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Frank Scoblete Gaming Guru - Page 8  Ask About Slot Machines21 May 2024
Important Points The casino world is indisputably the slot world. That is a plain and simple fact. Somewhere between 60 and 90 percent of an individual casino’s revenue comes from slots. The slot players are the royalty of Lady Luck’s world and have been since 1984 when both Las Vegas and Atlantic City made more from the machines than from the table games. ... (read more)
Saving Money in the Casino14 May 2024
We don’t usually think of casinos as institutions where you can save money. So true. The casino is a place where we spend money on games where the casino has an edge over us and on food, rooms, drinks, shows, sporting events – a litany of enjoyable (hopefully enjoyable) treats that we pay for in some way or other. ... (read more)
Disappointment12 May 2024
Playing slot machines can be a great experience; that is, if things go your way. Playing slot machines can also be a humbling experience when the machine just dominates you and your money flows from you to the machine. Almost all slot players have been on each side of those experiences. Today’s column will deal with disappointments. ... (read more)
No, My Friend, It Is Not7 May 2024
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; he knows it but he also doesn’t know it. Many casino players have probably said something to that effect for themselves in bad streaks and in good streaks. ... (read more)
Play, Pause, Play30 April 2024
Play, Pause, Play We’ve all read the countless articles and chapters in books, and we’ve probably seen many videos about this topic too. I’m talking about when to quit playing whatever game or machine you are playing. Indeed, I’ve written many of these articles, chapters and videos. Today I am not going to write when to stop playing. ... (read more)
Crazy Crappers23 April 2024
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 such as the hardways, the C&E, the individual numbers such as 2 and 12, along with other poor bets with house edges often in the double digits. ... (read more)
Best Bets Part II21 April 2024
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 these good bets and there are bad games in the casino that don’t have many or any good bets. And there are so-so games in the casinos which are (let’s be frank here) like taking your boring cousin to the prom. ... (read more)
She Lost a Whole Day16 April 2024
It was April 2nd 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 April second,” we said. She looked confused. Then she said, “April second? What happened to April first?” Now I guess that we looked confused. ... (read more)
Best Bets14 April 2024
Best Bets 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 casinos. Those above sentences are absolutely true. There are some excellent bets in the casinos, even though even the best bets have house edges attached to them, small ones. ... (read more)
Where Jackpot Originated9 April 2024
To Frank Scoblete: So, we were in the car, on the way home from a trip to our local casino. My Father-in-Law was reminiscing about a good win he had just hours earlier. He referred to his big win as a Pot. "That was a good ‘Pot’ that I hit in the High Limit Slot Section." That led to an intriguing discussion about Jackpots, and where the term Jackpot originated. ... (read more)
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