With Stanford Wong's Tournament Blackjack software you can play and analyze blackjack tournaments.
Suppose that as you are playing in a real blackjack tournament, you encounter a situation that you would like to analyze. Perhaps you are wondering whether a big bet or a small bet would be better. Or whether doubling down or hitting is better. First, remember or write down all the details. Then, input all those details into Tournament Blackjack and run a simulation.
You can set up almost any tournament format you wish. Each player can be set to automatic or manual play. You have control over the quality of the decisions the computer makes on the automatic players. Tournament Blackjack maintains the Pi Yee Press reputation for user-friendliness.
Another word that describes this program is flexibility. The user has a lot of options. One example: Suppose you are in the middle of a tournament and a friend pops in. Your friend can easily join you - simply click the appropriate button to change an automatic player to manual.
Features
These are some of the features available in Tournament Blackjack:
- Player profiles: Set your opponents to make flat bets, use a Martingale, count cards, parlay their bets, etc.
- Bet query: Find out what bet the computer would make if it were playing your hand.
- Color: Change the color scheme of the program.
- Continue simulation: If you have broken into a simulation to use your computer for other things, you can restart the simulation right where you left off.
- Deja vu: Recreate the situation at the start of any round you have already played. Then review the previous play of that round bet by bet and play by play.
- Fast forward: Set up a sixty-hand tournament and then zip right through the early rounds to get to the interesting part: the final few rounds.
- Live play: Play Tournament Blackjack like a game.
- Pause: Cause all action to stop temporarily.
- Play independent rounds: You can create a file of last-round situations and then play through them one at a time independently, compared to the normal game where the bankrolls at the end of one round are the starting bankrolls for the next round.
- Prizes: The prize schedule is completely under your control. You can set up one winner, two winners, three winners, or different numbers of dollars for each final position.
- Rules: You can fine-tune the rules of the game to duplicate those of almost any tournament. Besides the obvious things such as number of decks, penetration, and dealer action on soft seventeen, you have some exotic choices too. For example, you can have double down cards dealt face up or face down, and you have the alternative of two rounds per puck move.
- Save a file: You can save a file for future use.
- Simulate: You can run simulations of different initial bets, different amounts of insurance, and different plays of a hand.
- Specify next bet, card, or play: You an set up any situation you wish by specifying all the bets, cards dealt, and plays made.
- Speed control: A rheostat controls the speed of play. Set it to play as fast as you want, with the ceiling being the maximum of which your computer is capable.
Requirements
Tournament Blackjack requires Windows 3.0 or newer and will run on Windows XP.
The price is $49.95 plus shipping (plus sales tax if sent to a Nevada address). Tournament Blackjack is available from
Pi Yee Press
4855 W. Nevso Dr.
Las Vegas, NV 89103
Phone 702-579-7711
E-mail info@bj21.com
Or use the Pi Yee Press
on-line order form.