Cover Betting – Improving results

Now that we have utterly destroyed our advantage, let us see if we can crawl back a bit. The first three bars in this chart we have already seen.

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No cover is a six-deck game played with optimal betting.

Cover 1 is the same game with full cover, pretty much destroying the game.

Cover 2 is full cover except that we are allowed to reset the bet to one unit after a shuffle. This is fairly easy to get away with. Although if your last bet in a shoe was a max bet, you might not want to drop all the way to one unit. You may even leave the table allowing a drop to one unit without raising eyebrows. Now the new columns.

Cover 3: When we split or double, the amount bet at least doubles. If we win a hand, cover betting calls for no decrease in the bet. But after a double or split that won, it may be forgivable. This is like a gambler that was forced to double his bet, and pulls back after winning. So, we gain a small amount for allowing a decrease after a win in this circumstance.

 © 2009 Norman Wattenberger