Sentence examples for at craps from inspiring English sources

He lost $2,500 at craps in Las Vegas, he recalled, and never went back to the tables.

There were tables to be had at some of the fancier restaurants around, and empty spots at craps tables at the Cosmopolitan, the hot new casino, during what should have been a prime hour.

Just before the second Sonny Liston v Floyd Patterson fight in 1963, Clay followed Liston to Vegas and, after watching him lose at craps, shouted to him: "Look at that big ugly bear, he can't do anything right".

By M. S. Rosenthal and Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, October 8, 1938 P. 11 Week In Suspense: The advertisements in our mail ha s an occasional irony: For ten dollars a Mr. Cheerer will teach us his infallible system for winning at craps, and F. Michaelian, of 295 Fifth Avenue has a nice prayer rug for sale cheap.

People pay for those experiences and the fleeting fantasy of the outcome, losing 5.3% of the time on roulette, 1.4% of the time at craps and perhaps 10% of the time on the slots.

That is the core of the casino industry, to which game designers add elements like the "story" of a fishing-themed slot machine (catch five tuna!), or the competition of Blackjack, or the shared adventure of betting on someone at craps.

Paul, one of the buck privates and a constant winner at crap never talked to the dice.

Violence against others is often tacitly accepted within a thriller, but self-harm becomes a matter of debate, and swear words offend on sliding scale that starts at "crap" and ends wherever one's lexicon cuts out.

I've spent the past four hours in the same seat, looking at crap on my laptop.

"So it's after midnight and we are in Las Vegas at the craps table at the Hard Rock" casino, Mr. Lohrer recalled.

If you are at the craps table at the Tropicana, place the six and eight, but stay the hell off the field bet, which is really for suckers, and, if the dice get hot, let's split the winnings.