Riverboat Gambler Взлом 59.2.0 + Чит Коды

This release is a bit delayed. I've been distracted with personal/family matters. BUT, at least it's here!

In this release, I've updated the libraries that are used to support the display of the infrequent ads. I've also started to lay the groundwork for "Daily Tournaments" that will ultimately be used to award even more bonus chips. At this point, I'm not sure if the direction I am taking is the right one. So, don't "hold your breath" waiting to see this feature appear. I suspect I really need to develop a better understanding of the Apple Game Center concept in order to deliver what I have in mind. It's all about "baby steps" though. I appreciate your patience while I try different things.

I am also doing my best to abandon Twitter/X as a platform. Honestly, it's become too toxic for me and I'm not convinced it will "survive" much longer. That being the case, I have opened an account on Meta's "Threads". You can find me on Threads at "RiverboatGamblerApp". As with Twitter, I use that account to provide updates on bugs, bug fixes, and pending releases. Please consider following me out there. Soon, I won't be updating Twitter any longer.

Additional changes:

1. Blackjack: In response to a request from LaDawn, I increased the size of the circle and font that is used to display the hand count on the iPhone12. This was done in order to make the numbers easier to read. Many thanks, LaDawn for reaching out via "Send Feedback".

As always, I cannot overstate how much I appreciate your support! It would be great if I had all of the resources that a major tech company has at its disposal, but I don't. It's still "just me" and I'm doing my best to address your requests. RBG started as a single game so I could play Mississippi Stud on my iPhone and now it's 60+ games on two platforms. Who knew?!?

Some more games are coming! Stay tuned!

Please keep your feedback, suggestions, and requests coming. It is our collaboration that continues to make this a great app!

~Danny

Some more maintenance items as I work to whittle away at the backlog of clean-up tasks. I've updated the diagnostic logging in an attempt to track down some sporadic crashes.

Once I've taken care of the maintenance items, I'll get back to enhancing RBG. Please keep your suggestions and requests coming!

~Danny

Simple maintenance release. I've updated some of the libraries that are used to serve ads and updated images.

I am working on additional games and enhancements, though! Please keep your ideas and requests coming. Everything gets evaluated and added to the backlog for consideration.

As always, thank you to everyone for your continued support. I truly appreciate you!

~Danny

In response to a request from Mike who messaged me via text using "Send Feedback", I've modified the screens to allow you to quickly access the Casino Wallet by tapping on the bankroll. The option still exists on the menu, but this shortcut was a great idea. Thanks, Mike! Please keep the ideas coming!

Additionally, I've updated some of the 3rd party libraries that are used to present some of the ads.

I have more changes planned and am continuing to refine the code base to correct some of the "rookie mistakes" I made when I first started RBG. I truly appreciate your support and feedback. Please continue providing your input. As anyone who has reached out should be able to attest, I take all input seriously and will do my best to implement all suggestions that are made.

Please keep telling your friends about RBG and, if you haven't already, please consider leaving a review in the App Store. Your reviews are pretty much my entire marketing strategy and can have an impact on folks who find the app and are considering taking it for a test drive.

The local Seminole casinos in Florida are close to offering Craps & Roulette, so I'm excited to try out some of the strategies I've been developing while playing RBG!

Please stay safe!

~Danny

This release contains a bug fix to Joker Poker (Video Poker) in which the Sequential Royal Flush (the ultimate monster hand) wasn't being read correctly. Thankfully, I caught this issue in my testing and nobody was bitten by it!

Additionally, I've modified the app to track Game Stats for the Video Poker games. I highly encourage anyone who uses this feature to reset the current stats as some have been recorded, but not correctly.

More changes coming! My mom made it back to Michigan safely and I am going to be spending a lot more time working on the backlog and some enhancements that I have planned. Please keep your ideas, requests, and suggestions coming!

~Danny

To be candid, I'm finding myself pretty addicted to video poker; my favorites are Deuces Wild and Double Double Bonus. Mom and I dropped into the local casino last week and I sat at a machine for about 2 hours and doubled my money. Granted, the payouts are not as extreme as a nice hand of quads on Mississippi Stud, but it's still fun to leave the casino "ahead"! My only complaint with the machines are that the "Bet Max" and "Deal/Draw" buttons are too close together. On at least one occasion, I hit the wrong button and it proved to be expensive! For that reason, there will never be that type of button in RBG. In RBG, you still have to pick your increment and tap the wager space up to five times to make your bet.

