Awesome

Exactly what I was looking for. Weakest hands chart isn’t 100% accurate, there are certain hands I know I’ve seen that show up as a dash. Other than that this app is perfect. Wish more explanation was available in app but easy to find online. Final thought maybe make a mode that allows the hands to be played out and let you know if you make a mistake throughout the whole hand. I know that’s not what that app was intended to do but I think it could help. Once I split my 3s vs a 6 my hand isn’t over. I still have a lot of decisions to make that this app doesn’t necessarily 100% address. Love the app.

Mastering Basic Strategy! Small bugs need fixed

Absolutely love this app for basic strategy and will probably purchase it once these bugs are fixed. I download it yesterday and the app doesn’t fill the screen it cuts off on each side on IPhone. This is on every screen, so my highest score I can’t see, except when I earned it. My % correct I can’t see. Also the weakest hands screen is great to understand where you are struggling but it’s not 100% accurate with its calculations, but still after a 1000 hands it has done pretty well. My highest score so far is 169. Something I would love to see in the next update is your score after each run. For me to know how many I got correct I have to keep count, and since my high score is so high it’s hard to know how close I came to beating it, if I don’t have a constant this is how many you got correct in a row. *Please add this functionality, it would greatly improve the app* Thanks for a great app thus far! Keep it up!

Overall a good tool, a little glitchy and occasionally gives the wrong strategy

I really like using this tool and it has helped me a lot. Unfortunately it can be pretty glitchy. If I use the app for more than 10-20 minutes, it normally freezes and I have to close it and reopen it. Also, there are times when it will say you used the wrong strategy but the explanation will contradict itself (i.e. the explanation says you made the right move but you’ll receive an “x” indicating you made the wrong call). There are also times when the “correct” answer given by the app during training does not match what is on the app’s strategy card (i.e. the strategy card will say that you should hit, but that answer will be counted wrong when you use it during training). The stats are either not accurate or just not updating from the first time I used the app. Overall, good tool. Just needs some fixes

Monkey!

The simplicity of this app is amazing and I can’t say enough good things about it! I’ve tried virtually every blackjack app there is and nothing compares to this UI. Other apps are too focused on teaching/hand analysis and are too slow to enjoy, but his app runs as fast as you can push it! If I could make two minor changes, I would add an ‘undo’ button because I hate when I accidentally fat finger the wrong action and ruin my streak, and I would bring back dark mode for the strategy table like the earlier version used.

The real deal

This game just gives you scenarios and asks what you should do. No betting. Don’t even get to see the result of your decision- just if it was statistically the right one to make. Here’s what the dealer is showing, here are your two cards. Split / Double / Hit / stand / surrender. And you’re either right or wrong. The brilliance of this game is that it’s so simple, so straightforward, and you don’t have to worry about the app cheating yo get you to buy more chips… it’s just fantastic at what it does.

Good Basic Strategy teacher

You do have to pay money to get to a reasonable level of functioning but the full app is actually really great. You can split the hands up by soft vs pairs vs all the hands. The only improvement I can think of is that it would be nice to get a simulated count and then be able to chose a deviation from the basic strat. Alternately, incorporating a count and being quizzed on it would be a cool addition. This is perfect for what it does. 5 stars.

Helpful

1) This app needs to have the ability to go beyond the initial cards dealt. For example, if you choose correctly, it deals the next card and lets you choose again. If you choose wrong, then you have to choose again. The counting stats would then need to reflect all your correct or incorrect choices. 2) If it had the math behind each choice (ex if you hit 12 vs a dealer showing a 2 what’s the percentage you would win the hand) that would be helpful.

Not enough info on wrong choices

I'm new to blackjack and would be happy to pay to upgrade but a major issue prevents me. The app rarely explains why a choice is wrong, only states that it's wrong. I'd learn more and faster if the app tells me why my choice is wrong. For example if my hand totals 16 sometimes it states "WRONG you never hit in this situation" and other times "CORRECT you always hit in this situation". I assume the difference is what the dealer has, but I don't know, it doesn't explain. If there is more info shown after paying to upgrade, this is not stated anywhere, otherwise I'd pay for this info. Also the app does not work in landscape mode, not a major issue but if you're used to always using your iPad in landscape mode as many are, annoying. In fact if the game were landscape, there would be enough room for the advisory text missing in issue #1 😬 I hope this is useful feedback, I'd love this app to be more useful to beginners like me, I think it has the potential to be huge as there's nothing else like it.

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AppAdvice Tue Oct 01 2024