Blackjack Surrender Chart

The most important rules which hardly differ and have an effect on the basic approach are whether the dealer must score on a soft/hard 17 and the sense to surrender. The following blackjack table chart strategy guide will therefore not view such situations which are often related to as a total-dependent strategy. / To Surrender or not to Surrender in Blackjack! Of all of the options a player can exercise at the blackjack table, surrender is one of the least used and least understood. In fact, the surrender option has even disappeared from many live casinos because most players never bothered to use it.

I am wondering why differences exist in basic strategy charts for late surrender where the dealer does not peek for blackjack. All except for one chart that I have seen do not advise surrendering with a point total under eight versus a dealer show card of ace. However, the basic strategy chart on the Wizard of Odds web page does advise surrender on 5-7 against a dealer ace. Does anyone know which is correct and why?

No it doesn't. I assume you are looking at the H17 chart, where it advises you to surrender 15-17 (NOT 5-7) against an ace.

Here is the link http://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/strategy/calculator/ I f you select one deck, surrender allowed with any dealer up card, and no peek/no hole card (European), then you will see this.

Your original post compares late surrender, but your second post specifies 'no peek/no hole card.' Isn't that early surrender? Choose late surrender on the calculator and the 5-7 surrender goes away.

Thank you for your response. I will go with the Wizard on this. I do not know if such a game really does exist. I developed an app for learning the basic strategy and am expanding it to include European variations. I test all combinations. Thanks again.

I see.
Just remember that with an ace showing, no hole card, and you having two non-tens (as you must with a total of 5-7), the dealer makes a blackjack 16 times out of 49. It is going to skew the odds quite a bit (surrender is correct when your EV on the hand is less than -0.5 bets. Having almost 1/3 of the hands being automatic losers goes a long way towards getting the EV that low)Yup. Given the Player's Expected Return for 5-7 vs A, plus adding in the 30%+ probability the dealer pairs the A with 10 for BJ then surrender is the better deal than playing.

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