I'm really sorry for the problems bitcoind has crashed over the weekend while I was away, as has the watchdog. I've now started it manually and processed all the pending transactions (deposits and withdraws).

Back to normal operation now

I never understood what purpose these sites have. Nonetheless, this site uses Bitcoins, so I've just signed up so you can now also use me as referrer

Ok with a bit delay I'm very happy and also very proud to announce that way more than 10000 games have been played! I've added 10.00 BTC to the user's account!

This time I unfortunately cannot deduce the forum name from the account name. So, to whoever is the lucky guy: thanks for playing on my site, and congratulations for playing the 10000th game and receiving this award

Wow I'm flattered! You all really like my game it seems, thank you so much! Soon there will be the 10000th game played!!! The user playing this one will receive a suprise

I'll try to get some free time next week, so maybe then. Otherwise it should be done the week after. I just realize that without the splitting the odds are better for the bank than they should. I'll try to compensate for this with some new bonus deposit promotion (giving away all the few coins I've made so far)!

Thanks for the hint! I've implemented that now, we'll see if it works as good for me as it does for you

I don't want to show the current points to make it more real (one commenter in this thread even mentioned specifically that he likes it cause of that). When playing Blackjack on the PC I'm always annoyed by the point displays.

Split will come "soon", and AJAX after the other interesting features (as it's just eye candy IMHO).

Surrender? Why would you do that? You can just "Stay" and still have a chance of winning. Or would "Surrender" give back (some of) your money?

I've watched the first show and -- against my expectations -- really enjoyed it! Thanks a lot! Hope to see more from you soon

Wow, quite some feedback here. Many thanks you're really awesome!!

That's why the minimum bet is 0.02 (but I didn't think of the BlackJack 2.5 win, whoops!). I will soon put a new version online where I do the calculations with 3 decimal places. Then the minimum bet will be just 0.01, and you won't lose half a bitcent. Anyway all the games are recorded so once I put this version up I will recalculate so you get you 0.005 back (or more if this situation happened more often). Thanks for noticing!

Again problems with bitcoind I detect when it crashes and restart it immediately, but unfortunately sometimes it just gets stalled which I cannot detect easily. Thus I restart it every 60 minutes. So for now sometimes this error may occur but it should not last longer than an hour. Sorry for the inconvenience, it's quite a bummer for me that I hope to be able to fix soon

One confirmation is enough. From time to time I manually accept transactions without confirmation if they are small and seem legit.

Right now this site uses European BlackJack rules where there is not Five Card Charlie rule. I plan to implement other rules as well, though that may take a bit of time.

If you send more the transaction is likely to be accepted faster by the bitcoin network (it's a "problem" with the network, not with my site). Anyhow I've manually accepted your transaction even though it's still unconfirmed. I hope that I will eventually really get your coins

Thanks, that's a good idea and way better than my current approach (use local rand() if random.org doesn't work). I will implement it in the next version. Thanks again!

I've never analyzed my rules, I'm just using the ones I know from some casinos and assume that these rules have indeed a small house advantage (and assume that the casinos I go to don't cheat

Woah there's really a ton of nuances in these rules. I've made this site quite modular so it would be really possible for me to offer some kinds of rules to chose from! I guess I'll add a poll here soon to find out whats the most interesting feature (different rules, splitting, multitable/multiplayer)

0.3.21

Right now, it's this:
1. dealer gets first card which is shown
2. player gets two cards
3. player plays
4. dealer plays

So the second card for the dealer is not the "hole" card you know from US BlackJack. I see that the European rules I know may differ from the rules the majority here knows. Overall it shouldn't really make a difference if the dealer gets a second card earlier or later. I just personally like the fact that by your acting (how many cards you draw) you influence the card the dealer gets! That sometimes makes for some funny "Ouch, if I hadn't drawn the last card "3" the dealer would have gotten the "3" instead of the "A""

First of all, I'm not from the US so maybe that's why the rules you and me know differ

In this example the dealer got K A which is a BlackJack and therefore beats your "normal" 21!

So no bug, but a feature.


You've got a BlackJack. The only chance for the dealer to not lose is to also get a BlackJack (then the result would be a tie), therefore he draws just a second card. But it's true that after the first 7 there is no chance for the dealer to get a BlackJack so the game should have just ended after your BlackJack. I'll improve the BlackJack check!


That will be implemented once I've ironed out all the other bugs

Yes, definitely!

True, bitcoind crashed again. The good thing is that you can still play in this case, only depositing and withdrawing and registering new accounts is affected. I don't know why bitcoind keeps crashing (or getting stalled in this case). I'll implement an auto restarter, maybe every hour, to work around this.


Thanks for all your feedback it's really appreciated! And keep playing, in about four hours I will count the winning members (see first post) out and give them their bonus

The dealer only gets one card. If you wouldn't have taken your last card (the 10), then the dealer would have gotten it instead of the A. So, you really have to play, as this impacts also the cards that the dealer gets.

I know that there are different rules depending on the Casino. I've played at locations where the dealer would get a second card which is not revealed. But in the most Casinos where I play the dealer only gets one card and this is how I implemented this on my site.

Is this okay for everyone, or should I change this?

Good idea, thanks, will do that soon!

It's "real". I get a batch of random numbers from random.org which determine the position of each card in the stack. Though you cannot really count if you don't play many games in a short time, as the cards for all games are played from the same stack of cards.

I don't know if that is possible with my hoster (1btchost.com). If not I will *maybe* change hosters, though I only want to use services that accept Bitcoins. Yes, although my site not 100% "green" it's 100% "Bitcoin"

Are you sure you've sent your coins to the right address? You can check at www.blockexplorer.com/address/[your_address] if your transaction is in the bitcoin network. I've just checked the URL with your account's address and cannot find the transaction there. So it's no problem from my side, be assured that your coins are not lost once they get to me
Does your bitcoin client list the transaction as sent? Sometimes it takes a little lower to get a transaction accepted from the bitcoin network.

Edit: Ok, I've checked. You've made a very small amount and the bitcoin network takes longer to verify it because you didn't include a small fee for the block's miner. I've now accepted your deposit manually, so you can play right now If you don't want to wait in the future you should either made bigger transaction or you should add a small fee in the bitcoin software (this does not depend on me, but on the whole network!).

You can specify how much fees you want to sent per 1KB with the -paytx cmdline argument.

For my site I'm using a fixed fee of 0.01 to help support the network. (Using bitcoind [...] -paytxfee=0.01)

Yes, random.org bite me again, I've just received empty strings instead of random numbers

I've now added a check and use my own random numbers in this case. I've stopped all running games, paid the bets back, and re-opend!

@deadlizard: That's not a bug, but a feature Since I've screwed up when opening the page I wanted to get you to play as fast as possible and thus I removed the waiting for confirmations. I've now changed it back to needing 1 confirmation.

SPECIAL DEAL:
Tomorrow (in approx. 24 hours) I will put some extra Bitcoins as a bonus to some user's accounts:

• 1.41BTC to the person who won the most money
• 2.71BTC to the person who played for the most (total money bet)
• 3.14BTC to the person who lost the most money

Have fun

Ok, it's open again!

@Third War: The system has received your coins, nothing is lost! I'm sorry for the trouble but I've noticed a bug that I must fix. I'm getting the random numbers from random.org, but sometimes the site doesn't respond fast enough.

Sorry for the delay, now it works!! Have fun!