zach.blog » blackjack http://blog.zachtib.com General geekery and whatnot Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:38:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Blackjack Update http://blog.zachtib.com/2008/11/blackjack-update/ http://blog.zachtib.com/2008/11/blackjack-update/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:43:39 +0000 Zach http://collegegeek.org/?p=422 This file has been sitting on my server for a little while now, so I figured I’d post the link.

blackjack-r11.tar.gz

]]> http://blog.zachtib.com/2008/11/blackjack-update/feed/ 0 Breaking Blackjack http://blog.zachtib.com/2008/10/breaking-blackjack/ http://blog.zachtib.com/2008/10/breaking-blackjack/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:02:55 +0000 Zach http://collegegeek.org/?p=397 Continue reading →]]> A few days ago. my roommate Patrick bought a copy of 21.  After a watching peeked our interest, we started playing blackjack at home and then went to the Horseshoe Casino last night.  Patrick managed to make around $80 and I walked out with exactly the same amount of money I walked in with.

Today, I started working on developing a simulation to test various strategies.  After a full day of development, I have the basic framework working, and it is able to run a simple simulation based on basic strategy from Wikipedia.

The program is written in Java, and the first source tarball is attached to this post.  To run the simulation, build and run PlayerVsDealer.java.

blackjack-r5.tar.gz

Update: Fixed a pretty major bug that was causing the decks to not be shuffled.  It works much nicer now.  Also, the win percentage is up closer to 48% now.

blackjack-r6.tar.gz

See this post for a more recent build.

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