98%: Surrender

[98%]

This is just a bit of a history question. Does anyone know when and where surrender first appeared and whose idea it was to offer surrender?

[Don Schlesinger]

> This is just a bit of a history question.
> Does anyone know when and where surrender
> first appeared and whose idea it was to
> offer surrender?

I can only tell you that from the first day that Caesars Palace in Las Vegas opened its doors, 35 years ago, they have offered surrender. I don't know if it existed on the Strip or anywhere else before then.

Don

[Peenoy]

> This is just a bit of a history question.
> Does anyone know when and where surrender
> first appeared and whose idea it was to
> offer surrender?

I've been re-reading some of my blackjack books over the last couple of months and one of them stated that the "Surrender Option" first appeared in the Philippines. The books I've been reading are: BEST BLACKJACK, BLACKJACK FOR BLOOD, BLACKJACK SECRETS, KNOCK OUT, BLACKJACK ATTACK,CASINO TOURNAMENT STRATEGY and that Mensa Casino book.

[Parker]

> I've been re-reading some of my blackjack
> books over the last couple of months and one
> of them stated that the "Surrender
> Option" first appeared in the
> Philippines. The books I've been reading
> are: BEST BLACKJACK, BLACKJACK FOR BLOOD,
> BLACKJACK SECRETS, KNOCK OUT, BLACKJACK
> ATTACK,CASINO TOURNAMENT STRATEGY and that
> Mensa Casino book.

Not a bad collection of books overall, although I would not put much stock in the Mensa book. A person does not have to be a genius in order to count cards, and just because someone is a genius (or at least of above average intelligence) does not make him/her an expert on gambling.

[Battery]

While the American Mensa Guide to Casino Gambling (by Andrew Brisman) may not have any information not found elsewhere, it does contain the best description of the standard deviation I have ever seen in a gambling book.

The other charts and graphs are equally as understandable. In fact, the basic strategy charts, both single and multi-deck, are the best I've seen.

I heartily recommend the book to any player just getting started or anyone who is tired of the techno-babble you sometimes see in other books.

[Nash Rambler]