By Frank Scoblete
WHEN YOU READ gambling books and articles, you sometimes see a distinction made between the "short run" (tonight, this weekend, this week, this month) of a few hundred or a few thousand decisions, and the "long run" (a few years or more) of millions of decisions. As pundits have noted since Pascal, in the short run anything can and does happen. Players can go on incredible streaks of improbable wins or equally improbable losses. Gaming writer Barney Vinson saw the number 7 come up six times in a row at roulette a couple of years ago. That's about as improbable...
By Frank Scoblete
BLACKJACK IS CONSIDERED by many gaming experts to be the very best table game in the casino,...
By Frank Scoblete
SIZE COUNTS. BIGGER IS better. The rich are different than you and me. Most intelligent people...
By Frank Scoblete
Blackjack is the No. 1 table game in the casinos and has been since 1963. Before that, craps was the casino king but a strange thing happened in 1962. Edward O. Thorp published a book titled Beat the...
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