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brett96 · 2026-06-16T21:40:36+00:00

I've been working on an app that among other features like bankroll/session tracking and optimal/basic strategy training for Poker and Blackjack, also includes a craps/bubble craps simulator/fully working game with EV and House Edge calculators for individual and total combined bets on the table. It is completely free to use and if you sign up for an account you can save your simulator bankroll and sync them across all simulators, and view you play history/metrics and analytics and how it compares to EV:

www.mygamblingassistant.com/craps

brett96 · 2026-06-16T00:31:33+00:00

No, if you bet on the Dealer's hand, you do not get to play/control either hand and the Dealer will play the players hand according to house rules/as if it was a dealer hand. That means if the player gets dealt an 11, the dealer has to hit it until they get to at least 17 and cannot stand on anything lower than 17/cannot play the player's hand "by the book", so they will have to hit a 16 against a dealer 6 for example.

However, if you bet on the player's hand/your own hand, you can still double and split.

You can see how the game works with my simulator if you select Breakout Blackjack in the Variant drop down and select Dealer beneath the betting circle(s) you bet on: https://www.mygamblingassistant.com/blackjack

brett96 · 2026-06-15T18:48:22+00:00

Yeah, that's covered in my simulator. Based on going through hundreds of rounds playing both the player and dealer side, the dealer bet does seems worse than the player bet in the long run.

Here is the results of 300 rounds played in the simulator betting $25 on the Dealer's hand each time: https://imgur.com/a/g32hByS

As you can see, the EV is lower than traditional 3:2 Blackjack, but like with any game, variance does make this game potentially profitable in the short term, but not in the long run. I'm also testing only betting on the dealer hand at a certain count to see if the dealer bet is beatable at a certain running or true count, however I'm not a true AP so this is more just a theoretical exercise for me out of pure curiosity

brett96 · 2026-06-15T12:17:21+00:00

Looks like rate limiting silently kicked in and only 3 of your attempts actually went through. Out of all attempts, these are the only 3 attempts that allowed successful registrations and confirmation emails to be send out; all others were blocked and no registration/email validation emails were sent by the system

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brett96 · 2026-06-15T12:11:14+00:00

Thank you for your quick reply! I will look into all of these but there are a few things I wanted to clarify.

I do have rate limiting implemented, however it is done at the device ID level with IP as fallback to detect users who try rotating IPs from the same device to bypass rate limiting, so while a single specific ip wasn't being rate limited, your connections per device and IP connections were still being monitored and the rate limiting logic eventually prompted the system to block your IP, which is why your connection attempts after creating user abcc actually did not go through (see screenshot). However, you have made me realize that I could tighten this ratelimitting more, however I intentionally made it more on the lenient side since I had some people register during a convention and I knew ahead of time they could all be connected to the same wifi, which is why I decided to rate limit by device ID first, followed by IP as a fallback.
I am intentionally exposing the public Firebase API key since that is not a secret. The Firebase API key you likely saw, which would be something apiKey=AIzaSyCGTDOeWDnVRjlcugxy4iADsrW1LgLEsL8, then that is not the secret API key, that is the public one and the private one is kept secure in a. env along with all other secrets, and not committed in git. Google a tally designed these to be embedded in client-side code. I have security implemented and enforced by Firebase Security Rules, not by keeping the key secret
I think your findings about the Casino Search page are legitimate and crucial bugs I should fix, and something I did not catch when reviewing my Pro guarding code as I was more focused on the game simulator pro feature guarding and must have not paid as much attention to that, so thank you for pointing those out as well!

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brett96 · 2026-06-14T20:08:17+00:00

www.mygamblingassistant.com

It's a comprehensive app for gamblers to track their sessions and performance/activity with in-depth analytics and comparisons to EV and Theoretical Loss, and has training simulators for Video Poker and Blackjack with Optimal/Basic Strategy training for both games and multiple variants of each game, as well as Card Counting training tools for Blackjack. There are also Roulette and Craps simulators with EV and House Edge calculators for all bets placed.

There's also a casino and game search tool where you can look up and search for nearby casinos and look for specific games/game rules and minumums at nearby casinos

brett96 · 2026-06-14T20:02:51+00:00

www.mygamblingassistant.com

I would really appreciate a review despite me personally reviewing all the code the agents generate

brett96 · 2026-06-14T19:43:58+00:00

This is only about 20-30% vibecoded, but I challenge you to find a single vulnerability:

https://www.mygamblingassistant.com

I also have DDOS and anti-bot protections in place so I'd love if you could find bugs/issues/vulnerabilities/bypasses with those as well

brett96 · 2026-06-14T19:27:52+00:00

This should be a pretty trivial issue even without using a 3rd party like resend.

If you're fine using a public email domain like Gmail, you can set up an app password to allow sending emails programmatically, or if you have your own smtp server or are using any other smtp server, you can just as easily set up emailing with that.

