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Frank Scoblete (Author)
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February 3, 2004
Frank's new blackjack book, "Beat Blackjack Now: The Easiest Way to Get the Edge" can teach you in just 15 minutes how to get a REAL mathematical edge over the game. It gives the reader all the new, amazing discoveries since the publication of "Best Blackjack."

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I'd love to give you a free 30-day subscription to my private, members-only web site at goldentouchcraps.com. Just write me at fscobe@optonline.net and tell me you want to join over 5,000 members on the best private gaming message boards on the Internet!

Product Details

  • Paperback: 283 pages
  • Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing (February 3, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1566250579
  • ISBN-13: 978-1566250573
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (94 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #379,712 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Meet Frank Scoblete
America's #1 Best-Selling Gaming Writer

If you would like a free month on Frank's private web site, devoted to casino gambling, just send him an email at fscobe@optonline.net.

Frank Scoblete's recent books are

"Casino Craps: Shoot to Win!" is he most comprehensive craps book ever written. Can take you from a novice to a dice controller. Information on "pushing the house," the 5-Count, and controlled dice shooting. Comes with a DVD showing unedited controlled throws!

"Cutting Edge Craps: Advanced Strategies for Serious Players!" has the most radically new and advanced dice strategies ever revealed! The book takes casino craps to new levels of sophistication and player advantage with never-before-revealed techniques that can make you a serious threat to the casinos. It turns traditional craps strategies on their head with brand new radical information.

"Beat Blackjack Now: The Easiest Way to Get the Edge!" can take you from a new player to a skilled advantage player in less than one hour!

"Slots Conquest: How to Beat the Slot Machines" you'll learn new and radically different information if you are looking to get the best possible game. Learn how to recognize machines that give you a real mathematical edge! Learn how to properly play these advantage slot machines! This is the most comprehensive book on slot machines ever written with totally new and important information that can radically transform your slot play. This is a must-read for all slot players interested in the finest strategies.

"The Virgin Kiss," the story of Frank's outrageous adventures in and out of the casinos.

Frank grew up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Our Lady of Angels grammar school. He attended St. John's Prep high school 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.

In 1975, Frank decided to try his hand at acting ("I've always been a ham!"). In 1979, Frank co-founded 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. In the 1990s Frank became a columnist for Casino Player Magazine and Midwest Gaming and Travel.

With the phenomenal success of his first book published 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.

He has appeared frequently on television including the History Channel, A&E where his dice control team defeated three casinos in unedited action, also the Travel Channel, CNN, TBS, and the National Geographic Channel, among others. Frank has done hundreds of radio shows throughout the country.

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

A charismatic speaker, Frank has been featured at many festivals, conventions and schools where he motivates people to get the "winning attitude."

He has also done "Frank Scoblete's Gamblers Jamborees" at many hotels across the country.

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

Frank does about 15 private classes a year in craps where he and his Golden Touch team of dice experts teach players how to control the dice when they throw. One casino executive referred to him and his partner Dominator as the "Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid of casino advantage play."

His recent DVD is Golden Touch: Beat Craps by Controlling the Dice which shows over 200 unedited controlled dice throws by Dominator, the world's greatest dice controller, best selling author Bill Burton, gaming expert Jerry "Stickman" and Frank himself.

Frank has been a regular contributor and columnist for over 50 magazines and newspapers in America, Canada, and the Islands. He is widely syndicated on the internet. You can go to www.goldentouchcraps.com for more information about him.

You can get in touch with Frank by emailing him at fscobe@optonline.net.



 

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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Blackjack is Comprehensive and Enjoyable, December 16, 1999
This review is from: Best Blackjack (Paperback)
Frank Scoblete's book "Best Blackjack" has several outstanding virtues. It is extremely well written. Most gambling books are not. Scoblete's style is flawless and he makes the game of blackjack actually fun to read about. The book contains valuable information about basic strategy and card counting. Although these things are by no means unique to Scoblete's book, he is the first to really explain in simple language which blackjack games can actually be beaten using these techniques and which can't. he is very honest about the natureof the edge that a blackjack card counter can get and how easy itis for the casino to offer inferior games that even skilled players can't beat. That was refreshing. Other blackjack books that I've read tend to overstate what you really can achieve playing this game. Scoblete has some unique sections in this book, some dealing with techniques to figure out the dealer's hole card such as "tells". He intersperses the analytical with absolutely fantastic stories about Las Vegas players and events. His blackjack diary at the end is worth the price of the book alone. This is the best book on blackjack that I've read. Ihave used Scoblete's advice on the gaming ships and I can tell you from my own personal experience, the man knows what he's talking about.
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for Blackjack players of any skill level, February 26, 1999
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Frank Scoblete is the expert-in-residence of a weekly radio show on gaming in Memphis, TN. So when I was looking for a book to learn more about Blackjack, I decided to buy Frank's book. I have not been disappointed. He breaks down the instruction portion of the book into three logical sections; the basic rules, basic strategy and card counting. In this format, you can start reading at the level you are at.

But even if you already know how to play the game perfectly, the book is still a fun read. Especially for the sections on obtaining comps, the not-so-well-known ways to gain an advantage on the casinos and all the people you find playing across the table. If you have ever heard about the million dollar bum that walked into the casino with his social security check, wound up winning over a million dollars at the blackjack tables, then turned around and lost most of it back, you will want to read the whole story from the people that waited on this guy. This chapter is worth the price of the book alone.

The main reason I did not give a five star rating to this book is because he gives the basic strategy in verbal form, rather than in chart form, which would be easier for a novice player to copy and take to the casino. But these charts are available on the internet at http://www.blackjackinfo.com. I highly recommend this site for getting the basic strategy charts for any set of rules you run up against.

But overall, the book is an easy read and gives every blackjack player information that he/she can use the next time you go to the casino.

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite of Five, May 24, 2001
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I have read five books on blackjack, "Professional Blackjack" by Stanford Wong, "Blackjack Take the Money and Run" by Henry Tamburin, "Blackjack Attack" by Don Schlessinger, "Knock Out Blackjack" by Fuchs and Vancura, and "Best Blackjack" by Frank Scoblete. They were all very good books but Scoblete's was the best overall. As I was a novice, I felt Scoblete was able to take me from knowing nothing about the game to being a very competent player. When I finished reading his book I followed his advice and read the other books. Scoblete has a whole bibliography of recommended books in his book. I found that while I learned from each and every book, no one gave me the information in such an assimilable way as Scoblete.

"Best Blackjack" was also a lot of fun to read as Scoblete intersperses his teaching with great stories. All five books are worthy in their way but I have to give my vote to Scoblete's "Best Blackjack" as being comprehensive but not daunting. I have been winning consistently at the casinos utilizing his ideas and I am very grateful. Blackjack is a great game if you know what you're doing.

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