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Gaming Guru  The Craps 5-Count and Short Decks at Blackjack24 February 2015
By Frank Scoblete FROM JOHN: After reading your book “Beat Blackjack Now! The Easiest Way to Get the Edge” on the Speed Count for Blackjack, I drifted from the craps table to the blackjack table. There is something to be said about gambling while being seated (real crap players do not sit at the table taking up multiple spaces). Anyhow I am coming back to craps (I have learned much from your numerous crap books and review them periodically). To the point, in reading your 8/26/2014 article in the Casino City Times you recommended to a player that he should wait until the 5-Count and then place either a come or pass bet and go from there. In one of your books, it is my recollection that your recommendation for a pass/come player was to place a come bet after the 3-Count (no odds), place a come bet after the 4-Count (no odds), and after the 5-Count place another bet and apply odds to all of the bets. Do I understand that you feel it preferable to start the first bet after the 5-Count with odds and continue from there until you have the amount of bets you want in action? Before, as a 5-Count player, I would wait until the 5-Count and then place the 6 and 8 along with a come bet. FRANK RESPONDS: I have changed my mind. Actually the Captain did it. Why bet early on random rollers? If you wait for the entire 5-Count, you save more money than if you go up earlier as I wrote in some of my earlier books. So even after 25 years playing casino games, this old dog can learn some new tricks. I just can’t jump as high as I used to. For your email I am sending you a copy of my book "The Virgin Kiss." FROM MARTY: I am a subscriber to Blackjack Insider and always look forward to your column in that and in Casino City Times. I have been counting cards since Resorts opened and have done quite well over the years. While I mainly go to AC and one PA casino, I have had much better results during my few trips to Nevada. I am doing very poorly in the particular Pennsylvania casino that I play. During a recent losing streak, I started keeping records of my play in each casino. During my last 12 trips to this casino, while my win rate is 50%, I have lost more than twice the amount that I have won at that casino. What is disturbing is that this casino has the best rules and penetration than any other casino in this area. Like many other card counters, I have suffered from the depths of the large swings of the standard deviation. Nevertheless, I cannot help from wondering if that casino is doing something illegally, certainly unethically, such as removing some 10's from the deck. I believe that it is very unlikely that they are doing this. Nevertheless, despite their great rules and penetration. I am considering not playing there. I would appreciate your thoughts on this matter You are welcome to use my information in any publication and may use my first name only. Also, to increase my odds, I would like to become a member of a blackjack team. Do you know how would I go about doing this as I don't know any counters. FRANK RESPONDS: Ask when the new decks will be brought in (that’s when you sit down at the table) and as they spread the cards out go over all the cards just as the dealer does. That will let you know if they are screwing around with the 10-valued cards. Watch closely as the dealer puts the cards in the shoe as well. I will use this letter in a future column on the web. It is an excellent one. For your email I am sending you a free copy of my book “The Virgin Kiss.” 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. Make Pass Line a Better Bet17 February 2015
FROM VINCENT: Please help me think this through via your experience and math skills. I think I have found a better way to utilize the Pass Line bet at craps. In craps, the traditional advice is to bet as little as possible on the Pass Line and then take the “Odds” bet as high as possible once the Point is established. ... (read more)
Best Trend Betting System Ever10 February 2015
In a future column I will discuss why the supposed new forms of trend betting are just more wastes of time for casino players, like all the old forms of trend betting, but in this column I am going to explain the best possible trend betting system of all time. That’s right folks; that’s right. Yes, this system is new. ... (read more)
Life in the Fast Lane3 February 2015
This happened in Las Vegas in the late 1990’s. A Hollywood producer lost 1.4 million dollars at craps in one evening. He was betting between 50 and 100 thousand dollars a roll. I saw it. My mouth hung open. Still, I actually didn’t feel too bad for him because he was something of a creep. He would not let the dealers switch positions while he was in the “point cycle” of the game (i.e. ... (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) |
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