Win 1 Million at Blackjack with Akka
summary
Describes a Scala implementation of a full Blackjack simulator using Akka actors (shoe, dealer, player), sealed traits, pattern matching, implicits, futures and context.become, plus sbt tests and HTML logging. Presents Monte Carlo simulations showing that a tiny house edge (0.11%) can in long runs yield the expected advantage, but high variance can cause very large short-term losses despite claims of a simulated €1,000-bet million-in-a-year outcome.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:15Why Blackjack not monads
- 7:38Building card deck with Akka
- 14:08Modeling Blackjack hands
- 21:17Blackjack rules basics
- 24:50Akka game strategy
- 32:04Simulation results
- 35:27Limitations improvements
- 36:22Q&A
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