Topic: bitZino - Bitcoin Casino - Blackjack, Roulette, 3 Card Poker, Slots and more! - page 42. (Read 82362 times)

I think I got an 11, doubled it, got to 16 and lost.  But that's from memory.  I've closed the table already.  I know, now it's amazingly unlikely, huh? 

"Leave" doesn't seem right at all the more I think about it. When you click it it welcomes you, which is odd for a leave button. And it's normal function is for adding chips.

What did you get on the next hand?

I just had 3 blackjacks in a row at Strike Sapphire:


If each is a one in 21 chance, then that's a 1 in over 9000 shot!

All three were Ace + Jack.  That's even less likely, by a factor of 64.  That makes it about a one in a half-million shot.

Currently the only way to bring more to the table is to click "leave". Something like an "Add chips" button, maybe even just renaming it?

I hope it wasn't too much for you.

I guess it could come across as me giving you a hard time, but I just thought it would perhaps be useful if I just told you everything I thought could use some attention.

Overall I like the site and how it works.

Oh nice, tyvm.

This is definitely a bug! The minimum bet for any table is 1, so if your balance gets down to below 1 (which can only really happen if you got a blackjack in a previous hand, thus allowing you to win a multiple of 0.5), we should be treating you as out of balance, instead of allowing you to try to bet 0.5.

I have fixed this bug, and I also added a BTC to your account for helping me find it. This offer stands for anyone else too! If you find any bugs like this, let me know, and I'll add some funds to your account

Hi I made a mistake  once again ....see private message

Thanks everyone for the feedback regarding the buy-in screen! Looking back, I definitely agree it was pretty confusing, which is not good since this is one of the first screens that a new user sees! I've made some changes to clarify it: It now doesn't show a form at all if you have 0 balance on your account. It also has the text of "How much would you like to bring to the table?", which should make it clear that you're buying in to the table, not adding or removing bitcoins from your account. Let me know what you think of the changes


Currently you only have my word, and my reputation (which I admit isn't fully established yet). I can assure you that I am in this for the long-haul though. I wouldn't have gone to so much work creating really good custom blackjack software, only to scam a few bitcoins out of people.

Additionally, I am currently working diligently to make the deal provably fair. I will provide a hash of the random seed before the deal, as well as take in a user provided string in order to seed the deal (a similar technique to what the bitjack21 guys do). This will be live within the next week - so if you're unsure, check back in a week for a provably fair game!


I'm not sure if it may end up being more confusing to go right-to-left... I'm trying to shy away from the table metaphor, because I think we can do better than that on the web. And since we read left-to-right, that seems more natural to me. However, I'll admit my opinion is probably skewed, and if this is ultimately more confusing for most players, then it should be changed. What do other people think?

I get a blank pop up when I try to bet zero. My balance on the table is .5, I think this is the issue.

The odds of the dealer getting a natural depends on how many decks are being used, but generally the probability of a natural is about (1/13) * (4/13) * 2, or about 1 in 21 hands.

Blackjack is a funny game, and seems to have very high variance.  Winning or losing streaks can last for long periods of time, even though the shuffles are random.

When playing in a real casino, the play moves around the table clockwise, from right to left.  If you've split and hand, it does the same, playing the right-hand hand first.

Your game plays the left-hand hand first, which gets confusing.

I briefly had the same confusion about depositing vs bringing money to the table.

I think it is only confusing when there is no balance, maybe when balance is zero remove the input blanks and make the instruction to deposit to that address slightly more prominent.

Maybe it is just me being that bad at back jack, but how do we know that you don't steer the game? I mean is it common that the bank has a blackjack every 7 or so games when using play money? Albeit, after thinking about it, you would steer it in the other direction while still the player is still at play money.
Apart from this, great site, slick design, like it!

Thanks for the extensive feedback, dooglus!


The "Cash In" button is so that you can add some of your funds to the table you're playing at. It isn't meant to deposit or withdraw any bitcoins. This allows users to sit down at a table with less than their entire bankroll all at once. However, I can definitely see how this wording is confusing - especially with the bitcoin deposit address displayed in the same window. I'll work on improving the wording and the general flow!


That's a good idea, and it shouldn't be too hard to do. I agree that it would give you a much better feel for actually playing the game.


Nope, no minimum deposit


That's a good request. I will likely be adding this soon.


I'm already working on keyboard shortcuts, so stay tuned!

Also, the action buttons are pretty big and far apart.  If I'm going to play this for any length of time, I'm going to get tired of moving the mouse between the buttons.

Is it possible to make keyboard shortcuts in HTML5?  Maybe if I could type to play instead of constantly 'aiming' for buttons with the mouse it would feel less tiring.

Maybe I should just get some sleep.

Yes, that sounds like a good idea. 

This is going to sound weird, but the repeated diagonal sliding animation of the cards makes me feel kind of nauseous.  I don't usually get that from any kind of game, but there's something about how the cards slide in quickly and often that leaves me feeling like I'm falling over sideways.  It's quite unpleasant.

How about an option to disable animations?

I think it would be nice if you kept a record of my play money balance.

It seems that if I leave the table and go back again, my balance is reset to 1000.

Maybe offer a 'reset' button either when I go bust or available all the time, in case people run out, but I'd prefer to see how I'm doing overall on the play money before committing to depositing precious mbtc. 

Is there a minimum deposit?  State this on the deposit page.

There's a text entry box at the bottom of the bit that says:


I'm not sure what's going on there.  Am I meant to type the amount I'm going to deposit into the box?  Whatever I type it gets changed back to zero.

Or is that the withdraw box, and it's getting changed to zero because I have a zero balance?

If so, it's confusing to use "cash in" to mean both "deposit" and "withdraw".