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- title: Always stand
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- # Always stand
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- > Difficulty: 02/100
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- To play Blackjack as an “always-stander” run the following command:
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- ```terminal
- yes stand | blackjack -n1e5 --flat_bet=true --no_insurance=true > /dev/null
- ```
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- The UNIX command `yes stand` writes the string “stand” repeteadly to the standard output, which is piped to the executable `blackjack` (assumed to be installed system-wide). The arguments tell Libre Blackjack to play one hundred thousand hands (`-n1e5`) using a flat bet (`flat_bet`, it defaults to a unit bet in each hand) and without asking for insurance if the dealer shows an ace (`no_insurance`). As there is no `blackjack.conf` file, the rules are---as expected---the default ones (see the documentation for details).
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- The `/dev/null` part is important, otherwise Libre Blackjack will think that there is a human at the other side of the table and will
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- 1. run slower (it will add explicit time delays to mimic an actual human dealer), and
- 2. give all the details of the dealt hands in the terminal as ASCII (actually UTF-8) art
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- This example is only one-way (i.e. the player ignores what the dealer says) so it is better to redirect the standard output to `/dev/null` to save execution time. The results are written as a [YAML](http://yaml.org/)-formatted data to `stderr` by default once the hands are over, so they will show up in the terminal nevertheless. This format is human-friendly (far more than JSON) so it can be easily parsed, but it also allows complex objects to be represented (arrays, lists, etc.).
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- ```yaml
- ---
- result: "(-15.8 ± 0.9) %"
- mean: -0.157675
- error: 0.00940803
- hands: 100000
- bankroll: -15767.5
- bustsPlayer: 0
- bustsDealer: 0.27344
- wins: 0.38585
- pushes: 0.04807
- losses: 0.56608
- ...
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- ```
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- > **Exercise:** verify that the analytical probability of getting a natural playing with a single deck (for both the dealer and the player) is 32/663 = 0.04826546...
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