I was at Bellagio last November ( I believe) playing craps. The golden touch boys were in town doing a seminar. For those of you not familiar that is Schlobete, Dominator and crew. I ran into a control shooter at Mirage and he mentioned to me that at 10am the next day that Dominator would be playing at Bellagio. I seen the show on Bio channel about breaking Vegas and all so I thought what the hell, I'll throw 1k down and see what happens ( if I can even get on the table).
I get there a little early and no sign of Dominator, but here's whats so damn funny, one of their students held the dice for about 40 minutes and I cashed out close to 9k. The pit kept checking the dice every now and then but kept the game going fast. After this guy 7'd out I cashed out and my wife says " Dominator's at that table over there". So I go throw 1k out and then another 1k out and manage to lose close to 2k on the "Dominator" and a few their instructors. Dominator uses the hardway set, which I firmly DO NOT believe in, I'd say he avg. maybe 4-5 rolls b4 a 7.
Go buy a set of dice and set it on the hardways, figure how many combinations of a 7 there are if you keep them on axis. Then set them on the 3v or 4v and figure it out, it's a no brainer. As far as a random shooter having this monster roll of 4 plus hours it doesn't surprise me that a random shooter did it, as Ken Smith pointed out a controlled shooter isn't ever going to break this record. But, a control shooter who can keep them dice on axis 1 out of every 3 shakes will make damn good money. So over the long haul I'll take a shooter who can go 12 shakes w/out a 7 compared to a lucky 1 hour roll and a bunch of 7 outs the rest of the day.
I would like to add that the student that had the big roll set the Die on 3v