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April 11–17
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Atlantic City Class
May 18–19, 2019
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April 2019
Here's what's inside this issue...
- Biloxi Trip Report
- Upcoming Classes
- Testimonials
- Howard Recommends
Biloxi Trip Report • Heavy & Howard's Biloxi Beach Party • Mar. 2019
My journey began on March 21st, waking up at 5 am to get an early start for our 12 hour drive from Ft. Lauderdale to Biloxi, MS.
Ivy joined me on this trip, and she got sentimental as we passed by Tallahassee and Florida State University (FSU) where both of our children graduated. We used to love to visit them and watch the football games together.
So, we were traveling due west on I-10 and eventually entering Central Time (we turned our watches back an hour), passed Pensacola, then the “Sweet Home Alabama” sign, Mobile Bay, and finally welcome to Mississippi... Soon we start seeing casino billboards... we’re getting closer and eventually saw the 110 sign south to Biloxi. We saw the Scarlet Pearl and the IP and knew we were finally there. Whew! That was a long drive.
We checked into the the Hard Rock Casino/Hotel and got a beautiful room over looking the Gulf of Mexico and the beautiful swimming pool. Life is good.
I called my pal Heavy up on the phone to meet for dinner. We didn’t want to drive anymore, and the Casino was nice enough to offer us a free buffet.. so off we went and enjoyed a nice dinner together.
After dinner, Ivy went upstairs to relax and Heavy and chose to play a session. Of course, we broke our rule of not playing on the first day of arriving in town after a long drive.
It all turned out alright.. Joe “Hoof” had two good rolls, a 22 and a 34 roll hand, hitting the All Tall bonus bet. Helping us secure a winning session.
We were off to a good start!
The next day, Friday, we all got up early to play at Treasure Bay Casino. The table was empty, and we were ready for a big session. Unfortunately, the session was a dud. There were quite a few rolls that ended at the 12-15 roll mark... when all of our bets were pressed up. There were some shorter ones too. I had the longest roll... an 18 roll hand. The casino did, however, give us a comp to their buffet. That was the best part of the session — eating and socializing.
After breakfast we headed over to the Hard Rock casino for the second session of the day.
I started things off with a nice hand... a 21 roll hand hitting five 4s... the next time the dice came around to me, I got dialed in and tossed a 34 roll hand!
As I look on my chart I see a few pretty good rolls: Biloximan and Biloxilady both tossed rolls in the mid teens. Later in the session Biloximan tossed another good roll, a 17 roll hand. The rest of the session was so-so with the guys making a point here and there, but no long rolls.
Friday night was the Meet and Greet for our class. It was held in a private room at a restaurant across from Harrahs, called “The Blind Tiger”. We had a big group of between 35-40 people. Some of the students brought their spouses. It was a fun evening of getting to know each other. Heavy treated the group to pitchers of beer. Everyone had a great time!
Afterwards, a few of us decided to go to a very nice restaurant across the bridge in Ocean Springs called McElroy’s. Behind the restaurant is a bayou and it has big oak trees and a pier. During the day, it’s a very picturesque scene. The restaurant specializes in local seafood and oysters. Ivy and I sat with Heavy, Rich and his wife, Bankerdude, 22inside and Slowdriver. We all enjoyed good food and good conversation.
The next day, Saturday, was our class. Heavy, 22inside, and I got up early and had breakfast at Waffle House and then headed over to the Dealer School for our class.
When we arrived, we were greeted by many of the students waiting outside for us. Everyone was eager to learn, and also to have a good time in the classroom. The classroom at the Dealer School had three tables: two 12 footers and one 14 footer. I chose the longer table because it had a neutral bounce.
22inside’s table focused on tuning up everyone’s classic “on-axis toss”. Heavy’s Table focused on betting techniques, progressions, regressions etc. My table focused on tuning up everyone’s on-axis toss, and then demonstrating and teaching some of my Specialty tosses, such as the “Corner Toss”, the “Ice Tong Toss”, the “The Split Shot”, and “Underhand Rolling Toss.”
Each group of students (we had a large class of 24-28 students) rotated clockwise after a while, to make sure everyone had a chance to work with the instructors at each table.
We took a lunch break at a place across the street called “Monster Subs.” They make excellent sandwiches.
