First: If you could perfect some kind of dice setting/throwing system it would be similar to counting cards. Technically illegal, but you won't be stopped unless you win and they will have surveilance proof!! There are plenty of ways to cheat a dice game that will work maybe once or twice, but will land you in the local jail. I still laugh at one involving breasts that would have beat me every time.

Second: Any decent craps crew would never allow a player to consitently not bounce at least one die off the back wall, throw them to high or use a considerable amount of time to set dice. I would sometimes set the dice to the player's preference to move the game along. Obviously this did not effect the outcome of the game or our jobs.

Third: Send me some money and I could show you all sorts of dice tricks or systems. You can spin a die for ever between your thumb and index finger just by blowing on it. (insert joke here!) You can throw both dice and even pick them up by holding only one. You can pick up both dice with the stick and lay them down in front of a player. It was possible to slide one or both dice down the entire table untill the saftey strip was put in. Now, you would have to position yourself directly beside the stick for it to work and then I would refer you back to #1. I have even seen one die land on top of the other twice.

Now I have seen several dice rolls that lasted more than an hour on a fairly fast game. They would always involve many points made, and believe it or not, there were still players who would lose because of there playing skills. If you want to spend some time, create a personal system of betting that you can stick too. For example betting the line and two come bets with full odds. Or placing a few or all numbers while pressing them every other time they hit. The casino odds are consitent so you should be also, just in case you do find a lucky table.
And ALWAYS ALWAYS turn your bets off after a die lands on the floor, the stickman changes, a new floorman shows up, somebody orders a seven & seven from the waitress, there is a pause in the game for any reason, the floorman reverses the money paddle or throws matches under the game, the shooter is asked to sign his marker, the shooters wife or husband walks up to the table, and any other thing that could be considered superstitious. But wait, the earlier post said it was unlucky to be superstitious!!

Doug