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Frank Scoblete Gaming Guru  Stifle It12 October 2021
By Frank Scoblete Players are not always going to play the way you think they should play. They aren’t going to play the way you want them to play even though the way you want them to play is the best way to play. If you have even minor casino-playing experience, you know the above sentences are the facts. Still, if you have been playing casino games for even a moderate amount of time, you have run into the “experts” who feel it is necessary to tell other players how to play. Some of these experts might even feel the need to badger other players when those other players are making their playing decisions. You will find this most especially at blackjack but you will also find it at other card games. Even in games such as craps and baccarat, you get the “experts” informing others about what they are doing incorrectly. At baccarat and mini-baccarat the numbers of superstitious players are legion. Such players will damn you if you start winning and they start losing because – for some strange reason – they think your wins are causing them to lose. At baccarat, I once had a woman (a very small, tense, tight-bodied woman) jump out of her seat and get into my face while screaming at me because I was winning and she was losing. I actually had no idea what she was saying because she spoke another language but I could tell by her anger that she wasn’t yelling at me because of my good looks. It seems she would bet against what I was betting but I was winning and she was losing and so – ipso facto – I was causing her downfall. Her friends or family had to almost drag her away from me. There are times when the “expert” is actually giving another player correct advice. That actually is irrelevant. Unless the player asks such “expert” for advice then giving advice is uncalled for. In fact, for me, I never give advice at a table even if another player asks for advice. I usually tell the other player to ask the dealer. “The dealer is the expert,” I’ll say. A long, long time ago in a casino far, far away, a player asked for my advice on how to play a specific blackjack hand. I was courteous and told him the proper play based on the correct basic strategy for the game we were playing. He lost. He then yelled at me for being an “idiot” and exclaimed “what do you know about playing blackjack?” What could I say except “I’m sorry?” I wasn’t going to get into an argument about what is right and wrong when playing blackjack hands. I accepted his concept of me as an “idiot” and left it at that. I am no longer the “idiot” I was back when that happened. As I said, I don’t give advice to other players. Certainly, I see players making bad decisions in how they play this or that game, but it is their money to be played with as they see fit. The other problem with many of the “expert” advice-givers is that their advice is wrong. Craps players will tell other craps players to make bad bets. Blackjack players will stomp and scream at the last player to play a hand if the dealer takes a card and beats the players. So since I am an advice giver when I write, here is my advice to the vociferous “experts” out there: Stifle it! All the best in and out of the casinos! Frank Scoblete’s web site is www.frankscoblete.com. His books are available at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Kindle, e-books and at bookstores This article is provided by the Frank Scoblete Network. Melissa A. Kaplan is the network's managing editor. If you would like to use this article on your website, please contact Casino City Press, the exclusive web syndication outlet for the Frank Scoblete Network. To contact Frank, please e-mail him at fscobe@optonline.net. Minding your manners in the casino5 October 2021
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Mini Baccarat3 October 2021
QUESTION: I am new to casino games and in my first casino trip I saw a game called mini-baccarat. The hitting and standing rules seemed very complicated. I couldn’t quite tell what was going on and the table was crowded and the players were very much into the game and I was reluctant to barge in asking questions. ... (read more)
The Garden of Slot Eden28 September 2021
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