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    Eric Farmer's Blackjack Game issue

    http://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2...air-splitting/

    this is some very interesting software allowing the user to play blackjack with all the true EV's printed on the screen by combinatorial analysis.

    however, the game is set to always shuffle when one deck remains, regardless of how many shoes are being used in the game. meaning that with 1 deck, it will shuffle every hand.

    upon downloading the files, there are some open source files included that can be modified with notepad.

    i found the portion i was looking for which was as follows:

    // Reshuffle if necessary.
    if (shoe->numCards < 52 || practice > 0 {
    shoe->shuffle(practice);
    distribution->reset();
    }


    and edited to it check if numCards < 15


    unfortunately any edits i made to the file seemed not to have any effect on the game. even completely deleting the source files had no effect.

    has anyone figured out a way or know of a way to change the penetration of his game? i've seen some things on google where someone made a patch for it for other purposes (such as european no holecard adaptations etc.)

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    Author here-- thanks, I'm glad you found the software interesting and hopefully useful. I have updated the game/trainer (blackjack.exe) to allow specification of penetration. See the two template rule files in the casinos folder for examples of how to change this. Note, however, that I haven't done anything special to account for the situation where the dealer runs out of cards, so use at your own risk.

    (Aside: the text files that you see, such as game.cpp mentioned in the OP, are the source code for the programs, written in the C++ programming language. These source files are not run directly, but instead must be compiled to create the executable .exe file that you actually run. That's why modifying or even deleting those .cpp files, without also recompiling, has no effect on the behavior of the .exe file. This is not always the case-- there are other "interpreted" programming languages, such as Python, where the source text files are run directly.)

    Let me know if I broke anything.

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    Mr. Farmer, thank you so much for the personal reply, the software update, and the C++ lesson. This is definitely a very useful program that allows us to get a feel for how well our counting systems work and what perfect play actually looks like. The effort you've put into this is much appreciated.

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    I am looking for a software that allow me to key-in the played cards after each round and then calculate the EV base on the remaining cards. It's for online casinos play.

    Where can I get this type of software ?

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    best answer to your question, is that no online casinos offer a real blackjack game that deals unique cards and then shuffles according to cut card.

    they all shuffle after each hand, or would offer a game that is unbeatable (push on dealer 22, 6:5 blackjack payout combined with a 4-1 spread cap etc.)
    to make sure that they can't be beaten. (since they have no floor people, or surveillance crew to check out their players and ban card counters)

    if, however u have found a website silly enough to offer a beatable game, plz do let us know

    http://www.bjstrat.net/cgi-bin/cdca.cgi is what you are looking for.

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