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A small weekend project. I love playing blackjack and have basic strategy memorized, but I've always been curious to see what the actual probabilities were for hitting, standing and doubling down. If you'd like to see the code it's available on github: https://github.com/ChrisZieba/blackjack.

Thanks for the great response. I'm not in need of the money or anything, but I haven't had much time to work on this, so I've been really thinking about just letting it go.

Thanks for taking the time to comment. I wish the process for updating or releasing fixes was as easy as logging into their instance and deploying the fix. We were never allowed near their servers. No ssh, no in-house install, nothing. The instructions for installing LogicPull were documented and then sent off. We were pretty much in the dark the entire time, and there was no way around it.

The docs are styled using TB3. There's nothing fancy going on to make it responsive. The trick is I just change the position of the sidebar from fixed back to static when the width is <768px. The width also goes back to auto and I set a height so it doesn't take up too much space.

Thanks for commenting. Coming to the decision to release this was more than arduous. I know their is a massive market out there for this type of software, and I know how valuable it is, or can be. In the end, I'm just a guy who loves to write code, and if other people can make use of my software than I'm a happy guy!

Our main struggle was finding clients to use our hosted version of the software. As we quickly found out, no company wants to have important client information living on a different server. We really didn't like having to create a new branch of our software, then deal with all the licensing involved of it being installed on a remote server we didn't control. In the end, open sourcing was the best option available.