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Gaming Guru  The Royal Flushes, Abby and Cindy Royal8 December 2018
By Frank Scoblete I’ve been asking these two sisters, Abby and Cindy, frequent casino players who have their own philosophies of casino gambling, to start writing occasional articles for this website. They have said “yes” on the condition that I don’t use their photographs. No problem. Ladies, take the floor: ABBY: I am happy to share my ideas and experiences. Since I go to the casinos weekly I have had plenty of experiences, some good, some bad, some weird. I kept turning Frank down, but he was very insistent. So here I am! CINDY: I am happy writing at times too. I go with Abby a lot but I also go alone, sometimes with friends. So I am game. ABBY: We like to play many of the games, and one of our favorites is craps. CINDY: It’s a man’s game, even now in the 21st century. Most of the time we are the only women at the table. I remember about 30 years ago many of the players, especially in Atlantic City, were World War II veterans. They sometimes didn’t like women at the tables. ABBY: Some would actually tell is to go play the slot machines . . . CINDY: Because that was where women belonged. ABBY: Most were gentlemen though. CINDY: Some of the men would buy into the idea that if we were first-time players we’d bring them luck. So we’d pretend that we had never shot the dice before. That made us friends. Of course we’ve been shooting dice for decades. ABBY: If we had good rolls we were loved all right. If we had bad rolls, well, you know, no one likes bad rolls, which is too bad because most rolls are no big deal. The seven can come up about 17% of the time, so sevening out is always staring you in the face. I think more women should consider playing craps. It’s an exciting game, and there is also occasionally a kind of camaraderie when you play. CINDY: Except if you are a “don’t” player. I like that Frank [Scoblete] calls them “darksiders” because most “rightside” players can’t stand the “don’t” players. I know we are supposed to look at them as playing against the house just as we are, but something is certainly different about them. In the point cycle of the game they are rooting for the seven, and that is the number that can destroy the rest of us. ABBY: I don’t care about them, although it is fun to hit the numbers they are betting against and see them lose. OK, maybe I do care. Yeah, I do care. I take back my “don’t care” observation. CINDY: Maybe we’ll go into the craps players we have played with who are either interesting, weird or out of it in a future article. ABBY: This has been fun, and we’ll return! 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. Radical approaches to the games4 December 2018
I think many players get stuck in a playing mode and they can’t think any other way about their favorite games. For example, there are slot players who must play the machines that offer up to 50 million to one odds in order to win millions of dollars. Those are big odds, and those machines are quite tight. ... (read more)
Sweating the betting27 November 2018
The late Captain of Craps, the legendary Atlantic City player I have written about in many of my books, once explained to me his theory on how much a person should bet at whatever game he wishes to play in order to experience a high degree of thrill with a low chance of having a heart attack and an even lower chance of being totally bored. ... (read more)
A real chance or little chance?20 November 2018
Casino gamblers are faced with several problems when they play the games. They can come in the form of the following questions: • What kind of house edge does the game have? • How fast is the game? (Meaning how many decisions per hour?) • What is my best strategy to have the best chance to beat the house at ... (read more)
Ask Frank: Spanish 21 StrategyHello there, Living in Canada, I find that the rules are more liberal here than at other casino locales, such as the dealer standing on all 17s for Spanish Blackjack. In your book, Armada Strategies for Spanish 21, there is only a strategy for when the dealer hits soft 17. I w... (read more)Ask Frank (Playing Winning Craps)Dear Mr. Scoblete: In your book Forever Craps, you recommend to play one Don't Come bet per shooter without odds in order to reduce your exposure to the house. I usually play at casinos that count the spread and odds. If I play one ... (read more)Bad Ways to Play Good Casino GamesYou've met this guy before. He's cantankerous, witless, and loud. He knows everything about everything when it comes to casino games. He's a self-made expert who knows more than all writers and mathematicians combined, and as he doubles on his thirteen against the dealer's ... (read more)The Craps to English DictionaryCraps is another country, a kingdom with its own mores, legends, myths, rites, rituals, superstitions and government. It also has its own language, much of it easily misunderstood as sexual or scatological references. For those of you interested in journeying to this ... (read more)Craps Crap and Craps Gold - Part 1What do the following sayings have in common? "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." "Better late than never." "High fences make good neighbors." "Always play the Pass/Come and take full odds." Answer: The above statements are true. Yes, some people might quibble and say that you can eat as ... (read more)Frank Scoblete |
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