Simpler tournaments, and Blindspot Pro is open
- Tournaments are now simply a free tool to organize play-money games. The built-in prize form, prize claims and the skill-testing question are gone. A host who offers a prize of their own arranges it entirely off Blindspot and is responsible for it: Blindspot doesn’t offer, show, hold or deliver prizes. Open →
- Our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and host covenant are updated to match. Hosts are asked to accept the updated covenant the next time they create an event or a club. Open →
- Blindspot Pro is open: study tools (a card-counting simulator and a tournament bet trainer here, and the tournament tools on Blindspot Poker), hosting tournaments and clubs, and no ads while you’re signed in. One subscription covers Blindspot Poker and Blindspot Blackjack. Everything that was free stays free. Open →
- $9 a month or $79 a year (US dollars). Try it free for 7 days with no card: the trial never turns into a paid plan. Cancel in one click from your account page, with a full refund within 14 days of your first payment or a yearly renewal. Open →
Blindspot in Discord, and amounts in chips
- Blindspot is in Discord. Add it to your server or your own account, then start it from the Activities (rocket) button in a voice channel: everyone who joins plays Blackjack, Hold'em or Omaha at the same table, with bots in empty seats and no Blindspot account needed. In chat, /daily brings the daily hand, and server managers can have it posted in a channel every day. Free and play money only, for players 18+. Open →
- Every amount on the site is now shown in chips, with no dollar sign: bets, stacks, bankrolls, what the coach says a mistake costs, the tools, career and leaderboards, and stream overlays. A 25-chip bet reads "Bet 25", and the coach's numbers are per 100 chips bet. Nothing about the maths changed: a blackjack still pays 3 to 2 (37.5 on a 25-chip bet). Blindspot Blackjack has always been play money, and chips have no cash value. Open →
Blackjack in clubs, and a tournament bet trainer coming with Pro
- Clubs run blackjack too: a club admin can host a blackjack event only club members can join (pick the club when you create the event). It shows on the club page next to the club's poker events, and its finishing places earn points in the same season standings, with how many events of each game everyone played. Clubs live on Blindspot Poker with the same sign-in; find them under Clubs in the menu. Open →
- Switch your blackjack event's stream from inside OBS: while you host an event, the OBS dock has an Event tab with the overlay's scenes (the feature table and its race, stage standings, the road to the final, prizes, a player spotlight, the slates and the clock bar). Get the dock link on the Streamer page. Open →
- The player spotlight on a tournament stream now shows the player's table picture, if they show one at tables, and their initial if they don't. Open →
- Blackjack challenge ladders: a club can run its ladder in blackjack. Challenge someone up to 3 rungs above you; once they accept, you play a match here, the two of you at one table for 15 hands with the secret bet, and the bigger stack wins (equal stacks play tie hands). Win and you take their rung. With an agreed time, a player who hasn't come to the table 10 minutes after it forfeits; with “start when we're both here”, press I'm here on the match page. Open →
- Coming with Blindspot Pro: the tournament bet trainer. Ten last-hands decisions a round (protecting a lead, chasing the leader, tables where two move on, when to use the secret bet, and when to bet small and let the others come to you). Pick your bet and see your exact chance of moving on next to the best bet's, with the reason in one sentence, and which spots you miss most. Open →
- The host covenant now has versions. When its wording changes, hosts are asked to read and accept the new version once, the next time they create a tournament. Viewing and running your events never waits for it. Open →
- Table rules in the event log: when a blackjack event starts, its log now records the rules and limits it plays by, for example "Table rules: 6 decks, dealer stands on soft 17, surrender on, blackjack pays 3:2. Bets 10–500; 25 hands per round; 1,000 chips each at the start of every round", then who moves on, wild cards and the secret bet. The host picks these when creating the event and they can't be changed after that, so what the log says holds for the whole event. Open →
- Deleting your account now also cuts every link to it in tournament and club records: results, standings and logs keep "Former player" under a new random id with no connection to your account, and a prize claim's country goes along with its contact details. Reports you sent or that were about you keep no link to your account either. Open →
