Insurance - Take it or leave it?

[zarina]

I m new to all of this and I’ve been playing blackjack. I noticed the multi-hand blackjack game and I was wondering if I should be playing these extra hands in order to get practice or would that just be wasting time and money until I reach a respectable level of skill.

[Jwalin]

in general assume there are no cards 10-king in play your chances of hitting a winning insurance bet are
 
64/205 (52x4 - 3 cards you can already see in a single handed game)
 
odds of hitting insurance in general appx = 31.2%
 

therefore you should never take insurance. there may be some systems out there which get the odds of insurance to around 50% but still I would not recommend it.

[aqu]

I personally would recommend you to play one hand at a time. There is also some useful information that might help you. On LINKNOTALLOWED.de website, there is a help section, where you can find under the games instructions a tutorial for blackjack.
Hope this helps and good luck. 

[MikeA]

I m new to all of this and I’ve been playing blackjack. I noticed the multi-hand blackjack game and I was wondering if I should be playing these extra hands in order to get practice or would that just be wasting time and money until I reach a respectable level of skill.For the record, are you talking about playing table blackjack or are you talking about playing on a machine?  HUGE difference.

[Webman]

agu,
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[wilcoxfun]

I never take insurance. Most of the time I can live with my loss. I am one that does not take even money as I figure that I am going to push at worse.

[MikeA]

I never take insurance. Most of the time I can live with my loss. I am one that does not take even money as I figure that I am going to push at worse.In an unbalanced count such as KO, if the count is +3, you SHOULD take insurance and even money.  In fact, analysis shows that even with just basic strategy, you are not bad off taking even money on a blackjack.  That last "even money" call is a VERY close one.