In this release, I have added a sixth video poker game that I noticed on the machine I was playing: Triple Bonus Poker. It's very similar to Double Double Bonus, but, like most video poker games, there are some minor differences on the pay table. In this game, the differences apply to how quads are paid out.

Additionally, in response to a suggestion from Kyle, I've updated the VP games to change the "Deal button" to a "Draw button" after the initial cards get dealt. Definitely an idea that needed to be implemented. Thanks, Kyle!

I've not been getting any additional feedback about the dice images for Craps not matching the final roll. I STILL have not seen the issue myself. I'm hoping the lack of feedback means that the changes I made in the previous releases crushed the bug. If you experience a situation where the final dice images do match the roll outcome, please reach out to me using "Send Feedback". For now, I'm going to consider the issue resolved.

More changes and enhancements are coming. I am about to take a couple of weeks of "down time" to hang out with my mom and get her relocated back to Michigan for the summer months. She has all but recovered 100% from the health issues that she's had to deal with for the past 2+ years and, now, it's time to start enjoying her "Golden Years". Many thanks to those of you who have reached out to ask about her and for all of the prayers.

~Danny

I received some feedback that the last set of changes for Craps DID NOT properly address the incorrect images so I've reverted those changes in this release. This reversion activates the previous fixes that can result in the dice "popping" a bit at the end of a roll. While the popping is not desired, this will have to suffice for the present; at least, the final dice images should match the final dice roll. I am dedicated to continuing to pursue this issue. It's a challenge, though, given that I am unable to reproduce the problem in my development environment and on my production devices. It's a mystery. Please keep your feedback and thoughts coming.

~Danny

More work on Craps! Of all of the games, Craps is the one of which I am most proud. Before adding it to the iPhone, it was flawless and, I believe (and have been told), it is one of the best Craps simulators in the App Store. Something changed when it was added to the phone that has screwed up how the dice images get updated when a roll occurs. Given that it’s impacting iPads and iPhones, I don’t think it has anything to do with the device type.

Somewhere along the line, the dice animation got "hosed up" (technical term). While I cannot, for the life of me reproduce it, I have received screenshots that show final dice images that do not match the actual roll. This is a problem. Especially because the design of the game is to randomly generate the roll value, change the dice images in the background, and then generate some "fancy" animation to make things fun.

In the last release, I made some changes to update the dice images a second time; AFTER the roll animation completes and immediately BEFORE the results are shown. Now, as I feared, there are cases where the animation stops and the dice "pop" when the images change. Though the images now match the final roll, this lag in updating the images will certainly create some conspiracy theories about the game being rigged; trust me - I've gotten used to it.

In this release, I've made some additional refinements in an attempt to ensure the dice images are updated properly and in a timely manner. Despite the fact that there is a chance that this will simply revert the "fix" in the last release, I feel it's important to try. Animation is tricky (at least for me because I'm still learning).

While I am trying to get to the bottom of this issue, the dice will turn grey while they are rolling and the result message will now display the dice values. If you hit a situation where the dice images are wrong, please text me a screenshot using "Send Feedback". If you've been experiencing this issue and notice that it no longer occurs, please let me know that as well.

~Danny

This release is solely focused on trying to address an issue with Craps where the final dice images do not match the final roll value. I have been unable to reproduce the issue and I am all but convinced that the issue is not "code/logic" related, but more related to the wrong image files being retrieved.

In the last release, I added some grey dice to use during the animation sequences and asked folks to send in screenshots any time the final dice don't match the roll value. My hope was to isolate which die was not updating properly with the expectation that one or both dice would remain grey after the roll ended.

Kyle reached out to me last night to share a screenshot and some information. In his situation, his first roll after opening Craps was "Midnight" (12 - my favorite number to bet). However, the dice showed 1-3 instead of 6-6. To top it off, the dice images were Red which indicates that the animation properly completed and cleared.

So, in this release, I have included three "Hail Mary" changes in the hopes that they will address an annoying bug that never existed in Craps previous to the iPhone release:

1. I have renamed all of the dice images to ensure they are unique enough to prevent any confusion by the compiler
2. I have reorganized the image catalog to remove reduce some levels of organization that I believe I added while working on the iPhone
3. I have forced the images to update a second time immediately before the results message gets shown. NOTE: if the first two changes don't address the bug, the dice may seem to "pop" after the roll when the images get changed. If that happens, please let me know.

