Frank Scoblete
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Frank Scoblete is the best-selling casino gambling author in America. He has written 20 books, three audiotapes, three videotapes, and has his own imprint, the Scoblete Get-the-Edge Guides. Scoblete's recent books are "Golden Touch Dice Control Revolution" and "Golden Touch Blackjack Revolution" which reveals the simplest advantage method at blackjack called Speed Count. His new DVD is "Golden Touch: Beat Craps by Controlling the Dice."
Scoblete is the executive director of Golden Touch Craps dice-control seminars, and he has served as a consultant for CNN, TBS, Walter Cronkite, Travel Channel, Discovery Channel, Silicon Gaming, Mikhon Gaming and IGT. He writes for over forty of casino gaming’s top newspapers and magazines. Scoblete has appeared on many television shows and has written several shows for cable channels such as the Travel Channel.
Scoblete is often criticized by other gambling authors for his insistence in the past 20 years that negative-EV games such as craps can be exploited.
Nonetheless, the concept of gaining advantage of dice control has gained increasing acceptance among gaming analysts, with Stanford Wong's Pi Yee Press having followed with its own book on dice control, "The Mad Professor's Crapshooting Bible" by Tino Gambino. Many of casino gambling finest authors have seen Scoblete and his Golden Touch dice control instructors play and are now convinced that Scoblete has been right all along. These gaming authors include Henry Tamburin, John Grochowski, Don Catlin, Jean Scott, Linda Mabry, among others.
Scoblete tours the nation giving seminars on his dice control method, Golden Touch Craps. He occasionally sponsors larger "gamblers jamborees" where he is joined by fellow authors and analysts in giving seminars on all aspects of casino gambling. At the jamborees, his fellow instructors have included Dr. Henry Tamburin, John Grochowski, Dr. Donald Catlin, John Robison and Jean Scott.
Frank Scoblete also held the first Craps Tournament weekend (The World Craps Championships 2006) in a non-casino property that drew 166 players.