Most of the blackjack players I know don’t have basic strategy memorized that well. In fact, most of them memorize a basic strategy that’s correct for a game where the dealer stands on a soft 17. But in most casinos, the standard is for the dealer to hit a soft 17. Any rules change can change what the correct basic strategy is. In other words, there’s not one basic strategy to memorize. Each game under its own rules has a correct basic strategy. Since there are multiple blackjack games out there to
pg slot choose from, you’re almost always going to be playing with a basic strategy that’s slightly incorrect anyway. So why not memorize a simplified basic strategy and give up that 0.1% or 0.2%? In fact, unless you’re counting cards, it’s not going to make that much difference.