ace-five and surrender

[drew]

n&b:

can you play A5 at an advantage if no suurender is offered? it appears from you site that you cannot.

[Skunk]

Check out the following link:

http://frontpage.inxpress.net/grinder/warehouse.htm?gamblemag

and follow the BJ Simulations Link.

It shows with a simulation that A5 can gain a slight advantage.

6 deck, Stand on 17, DAS, DA2, Split up to 4 hands, 75% pen, No surrender

Adv for the sim: 0.01%

[Skunk]

The sim results also assume that you play EVERY hand. You can increase your chances by walking away at -3 counts.

[Nickels_n_Bullets]

Sorry for the delay... I have had other interests.

Yes, You can play A5 with an advantage, without surrender. As I point out on the stand soft 17 pages, but you lose a lot of the 1/4% advantage.

The bet ramp skips the 6-unit bet... so the bets are 1,2,4,8 for running counts of -1 or less, zero, +1, and +2 or more. When you get "surrenderable" hands, you must play for full price (Re:hit/stand). One can have a 0.15% advantage with these changes for eight decks, a little more with six. Bad hands become expensive w/o surrender.