Stand on soft17, A6 ? Definitely not a
regular pontoon player. Regular will always hit with that.
There are lots of pontoon basic strategy charts online. Not much complicated than BJ.
In some ways, i can tell BJ pple crossing over to pontoon game. They are conservative in playing and "surrender" frequently.
It is not a matter of being "conservative" and "surrender frequently".
It is simple Maths.
Surrender HA is 0.56, if you don't surrender HA is 0.64. You are saving 14% of your money every time.