• Taking out an insurance bet. Not all bets are good bets and just because it is there, doesn’t mean it will help you. This is the general feeling when it comes to the game of blackjack and the insurance wager. Just ask any professional player and they are going to tell you that the wager is useless 95% of the time. Unless you are an expert player, you shouldn’t even look at it. The reason it is so detrimental is because the insurance bet offers a much lower odd of winning than not taking it out at all. Think about it- when you take an insurance bet, the dealer has to hit a blackjack for you to win. If the dealer does get a blackjack, then you get back only half of your original bet. This just isn’t going to happen that often and if it does, you aren’t getting back your entire wager anyway. Be sure to understand this. The only time the insurance bet may be a good idea is if you are great at card counting and know with certainty that there are a large number of 10-valued cards in the deck. If you have that assurance, then the wager may work out in your favor. If you are new to the game though, then forget about this wager.
• Surrendering isn’t always a bad move. There is a school of players that believe surrendering is a bad idea all the time. Sometimes they even avoid surrendering to the death. Of course the repercussion is that they end up losing that much more. Never be too conceited to surrender if the hand just isn’t working for you. You can always get back into the next round or wait for the next game to make up your money. Using this tool of surrendering is not a bad thing and it may even help you to avoid losing too much money when you are wagering at the blackjack table.
If you are new to the blackjack table make sure you aren’t making the same bad moves over and over. You want to make sure that you have plenty of options to work with and are getting good at making wise moves. This is a game of strategy and it is going to take you a while to get your own solidified when you are playing at the table.