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Frank Scoblete

By Frank Scoblete FROM GARY: I am a long time craps player who bets the Pass Line with maximum odds and then three numbers using the Come, also taking maximum odds. Craps players are action players. To get the action they want they make numerous bets. Yes, a good night is thrilling but the majority of sessions are not so good and money can be lost quickly and greatly if things are not going the players’ way. I now say, stop making multiple bets at craps!

Casino Gambling’s Number One Authority

Frank Scoblete is America's #1 best-selling gaming author, casino games expert and speaker. He has been awarded certificates from Amazon.com as the best-selling gaming author on the Internet and the Barnes & Noble website calls him: 'Unquestionably the number one best-selling gaming author.' His books and television shows have been written about and reviewed by many of the nation’s top newspapers and magazines.

Frank is now published by Triumph Books, a division of Random House, the largest publisher in the world.

You can see a series of DVDs on the Internet featuring Frank Scoblete: http://www.videojug.com/interview/gambling-basics-2

See television media presentation and excerpts from shows: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4638870588901763565#.

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Frank Scoblete grew up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York. He attended St. John's Prep on a full athletic scholarship for baseball and basketball.

Switching directions, Frank attended college on a full, academic scholarship. In college, Frank boxed ('I was pummeled in my last fight. I have no memory of the last seven minutes.') and wrote for the school paper. He majored in history, literature and philosophy.

Frank has three masters’ degrees.

From 1969, the year he graduated college, until 1974, Frank worked as a feature writer, then editor, then managing editor, and finally publisher of Island Magazine, a news magazine on Long Island.

He was the first writer in America to investigate the phenomena of teenagers hanging out in shopping malls, an investigative piece that gained him national attention.

During this time, Frank was also a frequent free-lance reviewer of books, nightclubs and gourmet restaurants for a number of New York newspapers and was a frequent guest on radio and television shows. He also had his own radio program 'Frank Scoblete Live!'

In 1975, Frank decided to try his hand at acting ('I've always been a ham!').

In 1979, Frank co-founded The Other Vic Theatre Company, a professional touring troupe that played dinner theatres, resorts, and charities. From 1979 until he sold his share of the company in 1989, Frank produced, directed and acted in over 50 plays.

In 1986, Frank was researching the lead role for the hit play, The Only Game in Town - the story of a down-and-out gambler in Las Vegas. His co-star was Alene Paone. They went to Atlantic City to research their roles. 'I was hooked. I began to realize that I enjoyed the casinos even more than I enjoyed working in the theatre.' Alene and Frank toured in the play for four months, fell in love, and married.

In 1989, Frank sold his share of the theatre company and began his career as a gaming writer with articles and short stories for Win Magazine. He had spent four years (1986 to 1990) researching, analyzing, and when he could, playing the games. From 1990 to 1992, Frank 'basically lived in the casinos.'

With the phenomenal success of his first book, Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos in 1991 (which has subsequently become the best-selling craps book of all time), Frank began a successful climb to the top of the gaming mountain. He is now the most well known, respected and sought-after gaming writer and speaker in the country.

Frank has also served as a consultant to IGT, J.Berwin and eGaming Review in England, CNN, the Discovery Channel, ABC, Walter Cronkite, TBS, Silicon Gaming, Mikohn Gaming, Cadallac Jack and The Travel Channel.

He has appeared frequently on television including the History Channel, A&E, the Travel Channel, CNN, TBS, and the National Geographic Channel, among others. Frank has done hundreds of radio shows throughout the country and his 'gaming tips' are broadcast on KATY in California.

Frank has written several television shows for the Travel Channel, A&E, and the History Channel.

Frank has several very popular websites: www.scoblete.com in association with CasinoCity.com; also www.goldentouchcraps.com and www.goldentouchblackjack.com. He has a private members-only website as well.

A charismatic speaker, Frank has been featured at many festivals and symposiums, most recently Sunset Station's Beat the House Seminar in Las Vegas; The Craps Festival at Sam's Town in Tunica, The Las Vegas Craps Festival, Casino Player's Atlantic City Gaming Festivals at Trump Taj Mahal and The Tropicana; The Casino Player Las Vegas Gaming Festival at The Tropicana; The Midwest Gaming Expo in Chicago; The Harvey Illinois Gaming Festival; The Texas Gamblers Expo in Austin, A Weekend with Frank Scoblete at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas and A Weekend with Frank Scoblete at Sam's Town in Tunica.

He has also done Frank Scoblete's Gamblers Jamborees at Sam's Town, Isleta Casino, Gold Strike and Windsor Casino Hotel.

