The Even Money Debate
I don't think so.
Even Money is just Insurance except you have a really good hand. If you give up 33% of your expected winnings, as the Expectance Table shows, 1.5 goes to 1.0 if you don't and he has Blackjack you get a push. How to make the best bet you can is the same as the Insurance count, that is if the linear insurance count is greater than {+4/deck} take the bet, if less wait and get paid off fully, hopefully. Remember the count starts at a negative 0 times the number of decks, so for six decks +4 × 6 = +24. So any
- ace thru 9 = +1 and
- ten,jack,queen or king = -2
Shuffle up six decks and see how easy it is. Heck I even thought my girlfriend and she is really darn accurate. We approach the table as if we are Strangers, and if she insures, when the dealer shows an ace, so do I and if one of the twenty or so marginal hands other than the insure decision show up in front of her she coyly quizzes me and the house doesn't know that I, in doing The Dynamic Matrix count that can give the best option based, (in my head) on the Knowledge that I have at time acquired in the observation, that I have been making of the cards that have already shown themselves.