howardmoon wrote:
Sorry, my calculations above are incorrect. The difference between splitting and standing is even greater than I stated.
The actual return for splitting 10,10 against a 6, according to the Wizard’s chart I posted before, is 0.4681 (versus 0.704 for standing)
So you make $70.40 in total by standing and $46.81 in total for splitting.
It’s not even a close call. Never splitting tens is one of the clearest decisions in the blackjack strategy charts.
The numbers Wizard lists assume you resplit 10s. If you stand on 20 in the split hands instead of resplitting the 10s, then it is ~0.70 for standing and ~0.56 for splitting, as we have listed in the thread. If you resplit the 10s then it drops to Wizard’s numbers ~0.70 for standing and ~0.47 for splitting.