blackjack-gui 0.2.0

A game of Blackjack with graphical user interface.

blackjack-gui

Single-player Blackjack including GUI and CLI interfaces. Can be used to simulate games (with simple card counting) and learn basic strategy.

Installation

$ python3 -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip3 install blackjack-gui

Usage

GUI version

blackjack

CLI version

blackjack --gui=False [OPTION...]

Options:

Name	Default	Description
--stack	1000	Initial stack. Can be used with --gui=True too.
--bet	1	Bet size.
--n_games	10	Number of rounds to be played.
--ai	False	If True, computer plays instead of you.
--count	False	If True, ai uses card counting.
--loglevel	DEBUG	Adjust amount of logging: DEBUG or INFO.
--cards		Determine first player cards, e.g. --cards=A,8,K. Shuffles the shoe after every hand.
--dealer_cards		Determine first dealer cards. Useful for testing.

Examples

Open the GUI version:

$ blackjack

With the default settings, play 10 rounds of Blackjack without GUI:

$ blackjack --gui=False

Let the computer play perfect basic game and use card counting technique to bring down the house:

$ blackjack --n_games=100000 --ai=True --count=True --loglevel=INFO --gui=False

Simulate soft 19 starting hand only:

$ blackjack --n_games=10000 --ai=True --loglevel=INFO --gui=False --cards=A,8

Tests

Install blackjack-gui from GitHub and pytest:

$ git clone https://github.com/tukiains/blackjack-gui
$ cd blackjack-gui/
$ python3 -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip3 install .
$ pip3 install pytest

Run unit and integration tests:

$ pytest-3 tests/unit.py
$ pytest-3 tests/integration.py

Basic strategy chart

• Note that 16 vs 10 with 3 or more cards = Stay

Notes

• Uses 6 decs and shuffles after 5.
• Otherwise, rules follow: https://casinohelsinki.fi/en/games/blackjack-eng/.
• Card images taken from here.

Licence

MIT