Free Bet BJ - Taking Insurance for dealer Ace?
1) for splitting?
2) for 11?
3) for 10?
4) for 9?
My gut feel is that taking it for 11's might be right...
Anyone calculate the house edge for these situations??
Quote: FinsRuleWhat you have doesn’t affect whether insurance is a good bet...
I take insurance when the count says I should.
As far as "what you have", I have long argued with a friend who ALWAYS takes insurance when he has a twenty (TWO tens) that, all things being equal, two tens in his hand reduces the number of tens left in the deck that could be hiding under the dealer's ace. A hard twenty actually argues AGAINST insurance.
"Insurance". Right.
Insurance is like betting against yourself, at least the way I see it.
This is terrible advice. Insurance and even money are exactly the same bet. And both have a bad HR unless the count runs sufficiently positive.Quote: MDawgI tend to call even money especially if I have a table limit bet out there, but I never take insurance. You should decide which one you're going to go for in your BJ play - insurance, or even money.
Insurance is like betting against yourself, at least the way I see it.
Quote: unJonThis is terrible advice. Insurance and even money are exactly the same bet. And both have a bad HR unless the count runs sufficiently positive.Quote: MDawgI tend to call even money especially if I have a table limit bet out there, but I never take insurance. You should decide which one you're going to go for in your BJ play - insurance, or even money.
Insurance is like betting against yourself, at least the way I see it.
1. It wasn't advice.
2. A limit bet (for a winning player) is almost always only going to happen when the count would justify taking insurance.
Quote: TomG1. It wasn't advice.
2. A limit bet (for a winning player) is almost always only going to happen when the count would justify taking insurance.
1. It was advice. “You should decide which one . . . “
2. I don’t know what you mean by “winning player”. If you mean counter, then of course. For a non counter progressive bettor the opposite is true.
Quote: unJonInsurance and even money are exactly the same bet.
Even money is going to come up far less often than insurance, because people who want to bet insurance do it with all sorts of hands, so choosing even money over insurance, and choosing even money only when table limit or at least very high bets come up, makes it something that will happen far less often than insurance.
Quote: MDawgEven money is going to come up far less often than insurance, because people who want to bet insurance do it with all sorts of hands, so choosing even money over insurance, and choosing even money only when table limit or at least very high bets come up, makes it something that will happen far less often than insurance.
This is exactly why some counters use even money as a cover play. See “The Blackjack Life”. But it’s not a different bet than insurance. It’s simply the insurance bet when you happen to have blackjack.
