There are truisms about dice that you’ve probably already heard: if you have just one of them it’s called a “die”, opposite faces of each die always add up to seven, and tho… ...

We’re hunched over the full-size craps table in his suburban Vegas home, where Parker runs a thriving “precision dice-throwing” business by way of his DiceCoach.com website.

Then, there is the dedicated community of craps players who believe in "controlled shooting," which goes far beyond simply setting the dice to their liking before a roll.