Blackjack & Card Counting Pro 17+

Pretty good but not as great as it could be

The interface and user experience is good but it needs a setting to practice specific subsets of basic strategy. There is wayyyy to much variation for a beginner.

You need a setting where the “deck” constantly forces the same hand with a different dealer up-card to practice what to do with a hard 12 and dealer is showing *whatever* and that’s how to memorize what to do. And then when I start getting those right most of the time I can select something different like hard 13 or whatever and practice what to do with different dealer up cards, etc.

Then I can turn more and more of these on until it eventually gets to where the app currently is, practice real black jack with a normal deck and now that I have the basic strategy memorized I can actually try to apply it.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the great feedback! We do have more options in our full member's Training Suite but that's an aspect we haven't created before. I'll send it over to our dev guys and see if it's possible to create a system like that in the next update.

Negative Betting?!? Why?

Not sure why this is a thing, once your bankroll hits $0 or you don’t have money to bet. Either it should allow you to bet the rest in your bankroll down to $0 or it should offer to reset the bankroll to 10k. I know at anytime you can reset the bankroll to 10k which is nice. It’s not right to bet negative!

You could offer different sizes bankrolls to start with but I honestly think 10k it perfect to not over bet and even if you wanted to bet small it would lower your risk even more. If you want to start larger just build it up.

Unfortunately, I have a few friends trying out the app as well and they want to show off their “bankrolls” but no way to prove they are actual gains. I’m up 50k in mine just from practice and months of work. So I want to actually see who is able to preform and grow a bankroll not just bet a negative amount and show a two hundred thousand dollar bankroll. The app is to simulate real life practice in my opinion.

All that being said this is a fantastic app and I highly recommend it. I still think it’s a 5 star app and this can be an easy fix. Just please fix this one this to help everyone, even the ones who think they can borrow the money. Just reset the bankroll and try again.

Annoying tips

At first I thought the tips were cool… until I started to not follow them and I was still winning while it racked up a counter of how many incorrect moves I did meanwhile any time I thought oh maybe they’re right I’ll go back and fix it I’d end up losing 8 times out of 10 on moves I would’ve won on that were “incorrect” and “fixed” just give recommendations don’t say incorrect every time somebody is winning or else you throw off the game completely being warned I’m doing something wrong and then losing because I hit a “fix” button

I also need to add that it is not a normal thing for a dealer to hit 21, 8 times in a row and then 20 every other deal for 20 deals straight, got 4 blackjacks pushed as if that’s realistic, also saw my first 4 way ace split, I know it’s coded for real casino but these results have never been more far off, on a current 7 night win streak in person along with around 4 more wins on another app going for doubles and triples yet I can’t even reach double on this app and end up going broke every single time

Developer Response ,

Short term variance isn't an issue that has any relevance in card counting, we're playing the long term using the mathematically correct moves. Given that the casino edge is only around .5% with perfect basic strategy, and your edge is likely ~5% counting perfectly you can win plenty of times doing the wrong thing and lose plenty of times doing the right thing. Tips are providing the correct choice to make mathematically. The goal of card counters is to play for the long term where the equity created by playing correctly translates to profit.