GamblingMasters.com is pleased to introduce the best articles and reviews by Frank Scoblete, the number-one best-selling gaming author in America. He is executive director of the Golden Touch advantage-play seminars in craps and blackjack. 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.
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The industrial revolution of the late 1700s and early 1800s saw machines displace man in the manufacturing of just about everything, except perhaps other human beings. In 1811 in England, organized retaliatory groups of angry workers, both those who were employed and those who were unemployed, known as Luddites, went around smashing machines and decrying the fact that man was being replaced by inhuman, almost satanic devices.
An alien from another planet, if he/she/it were reading the ads in all the magazines and newspapers for casinos would think the following: Casinos are places where some famous humans sing or tell jokes or do magic or punch each other in the face and where all the rest of the nonfamous humans go to play with “loose” or “hot” or “high payback” machines with fanciful names.
The very first game I ever played in organized baseball. I went four for four with one home run and five runs batted in.
The very last game I ever played in organized baseball was in 12th grade on the high school team. I didn’t have a particularly great game, but I did get two hits in five at bats and I fielded several grounders at shortstop.
Don’t you think that magazines such as the ones you write for encourage people to gamble? We have enough gamblers in the country without giving approval in publications. Would you want your children to gamble? I realize that there is very little chance this letter will wind up in your publication as I’ve sent similar ones to other gambling magazines and I have been ignored. Casino gambling should be banned, as should magazines that cater to it.
You’ll notice some casino ads, events and/or press releases that promote the idea of “responsible” gambling. Just as there is no “creature under the bed” in little Timmy’s room (except if little Timmy is in a horror movie or a novel), there is no such thing as “responsible” gambling, at least not in this world -- nor need the casino industry pretend that there is to make itself appear socially conscious or to justify its existence.