If you simply do the opposite of what the casino president stated, you'll be a winner. In other words, if you're winning, don't get greedy, but leave with most of your profits intact. If losing, instead of taking out more money in a vain attempt to get even, limit your losses to the single-session bankroll and walk away from the table. Do those two things when gambling and you'll be smarter than 99 percent of all gamblers.

You must never, and I repeat, never reach into your pocket for more cash after you've lost your single session bankroll. That's the time to take a stroll. Do anything else but gamble. Go for a swim, rest in your room, have coffee, but don't keep gambling. In that way you won't get really hurt at any one session of play. This requires self-control, so make certain that you've trained yourself to have this control before you do any serious gambling.

When you're winning, and you will by following the methods outlined in this book, leave the table a winner. Always quit a winner, is the old adage of the smart gambler. If you're ahead twenty chips, at that moment tell yourself, I'm going to leave with 10 of them as my profit. Don't ever put them into play or in any way jeopardize them at the table. If they're $5 chips, you've got $50 profit; if $25 chips you've got $250, and if they're $100 chips, you've just made $1,000 for a single session of play. What's wrong with that kind of score?

When playing a fast moving game like craps, self-control often involves going against the mob at the table and believing in your own methods of play. Sometimes, during a hot roll, there's an awful temptation to really sock in the bets on all kinds of outrageous wagers, buying the 4 and 10, for example, or betting heavy money on the 5 and 9 as place numbers, giving the house 4 percent over you. Resist those temptations and stick with the correct come bets, raising them continuously.

The vast majority of craps players, even the really high rollers, the so-called smart players, play a stupid game that dooms them to defeat. They bet pass line, cover all the place numbers, and pray for a hot roll. Don't pray for anything at the table except for patience and self-control, and pray that these two things don't desert you. The hot roll will come along, and by patient play, correct money management, and smart bets, you'll take full advantage of that roll for you'll be one of the few original players still left at the table. The others will long since have been tapped out with their bad bets and inept money management.