Gaming Gurus: Strategy Expert Article Archive - Page 538

Craps Bankroll Advice

Dear Mr. Scoblete: How much money do you need to buy in at the craps table to play at a $10 table with 20x odds? I like to play 3 or 4 bets (some Come bets and Place bets). What do you recommend to get started with? Thanks, Joe Dear Joe: In my opinion, a single session bankroll should be 10 times the amount of the monetary spread you use...read more

New Table Game's Low House Edge a Big Deal

There's an endless parade of new slot machines, but new table games are few and far between. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, table games areas in casinos are shrinking to make room for much more lucrative slot product...read more

Playing It Smart: Does edge really make a difference for the average gambler?

Casinos earn their money by means of the statistical advantage they hold on the bets they book. And, whatever the casinos take to the bank is nothing more or less than the amount bettors leave behind. So this edge is also the mechanism by which players lose...read more

The house edge at Bally's Roulette

Every casino game has its little variations that can be used to raise or lower the house edge. Jacks or Better video poker might pay 6-for-1 or 5-for-1 on flushes. Craps tables might allow you to back your pass or come bets with anything from single odds to 100x odds, with the lowest house edge on the most odds...read more

Should I stay at a slot machine?

Greetings, John! I am a hopper. I go from machine to machine, oftentimes never sitting. My companions usually stay at one machine and seem to do better than I do. Does a machine "know" that you've put more money into it, so it will hit more often? Or is it totally the random numbers spinning? Thanks very much. Terri Dear Terri, Your second question contains the truth...read more

Playing the Field - The Field Bet, That Is

Dear Frank: I play craps infrequently and am intrigued by dice control. Have you done a study which shows what happens to field bets when the dice are set for boxcars or elevens? I only play the field and am a winner most of the time...read more

Programmed jackpots

For your information, there are slot machines today that allow operators to program them in such a way that the jackpot will be certain to be hit, say, before or on xth number of games, but the operators of course would not reveal this information to the customers of which of the slot machines that are programmed in such a way...read more

Press Release: The Virgin Kiss and Other Adventures by Frank Scoblete

Experience the dazzling, amazing, exciting and wonderful adventures of best-selling author Frank Scoblete. Learn how he beat the casinos for 20 years and was even banned from many of them for his winning expertise. Discover how he astral traveled in time and to other worlds bringing back proof of these mind-bending, sometimes terrifying adventures. Enjoy how he creatively handled some of the most wildly eccentric students imaginable during his teaching career, including Gerry the Rat Boy, Wrong Way McKay, Mel Odious, and the Disgusting Beast. Experience how he learned the "laborer's ropes" as a teenager in a Manhattan housing project in New York City. Go into the "studio" as he partakes in a disastrous and very painful television interview with a dog named Dracula. Suffer with him as he realizes what caused his weight gain and how he bravely fought against it - for a full 24 hours. Laugh when he decides to go after "sex" for the first time as a teenager. Marvel at his first kiss, his Virgin Kiss, which was not like anybody's first kiss ever. This is a hilariously funny but, at times, scary, nail-biting and thoroughly riveting and enjoyable read about someone whose life is indeed stranger and more exciting than fiction. Just $17.95 plus $5 for shipping...read more

All Those Little Blackjack Mistakes Add Up

I just returned from a Caribbean cruise. One of the men at our evening dinner table was also a frequent blackjack player in the casino, and I mentioned I had written a blackjack book. So, one morning, the two of us kicked back out on the sun deck, and discussed various strategy points of the game...read more

Does Golden Touch Dice Control Still Work?

Dear Frank: Does your Golden Touch dice control strategy still work or are the casinos catching on? Sincerely, Dan Dear Dan: There are so many bad and mediocre dice controllers out there that the casinos have realized that just setting the dice and attempting a soft throw does not mean a darn thing...read more