Many thanks to everyone who has reached out on this issue. I'm being told that it's not "frequent", but from my perspective, one time is too many times. I'm very pleased with how Craps has turned out and this little glitch is putting my OCD into overdrive!

Please keep sending your ideas, requests, and feedback and please keep posting reviews and sharing RBG with your friends. My mom's health has dramatically improved and she is about to head back to her home in Michigan for a few months. Both she and I sincerely appreciate all of the thoughts and prayers that have been sent her way. The RBG Player Community has some really awesome people in it!

I have some great ideas for RBG and am hoping to make some progress towards them during the remainder of this year. Woo Hoo!

~Danny

This release contains a couple more refinements to the Pai Gow games and how the House Way rules are applied. It also fixes the issue that was introduced to the Pai Gow games in the last release that caused Broadway to fail to be properly classified.

More updates coming, but I wanted to get these out before I re-group and start to attack the backlog!

~Danny

This release contains a couple more refinements to the Pai Gow games and how the House Way rules are applied. It also fixes the issue that was introduced to the Pai Gow games in the last release that caused Broadway to fail to be properly classified.

More updates coming, but I wanted to get these out before I re-group and start to attack the backlog!

~Danny

This release was supposed to be a really "cool" one because I just spent a lot of time refactoring Pai Gow Poker and Asia Poker to better optimize how the hands are played. Unfortunately, it turns out that a "minor" change I made during the last release had a HUGE impact on a lot of the standard favorites. For those games, Folded hands were not being treated properly and the hand was continuing.

I cannot thank Joshua enough for alerting me to the issue so that I could get it fixed. As I told him, I've been playing nothing but Pai Gow and Asia Poker for days. Had I only played a single hand of my normal Mississippi Stud, I'd have caught it immediately. Just one more example of how failing to properly regression test is ALWAYS bad practice; no matter the perceived complexity and scope of a change. One of these days, I will learn my lesson!

This release does include some major refactoring to Asia Poker and both Pai Gow Poker games. After some collaboration with Gregory, I went through the code that governs how the House Way rules are applied and performed some relatively major surgery.

DISCLAIMER: While I have run the Pai Gow games through 100,000s of simulated deals to ensure that none of the changes will crash those games, I still have more testing that I want to do. I believe that the new approach better optimizes how the lower hands get played. If you are a Pai Gow Player, please reach out with any feedback you may have. Currently, I have almost 100 specific use-cases that I validate against and they are all passing. If it turns out anything got mangled, those games may have to be taken offline.

Here, I'll express my apologies for the last release, but I won't ask for any patience or forgiveness. I need to get organized and manage my time better. There's no excuse for that bug. It was pure amateur hour.

On the "brighter side" of things, RBG has been 99.9% crash free as of late (knock on wood!). For me, that's a huge metric!

As always, thank you for your continued support. More updates are coming, but hopefully not as rapidly as of late.

~Danny

This release contains a new video poker game and a couple of nice enhancements.

1. BUG: Video Poker games: Kyle was kind enough to let me know that on games like "Royal Flush" that have different payouts for 4 of a Kind based on the denomination of the "quads", the engine was not selecting the correct win. Thanks for texting me with "Send Feedback", Kyle. I appreciate you helping to keep the game bug free!

2. ENHANCEMENT: Video Poker games: As I expected, there has been some confusion about how the VP games pay out. The table at the top of each screen represents the number of "units" (chips) that get paid for each hand that wins. They ARE NOT odds. If you bet in $5 increments, a unit is $5; if you bet in $25 increments, a unit is $25. That means that if you hit a hand that pays "25", the payout is 25 x your increment/unit. To help with the confusion, the main wager button will no longer display the total amount wagered when it's tapped; it will show the number of wagers that have been placed and the table at the top of the screen will change to highlight the column that matches the wager count. While I'm sure this will cause additional confusion, it is a little closer to the actual "machine experience". I encourage everyone to take 5 minutes to read the "How to Play". While I am finding Video Poker games to be a great distraction, they are not table games; there are differences of which you should become familiar.

