If a player splits tens at a table I am sitting at I either leave or stop betting until he inevitibly runs out of chips in a few hands. I dont know of anyone who would advocate splitting tens that has played Blackjack. It’s bad karma and it can ruin otherwise winning hands for everyone else sitting at that table. Kids PLEASE dont do this at a land based casino. PLEASE. If you just have to do it, then by all means do it online where its only your money going down the toilet.
Debating this seems totally nonsensical to me.
Now if no one else has anything of use to say lets move on to something else. I wont lock the thread as long as things stay civil. But everyone in this discussion seems to be locked in to their positions and I doubt anything productive is going to come out of this.