Alene Paone
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Alene Paone is the CEO of Paone Press, a mail-order publishing house in New York
which specializes in gaming books and videos, primarily by her husband Frank Scoblete
, a widely-published authority on casino gambling.
Paone's earlier career was as an actress. During the 1980s she was one of the leads in the Other Vic Theatre Company, co-owned by Scoblete. They met in 1986 at a theater audition. While researching parts for the play The Only Game in Town, Paone and Scoblete, the two leads, traveled to Atlantic City to do learn more about the gambling life. They discovered that they liked gambling better than acting, and after the play's four-month run was up, Scoblete sold his share of the theater company in order to concentrate on his new profession. Scobe and Paone married in 1993, spending their honeymoon playing blackjack on a Mississippi riverboat
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Another of Paone's jobs has been that of schoolteacher at the Lawrence Middle School (New York). She is also one of the listed "Gaming Gurus" at Casino City Times where she has written an "Ask A.P." column since 1999.http://paone.casinocitytimes.com/
She currently lives in New York with her husband, Frank Scoblete. Scoblete often refers to Paone in his books, by the initials of "A.P.", with adjectives such as "the beautiful A.P." and "the lovely A.P."
Paone Press is also the publisher of Frank Scoblete's quarterly newsletter Chance and Circumstance.
New York
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which specializes in gaming books and videos, primarily by her husband Frank Scoblete
Frank Scoblete
Frank Scoblete is an American author who has written both under his own name and King Scobe about casino gambling. Referred to by the Washington Post as "a widely published authority on casino games," his books include Beat the Craps out of the Casinos, Golden Touch Blackjack Revolution, and Beat...
, a widely-published authority on casino gambling.
Paone's earlier career was as an actress. During the 1980s she was one of the leads in the Other Vic Theatre Company, co-owned by Scoblete. They met in 1986 at a theater audition. While researching parts for the play The Only Game in Town, Paone and Scoblete, the two leads, traveled to Atlantic City to do learn more about the gambling life. They discovered that they liked gambling better than acting, and after the play's four-month run was up, Scoblete sold his share of the theater company in order to concentrate on his new profession. Scobe and Paone married in 1993, spending their honeymoon playing blackjack on a Mississippi riverboat
Riverboat casino
A riverboat casino is a type of casino found in several areas of the United States which use a riverboat as a casino. Several states authorized this type of casino to limit the areas where casinos could be constructed under a type of legal fiction.-History:...
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Another of Paone's jobs has been that of schoolteacher at the Lawrence Middle School (New York). She is also one of the listed "Gaming Gurus" at Casino City Times where she has written an "Ask A.P." column since 1999.http://paone.casinocitytimes.com/
She currently lives in New York with her husband, Frank Scoblete. Scoblete often refers to Paone in his books, by the initials of "A.P.", with adjectives such as "the beautiful A.P." and "the lovely A.P."
Selected publications by Paone Press
- Frank ScobleteFrank ScobleteFrank Scoblete is an American author who has written both under his own name and King Scobe about casino gambling. Referred to by the Washington Post as "a widely published authority on casino games," his books include Beat the Craps out of the Casinos, Golden Touch Blackjack Revolution, and Beat...
, Captain's Craps Revolution, 1993 - John F. Julian, Julian's No-Nonsense Guide to Winning Blackjack, 1992
- John F. Julian, The Julian Strategies in Roulette, 1992
- King Scobe, The Morons of Blackjack, 1992
- King Scobe, How to Break the One-Arm Bandit
Paone Press is also the publisher of Frank Scoblete's quarterly newsletter Chance and Circumstance.