This is actually a wonderful situation in the endgame of a blackjack
tournament. If your chip stack is large enough to allow 4 bets on the table and
you're way behind splitting 10's and getting an ace on both will allow you to
have two doubled 11's in play. If you need a huge chip win, it's about the
best possible situation you could ever hope for.
Just one example of how tournament blackjack play differs tremendously from
the casino version.
- Brian in MI
Bob wrote:
Ned wrote: The dumbest play I ever saw was in blackjack. I think it was
at the Showboat in Atlantic city.
Some guy split faces, everyone at the table groaned, and he pulled
two ace's on top of them.
Your story would have been more interesting if at this point the guy
decided to double down on his hard elevens!
There can be some subtle merit to such a play. If somebody at the table
is REALLY bugging you, and you have a small bet out this time, making a
play such as this will likely drive them from the table shrieking! Then
your life will have improved at a minor cost.
Bob Dancer
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