He has given talks at bookstores throughout the country, and also at libraries, charitable organizations, at fund-raising activities and at the Learning Annex.

Frank does about 15 private seminars a year in craps, blackjack, slots and poker with his Golden Touch™ company of experts.

Frank calls his public talks 'instructional entertainment' and they are characterized by a lively stage style, good information, and humor. 'As an actor I always enjoyed performing before a large audience but often found myself performing for less than sold-out shows. As a gaming speaker, it's standing-room-only for most of my talks.'

Because of the tremendous popularity of Frank's talks, Paone Press came out with a series of audio cassettes in 1997 featuring him discussing various aspects of casino gaming: Slot Conquest, and Power of Positive Playing.

His recent DVD (2008) is Golden Touch™: Beat Craps by Controlling the Dice which shows over 200 unedited controlled dice throws.

Frank is a strong advocate of casino gambling 'for fun and hopefully profit' and he has debated anti-gaming advocates in the past. 'While I am a casino gaming advocate in general, I am a player advocate in particular. I want to see players get the best run for their money and I love to see players win! All my books and tapes are geared to giving players the best possible shot at beating the casinos.'

In that spirit Frank formed the Golden Touch™ Craps™ dice control seminars in 2002 with Dominator, Mr. Finesse and author Bill Burton and the Golden Touch™ Blackjack seminars in 2004 with Dominator, Henry Tamburin and Dan Pronovost which teaches the revolutionary new Speed Count. In 2007, Frank launched his Casino Killer College which will teach advantage methods for slots, video poker, poker and Pai Gow poker.

Frank is a regular contributor and columnist for over 50 magazines and newspapers in America, Canada, and the Islands. He is widely syndicated on the internet.

Frank Scoblete lives in New York with his wife, Alene Paone Scoblete. He has two grown sons. All his books and tapes are available in leading bookstores such as Barnes & Noble, B. Dalton, Borders Books & Music, Walden Books or on Internet book sites such as Amazon.com. or by calling 1-886-738-3423.

To book Frank as a consultant, speaker or for special engagements, or if you are interested in having Frank write for your newspaper or magazine, please write to Frank at fscobe@optonline.net or call him at 516-596-3239.

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FRANK SCOBLETE'S BOOKS

• Casino Craps: Shoot to Win! (Triumph Books, a division of Random House)
• Beat Blackjack Now!The Easiest Way to Get the Edge! (Triumph Books, a division of Random House)
• Cutting Edge Craps: Advanced Strategies for Serious Players! (Triumph Books, a division of Random House)
• Slots Conquest: How to Beat the Slot Machines! (Triumph Books, a division of Random House)
• The Virgin Kiss (Research Services Unlimited)
• The Golden Touch™ Craps™ Dice Control Revolution [Research Services Unlimited]
• Golden Touch™ Blackjack Revolution! [Research Services Unlimited]
• Armada Strategies for Spanish 21 [Bonus Books]
• Baccarat Battle Book! [Bonus Books]
• Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos: How to Play Craps and Win! [Bonus Books]
• Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos: How to Play Craps and Win! Expanded Edition. [Bonus Books]
• Best Blackjack! [Bonus Books]
• Best Blackjack! Expanded Edition [Bonus Books]
• Bold Card Play: Best Strategies Caribbean Stud, Let It Ride & Three Card Poker [Bonus Books]
• Break the One-Armed Bandits! How to Come Out Ahead When You Play Slots [Bonus Books]
• Forever Craps: The Five-Step Advantage Play Method! [Bonus Books]
• Captain's Special Report on Tournament Craps [Paone Press]
• Guerrilla Gambling: How to Beat the Casinos at Their Own Games! [Bonus Books]
• Guerrilla Gambling: How to Beat the Casinos at Their Own Games! Updated Edition [Bonus Books]
• The Captain's Craps Revolution! [Paone Press]
• The Morons of Blackjack and Other Monsters [Paone Press]
• Spin Roulette Gold: Secrets of Beating the Wheel [Bonus Books]
• Victory at Video Poker with Video Blackjack, Craps and Keno [Bonus Books]
• Casino Gambling: Play Like a Pro in 10 Minutes or Less! [Bonus Books]
• The Craps Underground: How Dice Controllers Are Winning Millions from the Casinos [Bonus Books]

FRANK CONRIBUTED CHAPTERS OR FOREWORDS TO:

The Experts' Guide to Casino Games edited by Walter Thomason

Blackjack for the Clueless by Walter Thomason

American Casino Guide edited by Steve Bourie

109 Ways to Beat the Casinos edited by Walter Thomason

The Casino Answer Book by John Grochowski

21st Century Blackjack by Walter Thomason

Gamblers' Digest edited by Dennis Thornton

FRANK SCOBLETE'S VIDEO TAPES / hosted by James Coburn:

Winning Strategies at Slots with Video Poker

Winning Strategies at Blackjack

Winning Strategies at Craps

FRANK SCOBLETE'S DVDs:

Golden Touch™ Craps™ DVD: Beat Craps by Controlling the Dice written and hosted by Frank Scoblete

Casino Craps: Shoot to Win!