- Deleting your account now also deletes your daily hand answers (each day's totals stay as they are), and reports you sent or that were about you are kept without any link to your account. Open →
- Our Privacy Policy now says we record which version of the host covenant you accepted, along with when. Open →
- Adding someone to a tournament's guest list by email now asks you to tick a box confirming you know them and they'd expect to hear from you. Profile-name invitations don't need it. Open →
- Email invitations now expire: if they don't register within 30 days, or by the time the event finishes or is cancelled, we delete the invitation and the address. Once they register, we keep their account, not the address. Open →
- We updated our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Terms of Sale: hosts keep event records when we tell them about a dispute or inquiry, table rules and limits can't change once an event starts and the dealer always plays by them, email invitations only to people you know, what deleting your account removes from tournament records, and that Pro is a software licence, never an entry fee or a share of any prize. Hosts are asked to accept the updated host covenant once, the next time they create a tournament. Open →
Tournaments: free practice, and events you can host
- Stream your blackjack tournament: the director's console now has a Broadcast panel with a secret overlay link for OBS (1920 × 1080, transparent) and a commentary link for a second screen. Scenes you switch live: the feature table (it follows the closest race late in the round, or pin one), stage standings with what each player needs to catch the leader, the road to the final with who moved on and the wild cards, prizes, a player spotlight, starting soon, on a break and the winner, with a bar along the bottom showing the stage, the hand and players left. Open →
- The broadcast runs 30 seconds behind the tables (or 1, 2 or 5 minutes), held back on our server, and it shows each table exactly as a watcher there sees it: the dealer's face-down card stays down until it's turned, and a secret bet stays a secret until the cards are dealt. "Broadcast this event" is on by default for public and link events, and off for invite-only and club events only their players can watch. Open →
- Tournament tables now pay in whole chips, rounded down: a 3:2 blackjack on 15 pays 22, and surrender and insurance round down to whole chips too. Chips show without decimals. Open →
- Invite by email, and we tell them: when a host adds an email address to an event's guest list, that address gets one email saying who invited them, with a link to the event. They see the invitation once they sign in with that email. Open →
- Our Privacy Policy now covers invitation emails (one email to an address a host enters, at most three a day to any address) and lists Resend, which delivers our emails. Open →
- Hosted blackjack tournaments: register for events other players run, always free to enter. Play rounds at tables of up to 7, where the top 1 or 2 at each table (plus any wild cards, the best of the other stacks) move on with fresh chips, until a final table decides the winner. Or play a single table where the biggest stack after the last hand wins. When you move on, the site takes you to your next table. Open →
- Host your own (Blindspot Pro): pick one table or rounds and a final, 15 to 30 hands a round, the chips and bets, how many move on and the wild cards, the secret bet and the table rules. As director you can pause every table after the current hand, make announcements, and warn, sit out or disqualify a player, with everything in the event log. You can offer prizes you provide yourself, as on Blindspot Poker. Open →
- Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy now have a Tournaments section: what we keep about an event, who sees it, deletion 90 days after it ends, and “Former player” in past results if you delete your account. Open →
- Practice tournaments: you and five bots start with 1,000 chips each, and after 25 hands (or 15, 20 or 30) the biggest stack wins. Everyone still plays the dealer, but you’re scored against the table. Bets go in order from a button that moves every hand, and once per round, in the last 5 hands, you can make a secret bet nobody sees until the cards are dealt. Free, no account needed. Open →
- The catch-the-leader coach: before each of your tournament bets, one plain sentence on what you need, like “You’re 270 behind Theo with 3 hands left. A max bet and a win puts you ahead of where Theo is now.” It also tells you when to bet small to protect a lead, and when your secret bet helps. Switch it off in Options to play with no assists. Open →
- How blackjack tournaments work: a short explainer on the practice tournament page covering the fixed number of hands, betting in order, the secret bet, and why your bet size against the leader matters. Open →