During the afternoon session, we continued our class till 6 pm.
Heavy and I were really tired and didn’t feel like traveling anymore so we opted for another comped buffet at The Hard Rock Casino, where Ivy joined us.
After dinner, the casino was really crowded and full of excitement. Heavy and I found an empty spot on one of the 14 foot tables near the bar. It was a $15 table full of random shooters.. all young people out to have a good time on Saturday night. I had a decent roll, as did the shooter next to me... but the band playing rock music nearby was so loud, it was uncomfortable, so I soon colored up and went to bed.
Sunday morning was the day that the instructors played with the students. Heavy and I were staying at the Hard Rock, so that is we met our group at 7 am. 22inside was staying at Harrahs. So that was where he played with his group.
We had a good 1st session with our group.. the stand out shooters for this session were:
Howard tossed an 18 roll hand, Rich tossed a magnificent 32 roll hand, Dave tossed a 20 roll hand and one of our students tossed a 28 roll hand. When the rolls got shorter, it was time to color up a winner.
After our first session we went for breakfast at the Hard Rock restaurant called the “Sugar Factory”. They are known for their desserts and ice cream, but they also had a breakfast menu. The food was good, but service needs some improvement. It was comped, so we really can’t complain.
We played a second session with our students at the Hard Rock around 11 am.
Heavy started things off with a nice 18 roll hand. Diane tossed a hand in the mid teens. Vin tossed a beautiful hand of 30 numbers. Heavy tossed a good hand of 23 numbers. Bankerdude and 22inside tossed good money hands in the mid teens... then the rolls got shorter and it was time to color up.
Later in the day we played one more session before dinner, at the Beau Rivage. The tables used to be padded and bouncy at the Beau.. so even though it is a beautiful hotel/casino, most DIs avoided it. But, I’m happy to say that the padding has been removed or matted down, and the bounce was neutral..
The problem is that some adjustment is needed because the rails are higher and the bowl is deeper than the other casino tables.
This session wasn’t so good... many of the rolls were 10 numbers or less. Heavy tossed a decent money hand of 15, Mark 22 inside tossed a 16 roll hand, Bamkerdude tossed a 15 roll hand and the longest roll was by Tony, who tossed an 18 roll hand.
Monday morning we all woke up early and met for a session at the Hard Rock once again.
Bob started things off with a great roll from Straight Out.... He tossed a 30 roll hand.. Heavy tossed a 16 roll hand, Bob had another great roll.. a 28 roll hand, Rich tossed a mid teens roll and Buffalo yo tossed a 21 roll hand .
Later that morning, we ventured over to the Golden Nugget Casino. Dennis had a nice roll of 28. The rest of the shooters tossed mid teen rolls or less.
Next we headed over to Treasure Bay. There we played with some old fiends Mila and John. We didn’t stay long, because we had plans on meeting Heavy and the guys over at IP Casino around 4 pm.
At the IP we bought in at one of the tables... unfortunately, we were on the wrong table. Our table was soooo cold... either variance or something else was going on with the dice. I never saw so many point 7 outs. I managed to have a decent roll of 18 using one of my Specialty tosses.. the Split Shot .. and Bankerdude tossed a 15 roll hand ... but for the rest of the shooters it was 7 out galore ... so many 7s!!!
Heavy and 22inside switched to the other table.. I did too, for a little while... then I heard cheering on the first table so I went back. Big mistake.. it seemed that some one finally made a point.. that was why they were cheering .. but then it became poor 7 out city once again...
In the meantime, the table that Heavy and 22inside were on got hot and the long rolls began... It was then too crowded for me to get back in. That table was so hot that Heavy was willing to miss dinner with us... I can’t blame him.. “Never leave in the middle of a hot table.”
We had dinner at the IP buffet with a nice group of students, who had now become friends.
The next day, Tuesday, was our last day. Most of the students and friends were leaving today.
We started our first session as usual at the Hard Rock casino.
This was a pretty good winning session. I started things off with a nice hand of 20, using my High parr toss from straight out.
The Wizard has a nice roll using his Underhand rolling toss, an 18 roll hand.
Then there were a few rolls by the guys in the mid teens.
Dennis has a nice roll of 24 using his low rolling Yuri toss.
