Blackjack in the terminal

Quickstart

javac .\Blackjack.java
java .\Blackjack.java

How to play

The aim of the game is to get more points than the dealer without busting (going over 21).

the player can do one of 4 actions:

• h (hit) - draw a card for the current hand
• s (stand) - move on
• D (double) - doubles the current hand`s bet and draws one card face down (is revealed when the dealer reveals their card)
• S (split) - split a hand in two with the same value cards (one card is drawn automatically for each, split Aces allow only one card to be drawn)

NOTE: Press Enter to confirm the choice. There is no limit to how many splits you can make, may luck be on your side!

Extra reading

• A hand has 3 main parts: (20.00) Jack's hand: [9 of Clubs, 6 of Clubs] (15)
  • (20.00) bet amount
  • [9 of Clubs, 6 of Clubs] cards in hand
  • (15) value of hand (will show an * if hand is soft E.g. soft fifteen: (*15))
• Dealer will automatically reveal if they have blackjack (does not offer insurance if they have a revealed Ace, will implement in the future)
• Blackjack.main.shoe simulates an actual shoe of cards (so card counting is possible) with a bright-coloured plastic card placed somewhere between so that at least 1/8 of the shoe remains when it gets drawn (does not get placed past the halfway point).
• Blackjack.DECKS_IN_SHOE controls how many 52-card decks to put in the shoe.
• Blackjack.main.initialHands stores what hands and their respective bets will be played each round until the shoe draws the bright-colored plastic card (hands cannot be changed between rounds for the sake of simplicity)
• Hand.of is a static convenience method that returns an ArrayList of Hand instances owned by a given Player instance.