3. NEW GAME: Kyle requested that I prioritize "Video Poker: Double Double Bonus" as a game. Given that most of the work was already done, I did my best to deliver! Here you go, Kyle. Thanks so much for your help! As a side note, I spent about 5 hours in a casino on Mother's Day and all I played was video poker. It's a great game! You don't have to lose much and the upsides were pretty rewarding.

4. ENHANCEMENTS: Gregory, a Pai Gow and Asia Poker Dealer, pointed out some issues in how hands in those games were not being properly optimized by the House Way algorithm; namely as it applied to Straights, Flushes, and Straight Flushes. I’ve made some additional refinements and am feeling really good about how those hands get played in Pai Gow. Next, I will be focused on using the same approach in Asia Poker. Thanks so much for all of your help, Gregory!

~Danny

This week has had a couple of "rapid fire" releases. If you're able, please review the release notes for the previous release, 57.0.1. to read about the new games, bug fixes, and enhancements that were made.

In this release, I am trying another "Hail Mary" fix to Craps. After changes that were made to address crashes on iPhones, a bug appeared that randomly impacts the dice; they are not always updating on the screen to match the final roll. There is no rhyme or reason. Hence, the artillery-strike approach I am using to address a bug I cannot reproduce.

In addition to working on this issue, I am working with Jeffrey on addressing some edge-cases in the Pai Gow games. There are some situations in which the House Way (which also controls the Dealer's cards) is not playing the hands in the most optimal manner. Because my goal is authenticity, this is important to me. However, I do want to make sure that folks realize that if their hand is not played optimally using "House Way", they should gain some solace in the fact that the same algorithms apply to Dealer hands.

RBG is "on fire"! Please keep telling your friends and others about the app. I need to spend a couple weeks working on the versions for "other platforms", but I am filling up the backlog with some really great suggestions and ideas. I truly appreciate the support from the Player Community!

Please, if you haven't already, consider taking a couple of minutes to post a review in the App Store. I know it seems trivial, but it really is the only marketing that I have. I don't have the funds to invest in expensive ads. The greater the number of people who play , the greater the number of hands that get dealt. In keeping with my commitment to you, an ad continues to be shown after every 100 hands. The more "100 hands" that get dealt, the higher my ad revenue becomes. It's not a fabulous amount of income, but every penny helps!

Also, please remember that you can get $1000 in chips every 24 hours by playing the Reward Ads in the Chip Store. Nobody says you have to watch them, but you do have to play them....

Please keep using "Send Feedback" to submit your ideas, requests, and suggestions! I think 2023 is going to be an exciting year for Riverboat Gambler!

Since I'm assuming this release will hit the App Store BEFORE Mother's Day (or very close, at least): Happy Mother's Day to my Mom, YOUR Mom, and all Moms!

~Danny

In response to many requests, I have added a handful of video poker games to RBG! Personally, I never really understood the "draw", but having created these four games and played them, I now see why others like them! I will likely add more video poker in the future if these become popular. NOTE: please read the "How to Play" if you're not familiar with the differences between video poker and table games. While they are not slot machines, they are also not table games. One important difference is that if you hit a win, your initial wagers are not refunded. Instead, like a slot machine, once wagered, those chips are gone.

When I added the new games, I also started to add a sub-menu concept to the main menu as a way to continue to get that menu under control. Soon, I will make additional changes to group other games by "type"; like Pai Gow, Blackjack, Hold'em, etc. Your favorites will still be at the top of the menu and all games will still be sorted alphabetically on the Search menu.

Additional Changes/Enhancements:

1. BUG: Rob reached out via "Send Feedback" to alert me to an issue with Heads Up Hold'em on the iPad 12. In Landscape mode, the "Odds" wager button was being covered up by the Ante wager button. Since the Odds wager is a forced bet that increments automatically as Antes are placed, it was a bit confusing to see the bankroll decrease by twice the Ante each time a wager was made, but to not see the chips on the board. That has been fixed in this release. Thanks, Rob!

2. BUG: Jeffrey reached out with some screenshots of Craps. This bug is a head scratcher and I'm not 100% sure I've resolved it in this release because I cannot reproduce it. The issue is that after a roll completes, the dice on the board are not always updating correctly to reflect the final roll. I made some "Hail Mary" changes in this release and will also continue to try to reproduce the issue in order to get to an actual root cause. I suspect this is the last remnants of the issues that were previously causing Craps to crash on iPhone. Thanks for letting me know, Jeffrey, and please let me know how this release works out on your device!

