Quote Originally Posted by DSchles View Post
Yes, that's exactly right. So, in this case, $30. And, of course, since aceside mentioned that, by adding an extra player, the variance would increase, you can rest assured that, of course, it would decrease! Any time you put less money on the table, your variance decreases. You can't play fewer hands (for the same amount) yet have your variance increase. That makes no sense whatsoever.

Don
I am looking at your saying the opposite. Does this mean I have been holding the wrong belief for the last three years? When we have two players at the same blackjack table, I the player just assume that my neighbor player is not willing to display all his cards to me and I just put all of them behind the cut card of this shoe; therefore, this is equivalent to dramatically decreasing the penetration of the shoe and thus increasing the variance per hand. I am a little bit confused now.