How to play soft hands after the first card

[OrdinaryGuy1]

Hi All

I am trying to sharpen up my basic strategy but coming up against an area that I don't fully understand. It concerns playing soft hands and what you should do after the first card you receive. As an example: You are dealt A5 against the dealers 10.
So you hit and you get dealt a 9. Should you then hit again now treating the hand as a hard 15? This isn't a great example and I am sure when I have posted this I will think of a better one with a more tricky decision but I guess what I am asking generally is how do you treat soft hands after you have hit and got another card. You may as I understand it still have a soft hand. For example A2 hit and get 4 so now that is soft 17 I believe. Do you treat them as what they are and play according to the charts. So in the second example A2 hit and get 4 now soft 17 would you base your next move on a soft 17 hand in the chart v whatever the dealer has.
Hope I am making sense :-)
Thanks in advance for any help with this

Mike

[Intermediate]

You got it. Just treat them as they are (hard total or soft total) and follow the charts. GL!

[OrdinaryGuy1]

Hi

Thank you so much for clarifying that. I suspected that would be the case but wasn't quite sure.

So just to make sure I really have got it :-)

You are dealt A2 for soft 13: Whatever card/s come next and how ever many you draw you re-assess after each card and ask yourself is this a hard or soft hand and what is it and then you go by the chart as to your next move.

Is that right

Thanks again

Mike

[OrdinaryGuy1]

Apologies Intermediate. I just read through my original post and realized that my reply to you is just repeating what I put in the first post which you have confirmed is correct