Can you choose what number to roll with a pair of dice? Most people can't, it's all just random. But some can control the dice with a method called rhythmic rolling - or at least so they claim.

Modifying the odds in Craps

As you know, Craps is a game of dice where you bet for or against certain outcomes, for example, a seven coming up. As in all casino games, the casino has a small edge against the players.

But the odds assume that all players roll dice completely randomly. If you can manage to, for example, roll fewer sevens than pure chance would predict, you can turn the odds in your favor.

A number of casino gamblers have made a name for themselves by being able to control the dice and turn the odds in their favor.

The 40 Roll Club

Since the dice-control records started in January 2003, more than 300 players have rolled more than 40 rolls in a row before hitting a seven, under controlled conditions with witnesses.

The probability of that happening with random dice is 0.00068, that is, very close to zero. Try it yourself. You should be able to roll 20 rolls with no seven in about 25 trials, but you'll probably not manage 30 rolls.

Legends like Frank Scoblete, The Captain, Dominator Loriggio, Stanford Wong and Howard Rock 'n Roller have rolled more than 70 consecutive rolls with no seven - a practically impossible deed if you cannot actually control the dice, and quite well too (probability 0,0000028).

Rhythmic rolling does the trick

So how do you do it?! Well, it's not for anyone to know. There are books on the subject, but you'd probably need a hands-on course to really get the hang of it.

Anyway, it's about rhythmic rolling, about placing the die in a certain position in your hand and moving your body in a certain manner. If you can get the dice to spin about the right axis, it will show certain numbers more often than others. That's the basic idea.

No doubt, you'll have to put in a whole lot of practice hours as well.