Blackjack trainer for iPhone

Drill the hands you get wrong.

Set the rules from the placard at your table. The Shoe builds the chart for those rules, deals you the hands you keep missing, and tells you why after every call.

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Nothing is wagered. Every chip in the app is a practice chip.

Dealer

Your 16 vs 10

Hit.

A dealer 10 will often make a hand. Over the long run, hitting loses less than standing.

Your table's rules

The tables you actually play.

Most trainers drill one generic chart. Real tables differ in what blackjack pays, whether the dealer hits soft 17, how many decks are in the shoe and what you can double or surrender. Enter those rules once and every drill, correction and simulation follows them.

Payout3:2, 6:5 or Free Bet with push on 22
DealerHits or stands on soft 17
ShoeOne to eight decks
DoublesAny two cards, after split or 9 to 11 only
SurrenderLate surrender or none

$25MINIMUM BET

Blackjack pays 3 to 2
Blackjack pays 6 to 5
Dealer hits soft 17
Double after split
Late surrender · 6 decks

What The Shoe showsOn this table the house keeps 1.9 to 2.0% of each bet in the long run, against perfect basic strategy. Each rule's cost is listed beside it.

The chart

Your weak spots, lit.

The chart for your rules fits on one screen. As you drill, the app tracks your accuracy hand by hand and lights the cells you keep missing. Weak Spots mode deals those hands first, until they stop being weak.

Tap any cell and it tells you why. The chart and the drills run on one engine, so they always agree.

Hard totals · 6 decks · dealer hits soft 17 · double after split · no surrender. Highlighted: a sample weak spot.
You	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	A
8 or less	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H	H
9	H	D	D	D	D	H	H	H	H	H
10	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	H	H
11	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
12	H	H	S	S	S	H	H	H	H	H
13	S	S	S	S	S	H	H	H	H	H
14	S	S	S	S	S	H	H	H	H	H
15	S	S	S	S	S	H	H	H	H	H
16	S	S	S	S	S	H	H	H	H	H
17+	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S

Hard 16 vs 10 · Hit. Against a 10 the dealer will often make a hand. Over the long run, hitting 16 loses less than standing.

Every drill, graded

Know why you missed.

Get a hand wrong and the answer comes back in plain English, with what that call costs at your table's stakes over the long run. There's no buzzer and no streak counter.

BasicThe whole chart, dealt at random
Weak SpotsThe hands you keep missing
Custom HandsOnly the spots you pick
Warmup25 hands before you head in

Dealer

You · 5

Should have hit

Hard 5 is always a hit.

No card can bust a 5. Standing wins only when the dealer busts.

Count

Count a real shoe.

Hi-Lo on a six-deck shoe that runs down as you play. Keep the running count in your head, then check it. The app trains true count and deck estimation by eye too, at four speeds from Learning to Fast shoe.

Try it here: deal a few cards, keep the count, then reveal it.

Hi-Lo practice 6.0 decks left

The shoe is shuffled. Deal to start.

Cards dealt

Running count

True count

The simulator

A thousand nights played your way.

The simulator plays session after session, on your phone, with no server. It plays the way you actually play, mistakes included. Then we compare those results to a perfectly played night of blackjack so you can see what wrong calls cost you.

You get a range of nights, both good ones and bad ones, across five betting styles and four session lengths. The results show how your practice chips grow or shrink.

Illustration of the shape of a run. The app's own runs use your rules and your play.

Track · stays on your phone

Your real sessions, kept private.

Log the nights you play for real: where, which table, buy-in, cash-out, hours and notes. The Shoe works out your hourly rate.

There's no account and no server, so everything you enter stays on your device.

Example

Session log

Fri · Rohnert Park · $25 min · 6:5−$140

Sat · Reno · $15 min · 3:2+$85

Sun · Tahoe · $25 min · 3:2+$210

3 sessions · 7.5 hours+$20.67/hr

Deuce, a brindle whippet in black booties, peeking over a green felt blackjack table at an ace and a king — Pull up a chair
Deuce saved you *a seat.*

Every hand at your table's rules, as many times as it takes.

Pricing

A complete trainer, free.
Pro takes you to the full table.

We built the free version to make you a better player on its own: every drill, the chart for your exact rules, a plain reason after every miss, the simulator and your session log. Pro is for the player who is ready to count a full table and size every bet from it.

Free

Everything you need to learn basic strategy for your table.

Every drill: Basic, Weak Spots, Custom Hands, Warmup
The chart for your table, with the reason for every cell
Three of the five count drills
Deviations worked out for your rules
The simulator, once an hour
The session log and 7 days of training history

Pro

For the player who counts.

Count a full table: five seats, every card
Bets sized from the true count
Run the simulator as often as you like
Extend any run to 5,000 nights for a narrower range
Your whole training history, kept

Pro · 7 days free on annual

$39.99 a year

About 77¢ a week. Or $7.99 a month, with 3 days free.

Coming soon to the App Store

No account to make
No analytics SDKs or advertising trackers
Cancel any time in your Apple settings

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