The 12 superstitions about craps: #9 - Those darkside devils

The 12 most popular superstitions at the game of craps are adhered to or believed by most craps players -- so if you want to play the game and not be thought a craps barbarian, you should know them. Keep in mind that individuals add their own superstitions too, so you might hear someone yelling some incoherent thing at the table which, to him, will ward off the coming of the ominous 7, or bring it on if he is a darkside player.

A Darkside player at the table will increase the appearance of the seven.

Not so. But these darkside players really get to many rightside players. Most rightsiders might not even allow a friendship between themselves and a darksider -- their rivalry is worse than the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. Rightside players believe that darksiders are rooting for them to lose -- and much of the time this can seem true. Though only 5 percent of craps players are darksiders, they are hated as if they make up 95 percent.