Blackjack Insurance

by bluxed on January 20, 2008

The only time you should consider buying blackjack insurance is while card counting and the true count exceeds +3. The chances the dealer’s hole card is a ten is very good. Do not take insurance, even if you have a blackjack unless you are card counting. Non-counting players should always decline it.

The following table shows the house edge on the insurance bet in blackjack depending on the number of decks used.

House Edge on Insurance

Number
of Decks
House
Edge
1 5.882%
2 6.796%
4 7.246%
6 7.395%
8 7.470%

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1 porto 06.25.08 at 4:35 pm

short but sweet post, good for me coz im not too familiar with insurance.

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