Blackjack Ace - Basic Strategy

Blackjack Strategy

About this game

Blackjack is a game of both luck and skill. Given a set of table rules, there is an optimal strategy you can learn that will maximize your chances of winning. Blackjack Ace is a strategy trainer that allows you to customize those table rules and practice the resulting strategy before you head to the casino.

FEATURES

Strategy Trainer

- You are shown a hand. You must choose whether to Hit, Stand, Double, Split, or Surrender. The strategy trainer will immediately provide you with feedback (whether you selected correctly, what that correct move would have been otherwise, and the relevant strategy rule) and move onto the next hand.
- This rapid-fire approach is designed to allow you to commit the blackjack strategy to memory as quickly as possible.

Table Rules

- You can set the table rules to match those of the casino where you will be playing.
- The basic strategy chart is customized to give you the optimal strategy based on the table rules you selected.
- Common rule variations for both American and European blackjack are supported.

Strategy Chart

- The basic strategy chart, fully customized based on the table rules you selected, can be checked at any time. Your goal is to commit this chart to memory!

Accuracy

- Detailed stats are kept for all hands that you play. You can use this to identify the weak and strong points of your blackjack game.
- You can filter these stats to only look at those from today, this week, this month, or all time.

Customize Hands

- You can customize the types of hands you are dealt. This will allow you to focus your training on exactly the areas you need to improve most.

Play Blackjack

- Once you feel you've got the basic strategy down, try out your newfound skills in a full game of blackjack.

Play Statistics

- Track the history of your blackjack gameplay, how well you're sticking to the strategy, and how many chips you've won or lost over the last day, week, month, or beyond. Once you're confident in your basic strategy skills, head out to the casino and play with a minimal house edge!

Card Counting

- In play mode, Blackjack Ace will keep track of the running and true count, so you can learn how to count cards and practice your card counting skills.

Ratings and reviews

I've been using this app for about half a year, and it is precisely what I wanted. There are no intrusive ads, you can fully customize your table rules, and there is a training mode and a play mode with a bankroll. One powerful feature I suggest is a spaced repetition setting in training mode so the hands you get wrong appear more often. Also, the statistics should have a graph view that displays your accuracy over time. Overall a great app and it would better with these additions!

TLDR: Great app to train basic strategy for pretty much any blackjack rules you will see. Just found out about this app, and so far it has been the most comprehensive basic strategy trainer that I have seen. You can customize the trainer to whatever game of blackjack you want, and it uses the best basic strategy chart for that game. It's quick to use, and the buttons are both close enough together to hit with one hand, but spaced enough to not fat finger it. Very well made. Try it.

Great training program all around. My issue is it does not let you select hands to practice. It lets you select outcomes. This leads to an annoying amount of time spent practicing double 10s as it counts every face card combo as a separate possibility. If I could I would turn all double 10s hands off. The program would be much better if I could select which hands instead of which outcome

What’s new

For practice mode, under Customize Hands, added an option to prioritize your worst hands.