Initial player setup has been moved from the code to the app.config file so you can set the initial number of players, methods and strategies

Right-click anywhere else to get general settings like the strategy window. Right-click on each player circle to get player-specific settings. Player controls have been moved to a popup menu because I added so many that the little form window became unmanageable. And if the player is using the High-Low strategy, the graph can change depending on the card count (High-Low is the only strategy that does this). You'll notice that the graph changes for each player depending on the strategy chosen. My version is available by right-clicking on the playing field and selecting the 'Strategy Window' option from the popup menu. Anyone who's been to Vegas has probably seen one of these They even hand them out right at the tables and it is legal to refer to it during play. This method could create a graph of the correct moves. If you snooped at the code carefully, you would have noticed that there was a 'Draw' method in the Strategy class that was never used. Feel free to use this button on its own in your applications. But I also wanted my button to be able to take images so I wrote my own version of the button. I thought this would be cool if the button for the 'correct' move glowed to show the user what to do. Then I found an article called AquaButton (see Readme.doc for credits) which subclassed the button control and made it glow when it was the default button. Of course, if the dealer has an ace in the hole, you'll still lose immediately.sorry, that's the rules. This feature was missing from the original game and if the dealer had blackjack, you just lost immediately. If he does not have Blackjack, you lose your insurance bet and play continues as usual. The dealer then looks at his hole card and, if he has Blackjack, you are insured and lose nothing. Whenever the dealer shows an ace, the players are given the opportunity to buy insurance which usually costs half the original bet.

Nobody took me up on the challenge so I finally got back to adding some of those features myself.įirst among those was insurance. When I first posted this application back in 2002, I challenged everyone to improve it and provided a list of enhancements I thought were needed.

Blackjack tutorial app