Blackjack Mentor at Mac App Store analyse

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.

Would be 5 stars but its missing surrender drills, and there needs to be room between Hit,Soft,Double( also add surrender) as other have stated. You can see how close they are in the pictures show above. Also it needs a customized strategy play section, where one can input their own basic strategy chart and include surrender/hit or surrender/stand as an option and then run the drill off that chart they they just made. Granted surrender are found in a lot of places, but there are still places that offer it and one should be able to study and learn this since its still used in some places.

Really an excellent app to improve play. Absolutely no glitches. A very smooth running and easy to use app.