Bendtackle said:
Maybe EV is not a good word to use. Lets say you are playing a six deck shoe and there are 3 decks gone. Lets say the running count is 30, so therefore the true count would be 10. The count will only be this high for so long. There is a higher chance the count will decrease than increase. Also the shoe will last longer the lesser the amount of people in the hand (If you are lucky and the count stays high). So when the count is high it is always better to have less hands on the table. This being said if you are playing two hands you are adding another hand to the table, therefore sucking up the good cards. Is it worth it to suck up the good cards just to decrease variability?