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Meet Frank Scoblete

Saturday, Sept. 21st MEET FRANK SCOBLETE in Las Vegas Best-selling gaming author Frank Scoblete will be doing a book signing and chat at B. Dalton Booksellers, 3680 S. Maryland Parkway in Las Vegas on Saturday, September 21st from 1-5PM. For more information, call: 702-735-0008 and ask for Andy Vauhan...read more

Meet Frank Scoblete

Thursday, Sept. 12TH MEET FRANK SCOBLETE in Cettfort, N.J. Best-selling gaming author Frank Scoblete will be doing a book signing and chat at Barnes and Noble, 1553 Alnonesson Rd., Deptfort, New Jersey at 7PM on Thursday, September 12th. For more information, call: 856-232-3123 and ask for Sherry Ryan...read more

California Bill Would Have Brought Back Prohibition

The California State Legislature almost voted to reinstate prohibition. The last time we had prohibition, 1919 to 1930, it was prohibiting "intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes." This time, California is going after gambling on the Internet. The proposed California laws would actually go further than the old prohibition...read more

Politics and the Law of Gambling

Politics has always played an important role in the making of gaming law. But one of the most blatant attempts to use, or rather to misuse, the political system in the name of controlling gambling took place following the atrocities of September 11th...read more

What Is Handicapping?

What is handicapping? It's the most well-known method of gaining an advantage at sports betting. Bookmakers set lines on a sporting event depending on their assessment of the likelihood of a particular team or teams winning, minus the "vigorish", which is their profit...read more

Downtown Vegas Does Have Its Privileges

Experienced Las Vegas travelers know that there is more to the "Gambling Capital of the World" than The Strip. Certainly if you’re a first time visitor, the world-renown stretch of neon castles in the sky is a must...read more

Fifty Play Wild Royal Dilemma

One of the great joys of playing Deuces Wild video poker is to be dealt a wild Royal Flush. The payoff is a cool 125 coins. Playing strategy can get complicated, however, depending upon the number of deuces you are dealt to the wild royal...read more

The Glory of Racing's Triple Crown

Every sport has a championship showdown. In baseball it's the World Series, in football it's the Super Bowl, in hockey it's the Stanley Cup. What are the common denominators among them? Answer: All are team sports and there is a winner every year. There are only a select number of sports that showcase a championship series...read more

Basic Strategy is Just That -- Basic!

Blackjack is considered by many gaming experts to be the very best table game in the casino, excepting poker. We gaming writers extol its virtues just about every chance we get. Many novice players believe blackjack is a great game as well and, as soon as they head into the casino for their first challenge of Lady Luck, they storm the blackjack tables and...discover that blackjack is deadly! They lose their shirts...read more

Reno Ramblings

Memorial Day still found the RV parked at Gold Ranch, a mere 10 miles from Reno. It seemed like the sensible thing to do.... let the tourist tides pass safely, plus they have opened the other section of the park......read more