3. ENHANCEMENT: Double Draw, Lunar Poker, and the Video Poker games require the Player to tap cards to Hold or Discard them. I cleaned up the code that was handling those operations and re-styled the indicators that are displayed on the cards. Now, they look a lot nicer. They are dynamic based on the size of the cards so please reach out if any of them are too small. I did my best to check all impacted games on all devices, but you've seen me drop that ball before!

4. ENHANCEMENT: I had a little fun with graphics and added a new style of dice for the games that use dice. Check out Preferences in those games!

5. BUG: Ties in Pai Gow Tiles were not being properly resolved. Many thanks to Gregory, a Pai Gow Dealer, for reaching out to me using "Send Feedback" and helping to educate me. He is also advising me on some tweaks that are required for some Asia Poker edge cases. Gregory: your help is invaluable!

I have a question for those who made it this far in the release notes: My mother has gotten me addicted to a non-casino game that offers "tournaments" in which you can play against a bunch of other people and the top finishers win "prizes". I'm curious: would anyone be interested in "RBG Tournaments" where the Players who amassed the most chips in a particular game during a period of time would win prizes? If you are, please reach out via "Send Feedback" or via the support email address and provide me your thoughts. On paper, it looks cool but it would be a ton of wasted work if I “build it and they DON’T come”.

I'll close with my standard "Thank you for your support" line. I really do appreciate the support of the Player community. There is no way that RBG would have become what it is today without your support, patience, suggestions, and feedback.

~Danny

In response to many requests, I have added a handful of video poker games to RBG! Personally, I never really understood the "draw", but having created these four games and played them, I now see why others like them! I will likely add more video poker in the future if these become popular. NOTE: please read the "How to Play" if you're not familiar with the differences between video poker and table games. While they are not slot machines, they are also not table games. One important difference is that if you hit a win, your initial wagers are not refunded. Instead, like a slot machine, once wagered, those chips are gone.

When I added the new games, I also started to add a sub-menu concept to the main menu as a way to continue to get that menu under control. Soon, I will make additional changes to group other games by "type"; like Pai Gow, Blackjack, Hold'em, etc. Your favorites will still be at the top of the menu and all games will still be sorted alphabetically on the Search menu.

Additional Changes/Enhancements:

1. BUG: Rob reached out via "Send Feedback" to alert me to an issue with Heads Up Hold'em on the iPad 12. In Landscape mode, the "Odds" wager button was being covered up by the Ante wager button. Since the Odds wager is a forced bet that increments automatically as Antes are placed, it was a bit confusing to see the bankroll decrease by twice the Ante each time a wager was made, but to not see the chips on the board. That has been fixed in this release. Thanks, Rob!

2. BUG: Jeffrey reached out with some screenshots of Craps. This bug is a head scratcher and I'm not 100% sure I've resolved it in this release because I cannot reproduce it. The issue is that after a roll completes, the dice on the board are not always updating correctly to reflect the final roll. I made some "Hail Mary" changes in this release and will also continue to try to reproduce the issue in order to get to an actual root cause. I suspect this is the last remnants of the issues that were previously causing Craps to crash on iPhone. Thanks for letting me know, Jeffrey, and please let me know how this release works out on your device!

3. ENHANCEMENT: Double Draw, Lunar Poker, and the Video Poker games require the Player to tap cards to Hold or Discard them. I cleaned up the code that was handling those operations and re-styled the indicators that are displayed on the cards. Now, they look a lot nicer. They are dynamic based on the size of the cards so please reach out if any of them are too small. I did my best to check all impacted games on all devices, but you've seen me drop that ball before!

4. ENHANCEMENT: I had a little fun with graphics and added a new style of dice for the games that use dice. Check out Preferences in those games!

I have a question for those who made it this far in the release notes: My mother has gotten me addicted to a non-casino game that offers "tournaments" in which you can play against a bunch of other people and the top finishers win "prizes". I'm curious: would anyone be interested in "RBG Tournaments" where the Players who amassed the most chips in a particular game during a period of time would win prizes? If you are, please reach out via "Send Feedback" or via the support email address and provide me your thoughts. On paper, it looks cool but it would be a ton of wasted work if I “build it and they DON’T come”.

