By Fred, Marketing Manager

Golden Touch™ dice control instructors and students know one thing very clearly and very surely – if they don’t practice their controlled shooting, they will lose their edge. As Frank Scoblete likes to point out, dice control is very much like baseball hitting. You have to stay in practice, almost daily, to be any good at it. Unfortunately far too many players fail to practice and then wonder why they aren’t beating the house.

In the casinos these players carefully set the dice, often taking way too long to do so, they make a production of aiming and throwing. To the unschooled eye – say the eye of the boxman or floorperson – the shooter appears to be a controlled shooter. He or she isn’t however. We have seen many careful shooters who look good (superficially) but have no more control over the dice than someone who just picks them up and wings them down the table.

Other players, who do practice and do have some control, make a tragic mistake – they believe their skill is enough to overcome the bad bets at the game. Yes, shooters such as Dominator and Stickman might have the ability to hit long shot bets with regularity but that doesn’t mean most dice controllers can do that. You must bet properly to beat the game.

Every GTC instructor has a different method of practicing. Some practice once a day. Some scatter their practices throughout the day – doing shorter sessions. How you practice is not as important as the fact that you are practicing.

You don’t have to have a craps table in your house to practice, either. Although many GTCers do have regulation GTC caps tables, more simply have GTC practice rigs. You can find both craps tables and practice rigs on these pages. Take the time to look them over. If you don’t wish to buy something, you can always make a practice rig yourself.

Practice may not make you a perfect shooter but it is the only way to become a competent shooter.

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(If you wish to see anything covered write to FRED at info@goldentouchcraps.com.)