I had another good roll from straight out of around 18 numbers and it was time to color up winners.
We had another comped breakfast at The Sugar Factory again.. once again the servers seem to need more training.. but the food was good and it’s Comped ... so I can’t complain.
After breakfast we headed over to Harrahs to play on their “Tub”.
It’s a small 6 Ft or so table... but they soon closed it and opened the 12 Ft table... we were doing well on the Tub ... too bad they closed it.
We next went to the Palace Casino. This was a great session!!
22inside tossed a fantastic 30 roll hand! Later in the session Ronny tossed a big hand too! His roll was a 36 number roll.
Later in the afternoon, we headed over to the IP. I had some free promotion chips to use, and they were giving away a free vacuum cleaner.
There were some very good rolls this session. Bankerdude was ready to leave town and on his last roll, he wanted to get a quick 7 out, Playing the Don’t side.
As often happens.. Toss after toss.. no 7s ...He finally 7d our after around 16 rolls.
I had a nice hand using my Split shot and tossed 20 numbers.
Then the guys had some short rolls. I got the dice once again and tossed an 18 roll hand.
Then, London Shooter got the dice from straight out and tossed a magnificent roll making the All Tall and Small bet!!! With a 32 roll hand! Later in the evening he hit it the ATS a second time!!
Ivy, me, Slow Driver, Mark, Kenny and his wife had very nice dinner at a very rustic seafood restaurant in Ocean Springs, called “Mikey’s on the Bayou”. It’s on the water.. and I saw a sign that they also sell bait.. It was a good local place... very old and rustic looking.
Well, that’s end of my story.. We had a great time in Biloxi.. Heavy and I had a sold out class, made many new friends and students and I forgot to mention the whole trip was comped and the casinos were very generous. On a few days they even gave away gifts.. I got a free vacuum cleaner, electric frying pan and a free electric mixer...
I love visiting and playing in Biloxi!
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Testimonials
Heading out on the Norwegian Bliss today for 7 days. We stayed overnight in Ft Lauderdale last night. Was fortunate Howard rock n roller was available for a tune up in his craps pit. We worked grips and sets/throws from SL1, SR1, and straight out. Really happy with the progress...
...PSA, If you're heading out on a cruise from Southern Florida, you may want to hit up Howard and get ready for the craps table on the cruise.
—R.D., Iowa
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Upcoming classes in these locations:
🆕 Las Vegas 🆕
April 11 – 17, 2019
and
April 24 – May 9, 2019
Howard will be available for one-one-classes with casino session
call (954) 599-8648 or
email howardrocknroller@gmail.com to reserve
Atlantic City
May 18–19, 2019
The class will be from 9 AM – 5 PM and will focus on your "On-Axis Toss", plus, I will teach you how to toss from a second position!
Your toss will be observed, tuned-up, tweaked and perfected. It will be all hands on — no boring lectures! Everyone will have plenty of time to work on their toss under Howard's supervision. We will practice tossing from stick left, stick right, and straight out. Then, after lunch, I will introduce and demonstrate, and teach some alternate tosses to help you win in the casinos.
We will also go over betting techniques (including playing the "Do" side and the "Don't" side), table etiquette, set, grip, and landing zone, and money management.
In the afternoon, we'll focus on the alternate tosses. You will learn effective new tosses to help you become a stronger shooter. You will be able to play on all tables, and shoot from different positions with confidence. Some of the alternate tosses include: "The Corner Toss", "Ice Tong Toss", "Split Shot", the "Yuri Low Roll", "Underhand Softball Pitch" toss and others.
This will be a great workshop for those who want to be able to shoot from various positions on the craps table. Sometimes the casino gets crowded, and wouldn't it be great to know that you have an effective toss from almost anywhere on the table? Plus, some of these alternate tosses work on bouncy padded tables too.
The full day of instruction, plus playing 2-3 casino sessions (with Howard supervising) on Sunday, is only $599 for first time students. Alumni students who have taken my class before will be receiving a $100 discount making the price $499.
Come join the fun in Atlantic City with Howard Rock 'n' roller!
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Fort Lauderdale, FL
"Craps in Paradise"
to be announced
other upcoming classes to be announced
Tunica, MS
Las Vegas
Atlantic City
Biloxi, MS
Fort Lauderdale, FL
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