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Stretch your bankroll and avoid the deadly days By Frank Scoblete I am sure most of our slot-playing readers have been there before. You come to the casino with your bankroll. You might be staying at the casino for an afternoon or an evening or even a few days. You start playing, get into […]
Joining the darkside of craps By Frank Scoblete Ninety-five percent (or more) of craps players are Rightside bettors, also known as Do players. That means they are betting that the shooter makes his Point before a seven shows and/or they are betting numbers they want to hit before the seven shows. At almost any […]
Take the bad with the good – and quit your complaining By Frank Scoblete Here she comes! Here she comes! Does she see me? Oh, no, she’s heading right for me. Her bloodshot eyes bead right into my eyes. There is no escaping her now. She is almost on top of me! Oh, please, […]
A newbie’s guide to table games By Frank Scoblete Many new casino players approach the casino experience with a dash, dab or cartload of anxiety while brand new players can be frozen with terror. Newbies have fears: How are these games played? How do I get chips? How do I bet? Will other players […]
Dreams are fine—but you do want a good chance to win now and again By Frank Scoblete Except for some banking slots which I wrote about a little over a year ago, slot players are fully aware that they face a bleak future. The casino will have edges over them of between 17 and […]
Learn the answers to gaming’s most frequently asked questions! By Frank Scoblete I love giving talks to my fellow casino players, and I can always be certain they’ll bombard me with plenty of questions. Here are 38 of the most common queries I’ve answered over the years, organized by category and followed by my […]
The sane way to look at comps By Frank Scoblete Casino players love comps. No secret there. Look at all the players who routinely hand in their player’s cards in order to be “rated.” Being rated is simply the casino keeping track of how much you bet, how long you play, the house edge […]
Sometimes even the mysterious stranger can’t win By Frank Scoblete Playing slots can seem as if you are in a Sergio Leone spaghetti western. You remember those films, mostly starring the young Clint Eastwood before anyone knew what a tremendously talented film maker he would become. Those movies had a great, mysterious hero (played […]
Avoid becoming a casino zombie By Frank Scoblete Sometime in the mid-1990’s my wife the Beautiful AP and I were in the Golden Nugget in downtown Las Vegas. We were walking from the buffet, full and satisfied after a delicious breakfast, when a somewhat wild-eyed, somewhat disheveled woman stopped us. “What’s today’s date?” she […]
The number seven is everywhere, from epic moments in history to the modern casino By Frank Scoblete Seven is a magnificent number and one of the most profound in human history. You have Seven Heavens in Judaism and Christian theology with the Seventh Heaven being the highest heaven, often where God exists—or just below […]