Appreciate your response Don. So much information around and I'm trying to decipher it all.

A guy named James Grosjean wrote a while back that all this talk of variances is a bunch of BS and it's just an excuse made up by counters who are too lazy to improve their play. It's not verbatim, but that was the gist. Blew my mind.

I also read an older BJ21 post from a well known counter that he once encountered a 50,000 hand losing streak. This particular gentleman doesn't count hours as to him, it's the number of hands and he describes it as variance. That also blew my mind.

As I analyze it all, take it all back, how I win and my understanding is important. It's interesting to witness that although those 10s didn't come out when your count indicated as such, that the dealer still busted. All I can say is well at least I raised my bet but damn how come those cards missed me.

Thank again