There is an exception when the 16 is a pair of 8s. Does it make any difference whether the 16 is 10-6 or 9-7? I should split 8s instead of surrendering, right?”īasic strategy for late surrender in an eight-deck game where the dealer hits soft 17 and surrender is allowed is to surrender with hard 15 against a dealer’s 10 or Ace surrender hard 16 against 9, 10 or Ace, and surrender hard 17 against an Ace. “My question is about the composition of my 16s. “I seemed to get a lot of 16s against dealer 10s,” he wrote. He wondered if the specific cards in his hand made a difference in surrender strategy. I received a note recently from a player who found late surrender offered in an eight-deck game. There are a number of optional rules, including late surrender, which after the dealer checks to see if he has blackjack, allows you to give up half your bet instead of playing it beyond your first two cards. One challenge facing blackjack players is that the rules aren’t precisely the same in one casino as another, or even sometimes at one table as opposed to another in the same casino.
