Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Surrender
Surrender Although this is one of the least common decisions used in Blackjack, it can be very handy. Not every game offers surrender, but those that do offer it fall into two categories: early or late (depending on when in the game you may surrender).
Surrendering offers
Surrendering offers you the opportunity to fold your hand (provided you’re willing to lose half of your bet). As mentioned above, surrender is offered either early or late in the game. Should it be early, a player surrenders before the dealer checks his cards and offers up half his bet. This alternative offers a healthy advantage to the player and is therefore rarely offered. Instead, most players are commonly faced with a late surrender; here the dealer will only allow players to surrender if he is holding a blackjack.