Statjack™ "Statistical Blackjack" adds a whole new dimension to the established game of blackjack. While most casinos try to ban card counting, Statjack™ actually does it for you by showing you the remaining cards in the shoe.

Check out these additional features:

• The Card Tally shows you how many of each card value remain in the shoe and the probability of being dealt a card of each value. For example, you can see the probability of the next card dealt being a 5.
• When you hover your mouse over the Hit button you will see the probability of improving your hand by choosing HIT, and the probability of busting. You also get to see the proportion of our other players who chose to hit in the same scenario! Similar options exist for Stand, Double Down and Split.
• See the probability of the dealer busting or making a hand of 17 or over on the next card.
• Statjack™ draws from a four-deck shoe, and does not reshuffle until reaching the "cut" card which is randomly inserted in the shoe.

Playing Statjack

Statjack is a special version of Blackjack that has been enhanced with onscreen tools to assist card-counting. Statjack is played with four 52-card decks. The object of the game is to get more points than the Dealer without getting more than 21 points.

Each Player, including the Dealer, is dealt two cards. The Dealer has one card face up and one card face down (the hole card).

Each card has its face value except the Jack, Queen and King, which have a value of ten, and the Ace which is one or eleven.

If your first two cards total 21, congratulations! You have a Blackjack and will be paid 3 to 2 on your bet. (However, if the dealer also has a Blackjack, the hand is a "Push" - you do not lose and you do not win anything.)

Most of the time, however, your total is going to be less than 21. In that case, you can Hit, Split, Double Down, or Stand.

If you want another card, press Hit and the Dealer will deal you an additional card. You Hit when you feel your hand needs more points to be competitive. But if that next card takes you over 21 points, you lose.

Choosing to Stand means you're satisfied with your cards. Once you have opted to Stand on all of your hands, the Dealer will play out his hand and you will see whether you have won or not. The Dealer must draw when his hand totals of 16 or less. If the total is 17 or more, the Dealer must stand, unless it is a Soft 17, in which case the dealer must hit.

The cards are "cut" after shuffling, and the cut card is placed at a random spot in the shoe. The shoe is reshuffled after the cut card comes up.

Special Features of Statjack

Statjack provides a wealth of information about the progress of play, which helps to give you a winning edge over normal Blackjack games.

 The Card History (the translucent panel on the left of the game window) displays the cards that have just been dealt. The most recently dealt card is displayed at the top of the screen.

The Dealer's face-down card is displayed as a green "?" until it is revealed.

The Card History is cleared when the deck is shuffled after the cut card appears. 
 
The Hand History (the translucent panel on the right of the game window) displays the results of the most recent hands. The Dealer's hands are under "D", and your hands are under "P". If you play more than one hand at once, each hand is displayed on a separate line.

The most recent hand is displayed at the top of the screen. When the cut card is dealt, it displays as a blue square in each column. 
 
The Card Tally is a strip the runs along the bottom of the screen. It tallies the number of cards of each value along with helpful supporting information.

The cards are listed from Aces to the 10-value cards, from left to right. The number above each card shows the value that your hand would have if you drew a card of that value. The number on the right of each card is the number of cards of that value remaining in the shoe, and percentage below each card is the percentage of cards of that value remaining in the shoe.

Please note that the dealer's face-down card is not counted in this tally, since its value is not known until it is turned over.
 
When you hold your pointer over one of the betting options such as Hit or Stand, some helpful statistics will appear for that betting option. Based on the number of cards remaining in the shoe, the Player statistics pop-up displays the likelihood of the next card either busting or improving your hand.

In addition, it displays the percentage of other players that have chosen that option in a similar situation. (To be more precise, it displays the percentage of players that have chosen that option given the same player and dealer hand values, where that play option is available. Hard and soft hand values are treated separately for these purposes.)

It's worth noting that these statistics for a Split apply to both new hands at once. So the probability that a Split will improve the hand should be read as the probability that splitting will create two hands that are both better than the current hand. 
 
The Dealer statistics pop-up displays when the cards have been dealt and the Dealer's face-down card has not been revealed. Based on the number of cards remaining in the shoe, it displays the likelihood that the Dealer will draw a 3rd card, as well as the probability of achieving 17, 18, 19 or 20 when the hole card is turned over. 
 
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