Alene Paone

Who is Alene Paone?

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.

Another of Paone's jobs has been that of schoolteacher at the Lawrence Middle School until 2004 when she became a librarian. She is also one of the listed "Gaming Gurus" at Casino City Times where she has written an "Ask A.P." column since 1999.