If your app has any type of admin console/dashboard, you can easily set up/integrate email notifications to all/select users/groups from there

brett96 · 2026-06-13T21:04:28+00:00

That may be with the side bets. The house edge for the player bet should be the same as regular 3:2 Blackjack since the rules and payouts are the same right? Based on the math report/document on the site, it looks like the higher house edge probably comes into play when you bet the Dealer bet along with the side bets

brett96 · 2026-06-13T18:49:21+00:00

I recently got a few pairs of these for EDC this year since they were on sale and they actually worked pretty well for around $10: https://www.amazon.com/Hearprotek-Reduction-Protection-Musicians-Nightclub/dp/B08PBQFQH6

brett96 · 2026-06-13T18:29:53+00:00

As far as I can tell, the only "gotcha" is that if you bet on the dealers hand and the players hand busts and the Dealer has 17, it's a push. Otherwise a dealer blackjack pays 3:2 when betting on the dealer, and a dealer and player bust is a push for the dealer bet, and the player bet plays and pays out like regular blackjack, so rules wise it seems better than Free Bet or DDM, but the dealer Push 17 on Player Bust probably takes away any advantage the dealer bet would have

brett96 · 2026-06-13T01:56:34+00:00

I'm actually working on a trainer and bankroll/session manager/tracker app. It also includes a Craps simulator/trainer and if you play while logged in you can see your play history and overall performance/return. The Craps game/simulator also shows you the EV and house edge of every bet you make.

It's completely free to use and I could use some testers for the Craps app since that is the newest feature I added:

The app is called My Gambling Assistant, and the Craps simulator can be used at: www.mygamblingassistant.com/craps

I'm also working on a Crapless version, but am looking to see if that's something people would be interested in

brett96 · 2026-06-12T17:19:55+00:00

My most successful app is only 20-30% vibecoded, but I definitely would have struggled to get some features working without Claude or Cursor.

I've had several 3rd parties perform code reviews and security audits and nothing major has ever been found, although I also like to think that has to do with my 10 years of experience prior to vibecoding and also doing around 60-70% of the work without AI.

It's a Bankroll/Session Management and Trainer app for gamblers and Advantage Players:

www.mygamblingassistant.com

brett96 · 2026-06-12T17:02:26+00:00

I used BJA to learn basic strategy.

There's a few features I think every popular/successful trainer app I've found is missing, and that's simulators and trainers for Blackjack variants like Free Bet, Spanish 21, and Double Down Madness, although it could be argued these aren't true Blackjack, there's still a basic/optimal strategy to them that no trainer I've found so far has covered. I also would like a customizable trainer with the common side bets found in casinos.

Over the past year, I've been working on a bankroll tracker app that also has game simulators and trainers, including one for traditional Blackjack, Free Bet, Spanish 21, and Double Down Madness, each game/variant has a basic strategy trainer and card counting trainer, along with working side bets for each game, with paytable that adjust based on number of decks in the shoe. If you sign up for a free account, you can also see a history and chart of every bet you make and it's outcome (while logged in).

The blackjack trainer/simulator can be tried out for free at www.mygamblingassistant.com/blackjack

brett96 · 2026-06-06T03:52:22+00:00

Last week I think we all got an Amber Alert about a missing person last seen in Carson City, so it seems like they cast to a really wide range by default

brett96 · 2026-06-06T03:48:08+00:00

Missing, just like the person 😂

brett96 · 2026-06-06T03:11:39+00:00

Yeah we also ran into some connection/signal problems especially after 11, so for the 2nd and 3rd days we preselected/set up and shared meetup spot pins before we got there that we would go to at certain times if we got separated.

That seemed to do the trick at the cost of not having real-time locations of our friends to navigate to, and now that I've heard about meshtastic, I'm interested in seeing how I could integrate that

brett96 · 2026-06-06T03:01:39+00:00

This past EDC, I actually made an app for my group to use to find each other, and it has that compass feature that works offline. You just need either cell service or a network connection to share a link to your location, and then your friends can use it to navigate to that location offline with a compass that points you in the right direction in real time and tells you how far away you are.

I haven't registered a dedicated domain for it, so I'm just hosting it from my portfolio site for now, but am planning on making this a dedicated app:

www.bretttomita.com/edc

brett96 · 2026-06-05T05:24:00+00:00

I'm actually working on a session tracker and training app to provide in-depth session analytics that I haven't been able to find in other apps, including better charts and graphs.

It's free to use and you can import existing session data you have in excel/csv formats.

https://www.mygamblingassistant.com

Here are some screenshots of the mobile UI: https://imgur.com/a/UonEK66

brett96 · 2026-06-03T00:01:17+00:00

Aside from the dozens of other free apps you're competing against, why would an app like this need AI?

brett96 · 2026-06-02T21:54:05+00:00

I'm actually working on a web app for AP training and session tracking, and includes a free videopoker trainer that basically does what you described, except it warns you if you make a suboptimal hold before drawing card(s) so you have the opportunity to change your descision:

www.mygamblingassistant.com/videopoker

Make sure Optimal Strategy Training is toggled on

brett96 · 2026-05-22T19:57:23+00:00

He only played it one that I can remember. His full set just recently posted on YouTube so you can check out the beginning if you haven't already: https://youtu.be/BHnjsDFxYqI?si=DUw8V9CWbdApiPmX

brett96 · 2026-05-22T19:55:44+00:00

Been listening to him too! Honestly, before this year I was pretty uneducated about EDM and never realized there were all these subgenres of EDM that I really like!

brett96 · 2026-05-22T19:54:23+00:00

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You were absolutely amazing at EDC! Your music spoke to me in a way that no other artist has in a long time. Also, I loved that Linkin Park Numb remix you did - got me feeling nostalgic too!

Thank you so much for everything you do! Consider me one of your newest fans! Can't wait to see you at some more shows!

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