Special Series with Video Jug (http://www.videojug.com/interview/gambling-basics-2)

FRANK SCOBLETE'S AUDIO TAPES:

Slot Conquest!

Power of Positive Playing!

Sharpshooter Craps!

FRANK SCOBLETE'S GET THE EDGE GUIDES:

Get the Edge at Blackjack: Revolutionary Advantage Play Methods That Work! by John May

Thrifty Gambling by John Brokopp

Get the Edge at Roulette: How to Predict Where the Ball Will Land! by Christopher Pawlicki.

77 Ways to Get the Edge at Casino Poker by Fred Renzey

Insider's Guide to Internet Gambling by John Brokopp

Scoblete Craps

Get the Edge at Low-Limit Texas Hold'em by Bill Burton

The Lottery Book: The Truth Behind the Numbers by Don Catlin

How to Win a Million Playing Slots...or lose trying by Frank Legato

PRODUCED PLAYS:

The Virgin Kiss

Dracula's Blind Date

COLUMNIST:

Frank's articles and columns regularly appear in over 50 magazines, web pages and newspapers in America, Canada, Europe and the Islands including:

Access Magazine

American Lottery Magazine

Aruba Nights

Atlantic City Insider

Atlantic City Magazine

Atlantic City Weekly

Blackjack Insider (email magazine)

Bonaire Nights

Bottom Line Magazine

Casino City Times (web)

Casino Gaming Magazine (UK)

Casino Magazine

Casino Ops Magazine

Casino Player

Casino Player (online)

Casino U.K. (web)

Chance and Circumstance

Chance The Best of Gaming

Craps Club (web)

Craps Companion (email magazine)

Crapshooter

Curacao Nights

Denver Post

Double Down

Experts' Blackjack Newsletter

Fun 'n Games

Global Gaming Magazine

Gamblers' Gazette

Gambling Times

Gaming Pacific

Gaming South

Gaming Today

Golden Touch™ Craps™ (web)

Harrah's Magazine

Heartland Casino News

Island Gourmet

Jackpot Gulfport

Jackpot Tunica

Las Vegas Magazine

Memphis Commercial Appeal

Midwest Gaming and Travel

Midwest Gaming and Travel (online)

Poker Digest

RGT Online (web)

Southern Gaming and Destinations

St. Martin's Nights

Strictly Slots

Strictly Slots (online)

Tunica Insider (email magazine)

Win Magazine

CONSULTING:

Mikohn Gaming (patents)

IGT (slot patents)

Silicon Gaming (slot patents)

J.Berwin (patents)

eGaming Review in England (Internet Gaming)

Isleta Casino Resort (staff development)

Casino Windsor (staff development)

CNN

Discovery Channel

ABC

Walter Cronkite

TBS

Cadallac Jack (slot machine programming)

The Travel Channel

THEATRE

Frank was the co-owner of The Other Vic Theatre Company for 12 years. He produced, directed and acted in over 50 plays.

TELEVISION:

Frank has appeared in and written many shows on casino gambling for:

The Travel Channel

A&E

The National Geographic Channel

The Discovery Channel

TBS

The History Channel

The Learning Channel

CNN

ZKK-TV (Great Britain)

RADIO:

Frank has done over 200 guest spots on radio shows across the country.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS AND CLASSES:

A charismatic speaker, Frank has been featured at many festivals and symposiums, including:

World Casino Championships in Las Vegas

World Craps Championships in Las Vegas

Isleta Casino’s Frank Scoblete's Gambler's Jamboree

The Frank Scoblete Gambler’s Jamboree at Gold Strike Casino

Sunset Station’s Beat the House Seminar in Las Vegas

American Lottery Winners Association convention in Atlantic City

The Craps Festival at Sam’s Town in Tunica

The Las Vegas Craps Festival

Casino Player’s Atlantic City Gaming Festival at Trump Taj Mahal

Casino Player’s Atlantic City Gaming Festival at The Tropicana

The Casino Player Las Vegas Gaming Festival at The Tropicana

The Midwest Gaming Expo in Chicago

The Harvey Illinois Gaming Festival

The Texas Gamblers Expo in Austin

A Weekend with Frank Scoblete at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas

A Weekend with Frank Scoblete at Sam’s Town in Tunica

The World Casino Championships (Las Vegas)

Frank's gives advantage-play classes, Golden Touch™ Craps™, Golden Touch™ Blackjack, and his Casino Killer college which teaches advantage play on advantage-slot machines, video poker, casino poker, Internet poker, tournament poker and Pai Gow poker.

