1995 VHS • Beginner Craps with The Gambling Scot 60 FPS

About

Beginner Craps with the Gambling Scot is a casino gambling instruction video running approximately 47 minutes and 33 seconds, hosted by Jimmy the Scott Jordan and produced by Creative Video Services and the Gambler's General Store. The tape is part of a 14-volume series. Contact information includes 702-382-9903 in Nevada and toll-free 1-800-322-2447 outside Nevada.

Jimmy the Scott opens with an extensive history of dice and craps spanning thousands of years, tracing evidence of dice play back 10,000 years to bones found in Africa and China, citing Egyptian pyramid paintings as evidence of dice games from around 5,000 years ago, and describing Greek and Roman soldiers as enthusiastic dice players. He identifies the Roman soldiers' three-dice jackpot game played at the crucifixion as documented in scripture. The English games of Hazard and Crabs, brought to America through New Orleans around 1700 with French settlers, are described as the direct predecessors of modern craps. He credits New Orleans and Mississippi gamblers circa 1700 with inventing the pass line bet on seven, and a St. Louis gambler around 1750 with adding the don't pass line. Place betting is identified as added in Chicago around 1830.

Instruction then covers reading the dice, pass line and don't pass betting, odds bets behind the line, single and double odds structures, when to take or reduce odds based on winning and losing streaks, and the mathematical relationship between the house edge and various point numbers. Six and eight are identified as the best numbers to take odds on, paying 6 to 5 and representing the closest the casino comes to even odds on any craps bet.

Human-made No record of this work says a model made it. What this means.

Archive

Internet Archive, in The VHS Vault

Licence or status

The Internet Archive states none for this item.

Credit

The Vista Group®

Language

English

Subtitles

English (automatic)

Who can watch

The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed