Blackjack Surrender Signal
To surrender in a face-down game, draw an imaginary straight line with your index finger. Face-up blackjack hand signals. Hit – in face-up blackjack, the hand signal for hit is to tap the table with your finger or wave your hand towards yourself. Stand – the blackjack hand signal for stand in a face-up game is to wave your hand over your cards.
The bottom line is that you should only surrender blackjack hands when your chances of winning are less than 25% (this means the casino has a greater than 50% of beating you). If the casino's edgeis greater than 50% than you are better off to surrender half (or 50%) of your bet. Quite fortunately, the strategy you need to use for surrender at blackjack is pretty easy to remember. When you are playing a multiple-deck game, you need to exercise surrender in the manner given below. Surrender hard total 16 against 9, 10, or Ace of the dealer. Surrender hard total 15 against 10 or Ace of the dealer.
No blackjack payouts occur in hands that have been split. Signal this by making a ‘V’ sign with your index and middle fingers. Surrender: If you don’t like your first two cards, you can surrender. The dealer takes half of your original bet and your hand is discarded. You can’t surrender when the dealer has Blackjack. No blackjack payouts occur in hands that have been split. Signal this by making a ‘V’ sign with your index and middle fingers. Surrender: If you don’t like your first two cards, you can surrender. The dealer takes half of your original bet and your hand is discarded.
A few hands later I get a 15 against a 10. The players before me hit their hands, and then I ask to surrender mine. The dealer starts to give me half my bet...but the supervisor stops her. She tells me that if I want to surrender, I have to do it before the next card comes out of the shoe. On the first hand, the players before me both had 20, so it was OK. But since they hit their hands this time, I wasn't allowed and could only hit or stand.This strikes me as completely ridiculous, for several reasons. For one, the order of the cards does not change regardless of when I decide to surrender. Furthermore, none of the dealers were giving any time between dealing the cards and asking the first player for their action, unless someone had a Blackjack--then they offer even money if they have a 10 showing. So from that point on I had to almost shout at the dealer to get his/her attention when I wanted to surrender, which felt silly and rude at the same time.
For those who are used to European-style blackjack...is this the commonly accepted rule? I sure hope not.
So, if you had been sitting at first base, it would have been okay for you to surrender, but because you weren't, and other cards came out before your action, you aren't allowed to? That makes absolutely no sense.
And why the heck would you take even money on a blackjack when the dealer has a ten up? What a horrible bet. They shouldn't even offer that.
By the way, the correct strategy is to surrender 14s against a ten as well. So you're going to be surrendering a lot.
Verbal declarations are usually not allowed in BJ. So how are you supposed to use a hand signal to surrender if the dealer isn't looking at you?
I think it's been discussed in this forum before. I think the general consensus was both hands in the air, or waving a white napkin. :-)
I have always just said 'surrender please.'
Verbal declarations are usually not allowed in BJ. So how are you supposed to use a hand signal to surrender if the dealer isn't looking at you?
They are not allowed because the eye in the sky can not see or tape a verbal declaration !
They are not allowed because the eye in the sky can not see or tape a verbal declaration !
So are you saying that if you did the hand signal, but the dealer didn't see it, that it would be OK?Administrator
Blackjack Surrender Hand Signal
Mathematically, it makes no difference.
Negligible removal effect if you see a 10 or A come out before you surrender. But not enough to change the decision whether to surrender or not, unless you're counting.