Clearer about automatic checks
- Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy are updated: Blindspot staff can step in at any tournament at their discretion, hosts promise to use players’ information only to run their events and deliver prizes, records can be kept longer while a dispute, an investigation or a legal hold is open, and deleting your account replaces your name in past results with “Former player”. Open →
- Daily hand explanations no longer show a close call as a tie. When two moves are nearly equal, like hitting or standing on 12 against a 4, you now see the exact numbers (-21.4 against -21.1 chips per 100) and that it’s very close. In the two spots where a real six-deck shoe tips the answer to double, the explanation says so. Open →
- Our Terms of Use are now the Terms of Service, updated with our legal team: what Pro is (a flat software subscription), the rules for hosting tournaments (always free to enter, no entry fees anywhere), prizes that hosts offer themselves, our bot policy, and Ontario law and courts. The Privacy Policy adds Pro billing through Stripe and a section on privacy rights in Canada, the UK and the US. Open →
- Clearer about automatic checks: our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy now say which checks are automatic (blocked words in table and leaderboard names, and an AI check on uploaded pictures). If one turns down something of yours and you think it got it wrong, email us and a person will look at it. Open →
A real table shape on phones, and Why Blindspot Blackjack is easier to find
- Your profile picture now shows on your seat at multiplayer tables instead of just your initial, and on your own seat when you practice. Everyone at the table sees it, and so do stream overlays of the table. Rather not? Switch off Show my picture at tables in your profile. Open →
- Uploaded profile pictures are now checked before they go on your profile, so nudity, violence, hate symbols and personal details stay off the tables. If a picture isn’t allowed you’re told why, and you can pick another or use a built-in one. Open →
- Report a player: at a multiplayer table, open the Table menu and press Report to tell our team about a player who seems to be a bot or cheating, has an abusive name, or is working with someone else. You can also report a profile from its page. Only our staff see reports, and the player isn’t told who reported them. Open →
- The lobby always has open tables: four BSBJ rooms with bots in the empty seats, each with its own rules, stakes and seats, so you can sit down and play any time. A quiet room is swapped for a new one every few minutes. Bust out and you can sit down again for a fresh buy-in. Open →
- Choose when the practice coach speaks: Before you move (its advice, the default) or After you move (it checks your move once you make it, a good way to test yourself). Find it under Options; your choice is remembered. Open →
- Why Blindspot Blackjack? is easier to find: a Why us? link in the menu bar and the phone menu, and a New here? link under the buttons on the home page. Open →
- Phones and tablets: the table is shaped like a real blackjack table instead of stretching to the height of the screen. The players sit in a curved row under the dealer, the table gets deeper with more players, and the cards are a little bigger on phones. Open →
- Stream overlays are live: no more overlay delay for streamers and no broadcast delay on hosted tables, so what you say matches what viewers see. Want a delay? Set one in OBS (Settings > Advanced > Stream Delay). A hosted table’s broadcast now keeps the dealer’s hole card face down until it’s turned, and the host console shows the host the hole card. Open →
- Practice: you always play first, so there’s no seat to choose. Your seat is still drawn in the middle of the table. Open →
- OBS dock: your hand shows as big cards with the total and your bet underneath, split hands side by side, and the dealer’s cards above. Open →
- The move buttons at multiplayer tables and in the OBS dock look like the practice table’s: Hit and Stand stand out, Double and Split are outlined. Open →
Everything Blindspot Poker has, for blackjack
- Why Blindspot Blackjack? A new page with screenshots showing what the site does: the coach and how it explains decisions, the practice tools, and for coaches and streamers, viewer game nights, coach mode and the OBS overlay and dock. Open →
- How the coach works: a new page explaining that the coach isn’t AI. It’s exact blackjack maths, it runs in your browser, and it doesn’t learn from you or send your hands anywhere. Linked from the coach panel and the footer. Open →
- A Support page: chip in for the upkeep on Ko-fi if you like, once or monthly. It’s optional and unlocks nothing. Open →