I'll close with my standard "Thank you for your support" line. I really do appreciate the support of the Player community. There is no way that RBG would have become what it is today without your support, patience, suggestions, and feedback.

~Danny

Major bug fix that impacted ALL games. Thank you very much, Brad, for alerting me to this one! It's ugly and it's sure to generate a lot of noise if folks don't see the alert messages and updates I have posted on Twitter (@RiverboatApp).


Board controls became disabled if you changed the screen during an active hand (e.g. accessed the Chip Store, How To Play, or Pay Table after cards were dealt). The issue is resolved in this release.

And, here I thought it was going to be a nice, slow, easy week after finally getting to the bottom of that nasty, elusive Craps issue!

~Danny

Game #57 has arrived and I love it! Requested by Linda, "Cali Lowball" is sure to become a favorite of many! I've played this game for hours and feel like I'm becoming addicted to it! What is really wild about the game is that, like a 2-Way Bad Beat, you actually WANT the Dealer to have better cards than do you because, in Cali Lowball, the WORST hand wins! Be sure to read the instructions to fully understand the game. There is no such thing as a Straight or a Flush and ACES ARE ALWAY LOW. Check it out and let me know what you think. Many thanks to Linda for reaching out with the request!

A while ago, I made a change that impacted the games that require the Dealer to "qualify". In those games, the first time the Dealer fails to qualify, a message displays to explain the parameters for Dealer qualification & what happens should the Dealer fail to qualify. These messages were served once and only once. When I started to get a lot of support questions on the topic, I opted to make those messages show up once, per session, per game. While doing that helped to reduce the support questions from folks who were new to an impacted game, it created a whole other "problem". Namely, experienced Players had to deal with seeing a message that was really a "Duh! No kidding!" message from their perspective.

In this release, in response to inquiries from Robert (a long time supporter, advocate, and advisor) I prioritized making such messages optional. Now, Players may turn these messages off using the "Show Popup Instructions" switch in Preferences. I want to thank Robert for bringing this to my attention and mostly for his patience. I can relate to the fact that having a "dumb" message pop up while trying to play a game with which you are familiar can be annoying!

Enhancement: For Craps on IPads, I removed the "Roll" button. Now, to roll the dice, simply wait for them to appear enabled and then tap them.

Enhancement: I received some rather cool/educational feedback from Eric, a former casino Dealer, about Faro. I turns out that the "final sequence" option in that game was historically referred to as "Chasing the Turn". It makes sense when you consider that that is basically what is occurring. For that reason, I've rebranded that part of the game. Now, instead of the boring "final sequence" verbiage, all references to that "bonus game" should be reflected as Chasing/Chase the Turn. Thanks Eric!

Bug Fix: Rabbit Hunter: If the Bad Beat Bonus was wagered and there was a Push with a Pair of Tens or higher, the app would crash while trying to calculate a bonus that should not be paid.

Bug Fix: There were a handful of crashes that appeared to have been caused by the 3rd party libraries that are being used for logging. It's pathetic that trying to log some information could create an exception that would crash the app, but it's the reality of app development. Hopefully, the changes that I made will prevent such situations from occurring in the future!

Bug Fix: I was able to build a simulator that would roll Craps repeatedly and that allowed me to consistently reproduce the sporadic crashes that were occurring on iPhones. I scoured the code and refactored things and was able to roll over 30K consecutive times on multiple physical devices without a single crash. I believe that issue is resolved! Many thanks to all who were helpful and patient while I figured that out. I still have no idea why the problem didn't manifest on iPads.

Bug Fix: The Try Lux Bonus on the Blackjack games was not properly paying Straights, Flushes, and Straight Flushes. Thanks for using "Send Feedback" to let me know, Laura!

Finally, I never get tired of saying: I sincerely appreciate you! Your support and patience are amazing and your input continues to improve RBG as an app! Please, if you haven't already, consider leaving a review in the App Store and, please, encourage your friends, family, and complete strangers to "check RBG out"!

