, then announce that is the goal, and then set however you want.

I admit I lost audio for the last part of the show, so you may have been using one set the whole time and I wasn't aware.

TECHNICAL

The overlay stuff is neat technology, but it made it hard to tell what the dice were when the roll data was imposed on the screen. And the roll data was so light, I could just barely read it as well. Personally, I think I would like to see the dice landing and the roll out, then a flash to show the roll sequences, and then back to the live dice for the next roll, or for a slo mo shot of the dice.
I think a slo mo shot of your hand releasing the dice would be AWESOME. I would actually like to see that from any DI. We are all so focused on the landing zone that we never really think about the DI hand. Do the dice leave the fingers the same way each time? It would be really cool to be able to look at 4 or 5 throws next to each other, watch the slo mo, and then freeze on the moment of release and see if the dice faces are consistent on each throw.

Some nights you will hit a single or double, other times you may hit a triple. Rarely will you hit a home run, and some nights you will strike out. Even baseball gives you 3 strikes before they send you packing......

I can see a lot of potential in the show, and the CTD could be really cool to be the goal of a show, but it needs a bit more refinement to be very useful. I think you have proved the concept is real, now comes the hard part of fine tuning it. Good luck

Thanks for the feedback. If I had someone here to help it would have been better.

I was expecting to have someone help, but it didn't work out.

There's too much for me to do alone. I had to run an extra network cable between 5pm and 6pm on top of everything else digging stuff out of a closet to get it run so I could have the switcher and the windows machine both on the wired lan.

It's just one of those things where it was just a really bad day. I really didn't want to even do the show. It may have been obvious from my tone of voice, but I didn't want to do anything.

Whatever. I can have more fun more easily doing other things.

Ahigh. Don't get too down. You are teaching us all a lesson that there is no get rich quick scheme when gambling. If you want to do anything well you've got to put constant work into it. Same goes for you're tv show, DI, etc.

I never detected an inclination to quit in any of your prior postings. Hopefully, you are just having a bad day.

Sigh.

Bob, you're far from the most disliked person here. Heck, even *I* like you. I may disagree with you on many points, but I still like you.

Ahigh, get over yourself already. This is an online forum, and you are going to get your critics (including me) and your supporters as well. Stick with your supporters, and if this site is "getting to you", then step away for awhile. AZ and Bob took time off after Obama won the election, and I took a few months off s well because I just lost interest.

I disagree that practice at home does not make perfect. Of course it does. When you practice (anything) you generally do it in a non-competitive setting first. Then, after you have practiced and are ready to play, you play the game -- you go to the casino with what you've learned, be it a betting method, counting method, video poker strategies, whatever, and you play the best game you theoretically can.

With regards to the TV setup and all of the work you've done to put on a weekly show, it seems a bit too obsessive to be called "having a little bit of fun". I like to have a "little bit of fun" skyping my friends, but I need a $50 camera to do that. If I spent thousands on equipment to call my friends, my wife would take my credit cards away and question if I was trying to have on-line sex or something of that matter.

If you are going to do a study on controlling dice, then for cripe's sake, do it. Get the equipment, show how dice are inflluenced, and construct a great show on how it's done using generally accepted statistical and control methods. There are plenty of scientific minds on this forum that know what those are, and can pretty much do the analysis required on your throws in a matter of minutes. All of the other charts and graphs and betting methods, etc, are hoopla. There are tried and true methods that have been discusssed ad nauseum throughout these and other forums. Some of the member's derision are mocking your attempt to reinvent the proverbial wheel. The throwing arm that you have developed has great interest, for example.

But if you successfully show that diec indeed can be influenced and without doubt, it'll be Hightower-mania in the casino world. Casinos execs will see that it can be done, and will make every single dice thrower toss the dice without setting them -- mission accomplished.

If you are going to have an hour show that simply shows you throwing dice, then the expensive equipment really isn't required, and the criticism of the spending decisions that you have made are not unjustifiable.

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I never detected an inclination to quit in any of your prior postings. Hopefully, you are just having a bad day.

ahigh has threatened to quit his noble quest several times in the past few weeks. If you recall, 2 weeks ago, he canceled then uncanceled then canceled then uncanceled his show all in the same thread because of too much negativity.

But in those postings he was just being temperamental. This time he seems serious !

I for one will miss him and hope he decides to continue his quest.

Ahigh is not a quitter and I bet he'll do his show again same time next Tuesday.

Geez, Aaron, I'm one of your supporters. But I have to tell you the truth. And Ralleigh also said pretty much the things I wanted to say.
Before the show started I was asking what the goal was on the show?
You need a subject matter or a point or some cohesive reason for doing the show. This has nothing to do with craps... this is about doing a show.

This was the first time I was able to see the show from the start and I was really expecting you to say "hi everybody, tonight we're going to see if..."

Then I saw your dice catapult. (I even commented you could use that to throw fireballs at the enemy fort or at Godzilla. It's not for controlling dice because you have too many variables when using it.) So I expected you to say something about the test you were going to do with it, but you didnt.

You gave us a nice show and tell on all your technology, but I was more concerned with what you were going to show about your research into dice control and dice influencing. I even made the comment that instead of using your catapult that I would rather see your shooting.

When I again commented that your shooting appears to be random you pulled out your stats about the fewer than expected number of 7s. That's good, but a fewer number of 7s in one-hundred rolls does not indicate dice influencing -- it's just a number in a small sample. I wanted to see your DICE INFLUENCING. I wanted to see you hit the same spot on the table, and the dice hitting the same part of the wall and the dice bouncing off the same... and unfortunately I saw none of that so you still haven't got me convinced about anything about dice influencing.

I've seen more "dice influencing" at Caesars palace than I saw from you. BUT DON'T BE OFFENDED because you have a different definition than I of dice influencing.

I also want to see your grip and your shot, instead of the dice landing and bouncing.

I will watch again next week and if I can I will drive up some day soon to play some craps with you and maybe hold a camera for you during your show.

Look, you have the pieces but you have to put them all together. Test one thing at a time instead of trying to do everything in an hour. Think of each show as a chapter in a book.

Maybe next week: testing one set to see if any particular number repeats. and show us how you will throw the dice. show us the set, the grip, the throw, where you shoot from, and then let us watch. that would set a purpose for the show and would give us something to sink out teeth into. tonight we got a lot of little tastes.

I'm with you. Im not a critic.