- Sign in without Google: get a one-time sign-in link by email, or use an email and password. Continue with Google still works, and every way signs in to the same kind of account on both sites. Open →
- Privacy: your email is no longer shown in the account menu, and on your account page it stays hidden until you press Show, so it can’t end up on stream. New players pick their own table name and profile picture instead of starting from their Google name and photo. Open →
- Stream overlays: the blackjack table fills its frame, with bigger cards and names and totals you can read on a 1080p stream. Open →
- Fixed: in streamer mode and on the host console, the stream controls get their own column on the left instead of squeezing the table into a corner. Open →
- The table looks like a real blackjack table: a shallow curve instead of a stretched half circle, a padded rail all the way round as on Blindspot Poker, and a finished dealer’s edge with the chip tray set into it. It keeps its shape and a sensible size on large and 4K monitors and on stream overlays. Open →
- Phones: the live table on the home page shows its whole panel without cutting off at the edge, and seats three players so the cards don’t overlap. An empty lobby now points you to a practice game you can start right away. Open →
- A real blackjack table: a padded rail, the felt printed with "Blackjack pays 3 to 2", the dealer’s soft 17 rule and the insurance line, a betting circle at every seat, a chip tray, the shoe and the discard tray. Open →
- Table options are out in the open above the table, as on Blindspot Poker: dealer speed, coach, count, bot styles and sound. On phones they fold into an Options menu.
- OBS dock for streamers: a panel inside OBS where you can start or join a table and bet, hit, stand, double, split and take a break while the game shows on your overlay, plus a Stream settings tab. It can chime when it’s your turn. Get your dock link on the Streamer page. Open →
- Fixed: the stream overlay now has a see-through background with nothing from the website showing behind it. Open →
- Stream overlays draw the table in its real half-moon shape at a sensible size instead of stretching it to fill the screen, and a long hand fans out so the dealer’s cards always stay on your info card. Open →
- Play with people: open tables, private tables with a link, practice tables, and career tables. Everyone plays their own hand against the dealer, with bots in empty seats if you like. Open →
- Practice tables now seat up to six bots beside you, each with a style: some play by the book, some never bust, some play like the dealer. The tracker shows who follows the chart. Open →
- Pick your table: limits from $5 to $100, 6 or 8 decks, dealer hits or stands on soft 17, surrender, 3 to 2 or 6 to 5, and your seat from first base to third base.
- Card counting, as an optional advanced track: four lessons, counting drills, a counting trainer, a true count calculator, and a Hi-Lo count you can switch on at any table. Open →
- Sixteen short lessons, each with one interactive visual, and a Table rules page for doubling, splitting, insurance, surrender and hand signals. Open →
- A daily hand: one blackjack decision a day, the same for everyone, with the maths behind the answer. Open →
- Drills for each kind of hand (12 to 16, soft hands, pairs, doubles, surrender) and for counting. Open →
- Free tools: strategy chart, strategy quiz, hand calculator, dealer bust odds and a house edge calculator. Open →
- Replay any round you played, card by card, with the coach's note on every move. Save rounds to your account or share a link. Open →
- Your progress: right moves over time, what mistakes cost, and your blindspots then and now. Open →
- Career mode for blackjack: a $1,000 play-money bankroll, milestones, weekly challenges and a leaderboard, separate from your poker career. Open →
- Coaches, hosts and streamers: invite a coach with a private link, host a table for your stream (the broadcast shows the dealer's hole card after a delay), or put your own game on stream with an OBS overlay. Open →
- Your profile page now shows both your poker and blackjack careers, on both sites. Edit your profile here or on Blindspot Poker. Open →
Blindspot Blackjack opens
- A blackjack table with a coach. After each move it tells you whether that was the best move, why, and what a different move would cost on average in chips. Open →
- Hints: switch the coach to Show the best move and it lights up the right button before you choose.
- Your blindspots: your mistakes grouped by kind of hand (12 to 16, soft hands, pairs, doubles, surrender, insurance), with a tip for each. Open →
- A strategy chart for the rules you pick. Tap any cell to see why, and what each move is worth. Open →
- One account with Blindspot Poker: sign in with the same Google account and your profile comes with you. Open →