Dear Frank:
You should update the record holder in craps.
I lived in Vegas for a year back in 2008. I have three rolls over an hour in my personal count, all of them at the Suncoast Casino.
The first being the longest of about 1 hr and 40 mins. Unfortunately, at that time (a couple of weeks after moving to Vegas), I didn't make much money because I started with 40 dollars and didn't really know how to bet. I wouldn't press my bets. Now, it'd be a different story.
I usually set the dice the hard ways or 11 at the top, 9 facing me. I use the latter at the Stratosphere, where they have the crapless craps because I throw yo's and crabs with that setting.
Well thanks for your time.
Good website you have here.
Regards,
Marco
Dear Marco:
I wrote about Pat DeMarco's incredible roll immediately after it happened. She surpassed the Captain's previous record of 147 rolls set in 2007 and Stanley Fujitake's record of 118 rolls. The amount of time it took for these record rolls is irrelevant. The casinos like to talk about "time" but it is the number of rolls that count.
Indeed Pat was a special guest at my "Frank Scoblete's World Casino Championships" in August 2009. She was a great speaker and told a fascinating story of her world record roll. Her full exploit on that evening will be in my new book Casino Craps: Shoot to Win! which will be out in the spring of 2010. The book will be published by Triumph Books, a division of Random House. I think you will find the full story to be quite interesting.
Here are the links to my articles on the world record rolls:
http://www.goldentouchcraps.com/WorldRecord.shtml
http://www.goldentouchcraps.com/captainrolls147.shtml
Congratulations on your long rolls. Many players never get to have those monsters.
I am giving you a free 30-day subscription to my private member's only web site at www.goldentouchcraps.com. We have over 5,000 members on this site and I think you will enjoy it.
All the best in and out of the casinos!
Frank