Frank Scoblete can be reached by calling 1-516-596-3239 or by writing to him at: PO Box 446, Malverne, NY 11565. His email is fscobe@optonline.net.

The Craps Underground - A Review

'Scoblete's new book depicts the real world of dice influencing about as accurately as Hogan's Heroes depicted life in a World War II German POW camp.'

That was my initial impression of Scoblete's new book which I posted on the message board a few weeks back. Now I've had a chance to re-read the book a couple of times and fully digest it. Fortunately, I acquired one of the pre-release copies of the book, gratis. I would have had a SERIOUS case of buyers remorse had I actually paid $24.95 for this 315 page hard cover dog.

My complete review follows.

I read a lot. I spend an hour and a half each work day on a train, so I go through books quickly. In my library, I have probably 40 to 50 books on craps specifically or gambling in general. In all the gambling books I've read, I can unequivocallysay that no matter how poorly written or conceived the book was, I've always found some redeeming quality in the book. The Craps Undergroundis the exception. If a good gambling book is like a delicious filet mignon, this book is more akin to the stuff they feed people on the TV show, Fear Factor.

Let's start with the ENTIRE title of the book. The Craps Underground - The Inside Story of How Dice Controllers Are Winning Millions from the Casinos. Pure, unadulterated hype. For arguments sake, we'll assume that 'Millions' means something more than one or two million, ten million would be a reasonable starting point, and it's at least implied that it also means millions in net profit.

Last spring, Frank Scoblete estimated that there are fewer than 200 skilled 'dice controllers' operating in the US. By doing a little division, that would mean on average, those 200 dice 'controllers' are taking down $50,000 in profits, each. Except for a few rather well bankrolled shooters, there is no evidence that the average dice controller is showing that kind of profit. Yes, many dice influencers are consistently profitable but the title alone, and I'll repeat myself here, is unadulterated hype.

So, now let's get into the book a bit. Chapter one opens with Scoblete having a marathon winning session with the dicecoach, Beau Parker. Here's how Scoblete describes the session with the dicecoach...

'...seven glorious hours shooting dice with a fellow dice controller and newfound friend known as the 'Bodacious One,' Beau Parker.'

This session, and these warm expressions of friendship for the dicecoach occurred just a few months prior to the formation of GTC. I'll get back to that later.

Let's dive a little further into this drivel. In the early chapters, we get to hear Scoblete wax poetically about 'the Captain,' again. Yawn.... hasn't he beaten that horse to death yet? Then he introduces various future members of the GTC organization.

Apparently, these guys never lose! Or if they do happen to have a poor session, it is quickly followed by a miraculous comeback. AMAZING! There are a couple of chapters on 'The Lee Brothers.' These two chapters are almost engaging. Except for one thing. OF COURSE 'The Lee Brothers' coincidentally have read all of Scoblete's books, and religiously play like the captain. Subtle as a freight train, that Scoblete.

There's a chapter on the Las Vegas Craps Festival which I participated in. Scoblete briefly mentions me here, and he certainly had the opportunity to take some shots at me if he wanted to. Surprisingly he didn't though, for whatever reason. However, he did misrepresent what I discussed that day. Here's what he had to say about me.

'Irishsetter has strong opinions.'

Well, he got THAT part right but later went on to say,

'In fact, Irishsetter made a strong pitch that people shouldn't be paying or charging to learn dice control, that all the information should be free.'

In all actuality, I said nothing of the sort. The gist of my discussion was twofold. One, that aspiring dice influencers should learn as much as possible for free, or as cheaply as they can, and two, that there is no one single correct philosophy on how to set, grip and throw the dice. My opinion today is no different. If you're interested, I have an article on dicesetter.com which goes further into my discussion that day called, The 'Missing' Tape - The Article.

My guess is that given the opportunity, Scoblete didn't want to take any obvious shots at me, but instead chose to misrepresent my discussion in an attempt to embarrass me since I do occasionally participate in seminars. What IS missing in the book, is what Scoblete talked about that day.

One of the major points of his discussion was that dice influencers would soon begin to experience the kind of heat that card counters get if they didn't go 'underground.' It seems Scoblete had a change of heart. Either that, or his definition of going 'underground' is hyping dice influencing in books, holding seminars in casinos, and advertising dice control on the radio and in newspapers and magazines.

