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===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>