Quote Originally Posted by Greedo017
the more tables you play at, the higher your hourly variance.
It squishes out the variance curve, but also moves the average result up (assuming you're a winning player)...so fewer losing hours, which I suppose is my poker version of "variance"...more winning, less losing.

Let's look at a situation where you're going to do a 60/40 $1 bet either 10 times an hour or 20 times an hour. Here's the frequency of the various outcomes after about 10k trials:
Code:
10/hr:
-10   -8   -6   -4   -2    0    2    4    6    8   10
 0   .002 .011 .038 .104 .204 .256 .214 .124 .042 .005

20/hr:
-10+  -8   -6   -4   -2    0    2    4    6    8   10+
.002 .004 .014 .030 .068 .124 .159 .175 .166 .128 .131
I know which I'd rather do =)