Blah, blah, blah. Several chapters not even worth mentioning.

OK, what's next. Scoblete raids Jerry Patterson's PARR organization of most of the coaching staff and Golden Touch Craps is born. Despite the fact that I'm intimately knowledgeable about many of the personalities involved here, these chapters are about as interesting as watching hibernating bears.

I have to give Scoblete credit though. He mentions his GTC staff and as many hangers on in the GTC periphery as often as possible. Why? Because the average Joe will think it's really 'neat' that Frank Scoblete put them in his book. Pathetic? Yes. But, those folks in the periphery will go out on amazon.com, buy multiple copies of the book, and write a glowing review so their friends will buy it and see their names in print. Oh Boy!

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Now we get to the 'A and E Special.' It's my opinion that the truth lies somewhere between what was broadcast by A and E, what has been written on the various web sites, and what is written in this book about the special. What Scoblete wants you to believe is that A and E decided not to broadcast the footage of all the winning sessions that actually occurred. This despite the fact that the A and E special was basically a feel-good piece.

The funny thing about the A and E special is that the dicecoach, who was the main focus, invited Frank Scoblete to join him. (Scoblete then invited several other folks. What a guy!) Remember how they'd become 'friends' during their marathon craps shoot several months earlier?

It seems that 'ole Scoblete is beginning to have a change of heart again. You see, Scoblete in the A and E chapter elaborates these wonderful stories about the GTC folks involved, but basically trashes everyone else who is not involved with GTC like the dicecoach, Soft Touch, and Hardways.
Blah, blah, blah. A couple more chapters not even worth mentioning.

Ah...finally we're heading to the conclusion of the book. Scoblete closes the book with his Las Vegas Diary. This portion of the book was published on his site several months back, so I was familiar with this part already.

I'll give you the long and short of his 15 day diary here. Frank wins. Frank says wonderful things about the various GTC folks he plays with. Frank says nasty things about various other people he comes across. They lament that Treasure Island isn't as friendly as it used to be. Boo-hoo-hoo. Frank and his playing partners lose, but miraculously have a comeback! Heard this before?

What is really interesting about the diary is how Scoblete trashes dicecoach, again. Remember, in the opening of the book, Frank and Beau are 'newfound friends.' Now, just a year later, here are just a few things that Scoblete now has to say about dicecoach. When asked if Frank knew the dicecoach, he replied,

'No, no' and 'I barely know him.'

Apparently he doesn't even have the cojones to refer to Beau by his name or his moniker at this point. Throughout the diary he refers to him now as 'Crapsguy' and basically lays blame on Beau for whatever heat they experience in the casino. Frank writes,

'Some GTC members had a theory that the Crapsguy, the freelance dice-control instructor, had been too public, aggressive and up-front at the tables about what he was doing...'

This coming from the Scoblete is a hoot! He goes on to say,

'even when GTC did our course at Sam's Town in Tunica we were laid back at the tables and never talked about dice control or handed our business cards across the table to drum up new business as the Crapsguy is wont to do.'

Again, from Scoblete's pen, this is a riot. I mean, he's holding a seminar in a casino for Pete's sake and he complaining about thedicecoach handing out his business card? Besides, just a few pages earlier in the book, Scoblete had elaborated the following story which occurred at the Green Valley Ranch crap tables.

'..a dealer at Sunset Station, who likes to play at Green Valley Ranch, complimented me on my style. I gave him one of our Craps Club Black Chips with our phone number, and whispered to him if he was interested in learning how to roll like that give us a call.'

So, Frank will deride you for behavior that he himself exhibits. Hmmm. What's that saying? Oh yeah. Pot - Kettle - Black.

I wonder how Beau the dicecoach would have been portrayed in the The Craps Underground had he accepted GTC's invitation to join their organization. You think perhaps THAT had something to do with Frank's change of heart, from 'friend' to 'the Crapsguy?'

Frank Scoblete Craps Five Count

Basically, the book in a nutshell is this. 70% of the book is an infomercial for GTC. 20% of the book is various trip reports. Don't worry. The few sessions which aren't profitable for Scoblete? Just read on, a miraculous comeback is in store. The final 10% of the book is the subtle trashing of anyone who is not involved with GTC or a member of the GTC flock.

If you read the jacket cover of the book, and anything else Scoblete writes for that matter, it says,

'Frank Scoblete is the number-one best-selling gaming author in America..'

If that's true, and people really do think Scoblete has something to say, well, then, my mother was right when she said,

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'Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.'