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Around here, we play to win - and when it comes to casinos there’s really only 3 games that are worth playing. Those games are blackjack, live poker & craps. But in order to be able to beat the house, you have to MASTER the basic strategy for each game.Blackjack is a lot like math. You need to learn it like you know your multiplication tables. Remember those? 2 times 2 is 4, 2 times 3 is 6, 2 times ….Blackjack Buddy Gold from Nickel Buddy LLC is a full featured game for blackberry devices that is guaranteed to teach and allow you to master basic strategy, anywhere anytime. On your train ride home. Waiting in line at the grocery store. During that staff meeting where you’re talking about what you talked about last week and you’ll talk about next week.
 Play is quite simple, you download the program and install it via your blackberry interface software. It has a very nice and easy to understand interface - it’s just you against the dealer.

You can control the game entirely with either the keypad or the scroll wheel. I prefer the keypad though because if you scroll too fast you can make a play that you didn’t mean to. Keypad usage is centered around the 2 (stay), 4 (split), 6 (double down) & 8 (hit). You even get an additional hint feature (5) which tell you how to play according to basic strategy.

You also have a statistics feature, which will measure how strong your basic strategy is. Mine is at around 101%, which would mean I’m playing better than the house. 100% is dead even, and below 100% means you’re in the hole - but at least it’s just a game, right?

Blackjack Buddy Gold v. 2.5 $9.95