> I definately have some pet peaves at the table:
Since I’m going to respond point by point please forgive my Usenet quoting format.
> Throwing the dice off the table——the dice are meant to be tossed not thrown…“easy hercules”
“Both dice to the wall, please, not through it.”
> Players dropping chips on the layout because they are holding $100 in nickel chips in one hand—-Thats whats the rail is for, your not cool
The only time I have seen a game stopped while the tape was reviewed, a somewhat regular player dropped a pile (not a stack, a pile) of chips on top of an existing Pass Line bet between the time the dice stopped rolling and the (comeout) call of “7 winner”. The player wanted to be paid for the entire mess and the box called Mission Control. After review the player got paid only for his original bet.
> Rolling all 5 dice off the wall before picking the right two, or rolling both dice off the wall before each toss—-really?...your just slowing the game down
Only one example of attention-getting betting behavior.
> When someone buys in to the right of me, never makes a bet, but the dice go to that person before me—-What is this? I thought u had to have a prior bet
No prior bet is required anywhere I have played. Nevertheless, I have always considered it to be poor manners to step up to the table in front of a player already there just as that player was about to become the shooter, and if I do that I pass the dice on that go-around and explain why I am doing so.
> Vulgar comments at someone who sevens out—-everyone is their to win, most betters don’t want to see that seven, if you can’t handle it, don’t play
I had the opportunity to give as good as I got at Sundowner in Reno, NV. I was one right of the stick; a regular, who requested and got a stool to sit on, was one left. I held the dice for a few minutes and made some passes, but after every craps and when I sevened out the regular would mumble, “Way to go, Slick.” When he then went Continental (two rolls, no coffee) I exclaimed, “Ah, so that’s how it’s done!” This didn’t do anything for my popularity, but then I wasn’t a regular player there and so didn’t care.
> Someone who hangs their arms over the rail, or even worse someone who continually makes late bets and the dice hit their hands—-When the dice are in the middle of the table, thats the time to bet.
At the now closed Ramada Express, also in Reno, I encountered a group of Middle Easterners straight out right while I was shooting from straight out left. Before every roll they had to discuss what to bet and where while dangling their hands over the edge of the rail. When I starting taking heat for waiting for them to make their decisions I decided to solve this problem with what I will label “The Power Roll”. Yeah, yeah; “to the wall, not through it,” but after I nailed ‘em a couple times they got the message.
For my own list of table manners please see http://www.frankscoblete.com/Article.cfm?ArticleId=37640&CategoryName=Article
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—on the next comeout, and if it shows say, “That’s the way we drew it up.”
