I'm working the math mentally here without my hand tables present, but I think from a cost-benefit perspective that I'd want nine (assuming we're talking NL).

The extra money you make from the two additional callers more than offsets the hit your odds receive from the presence of two more hands to have to defeat. I think this is the best "longterm" scenario.

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