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
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ace thru 9 = +1 and
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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, 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.
