Surrender
Next, we will look at surrender. Alas, the early surrender form is essentially extinct in the U.S. But late surrender can still be found and is a valuable rule. Most players do not play it correctly, making it a low-cost rule for the casino. An insignificant number of tables with unusual forms of surrender have been removed from the data.
In the U.S. as a whole we see surrender, in green, at about 18% of tables. Nevada and California have somewhat higher frequencies and Louisiana and Mississippi a very low frequency.
There are very few LS tables in Reno and Sparks as it is rare in single-deck.
Surrender is available at about 40% of Las Vegas tables. This seems very surprising, as most casinos do not allow surrender. But many of the large casinos with a huge number of tables provide LS.
Surrender is but a memory in Atlantic City — although some high-stakes players have managed to talk casinos into offering it.
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|
Ns |
LS |
|
US |
0.821 |
0.179 |
|
Nevada |
0.736 |
0.264 |
|
California |
0.776 |
0.224 |
|
LA/MS |
0.949 |
0.051 |
|
Reno/Sparks |
0.990 |
0.010 |
|
Vegas |
0.589 |
0.411 |
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A.C. |
1 |
0 |
© 2009 Norman Wattenberger
