Bingo-Tournament.com is pleased to introduce the best articles and reviews by Frank Scoblete, the number-one best-selling gaming author in America. Scoblete has written some great books, such as Forever Craps: The Five-Step Advantage-Play Method, Guerrilla Gamlbing, and Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos: How to Play Craps and Win, among many others.
Frank writes for over 40 magazines, newspapers and websites in America, Europe, Canada, and the Islands, including Jackpot, Casino Magazine in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, Midwest Gaming and Travel, Casino Player, Gaming South. He has appeared on and been a consultant for many television networks including the Discovery Channel, CNN, TBS, The Travel Channel, ABC, Walter Cronkite, and A&E. He has also done consulting work for IGT and Silicon Gaming, among others. He is also a commentator on The Goodtimes Show on WMC, 790 AM in Memphis.
Below you will find all the most interesting gambling secrets and techniques revealed, and great advices on how to improve your playing skills and become a winner.
Good Rules and Bad Rules
To paraphrase Charles Dickens, it will be the best of times or the worst of times -- at the casinos, that is, this millennium depending on which games you play, which rules apply at those games, and how, indeed, you play those games.
Most people who are well read in casino gambling know that quite a few of the common beliefs gamblers have are mistaken. For example, slot machines do not have predetermined win and loss cycles.
Fast cars, fast women, fast food. At first these things might sound intriguing and our society sells them as such. Certainly, the commercials for all those cars zooming down the highways of commercialville, taking hairpin turns at lightning speeds, music blaring in the background...
Nobody is perfect; not even casinos. In the early 1950s when blackjack was merely a secondary, albeit profitable, game, no one in the casino industry thought that the game could be beaten.
I happen to be an exception to the craps-playing rule that crowded is best. I like playing at tables where there are only a few players; while most craps players hate to be alone at a table and usually seek cramped conditions in order to court Lady Luck.