Re: Does it require faith?
"Given that setting dice (as advertised) is such a highly personalized skill, I'm not sure that simply recording sessions would resolve anything. If the shooter can't do it today -- it's possible that he could yesterday. If the shooter can't do it ever -- that doesn't mean someone else can't. What I would like to see is slow-motion video of the dice behaving as predicted, and compare it to video of random throws. If there was a significant correllation between the prediction and the recorded behavior of the dice, and the recorded patterns (bounce, spin, etc.) deviated from the random patterns -- I'd be a believer. "
See, now THIS I respect. That is a fair thing to want to see. I do not have the videos, but apparently Sharpshooter, who wrote Get the Edge at Craps, does have lots of footage of his precision shooting. Of course, he could be lying, but he does claim this. Not sure if someone could get footage of it, probably not. He also claims to have recorded thousands and thousands of rolls, and goes on to say that his results fall to the right of 3 standard deviations. Again, he could be lying, but if not, then evidence does exist.
I personally only have my experience to go by. I took a weekend seminar and watched players and myself drastically improve our results. Not just one of us, but all of us. Now, if it is purely randomness, then it would be an incredible coincidence that ALL of our results were drastically improving as we practiced this technique more and more.
As far as the whole machine thing, I'm not sure what this is in reference to. Are there people trying to build a machine that precision shoots dice? If so, I haven't heard about this. It doesn't even make sense. Why would someone build a machine? They wouldn't be able to bring it into a casino. Someone fill me in.
Frankly, I'm done with this topic. I will end it the same way I ended it a month ago before this moron (not you, Sheetwise) started it up again. If you would like more info, then PM me.
Peace out
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