Blackjack Mentor app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: DeepNet Technologies
First release : 19 Nov 2009
App size: 2.45 Mb
The ultimate Blackjack teaching tool! Its not a game: its an easy and fun instructional program that will help you remember proper playing strategy at the casino tables.
Blackjack Mentor is an instructional aide to help you become a better Blackjack player. If you want to win at Blackjack, you need to know the right action for each hand combination. Blackjack Mentor has six modes to make the process of learning the right plays fast, easy and fun.
FEATURES:
- Drill mode: Random blackjack hands are displayed, and you have to pick the correct action. The program remembers which ones you get right or wrong, and tends to pick the ones you are having the most problems with. The Mistake dialogs have been carefully designed to give you the right information to help master the correct plays.
- Table mode: View all of the basic strategy plays. The hands are broken up into hard hands from 8 to 16, soft hands from Ace-2 to Ace-9, and all pairs. You can select specific hands to be tested on, and view your error statistics from Drill mode.
- Memorize mode: Displays an empty blackjack strategy table and lets you fill in the correct plays one cell at a time. If you get the action wrong, it tells you and marks the error.
- Rules mode: Choose from a wide range of blackjack rules for DAS/noDAS, S17/H17, surrender, ENHC, number of decks, and double restrictions. A matching optimal basic strategy table is automatically selected for you. 144 built-in tables ready for you to use.
- Action mode: Create or modify your own action table. Includes all of the OBS strategy tables for the Speed Count system.
- Help mode: All the rules of blackjack, an introduction to card counting, and detailed documentation on the program, presented in a rich web browsing format. Everything you need to know to play perfect blackjack.
Latest reviews of Blackjack Mentor app for iPhone and iPad
Expensive but nothing better in the app store for learning and perfecting basic strategy.
It’s great to see the popular DeepNet Technologies blackjack programs available for the iPhone & iPod Touch. Eagerly awaiting Blackjack Counter and Blackjack Expert in 2010.
I play BJ often and I like to keep in mental shape when it applies to the basic strategy. This app is perfect. Theres no other app like it. The only way the app can improve is to use other strategys involved with various different playing situations.
Blackjack Mentor is not a game. It is a training tool that will help you learn and practice basic strategy. The Blackjack basic strategy varies depending on the number of deck and the rules of the game BJ Mentor lets you select the tables to practice. Several years ago I learned to count cards using the speed count method published in The Blackjack Revolution book by Scoblete. Speed count is the easiest card counting method to learn. Speed Count uses a variation of basic strategy and this program allows you to choose this as an option. So if you are a “Speed Counter” you can practice the OBS with this program. The only addition I would like to see in the future would be an actual game mode that would allow practicing the running speed count.
Ive had this software for my Palm, windows PDA, desktop and now iPhone. I still like it although its not as useful as the counting tools. One thing that Dan seems determined NOT to change is the location of the buttons. Its not that they are too close together (as suggested above) its that they are designed for a left handed person. A righty has to reach accross the screen and cannot see the choices covered by his thumb. That makes it easy to tap the wrong button. And its a flaw that is in all of his products. Annoying but still a great training tool.