It is always best to check out the games for yourselves. Time of day, type of dealer, table minimum, and number of decks can influence the most important ingredients in a good game for a card counter --- penetration. The second most important things are the rules. Most Atlantic City casinos allow doubling on the first two cards, splitting of pairs (once or twice), doubling after splits, three-to-two payouts on blackjacks (except those awful one-deck games). Sadly most of the casinos are hitting soft 17, except in the high roller rooms. For non-card counters you want shallow penetration and good rules and a full table!

Our reporters have somewhat different takes on the various (remaining) casinos. Again it is always best to do a quick tour of the one(s) you plan to play at.

Dear Frank:

Put a lid on Atlantic City. It is dead. The crowds are gone and even the weekends seem smaller. I don't know if Taj or Caesars or Wild Wild West will last. The Boardwalk is going to be almost empty. Too many casinos in the country and too few players for them. Survival of the fittest and Atlantic City doesn't seem too fit, does it? No.

Alan

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Dear Frank:

Just to let you know that I have been enjoying the excerpts from your book I Am a Card Counter: Inside the World of Advantage-Play Blackjack (in BJI). You've had some career.

Bill H.

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Frank,

I have no pity for Atlantic City. I am a 25-dollar blackjack player and I will often progress my bets as high as 100 dollars. I am not a card counter. I was playing at one of the remaining casinos and I asked for a comp for two to the café and the pit critter said he'd give me a comp for two to the buffet. I had already played two hours. It is this type of treatment that causes me to go to Vegas more than I would if AC gave more back to the players.

Thomas

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Confessions of a Wayward Catholic is a hilarious yet insightful account of Frank Scoblete's years from kindergarten through grandparenthood as a confused, wayward, seemingly ever-sinning Catholic. Join Frank for an entertaining but possibly hell-bound ride as he attempts to understand what God and religion are all about. Will Frank reach the pearly gates or be banished to eternal damnation?

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"I don't know why Jewish kids went to a Catholic school but I'm proud they did well in religion." - Chief Rabbi Sol Bernstein

"I believe that you should love your neighbor as yourself. Luckily, Frank lives in another town and is not my neighbor." - Jesus Christ

"Scoblete says I have no sense of humor. I will afflict him with boils and sores over his whole body, just like I did Job." - God

"Frank Scoblete has been wayward for over six decades. He's my main man!" - Satan