Editing Craps (section)

==In popular culture==
Due to the random nature of the game, in popular culture a '''"crapshoot"''' is often used to describe an action with an unpredictable outcome.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crapshoot |title=Definition of crapshoot |work=Merriam-Webster.com |access-date=25 January 2017}}</ref>

The prayer or invocation "Baby needs a new pair of shoes!" is associated with shooting craps.<ref>{{cite book |title=Craps A Smart Shooters Guide | year=2011 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V19XqHMquxYC&pg=PT118 |publisher=Cardoza Publishing |isbn=978-1-58042-576-6 |pages=118–}}</ref>

===Floating craps===
'''Floating craps''' is an illegal operation of craps. The term ''floating'' refers to the practice of the game's operators using portable tables and equipment to quickly move the game from location to location to stay ahead of the law enforcement authorities.<ref name=Maurer50/>{{rp|124–125}} The term may have originated in the 1930s when [[Benny Binion]] (later known for founding the downtown Las Vegas hotel [[Binion's Horseshoe|Binion's]]) set up an illegal craps game utilizing tables created from portable crates for the [[Texas Centennial Exposition]].<ref name="PrestonAmarilloSlim">Preston, Amarillo Slim and Greg Dinkin. ''Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People'' (April 26, 2005), p. 132, Harper Paperbacks, {{ISBN|978-0-06-076230-8}}</ref>

The 1950 [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] musical ''[[Guys and Dolls]]'' features a major plot point revolving around a floating craps game.

In the 1950s and 1960s [[The Sands|The Sands Hotel]] in Las Vegas had a craps table that floated in the swimming pool, as a joke reference to the notoriety of the term.<ref name="RoyerVictor">Royer, Victor H. ''Casino Gamble Talk: The Language of Gambling and New Casino Games'' (2003), p. 59, Lyle Stuart, {{ISBN|0-8184-0634-8}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8184-0634-8}}</ref>

===Records===
A [[Golden Arm]] is a craps player who rolls the dice for longer than one hour without losing. Likely the first known Golden Arm was Oahu native Stanley Fujitake, who rolled 118 times without sevening out in 3 hours and 6 minutes at the [[California Hotel and Casino]] on May 28, 1989.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-vegas-golden-arms-20170429-story.html |title=A method to their magic: Craps champions swear it's more mystique than math at the tables in Vegas |first=David |last=Montero |date=28 April 2017 |access-date=19 January 2018 |via=LA Times}}</ref>

The current record for length of a "hand" (successive rounds won by the same shooter) is 154 rolls including 25 passes by Patricia DeMauro of [[New Jersey]], lasting 4 hours and 18 minutes,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nj.com/news/2009/05/craps_player_sets_record_roll.html |title=Craps player sets record roll at Borgata casino |date=24 May 2009 |access-date=2 August 2016}}</ref> at the [[Borgata]] in [[Atlantic City, New Jersey]], on May 23–24, 2009. She bested by over an hour the record held for almost 20 years&nbsp;– that of Fujitake.