~Danny

Game #57 has arrived and I love it! Requested by Linda, "Cali Lowball" is sure to become a favorite of many! I've played this game for hours and feel like I'm becoming addicted to it! What is really wild about the game is that, like a 2-Way Bad Beat, you actually WANT the Dealer to have better cards than do you because, in Cali Lowball, the WORST hand wins! Be sure to read the instructions to fully understand the game. There is no such thing as a Straight or a Flush and ACES ARE ALWAY LOW. Check it out and let me know what you think. Many thanks to Linda for reaching out with the request!

A few releases back, I made a change that impacted the games that require the Dealer to "qualify". In those games, the first time the Dealer fails to qualify, a message pops up to explain the parameters for Dealer qualification and what happens in the game should the Dealer fail to qualify. These messages were served once and only once. When I started to get a lot of support questions on the topic, I opted to make those messages show up once, per session, per game, when the Dealer failed to qualify. While doing that helped to reduce the support questions from folks who were new to an impacted game, it create a whole other "problem". Namely, experienced Players had to deal with seeing a message that was really a "Duh! No kidding!" message from their perspective.

In this release, in response to inquiries from Robert (a long time supporter, advocate, and advisor) I prioritized making such messages optional. Now, Players may turn these messages off using the "Show Popup Instructions" switch in Preferences for games that are impacted. I want to thank Robert for bringing this to my attention and mostly for his patience. I can relate to the fact that having a "dumb" message pop up while trying to play a game with which you are familiar can be annoying!

Enhancement: I received some rather cool/educational feedback from Eric, a former casino Dealer, about Faro. I turns out that the "final sequence" option in that game was historically referred to as "Chasing the Turn". It makes sense when you consider that that is basically what is occurring. For that reason, I've rebranded that part of the game. Now, instead of the boring "final sequence" verbiage, all references to that "bonus game" should be reflected as Chasing/Chase the Turn. Thanks Eric!

Bug Fix: Rabbit Hunter: If the Bad Beat Bonus was wagered and there was a Push with a Pair of Tens or higher, the app would crash while trying to calculate a bonus that should not be paid.

Bug Fix: There were a handful of crashes that appeared to have been caused by the 3rd party libraries that are being used for logging. It's pathetic that trying to log some information could create an exception that would crash the app, but it's the reality of app development. Hopefully, the changes that I made will prevent such situations from occurring in the future!

The backlog of general "TODO" items has been significantly reduced. This is great news because it means I can get back to focusing on enhancing RBG with new features! I have a lot of exciting plans for the app, but I will always prioritize Player requests and bug fixes above those plans. There are still a few (very few) crashes occurring on Craps for the iPhone. Those issues are my number one priority. If you have any suggestions or requests, though, please make sure that you reach out using "Send Feedback" or via the support email that can be found at TheRiverboatGambler.com so that I can add them to the backlog.

Finally, I never get tired of saying: I sincerely appreciate you! Your support and patience are amazing and your input continues to improve RBG as an app! Please, if you haven't already, consider leaving a review in the App Store and, please, encourage your friends, family, and complete strangers to "check RBG out"! The more that YOU help with the marketing, the more I can focus on writing code!

~Danny

One of the features for which I get a lot of positive feedback is the "Poker Hands" option from the game menus. I'm told it helps folks who are new to poker become more familiar with the composition and rank order of the hands. So, when Devan contacted me via the support email account and requested that a copy of the Faro board be made available that could be used to track the card counts in that game when it is being played live it sounded like a nice enhancement.

Look for "live play board" on the Faro game menu. This feature can serve as the abacus if you are dealing Faro to a group of family and friends. Using your mobile device, you can now deal the cards and, by pressing and holding the corresponding cards on the live play board, you are able to increment the counter for each card. I opted to go with a "long press" to prevent an accidental "tap" on card that could screw up the count and slow down the game. The counter for each card will increment to 4 and then a subsequent press will reset the count. I hope the Faro Players like it! Please, if you have any suggestions, just let me know!

A HUGE bug was uncovered by Chuck and reported via "Send Feedback". While I'm sure Chuck didn't find it amusing because it prevented him from playing Craps on his new IPhone, I have to admit it made me chuckle at my own mistake.

When Craps and Roulette are first loaded, those games store some necessary screen coordinates to the device. These coordinates are required to calculate which wagers are being placed. When we update our devices the upgrade process typically transfers all existing application data from the old device to the new device. In the case of Craps and Roulette the fact that I wasn't verifying that the previously saved coordinates matched the current device and reloaded as necessary created a situation where you could be playing on a device that contained coordinates for the wrong device. The problem only manifested if you went from a smaller sized device to a larger one. Thanks to Chuck having reached out, that issue has been resolved in this release. You have to agree, it was a ridiculous "bug" given the fact that folks change devices constantly!

