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Great question actually. You always split them. If you hit them as sixteen you will lose more than splitting them. Also the theory that goes with the stats on this one says you take a breaking a hand of sixteen and create more chances of creating a strong hand pat hands or a chance to double on ten or eleven if you get a two or three. So split em like a log! The ability to splt eights into a better hand also out weighs surrendering them as a sixteen. Split Split split!
Split those eights.
This is one of those questions that arise only when I'm playing or dreaming about playing, and make me feel stupid for not instinctively knowing the answer.
Usually I don't think of 8-8 as being 16, anyway, so surrender would not creep into my brain.
If I split the eights, I avoid the 16 situation entirely, so surrender isn't an issue. The hand really isn't a 16 at all.
It's better to avoid thinking of pairs as hard hands. 8-8 differs completely from hard 16 -- it's another sort of animal.
These kinds of questions are welcome here, in my opinion.
This is one of those questions that arise only when I'm playing or dreaming about playing, and make me feel stupid for not instinctively knowing the answer.
Usually I don't think of 8-8 as being 16, anyway, so surrender would not creep into my brain.
If I split the eights, I avoid the 16 situation entirely, so surrender isn't an issue. The hand really isn't a 16 at all.
It's better to avoid thinking of pairs as hard hands. 8-8 differs completely from hard 16 -- it's another sort of animal.
These kinds of questions are welcome here, in my opinion.