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Excerpt from Chapter 10
Dice Pick-Ups
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The dice pick-up is what we begin our throw with. What should we do to guarantee us a good start? Since we perform a controlled throw, which requires specialized dice grips; our pick-up is not an arbitrary process. It is not a simple pick-up just to have the dice in your hand. The purpose of our dice pick-up is to move the dice, offered to us by a stickman, into one of our dice grips. Thus, every particular dice grip determines an appropriate dice pick-up.
What are other requirements for the dice pick-up? A casino has only one – a pick-up must be done by one hand. If you’ll try to do it with two hands, the suspicious minds from a craps pit will give you a loud warning.
You, also, have to perform a pick-up fairly fast; otherwise, you’ll slow down the game and aggravate everybody else at the table. You can’t be clumsy with your pick-up. The whole pick-up process should be smooth, fast and without attracting unnecessary attention.
Seven different dice grips were discussed in the previous chapter. They belong to three types – the Top grips, Diagonal grips and the "Ideal" dice grip. .................. Accordingly, there are three types of the dice pick-ups – one for every type of the dice grip..............
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