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NOTHING IS BUT WHAT IS NOT!

Walking the walk on the casino floor By Frank Scoblete   In Shakespeare’s great play, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Macbeth states that “nothing is but what is not.” He is confused and can’t figure out what is going on in his world and the world in general. But he is on his way to hell; […]

BLACKJACKED

How blackjack changed the course of one man’s life By Frank Scoblete   Say “hi” to Professor Symington D. Delray, a blackjack player for several years. Professor Delray used to work for a wellknown university in New Jersey, just outside New York City, until his retirement in 2018—weeks before the pandemic shut many of us […]

VIDEO POKER PLAYER EXPLODES!

It’s easier to earn a high theoretical playing slots than it is video poker By Frank Scoblete   Slot players rule the casinos. They do. Just walk into a casino and look around. This fact is not hard to see. Some 60 to 90 percent of slot losses make up the casino coffers. There would […]

CRAZY CRAPPERS

The Captain warns: Avoid these bets with high house edges By Frank Scoblete   My mentor, the Atlantic City legend, the late Captain of craps, had two words to describe the worst bets in a casino craps game. He called them Crazy Crapper bets. These bets could be found in the middle of the table […]

Best Bets II

There are some excellent bets in the casinos, though even the best bets have house edges By Frank Scoblete   There are good bets in the casino. There are bad bets in the casino. And there are plenty of so-so bets in the casino. There are good games in the casino that have some of […]

I LOST APRIL 1

The mesmerism of slots By Frank Scoblete   It was April 2 in the mid-1990s (or thereabouts) and this was at Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, near the jingling Treasure Island slot machines, and she came up to my wife the Beautiful AP and me and asked, “Do you know what day this is?” “It’s […]

BEST BETS

There are some excellent bets in the casinos, though even the best bets have house edges By Frank Scoblete   Take your pick, my friends. Casinos are good places to play games. Casinos are the worst places to play games. There are some excellent bets in the casinos. There are some horrible bets in the […]

DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE

It’s due, Isn’t it? By Frank Scoblete   On the excellent “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, famous scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson told an interesting story about a bunch of physicists who went to Vegas for a conference when their hotel lost their reservations. Oh, my word! Instead of being out in the cold (or the […]

BLACKJACK REIGNS SUPREME

Getting the edge with card counting By Frank Scoblete   If casino table-game players are the judge of the games, then unquestionably blackjack is the number-one table game in the casinos. By far! Starting in 1962–1963 a revolution hit the casinos, the arrival of a way to beat the game of blackjack. You have Edward […]

One and Done

By Frank Scoblete   The general rule of thumb for slot games and video poker hands is that the best method for a player is to play full coin (or total credit per decision) because this allows the player to get the most if he or she hits the big jackpot. [Please note: Sometimes it […]

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