Lastly, I've updated some of the support libraries that are used to serve the ads that are shown after every 100 hands/spins/rolls. As I've stated many times in the past, I always get a little nervous when updating 3rd party libraries because I don't have any control over the code base for those libraries, but I've done some extensive testing and all seems good.

As always, my thanks to everyone for your continued support, feedback, and suggestions. More changes are coming. Please keep your messages coming! If you haven't already, please consider leaving a review in the App Store and please help to spread the word about RBG to your friends and family!

~Danny

A "new" game has been added!

Well, it's new to iPhones, anyway! As requested and as promised, I knuckled down and figured out how to add Roulette to some of the larger screen iPhones. Now, that game is available on iPhone12 and above (I'm still looking at ways of getting it added to the newer iPhoneSE). Check it out and let me know what you think! As of this release, that leaves only Sic Bo that is exclusively available on iPads. Unfortunately, due to real estate limitations, that may need to remain true for quite some time.

There have been a handful of crashes when RBG is running in the background and then opened. While I've not been able to reproduce the issue, I have made some adjustments to the code in places that I think could be contributing to the issue. Please let me know if you experience a crash by reaching out using "Send Feedback". Any details that you are able to provide will be appreciated.

More games and enhancements are coming! Please continue to share the app and tell your friends about it. I couldn't do all of this without your help, support, and encouragement!

~Danny

A change to the Casino Wallet that allows a Player to remove chips from the table was crashing on the smaller, legacy iPhoneSE devices. The bug also impacted larger iPhones that were in "Zoomed" display mode because, at that resolution, the SE screens get used.

Other than this issue, RBG has been extremely stable for the past 3 weeks; ALWAYS a good thing!

~Danny

I'm extremely pleased by that stability has returned to RBG since the last series of updates. Knock on wood: I've not gotten any reports of crashes since the last release. That's huge given the issues that were previously being encountered by Craps on the iPhone. Please be sure to let me know if you experience any problems.

This update is a quick fix to the Blackjack games. At the end of a hand that involved a Split, the "Reset Board" button was not being shown. Many thanks to Curt who reached out via "Send Feedback" to alert me to the issue. I appreciate that you took the time, Curt!

I'm going to "take a break" for a couple of weeks to recharge my battery. Then, I will get back into things and start working on the next series of enhancements (including new games). I will, of course, respond immediately to any bugs or other issues that are reported.

Thanks for your continued support! Please keep your ideas, requests, and suggestions flowing.

~Danny

Couple of bug fixes and some refactoring in this release.

1. BUG: Faro has been "swallowing" any wagers that are left on the board if the Player opts to shuffle the deck early.

2. BUG: There have been increasing reports of RBG crashing on iPhones. I haven't been able to reproduce the issue, but I suspect there may be a conflict between that game's animation and notifications. In this release, I've disabled notifications in Craps and the other games that have added animation (Boule, Sic Bo, Roulette, Fish/Prawn/Crab, Keno). Hopefully this will address the issue while I try to determine the root cause. Please reach out with any details you may have should Craps crash on your iPhone.

3. BUG: Pai Gow Tiles was not allowing the Hand to be played manually. Tapping tiles did nothing.

4. BUG: Double Draw Poker: Discarding cards was not working properly.

~Danny

Couple of bug fixes and some refactoring in this release.

1. BUG: Faro has been "swallowing" any wagers that are left on the board if the Player opts to shuffle the deck early.

2. BUG: There have been increasing reports of RBG crashing on iPhones. I haven't been able to reproduce the issue, but I suspect there may be a conflict between that game's animation and notifications. In this release, I've disabled notifications in Craps and the other games that have added animation (Boule, Sic Bo, Roulette, Fish/Prawn/Crab, Keno). Hopefully this will address the issue while I try to determine the root cause. Please reach out with any details you may have should Craps crash on your iPhone.

3. BUG: Pai Gow Tiles was not allowing the Hand to be played manually. Tapping tiles did nothing.

4. BUG: Double Draw Poker: Discarding cards was not working properly.

~Danny