Sunday, April 21, 2013

[Pokertool] InsuredPlay: Bad Beat Insurance

What is a "Bad Beat Insurance"?



With such an insurance, whenever you are allin BEFORE the River, you get paid your equity share of the pot.

Sample Hand:

Logobulletclub KK is all-in 80% equity on the flop to win the $100 pot
Logobulletdiamond AQ calls and KK gets automatically insured for $20
Logobulletspade Ace drops on the river and KK loses the hand
Logobulletheart KK gets $100 in his account on InsuredPlay


 So what exactly happened here: We pushed allin on the Flop and got called by AQ. We have 80% Equity, which means we should statistically win 80 out of 100 such situations. Now that we insured the hand, only 2 things can happen.

Sit1: We win the pot. +100$ from the pot, but the inusrance premium is 20$ so we get 80$ effective.
Sit2: We lose the pot we get +100$ from insuredplay but the insurance premium is 20$ so 80$ effective.
(Sit3: may be a splitpot but it still ends with 80$ effective)

Why would someone use this insurance? 

Reasons for this might be:
  • Lower variance, meaning lower effective swings. This leads to a looser bankrollmanagement. 
  • Many people have trouble coping with suckouts, with Insuredplay you kinda get what you earned ;)
  • Some people think pokersites might be rigged of they run bad all their life! haha

Reasons against the Insurance:

  • You don't participate on your upswings (stupid reason tbh)
  • The costs


Does it make sence for me to use this feature?

Do you play on another site than pokerstars?  ----> NO because it's the only supported site.
Do you play cap games? ----> NO because the fees are way to high to have any +EV anymore.
Do you play deep games or Omaha? --> yes definately, because the swings in allinEV are extremely sick, so with this you can lower the variance for a relatively low fee.


Fees

Fees are always a small percentage of the pot. The amount of fee you pay on InsuredPlay depends on the number of insured hands you played in the last 30 days.
Fee Level Fee Percentage Number of insured hands required
1 1.49% 0-50
2 0.99% 50-100
3 0.75% 100-200
4 0.49% 200-300
5 0.25% 300+


Supported Games

  • No Limit Texas Hold’em
  • Pot Limit Texas Hold’em
  • No Limit Limit Omaha
  • Pot Limit Limit Omaha
! Zoom Poker is supported! Capped No Limit games are supported



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