yeah, good ole' primary-school algebra burned into a calculator for us
when a slate of futures candidates are considered like this, as a single play with odds (that automatically take into account that, at best, only one can win)...the effective price on that single "any one of the slate wins" proposition...here just +234 (not near as impressive, or as important to "protect" as the individual prices it's based on...because, best case, one of the stakes must go into the shitter)
anyhow, dutching makes it easy to decide up front to not even bother to burn any brain-cells thinking about a hedge if either one or both of the bastids makes it into the finals...it's just another bet with a smallish stake and hedging against it will just reduce your variance (good) and your payout (not good) on the set of all such plays one makes over the long haul...on balance, better to live with the extra variance and pocket the extra cash as times and tournaments pile up
it IS more fun to try to micro-manage the proceedings in the later stages of a tourney, but long term, there's no way to "fool mother nature" aka. do better by hedging (which involves paying for "insurance") than to just let the selections play (and pay) out fully...including the very frustrating ZERO payout=you lose your whole stake result...but the "laissez faire" policy also allows your to enjoy the full jackpot when it hits...two sides of the same coin...the money you steal by hedging when your original bet actually loses you will MORE than pay back when it wins...in the form of a smaller jackpot caused by paying for a hedge-bet you ultimately didn't need...hedging buys a less bumpy ride along the path paved by the actual success of the picks...at the cost of a lower-performance ride due to the hedging process: a hedging habit SOMETIME subsidizes your loss, but it ALWAYS taxes you in the form of both the stake and the chalk of the additional offsetting plays...whether they appear to "save your ass" or "make you feel stupid for being a pussy" )
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anyhow, good luck to Nishi and/or Berdy (which one i don't give a shit cuzza the dutched play sizes...)...i've decided, after repeatedly fukking up the "exit strategy" (the "do i hedge and if so how much" stuff)...to just follow what the math tells me and adopt the straightforward "no safety nets, ever" policy...
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apologies for "thinking out loud" cluttering your thread...I'm trying to convince myself as much as anyone else...but thought the resulting word blizzard might help someone dealing with the same conundrum...
lemme know if you want me to edit the whole damn thing to "nvm"