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Playing a hard 17 hand in Blackjack
How should you play your hard seventeen hand at the Blackjack tables? You should never hit, surrender or attempt to double a hard seventeen hand, you should always stay no matter what the dealer's up card is.
| Blackjack Variations | Dealer's up Card | |||||||||
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | A | |
| Atlantic City | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
| European | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
| Vegas Downtown | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
| Vegas Strip | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S |
H = Hit, S = Stand