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Frank Scoblete - the Bestselling Gambling Author

There are no doubts that you have heard the name of this person before: Frank Scoblete is a real guru of all casino gamblers, the well-known American gambling writer whose books always become to be real bestsellers in America and all over the world. He has written in about 15 books about different casino games, such as blackjack, roulette, baccarat …. But his favorites were always craps and he considered himself to be a real expert of dice.

Today, Mr. Frank Scoblete continues writing and publishing his books on gambling; he is invited to read lectures, he writes for television and different websites (American, European and Canadian ones) and 40 gambling magazines, produces numerous audio and DVD on casino topics.

King of Scobe

Sometimes, Frank Scoblete uses this nickname when writes his books; he is a famous writer and today he can not even imagine his life without gambling and writing books on this topic. But if to look at some facts from his biography, it becomes completely clear that Frank tried many different fields before he had understood what his real passion was.

Brief Bio

Frank Scoblete was born in New York in 1947; he went to school there and was a really good sportsman because received scholarships for baseball and basketball there. In 1965 Frank entered college where he got three Master's degrees (History, Philosophy and Literature).

After his graduation in 1969 Frank Scoblete begins working at Island Magazine: he works as a writer first, then he becomes an editor and finally a publisher. During all this time Mr. Scoblete also has his own radio program and teaches at Lawrence High School.

1975 brings new work to Frank: he tries himself in acting and becomes a co-founder of The Other Vic Theatre Company (it was 1979 already). With this theatre troupe Scoblete had played in about 50 different roles and it was exactly this theatre which helped Frank to discover his real passion to gambling.

It was 1985 when the troupe was going to represent a new play about casino; Frank and his co-star Alene Paone went to Atlantic City to make researches on this topic, and this journey had finally showed who was who: Frank Scoblete had understood that gambling was exactly the field he wanted to be a part of.

So, in 1989 Frank had sold his part of The Other Vic Theatre Company and devoted his life to casino games; he spent almost all his time in different casinos where he studied various casino games and, as a result, his first book - Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos - was published in 1991.

And what about his personal life? Well, in 1993 Mr. Frank Scoblete got married with Alene Paone, who was also the editor of Paone Press publishing house (some of Frank's books had been published exactly via the publishing house of his wife).

Best Works

Frank Scoblete has written a lot of wonderful books about different casino games, but he is also the author of many articles, audio and video cassettes. Here we are glad to represent you the list of his best works though it is really difficult to do because all of Scoblete's works have the right to be called the best ones!

So, the most popular books of Frank Scoblete are:

  • Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos
  • Break the One-Armed Bandits
  • The Baccarat Battle Book
  • Forever Craps
  • Armada Strategies for Spanish 21
  • Winning Strategies at Blackjack
  • Winning Strategies at Craps
  • Spin Roulette Gold: Secrets of Beating the Wheel
  • Golden Touch Blackjack Revolution
  • The Craps Underground: How Dice Controllers Are Winning Millions from the Casinos

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