| 1. What's Strategy BJ ? |
Strategy BJ is a game software of BlackJack running on the Palm.
It is running on Palm OS 3.5 and higher with color or monochrome display model of 16 gradation.
If you learn the Basic Strategy of BlackJack, the chance to win grows higher!
Playing this BlackJack software, you can learn the Basic Strategy and enjoy the atmosphere of casino at Las Vegas.
| 2. How To Play |
Explanation of the Game Screen
- BET
- The following game is started.
- DEAL
- Dealer deals the cards after you bet chips. To remove the current bet, tap on the stack of chips on the board.
- HIT
- An one more card is pulled.
- STAND
- You stand this hand. If your hand is less than or equal to 10, this command is not shown.
- DOUBLE
- You do double down.
- SPLIT
- You split your hand.
- SURRENDER
- You surrender this game.
- INSURANCE
- You do insurance.
- EVEN MONEY
- You do even money.
It is game over if you have only less than $1. You can play new game at 'New game' menu.
Explanation of menus
To open the menu, you should push the hard button of menu of your Palm.
- Game
- New game
- A new game starts. Your money is set up at 'Effect setting' menu.
- Result
- The results of games are shown.
- Games
- Total count of games. If you split, it is counted as one game.
- Win
- Total count of win and percentage of it.
- Lose
- Total count of lose and percentage of it.
- Push
- Total count of push and percentage of it.
- ＢＪ
- Total count of BlackJack and percentage of it.
- Bet
- Sum of bet money.
- Return
- Sum of return money and percentage of debt collection.
- Strategy Correct
- Total count of correct strategy and percentage of it.
- Strategy Mistake
- Total count of mistake strategy and percentage of it.
- Strategy Mistake button
- The records of your mistake strategy are shown. When the count of mistakes exceeds 99 for every column, it is displayed as 99.
- Clear button
- Your result data is cleared.
- Option
- Rule setting
- Decks
- You can choose the number of decks.
- Allow surrender.
- Surrender is allowed.
- Allow insurance.
- Insurance and Even Money is allowed.
- Dealer confirms BlackJack first.
- When a dealer's card is 10's, the dealer confirms first whether to be blackjack or not.
- Allow double down after split.
- Double down after you splited is allowed.
- Dealer must hit on soft 17.
- Dealer must hit on soft 17.
- Allow double only 10's & 11's.
- Double down is allowed only your hand is 10's and 11's.
- Allow re-splits.(Up to 4 hands.)
- Split is allowed up to a total of 4 hands.
- Effect setting
- Strategy checker
- Not use
- You don't use the Strategy checker. But mistake strategy is counted.（You can see it at Result menu.）
- Before action
- When you chose the mistake strategy, a dialog is shown. Then you can redo.
- After action
- When you chose the mistake strategy, NG mark is shown on lower right of the screen. You can't redo.
- Use delay to deal the cards.
- Dealer deals the cards slowly.
- Show the point of hands.
- The point of a hand is shown under a card.
- Show the number of left cards.
- The number of left cards is shown in the shoe.
- Money
- The amount of money at the time of a game start is set up between $100 and $1000 in $100 unit.
- Basic strategy
- The basic strategy sheet is shown.
The horizontal axis is the number of a dealer's up card. The vertical axis is the number of the cards of a player.
The contents of each item in a table are as follows:
- H
- Hit.
- Dh
- Double if allowed. If not, hit.
- Ds
- Double if allowed. If not, stand.
- ST
- Stand.
- SR
- Surrender if allowed. If not, hit.
- SP
- Split.
- Version
- The version information is shown. You can input the Licence Key of register here.
| 3. Registering |
The traial version of this software has following several restrictions.
- You can play only to 20 games.
- You can't clear the result data.
- You can't change the setting.
If you would like to play the full version, please register it.
The full game can be activated by purchasing a registration key from:
http://www.palmgear.com
Once you have received your key, enter it into the game by selecting the Registration screen from the Version Menu.
| 4. Release Revision History |
- 07-04-2002 Version 1.1 Release
- It corresponds to monochrome display model of 16 gradation.
- 06-01-2002 Version 1.0 Release
| 5. Support |
We perform all support relevant to this software only on our homepage.
If you've got suggestions about how to improve Strategy BJ or with reports of any problems you've had, please contact us.
HP Address: http://www.harold.co.jp/palm/
E-Mail Address: palm@harold.co.jp
| 6. Legal |
Harold Co.,Ltd. takes no responsibility for any damage produced by having used this software.
Strategy BJ is protected by copyright laws and international copyright treaties, as well as other intellectual property laws and treaties.